We would like to thank Our Almighty God for you this Thanksgiving Day. In you, He has demonstrated His generosity to NYC. He has given you gifts that have abundantly ministered to the youth you serve. He has called you from death to life, so that you may live abundantly in a dark [...]

In 1996 I left Cedar Rapids, Ia to become a middle school teacher in Baltimore, MD. I got the surprise of my life. I ran into to groups of kids who had little to be excited about and lacked hope. I met young men that made drugs, money, and fighting a way [...]

No budget + high profile hostility
+ lousy weather + despondent adult leaders
+ inspired student leaders + 2 weeks notice
+ a community greatly loved + supportive adults
+ viral technology + a God idea
= one of the most amazing youth ministry experiences of my 23 year youth ministry career.
Best of all, for a veteran youth worker: I [...]

Kevin Phillips is an original member of the Coalition and the author of the Youth News newsletter.
Dear Youth Leaders,
After 25 years of youth ministry, one often tends to think, “I’ve seen it all” but… I think I am seeing something a bit clearer now.
This past summer, a few of us stopped reading the “how-to” books [...]

A couple of weeks ago, a Brooklyn youth pastor asked a several of his student leaders why New York City atheists could launch a massive subway ad blitz with nary a public peep from local churches when, as he mused, “God belongs in my city.”
Their response to his dismay was a viral blitz online asking [...]

Growing up there was an old car in the forest behind our house. It hadn’t moved in two decades. The tires had sunk into the dirt, windows smashed; and the hood stuck straight up, as though the doctor were asking it ‘open real wide.’ My friends and I hatched a plan one day to get [...]

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