Top 10 Creative (and Slightly Ridiculous) Ways to Connect with Your Students at Summer Camp

Dear small group leaders, counselors, and cabin wranglers, Let’s be honest. Camp is wild. It’s loud, it smells like sunscreen and feet, and someone is always losing a sock. But it’s also a sacred space—where God can move in students’ lives at Kids Camp, Middle School Camp, or ASCENT. So if you’re ready to ditch

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What You Need To Know To Have An Intern

Hosting a summer intern for the first time is both exciting and a big responsibility. You’re not just giving them something to do—you’re helping form a future leader, possibly even someone who will go into full-time ministry. Here’s a practical list of what you’ll need to know, learn, and prepare to make sure their experience

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How to Create an Onboarding Process for Your Summer Youth Intern

  Welcoming a summer youth intern to your ministry is exciting—and a little overwhelming if you’ve never supervised an intern before. Whether your intern is coming in with lots of ministry experience or this is their very first taste of full-time church life (which is more probable), a clear, thoughtful onboarding process can set the

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7 Ways to Take Care of Your Soul (So You Don’t Burn Out and Start a Llama Farm Instead)

Youth workers, let’s be real for a second. Ministry is amazing, but it’s also exhausting. Between late-night texts from students, last-minute sermon rewrites, and somehow always being in charge of stacking chairs, it’s easy to run on empty. But here’s the truth: you can’t pour into others if your own soul is running on fumes.

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