Recruiting Adult Volunteers: Tools for Evaluating Gifts and Abilities
Several tools for evaluating leaders' gifts and abilities are described and evaluated.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=230&art_id=86

Recruiting Adult Volunteers: Interviewing and Placing
It's tempting to accept any warm body that volunteers for that hard-to-fill position. But it's critical that we put only qualified leaders over our students. Here's how.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=230&art_id=85

Recruiting Adult Volunteers: Publicity to Let the Congregation Know
People want to volunteer in a ministry where God is working. Good publicity lets the congregation know what God is doing in the youth ministry.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=230&art_id=84

Interns: How to Work With Them (Part 2)
In this second part, Michael Holt gives us insights from those who supervise interns as well as from his own vast experience.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=220&art_id=70

Interns: How to Work With Them (Part 1)
For over 20 years, Michael Holt has hired, trained, mentored and supervised interns. In this first of a two-part article, Michael shares with us from his extensive experience. Additionally, he draws from the experiences of other interns and youth leaders.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=220&art_id=69

Serving in Different Cultures
Our call to service is clear. But our service may look very different, depending on the cultural context of our service. Dave Livermore gives us a window through which we can peek outside of our cultural box and see how service looks in several different cultures.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=210&art_id=66

Service and Acts of Kindness: No Strings Attached
Many ministries are doing acts of kindness with no strings attached, and seeing the unchurched embrace Christ as a result.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=210&art_id=158

Building Ministry in Your Cultural Context
Cookie-cutter ministry formulas don't work in every cultural context. Dave Livermore helps us to adapt our ministry strategy to each context, including the Word, Worship, Community and Serving.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=200&art_id=62

Forgiveness: The Power That Heals
If students could learn to forgive others from the heart, they would not resort to violence to even up the score. Innes' article presents a much-needed exhortation to forgive. Youth workers could use this article as a basis for a message to their students on the topic.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=190&art_id=54

Preventing School Violence (Bible Study)
This lesson plan/article shows that the characteristics in students' lives that put them at risk for school violence were addressed by the Bible thousands of years ago. We can have a part in preventing school violence by promoting Christian character and helping youth model it for their peers.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=190&art_id=53