Comments on: Stupid Ministry Tricks: The Best of My Bone-Headed Ministry Mistakes

By: Sensus Divinitatis News

Sensus Divinitatis News — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:36:18 +0000

Stupid Ministry Tricks: The Best of My Bone-Headed Ministry Mistakes…

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By: Threads from Henry’s Web » Ministry Mistakes (or not)

Threads from Henry’s Web » Ministry Mistakes (or not) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:48:49 +0000

[...] Internet Monk has a list of his most bone-headed ministry mistakes. It’s worth a read. Some of them aren’t really mistakes, in my view. For example, #4: [...]

By: blwells45

blwells45 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:18:47 +0000

Having done youth ministry while still in college, and then spending the next 6 years after graduation as a youth pastor, all I could do was nod my head and laugh. Glad to know I’m not the only one…… Your blog is a joy to read. I am constantly forwarding posts on to my senior pastor saying, “iMonk hits another homerun!”

By: youth ministry

youth ministry — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:58:08 +0000

Goodbye to those beautiful and ugly moments of the past…I’m welcoming the future…

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:04:24 +0000

“Fellowshipping like bunnies” is the best phrase EVAR. When I read that there would be a retreat for teenage BOYS and a different one for teenage GIRLS in our church bulletin, my first thought was “Oh, this is to keep kids from fellowshipping like bunnies on retreat.”

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:15:47 +0000

Neither my wife nor I have ever been “youthies”, but we enjoyed great relationships with some of the youth in the church we met in 13 years ago. Took 10 kids to a concert. Newsboys, Plankeye, and Geoff Moore and the distance. 6 of them were PKs. Yeah, many of you know what I’m talking about….

As soon as we got there and got our seats (general admission), one of the girls had to go to the bathroom. My future wife sent her off with another girl. All of a sudden, one of the older PKs had to go too, so we sent him off with his friend. 10 minutes later, I’m shaking my head and she looks at me, “What’s taking them so long?”

Uh, they were 4 sections over holding hands enjoying the concert.

Later, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… where’s 10? Who are we missing? Tim. Tim was 10 years old and the youngest of the senior pastor. Found a security guard, who called on his radio, “I got two parents who lost their kid.”

At the time, we weren’t even DATING. But, yeah, we lost the pastor’s kid.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:05:54 +0000

I had a kid on a ski trip who came up to me in the lodge and said, “Uh, Daniel? … I ripped my pants. What should I do?” I looked down and saw that somehow there were rips in about three different directions across the front of his jeans, and almost the entire front of his boxer shorts were visible. I started laughing and couldn’t stop, so he had to look for someone else to help him. Somebody’s mom had to find some new pants for him. I still don’t know how it’s possible to rip your pants like that.

By: arpritchett

arpritchett — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:14:20 +0000

All we’ve really had to sort out in the youth group where I volunteer is a few almost fist fights. Granted, we’re policing hard for things like drugs because half of the youth volunteers were saved out of being the people your parents told you to stay away from.

Back in my SBC youth days, I was an integral part of getting my large youth group banned from a certain service-oriented youth camp.

We’ll take stopping the fights over anything I put my youth leader through.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:09:20 +0000

One more…
I was a student leader in our church college group. I planned a car scavenger hunt that sent people hunting for one of the clues in the town cemetery after dark (I neglected to think about that while hiding the clue in the afternoon). The first group to hunt for that clue had a very uncomfortable conversation with the police who happened by…”I’m sorry officer, we’re here as part of a church event.”

By: iMonk

iMonk — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:04:31 +0000

My apologies for the F word in a previous comment. Sorry to all.