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Facebook Live: Growing Your Youth Ministry

Switch, Life.Church’s Wednesday night youth ministry for 6th-12th grade students, is packed with great content and relationships to help our younger attenders develop a strong foundation on Jesus. Join us for this replay of our Facebook Live event to hear Life.Church Youth Pastor Matt VanderTol sha...

Kids Ministry: Creating Cohesion Across the Ages

Years ago, our early childhood, elementary, and youth teams created their own curriculums. They operated largely independent of each other and focused on different topics at different times. But after much research and strategizing, we realized we could be more effective if we aligned our st...

The Philosophy of Kids Ministry at Life.Church

A kids ministry can be so much more than babysitting or entertaining children. In our experience, kids of all ages have a God-breathed capacity for understanding the bigness, fullness, and depth of who He is. It's our job as kids, student, and youth leaders to help them engage with the Bible, with...

How to Talk with Teens about Suicide

Teens deal with serious, real-life issues in their day-to-day lives, which is why we aren’t afraid to tackle heavy topics at Switch, our youth ministry at Life.Church. Suicide can be a tough topic to address, but starting the conversation with students might help alleviate some of the stigma and...

Feed Lead: Youth Ministry Reimagined Series

The game in youth ministry has changed, so how do you make sure your youth ministry stays relevant and impactful? Feed believes there are three values of effective youth ministry that lead students to experience a lifelong relationship with Christ and the Word. Join Eli as he breaks down these t...

Is Anyone Listening?

With social media, many people express what’s going on inside their hearts with the same level of transparency as sharing what they had for lunch. “Out too late partying last night = overslept my alarm this morning. Guess I’ll be having ‘car trouble’ again.” “Yay, lunch! It’s burger & fries day!!...

Engaging More Students Through Switch

Switch is our youth ministry for 6th through 12th grade students designed to engage young people and help them grow. If you've used the Switch curriculum in the past or are just getting started, these four strategies will help you implement this semester's messages: 1. Increase attendance (and F...

6 Doors To Youth Ministry

As youth leaders, we're always trying to identify the best ways to reach and connect with our students. Vince Parker, Life.Church Switch Central Ministry Leader, shares how to create multiple access points between you, your church, and your students....

Switch Leader Training

Serving in youth ministry can be a whirlwind, but you’ve got what it takes, and we want to help equip you to be the best Switch leader you can be. Do you have questions about how to get a group of teenagers to open up, or does the idea of partnering with parents make you sweat? We’ve got you co...

Staff Development

Leadership XP: Engaging Young Volunteers

What we've learned: Here at Life.Church, our internship program allows young adults to serve in the church and gain experience in ministry. But we don't like to wait until a young person is college age before they're allowed to serve. We've found that if middle and high school students ar...

Higher Threshold for Chaos

When we’re entering into a new season, I always challenge our leaders to have a higher threshold for chaos. Systems tend to produce predictable outcomes. When we are innovating and growing, we never know what the outcome will be. Many ideas we think will be great turn out to be duds. On...

New Campuses and the 'Core Four'

When we launch a new campus, staff is one of the primary needs. To get a new campus going in the most efficient way possible, we start with a staff of four. We love people who can multi-task...