Healthy Ministers = Healthy Ministry
Janelle joins me for her THIRD appearance as we talk about the why, the what and the how of our Small Group ministry.
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Listen to “Episode 21: What We Do With Small Groups” on Spreaker.
Geoff Cocanower joins me for a conversation on internships. Geoff took part in all three types of internships we do at our church, and he was my first-ever resident intern, joining us for three years post-college to be trained up and take ministry responsibility before being launched out.
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Listen to “Episode 20: Meet My Favorite Intern” on Spreaker.
Thanks to Jordan, Erin, Tim, Monica, Kevin, and Anonymous for the great questions. I’d love to do more of these in the future, but I need questions. You can submit those by going to http://podcast.downloadyouthministry.com and click on the submit questions tab in the right corner. You can also email derry@mythirddecade.com or DM me through The Twitter, Instagram or Facebook Page.
I love being a part of the Download Youth Ministry Podcast Network.
Check out My Third Decade’s Page and all the other DYM Podcast Network podcasts HERE.
Listen to “Episode 19: You Asked the Qs and I Got Some As” on Spreaker.
Definitely my most controversial episode title to date, but it’s not as scandalous as it seems. Kory and Alison Lantz are a former student and intern who did get married. Kory was a part of the youth group and graduated in 2005. Ali came on as an intern in 2007. The two of them met in their college years. Today they lead an amazing youth ministry in South Bend, Indiana called Transformation Ministries.
In this episode we talk about the impact of being involved in a ministry marked by longevity, the challenges of sticking it out in urban ministry, the beauty and brokenness in the communities we serve, and about 20 other incredibly valuable insights for you.
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Listen to “Episode 18: Meet My Former Student and Intern Who Got Married” on Spreaker.
This is a bonus episode. I recorded an interview with one of our Seniors talking about for a podcast we do with our church. In it, he talked about the impact our Summer Camps have had on him. I asked the student (Dawson) if he would be okay with me sharing our conversation with my youth ministry friends, and he gladly agreed.
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Listen to “Episode 17: Meet a Student Impacted by Summer Camps” on Spreaker.
Janelle Prenkert (my wife) and Kristy Mikel (a former student and mentee of my wife who turned into her best friend) are the two primary Administrative Assistants I’ve had over my time in my role. We sit down together and talk about our stories, why they love what they do, and best practices between the up front and behind the scenes team members.
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Listen to “Episode 16: Meet My Ministry Assistants” on Spreaker.
Meet Brad Bullock, one of the first students to say I was like a father to him (I was 25 at the time)!
Brad Bullock is a former student who met his wife in our youth group. He is now the youth pastor at Pathway Community Church in Fort Wayne, IN.
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Listen to “Episode: 15: Meet My Former Student Brad Bullock” on Spreaker.
Meet Tim Veenstra, the guy who took my job, and keeps taking it!
We are consistently coached to multiply ourselves or make ourselves replaceable as a leader in youth ministry, but what do you do when you meet the person you believe is supposed to take your position, but you don’t sense it’s time for you to step away from the church?
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Every once in a while I want to share what we do in our ministry and why we do it. The hope is not for you to copy and paste what we do, but hopefully pull some principles and ideas that could be transferred to your context.
In this episode, I share about 5 keys to how we do our cross-cultural missions trips.
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Listen to “Episode 12: What We Do With Missions Trips” on Spreaker.
20+ years of youth ministry comes with it’s share of struggles and failures. In this episode I walk through four failures in how I approached ministry at different points along the way.
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Check out My Third Decade’s Page and all the other DYM Podcast Network podcasts HERE.