Powerful New Blog for Spirit-Empowered Youth Leaders

Healthy Church YOUTH blog is the latest resource aimed at encouraging, empowering, and equipping youth leaders around the world to a new understanding and redefining of youth ministry.

"Today's youth leader's aren't lacking information. There are hundreds of blogs about youth ministry," says Heath Adamson, senior director of Youth Ministries for the Assemblies of God. "What they're looking for is a place to take all of the information and translate them with practical wisdom. We want to create a spirit-empowered conversation that changes the paradigm of youth ministry for years to come." 

Healthy Church YOUTH provides daily blogs that speak into a variety of topics within youth ministry from discipleship and leadership, to handling parents and understanding today's cultural issues. Each weekly topic is covered from the perspective of a healthy leader, ministry, and youth. Adamson is the "moderator" for the site and opens and closes each weekly topic with a blog. For the remainder of the week there are national and international youth influencers whose breadth of experience and wisdom in youth ministry provides powerful insights and practical application to the youth ministry world.

Similar to the Healthy Church KIDS site, the inspiration for the blog came from a lack of spirit-empowered resources for youth leaders. And in a societal church culture that's infatuated with youth ministry resources, little have moved the needle.

Terry Parkman, lead student ministries pastor at River Valley Church (AG) in Minneapolis, and regular blog contributor, agrees. "We live in a culture today where everybody is told what to do in youth ministry but few people are told why we should do it. Healthy Church YOUTH gives us the opportunity to stop telling people how to do youth ministry and to start instilling them with the value of the why."

During beta testing of the website, the blog was reviewed with high remarks. "All of the feedback we received was very positive. Those who got to interact with the site believed this was a unique and valuable resource that would be very beneficial to churches big or small", says National Youth Ministries Communication and Content Strategist Nii Abrahams. "The goal for this resource is to go beyond a static site, and help facilitate a community of youth leaders. You can comment on the articles, share them via social media, and even subscribe to receive articles via email. "

The blog can be found at youth.healthychurch.com, on Twitter, or on Facebook.

AG Youth Ministries