by Brent Aiken | Jul 13, 2023 | Anxiety, Counseling, Discipleship, Family, Leadership, Mental Health, Parent Ministry, Personal Life, Podcast, Relationships, Student Ministry, Student Ministry Team, Trauma, Vision & Mission, Volunteers, Youth Ministry, Youth Ministry Team
Accepting Not Being Okay with Collin Little | SMC Podcast | Episode 112 Welcome to this week’s episode of our podcast where Brent sits down with Collin Little to talk about the importance of acknowledging when you are in a hard season of life and how opening up...
by Brent Aiken | Mar 2, 2023 | Community, Discipleship, Evangelism, Family, Homeless Students, New Students, Planning, Podcast, Student Ministry, Student Ministry Team, Vision & Mission, Youth Ministry, Youth Ministry Team
Students on the Fringe Pt. 3 with Darrin Cox | SMC Podcast | Episode 093 We are called to be the hands and feet of Jesus to everybody that we come in contact with but what happens when that also should convict us to be reaching out to the homeless community that is in...
by Brent Aiken | Feb 16, 2023 | Administration, Community, Discipleship, Evangelism, Family, Parent Ministry, Planning, Podcast, Relationships, Student Ministry, Vision & Mission, Youth Ministry
Engaging Student’s Parents & Households with Dan Istvanik | SMC Podcast | Episode 091 While the students in our ministry are one of our main focuses, reaching the parents or the household that the student lives with is just as important to the development of...
by Brent Aiken | Feb 9, 2023 | Administration, Calendar, Church Staff, Community, Evangelism, Family, Groups, High School, Junior High, Leadership, New Youth Pastors, Parent Ministry, Planning, Podcast, Relationships, Schedule, Student Ministry, Student Ministry Team, Vision & Mission, Youth Ministry, Youth Ministry Team
Starting Out Right with Caleb Brimmage | SMC Podcast | Episode 090 While it’s not a “statistic”, it’s very easy to see that most Youth Pastors will start over ministries at 2-3 different churches during their time as a Youth Pastor. While this...
by Brent Aiken | Sep 29, 2022 | Discipleship, Evangelism, Family, Leadership, Lessons & Curriculum, Mental Health, New Youth Pastors, Parent Ministry, Planning, Podcast, Relationships, Spiritual Health, Student Ministry, Vision & Mission, Youth Ministry
Teaching Goal Oriented Students with Jeff Harding | SMC Podcast | Episode 073 Students are constantly being thrown different things to strive for when it comes to what is important in life and what makes them successful… but what are we supposed to be teaching...
by Brent Aiken | Sep 22, 2022 | Calendar, Family, Future Ministry, Leadership, Mental Health, Personal Life, Planning, Podcast, Schedule, Spiritual Health, Student Ministry, Vision & Mission, Youth Ministry
Calendar Boundaries with Jerry Varner | SMC Podcast | Episode 072 Youth Ministries can be a place of tons of spiritual engagement, fun activities and a whole slew of camps/trips/other events… but is there such thing as too much on calendar? Can it affect the way...
