Awana YM Blog
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Time to Fill Up
You have been pouring into your students. Who is pouring into you? Before your glass becomes completely empty, stop and find ways to fill back up.
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Talk about Persecution
November 8 is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Let’s help students personalize global persecution and pray for those caught in it.
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3 Ways to Make Small Groups More Effective
Awana Youth Ministries Director Jeremy Pettitt shares 3 tips to make your small group discussion questions more effective.
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Building Empathy with Good Questions
Your students can deliver right answers all night long, but how are they doing when it comes to showing empathy and compassion?
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Level Up Your Students
Jeremy Pettitt talks about giving students in your youth ministry steps to take to grow and mature in the things they do.
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Helping Students Who Self-Harm
The hard truth is that sometimes youth leaders are the only ones available to stand with students walking through a habit that may be baffling even to them.
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Are Your Sure You Want to Say That?
Students sometimes say mean things to each other. Online, it’s even worse. Students don’t always think twice. They may think once, barely, and hit send.
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2 Tips to Make Your Student Leaders Successful
Jeremy Pettitt gives 2 best practices to help your students leaders have a successful year of ministry serving at your church.
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Meet Josh Griffin
We are excited to announce that Josh will be partnering with AwanaYM to help develop the new high school curriculum.
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3 Collaborative Games for Youth Ministry
Here are 3 game ideas to build collaboration and community as you start your ministry year.
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Build Community with Collaborative Games
A quick youth ministry tip for building community by using collaborative games instead of competitive games as you start your year.
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The Trek Training Guide
A quick guide to important pieces of training for the Trek middle school curriculum from Awana.
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