http://btfministersconnection.com for Prayer, Uplifting and Ministry Needs Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:48:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Coming from a youth ministry background (almost 10 years as a volunteer in some form or another), it is easy for me to say that this post if off base. However, as I thought about it, what is the main complaint in youth ministry, or from youth pastors? Parental/adult involvement ... http://btfministersconnection.com/2009/08/what-should-our-focus-be/ Indexed » Blog Archive » True for boys & girls.. I love the Indexed blog. This one is great for youth ministry. http://btfministersconnection.com/2009/08/indexed-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-true-for-boys-girls/ Why Church? - Real World Parents. Youth Specialities has a web site that is meant to help parents of teenagers called Real World Parents. As a step parent of a couple of teens and a couple of young adults, I try to read up on these things. I also look into ... http://btfministersconnection.com/2009/07/why-church-real-world-parents/ I have to go back awhile. At the end of March, at the last Big Ticket Festival Tour stop in Lansing, I had a mild heart attack. I wasn't sure at the time. It wasn't until the end of the week and getting admitted into Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey ... http://btfministersconnection.com/2009/07/ive-been-gone-im-sorry/ If you'd like to pray for the Big Ticket Festival, you can join in united prayer with hundreds of others. The staff of the Big Ticket Festival has created a prayer guide, with a prayer for each day from May 30th through June 17th. You can get a PDF file ... http://btfministersconnection.com/2009/06/prayer-guide-for-the-big-ticket-festival/ As this week's tour event winds down, I thought that I would share a few thoughts. This event has had more kids than I have seen at any of the other events, which means that there are a lot more families involved this week. I think that it is key that ... http://btfministersconnection.com/2009/03/32109-highland-mi-btf-tour/ I subscribe to and  read a lot of ministry blogs, especially youth ministry. I found this while reading this morning. Here's the lead in: If you haven’t been discouraged in youth ministry yet, hang on, you will be. Discouragement is a part of the profile we cannot avoid.  How we respond ... http://btfministersconnection.com/2009/03/dealing-with-discouragement/ This past weekend I had the awesome opportunity to help out at the Big Ticket Festival Tour in Grand Rapids, MI. Jeff couldn't go due to work, but our DD-16 was able to go and help out at the voting table. I was blessed to be able to sit in the ... http://btfministersconnection.com/2009/03/big-ticket-tour-grand-rapids-mi/ I listen to a lot of podcasts, read a lot of blogs, and keep up with things on some of the bigger social media sites. I love to learn, especially when it comes to ministry and specifically, youth ministry. So recently, I was listening to the Fuller Youth Institute podcast with ... http://btfministersconnection.com/2009/03/expectations-in-ministry/ Today was the first Big Ticket Tour and the first face to face with other ministers since starting this ministry (BTF Minister's Connection). The music was awesome and so was connecting with the church partners, pastors, youth pastors and leaders! There were 8 bands that performed and they were all amazing. ... http://btfministersconnection.com/2009/02/the-big-ticket-tour/