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Parents or Volunteers The topic of Parents or Volunteers is always heavy on the mind of the pastors to students of all ages. Who fits where and why as the teacher, motivator, discipler, craft person or creative genius in the preteen ministry? I have read Collaborate and right now I am reading The Future of [...]

I know you could take that title so many different ways.  I just hope it got you to read this post (which you obviously are)! I’m not talking about preteens as parents or about trying to score a date with the parents of the preteens in your ministry.  If you are reading this for either [...]

TweenParent.com is your parenting source for the preteen years. Yes, it’s a parenting site, not a ministry site. But as we all know, one of the greatest resources in our preteen ministries are the parents of the preteens we pastor. This website is full of information and articles about this unique age group. And if [...]

In honor of Reformation Day and Martin Luther’s iconic 95 Theses, below are my 9.5 Theses of Preteen Ministry: 1 – Have fun. When you teach, when you sing, when you do anything. Because they all want to. 2 – Be serious. When you teach, when you sing, when you do anything. Because they are all [...]

“Would you serve Jesus if I decided as your dad to give it all up?” That’s the question I asked my ten year old the other week ago on a drive home from church. I wondered what he’d say for more reasons than one. He has grown up with me working in the church and [...]

The South African word “ubuntu” roughly translates as “I am because we are.” A few years ago Archbishop Desmond Tutu explained the word this way: One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in [...]