by Bryant Fisher Bryant is the Director of Student Ministry at Brentwood United Methodist Church in Brentwood, TN. You’re doing it! All the hours you spend wondering what your faithful few need from you. The time you spend making sure the space you create is for the teenagers coming and teenagers missing. Do you know […]
by Stephen Ingram Stephen is a 25+ year youth ministry veteran and the Sr. Director of Resource Development for CYMT. The Blessing of Small I work in a big church. I mean a really big church. My church has more members than my hometown has people! I love my job. It provides me many incredible […]
by Andrew Mochrie Andrew is the leader of the Theology Together Program at CYMT as well as a veteran youth worker. Don’t Forget, You Matter Too It’s here! Summer. You’re confident it’ll be another blockbuster, another couple months filled with the adrenaline of going from trip to trip. Summer brings less weekly programming and more […]
by: Lindsey Johnson In kindergarten, you learn about trees. My six-year-old son just wrapped up his first year of school and, on the last day, his backpack came home full of school projects that accumulated in his cubby over the course of the year. There were paper and glue creations and stick figure drawings of […]
by Stephen Ingram Stephen is a 25+ year youth ministry veteran. His books include Hollow Faith: How Andy Griffith, Facebook, and the American Dream Neutered the Gospel, ExtraOrdinary Time: 365 Ordinary Moments with an Anything But Ordinary God; and Organic Student Ministry. Stephen serves as the Sr. Director of Resource Development for CYMT. I’m a […]
Kat Bair Kat Bair is a coach with Ministry Incubators and newsletter editor as well as a full-time youth pastor. She is a graduate of Austin Seminary through the Center for Youth Ministry Training and began her innovation work as a Lead Innovator and researcher with CYMT’s Innovation Lab. A few years ago, I was […]
Rev. Robert Sturdivant Robert is the Minister of Students at Trinity United Methodist Church in Birmingham, AL. Robert has been working with middle school and high school students for over 14 years, 13 of which at Trinity UMC. Robert grew up in Birmingham and graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in 2012 with a degree in Religious […]
by Meghan Hatcher I’m currently a member of the healthiest church I’ve ever attended or served as a staff member, and we haven’t had a senior pastor since January 2023. So naturally, as a former pastor myself, I’ve been racking my brain as to how this is all transpiring. Every Sunday during the worship service […]
Stephen Ingram Stephen is a 25+ year youth ministry veteran. His books include Hollow Faith: How Andy Griffith, Facebook, and the American Dream Neutered the Gospel, ExtraOrdinary Time: 365 Ordinary Moments with an Anything But Ordinary God; and Organic Student Ministry. Stephen serves as the Sr. Director of Resource Development for CYMT. Before we can lead […]
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is all over the news lately. From healthcare to finance to education, industries around the globe are investing billions of dollars to develop apps and programs run by AI that will solve problems, answer questions, and streamline systems. Even a Catholic non-profit recently joined the trend by creating an AI priest […]
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