Youth Ministry Interviews: Mentor Me
Josh Griffin and Doug Fields interview the leading voices in youth ministry in this twice a month podcast from Download Youth Ministry. Part of the Download Youth Ministry Podcast Network.
Episodes
February 17, 2020 • 21 mins
In this episode Matt McGill, co-founder of Download Youth Ministry, talks with Josh Griffin about life, ministry, and leadership. They talk about what it looks like to have a youth ministry that is aligned with and supporting the church as a whole and the tensions that arise in attempts to do that well. Matt McGill is at his BEST in this entertaining, encouraging and very informative audio mentoring resource.
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February 7, 2020 • 20 mins
In this episode Josh gets to sit down with small groups pastor Steve Gladen of Saddleback Church to pick his brain on all things small groups. Steve has been doing leader training for years and has some valuable and transferable training tips for your ministry leaders, whether they lead junior high or high schoolers in any capacity. If you want your leadership IQ to go up a few points, tune in to this one!
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January 7, 2020 • 21 mins
Doug Fields and John cover a few issues in this intimate “backstage chat” – Work/life pace, fighting to surround yourself with people can speak the truth in love to you, focusing on your family in the midst of ministry pressures, and how to be great at the job you do. Acuff recently came out with a new book called Do Over and about intentionally building a career.
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December 12, 2019 • 21 mins
Allyson Evans is Pastor and Group Leader for Kids and Student Ministries at LifeChurch.tv, a multi-site church based in Edmond, Oklahoma, where she has worked for thirteen years. In this role, Allyson is responsible for providing the vision and direction for the NextGen ministry. Her team partners with Campus Pastors and other teams to staff NextGen, provide development and training for staff and volunteers, and create curriculum a...
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December 5, 2019 • 21 mins
Jeff Wallace is a speaker, author, strategist, mentor, and life coach. He is nationally known as an Urban Ministry innovator and leader. After 18 years as the Youth Pastor, Jeff recently became Executive Pastor at Peace Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia. He has produced several resources designed to empower and equip youth leaders, parents, and students in urban environments. Jeff enjoys coaching Jr. High football, watching hours ...
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January 21, 2019 • 24 mins
Josh Griffin sits down with the best-selling Christian author since CS Lewis – Lee Strobel. Yes. THE Lee Strobel. Author of the “Case for Christ” and countless other books that help investigate the claims of Christianity. Josh and Lee have a rich conversation surrounding leadership, apologetics and ministry.
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January 12, 2019 • 23 mins
In this episode of Mentor Me, Josh Griffin sits with marriage and family expert, Ted Cunningham, and talks about setting students up for healthy marriages.
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October 26, 2018 • 23 mins
In this episode, Josh talks about youth culture with author, speaker, and veteran youth worker Jonathan McKee. Jonathan shares the importance of staying in touch with culture and a few small steps we can take move from reacting to it to interacting with it. This is a great Mentor Me for any of us who have ever overheard a conversation between two students and thought to ourselves, “What in the world are they talking about?!”
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August 9, 2018 • 21 mins
In this Mentor Me, Doug and Cathy Fields talk about marriage and ministry. Cathy is a veteran youth worker of 30 years, mother of 3, married to a youth pastor, and the real brains behind all Doug's projects. Doug and Cathy give us a sneak peak into their marriage and life as they answer questions for DYM members and discuss shared roles in ministry, ministering to your own children, growing spiritually (together and apart) in your ...
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May 23, 2018 • 23 mins
In Find Your Voice, Sam Collier speaks directly and simply to students and young adults about influence and leadership, in terms of how they lead and how they are influenced, and how to be purposeful about both. Talking through his own experience, he encourages young people to learn to discover their voice and then raise it well so the world hears the story they have to tell.
http://orangebooks.com/tribe-students/find-your-voice/
http://orangebooks.com/tribe-students/find-your-voice/
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April 26, 2018 • 21 mins
Junior High Students are my favorite humans on the planet! I’ve been doing Jr. High Ministry at Saddleback for 21 years and I am convinced it is the most important ministry in the church.
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April 16, 2018 • 22 mins
Alan Fadling (M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary) is executive director of The Leadership Institute in Orange, California, training Christian leaders to integrate spiritual formation and leadership development. A certified spiritual director, Fadling has also taught courses on spiritual formation at Hope International University. He is currently part of a planting team for a new church called The Following in Orange County, Califo...
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April 12, 2018 • 20 mins
Doug Fields interviews author, speaker and author of Life Hurts, God Heals: Megan Hutchinson.
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March 20, 2018 • 20 mins
Dr. Marv Penner directs All About Youth and the National Center for Excellence in Youth Ministry. In addition to his teaching, speaking and writing, Marv specializes in parent/adolescent conflict resolution, sexual abuse recovery, eating disorders and marriage and family issues. He is the author of several books including Help! My Kids Are Hurting and Hope and Healing for Kids Who Cut.
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March 8, 2018 • 23 mins
Doug Franklin is the president of LeaderTreks, an innovative leadership development organization focusing on students and youth workers. Doug and his wife, Angie, live in West Chicago, Illinois. They don’t have any kids, but they have 2 dogs that think they are children.
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March 1, 2018 • 22 mins
Neely McQueen is the Lead Student Ministries Pastor at Overlake Church in the Seattle area.
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February 13, 2018 • 20 mins
Greg Stier is the CEO and Founder of Dare 2 Share Ministries. His life goal is to be mobilizing teenagers across America to share their faith. Dare 2 Share
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February 1, 2018 • 20 mins
Reggie Joiner is the founder and CEO of the reThink Group, a nonprofit organization providing resources and training to help churches maximize their influence on the spiritual growth of the next generation. The reThink Group (www.reThinkGroup.org) provides innovative curriculum resources and training for leaders who work with preschoolers, children, families, and students. They have partners throughout the United States and eight o...
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January 19, 2018 • 19 mins
In this interview, Josh Griffin has a conversation with Kara Powell, author of Sticky Faith.
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January 13, 2018 • 28 mins
Doug Fields interviews his longtime friends Eddie and Tommy - the Skit Guys.
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