Now this is the post that many initially seek when they hear the words follow-up.  I will give you several ideas on ‘Things to Do’ to help you with all of the tips I gave in the previous posts.  The reason I waited until part four to discuss these things should be understood simply by [...]

In the second post of this series I gave some pointers for giving the youth some tools that they need to keep their faith going after a retreat or conference.  This post is similar but different.  I finished the last post talking about loving a man he is able to love a man.  This is [...]

This is something that I think gets overlooked too often.  Your number one priority when you get home is to help any youth who may be in danger when they get home.  This can be looked at in two ways, those whose physical lives are not safe and those whose spiritual lives are not safe. [...]

So you take your youth on a trip to the biggest conference you can find, they get extremely fired up, and they back to their parish (and hopefully a youth group) and find that the excitement just is not there.  Any youth volunteer that has brought youth to a conference, retreat, or camp knows a [...]

As I start my new ministry I have been training myself to think about ways I can best equip the youth ministers and volunteers from around the Diocese.  Through prayer I have really been pointed towards this idea of trimming the fat.  As youth ministers we want to give our youth the best and provide [...]