Mark Oestreicher
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Why Youth Ministry Is Risky Business
Mark OestreicherDoes your Youth Ministry need an infusion of risk?
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What Are Your Youth Ministry Language Pet Peeves?
Mark OestreicherEveryone has pet peeves, right?
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How to Help Parents of Teens Who Are Bored With Church
Mark OestreicherYoung teens have a passionate need to be valued and noticed.
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What Is the Achilles Heel of Youth Ministry?
Mark OestreicherHow could we see our ministries embrace hope instead of fear?
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When God Seems Distant
Mark OestreicherRecently I was asked to speak on Psalm 139 for a youth worker’s spiritual retreat. Of course, Psalm 139 is such a familiar psalm (“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me… Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?… For you created my inmost being; you knit […]
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A Meditation for Youth Workers: Detox
Mark OestreicherMany years ago, I decided the staff of youth specialties were super tired. We were about to head into a busy season, and we were all running on fumes. Sounds a little like coming off a busy youth ministry summer and jumping into a new school year, right? We decided to give everyone a 7-day […]
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C'mon, Make Some Mistakes Already!
Mark OestreicherThe best youth workers will make mistakes. Safe youth workers make very few mistakes (other than the huge mistake of a safe and boring youth ministry!). We are so often afraid of making mistakes. this is really too bad, because the best learning always comes from mistakes, not from successes. If we can reconfigure our […]
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The Downside of Being a Well-Resourced Youth Worker
Mark OestreicherResources make ministry easier, right?
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