50 Conversations That We Would Like To Have
So Many Conversations Have Yet To Be Heard
One thing we have discovered over the past several seasons of the Student Ministry Conversations podcast is this. There are so many great ideas, impactful insights and wonderful voices when it comes to student ministry out there. We are now over 100 episodes in and we have had some wonderful conversations with youth leaders sharing their knowledge to help others.
However we are not done. There are many conversations we have not had yet. There are things we would like to cover on this podcast that have not come up in our interviews. And so we are asking for your help.
Below we have listed 50 topics that we would love to have a guest talk about. Take a look at the list and see if there is a topic that you have some insight into. Or as you look, perhaps you know someone who would be great to talk about a particular topic. Then head over to our guest interview form and fill it out with between 1-3 topics you would like to speak to.
We will contact you and set up a time to interview you about being on the show.
Once an episode is recorded we will link back to it on this post to create a directory of these new posts.
That’s it! We look forward to a future conversation with you.
Here is our list of 50 Conversations we hope to have about Student Ministry:
- How to plan a successful retreat
- Protecting your own family time
- Writing your own youth ministry Bible studies
- Writing and selling youth ministry curriculum
- Common mistakes youth leaders make and how to avoid them
- Common mistakes youth leaders make and how to recover
- Building trust with parents in student ministry
- An Hour of little to no prep games for student ministry
- Sustaining a youth ministry through leader transition
- Knowing when it is time to leave and move on
- Creating and using videos for student ministry
- Keeping High School Seniors Engaged
- Student Led Student Ministry
- Recruiting quality long term volunteers
- How to evaluate student ministry curriculum
- Creating safe spaces for students to worship
- Prayer stations and experiential worship experiences
- Getting parents involved
- Merging community youth and church youth
- Fundraising do’s and donts
- Bringing 6th or 7th graders into the ministry
- Putting together a weekly lesson
- Helping church to be a priority for youth
- Increasing visibility of youth to the church
- Equipping youth to lead younger youth
- Helping volunteers not to burn out
- Working with or against busy student schedules
- Finding a balance between fun and learning
- More small church youth ministry challenges
- Youth ministry in a church plant with no building
- Setting a future direction for youth ministry
- Funding a ministry without always fundraising
- Small groups away from the church
- Moving from Children’s to Youth Ministry
- Fun ideas for youth ministry
- Tips for leaders of small groups
- Creating a scope and sequence for your ministry
- Helping students to share their testimony
- What’s wrong with youth ministry today
- Promoting prayer in student ministry
- Helping students lead Bible studies on their own
- Facilitating communication between students and parents
- Helping students through tragedy and dissapointment
- What is it like to be a youth?
- When to ask a student not to come back
- Apps, Tools and Sites for student ministry
- Creating mentoring relationships between students and adults
- Confirmation practices
- Future of Student ministry
- What to do when your own kid is in your own youth ministry
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Brent Aiken
Author
Brent Aiken is the Student Pastor at Wylie Methodist Church in Abilene, Texas. He has been in student ministry for the past 13 years and loves to equip the next generation of leaders to be bold in their faith and relationship with Jesus.
Russell Martin
Author
Russell Martin is the Senior Pastor at Lake Houston UMC and the co-host of the Student Ministry Conversations Podcast. He is a gifted communicator and loves talking with and coaching student pastors through the many challenging aspects of ministry. He loves listening to other podcasts, cooking and growing plants in his own garden.
David Pruitt
Author
David Pruitt is the Student Pastor and Worship Leader at Grace Fellowship Church in Snyder, Texas. He has been in student ministry for over a decade and loves to walk alongside students in their discovery of Jesus and parents in the discipling of their teenagers.
