by Mark Johannesen | CLB Youth
For just a moment I want to unpack the word “commissioned” as it’s used in the military. The Navy uses the word “commission” when a ship is placed into active service. This is a really big moment in the life of a ship as it means that this ship is now an official...
by Mark Johannesen | CLB Youth
We’ve likely all played a game of “Stay Standing If”. Now, picture a room of hundreds of youth workers playing that game with the host saying, “Stay standing if you’ve been in youth ministry for one year or less” and then they repeat that phrase repeatedly while...
by Mark Johannesen | CLB Youth
By Mark Johannesen In November we sent an email out to our youth worker network to ask them eight questions about the health of their ministries and of themselves. As a result, we got 28 responses which gave us some insights into how they and their ministries...
by Mark Johannesen | CLB Youth
A few years back I wrote a blog post called “Well A Lot” (it can be found at www.ffbooks.org/well-a-lot/), and) the point of it was to encourage youth workers to do the things that they do – “well” instead of doing “a lot”. And truly, doing things “well” for Jesus...
by Mark Johannesen | CLB Youth
I’m hoping my title was a bit confusing. I want to name two different ways of doing ministry right off the bat…. Doing it well Doing a lot of it I remember when I was 22 and just getting started at my first church how I did things. I did a lot of stuff. I hung out...
