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Q&A with Rachel Cruze

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Rachel Ramsey Cruze has a daunting calling—since she was 15 years old, she’s been challening large audiences to make hard financial choices as part of her dad’s ongoing mission to renovate a culture that’s money-sick. Her dad’s name is Dave Ramsey, bestselling author and radio host. And after she graduated from college she joined his team full time. Today she travels the country speaking about the dangers of credit cards and debt at high schools, colleges, and youth conferences. We talked to her from her office in Nashville.

2012 Salary Survey

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By Rick Lawrence

Average salaries are down, budgets are under a vise-grip, and many have been forced out of youth ministry or had their hours cut. Is financial hope on the horizon?

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Jan_Feb Web Extras

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Q&A interview with Jake Kircher

The Beauty of Being a Bore

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We can become so verbal that we begin talking rings around the people we should be listening to. We can become so influential that our influence slowly erodes into manipulation. We can become so much a public representative of God that our private relationship with him becomes past tense.

Don’t Pick On My Little Brother

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:02:51 +0000

Dare to Share’s Greg Stier sticks up for youth ministry by opening up a can of “whup-hiney” on the makers of the film Divided—a documentary that claims youth ministry is unbiblical, ineffective, and wrong.

I Want Both

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:12:51 +0000

By Mark Devries

So what—or who—is the problem here? I’ve begun to wonder: Do we really have to choose between deep and wide? Could our best bet for going wide be, ironically, going deep? Spiritually shallow programming no longer works as an attraction method, and it certainly doesn’t work as a retention method, if it ever did.

The Secret Dreams of Teenagers

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By Rick Lawrence

The eye-opening results from our annual survey of more than 20,000 Christian teenagers reveal what they’d love more of from your ministry, and what they could do without. Thier top choice will surprise you, but their bottom choice may shock you.

The Beauty of a Mangled ‘Witness’

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By Rick Lawrence

The other day I met with Casey Franklin, a Denver youth pastor who’s had a typically epic 15-year run in youth ministry—his stories of incredible impact and incredible heartbreak dance the Tango together. Both of us, we discovered, have sometimes wondered how to communicate the “down-and-dirty” realities of serving at a church to people on “the outside.”