Inside the Mind of Youth Pastors

"Inside the Mind of Youth Pastors" will be coming out in December and I'm excited about it! Because it's my first book!

The book covers a lot of ground and engages stories of church leaders from across the country as they relate to Youth Pastors.

For churches without Youth Pastors "Inside the Mind of YP" deals with staffing the position in ways that are sustainable for great ministry. This section is informed significantly from consulting with churches over the past several years. The first 14 chapters will help Senior Pastors, Executive Pastors, Search Committee's , Boards, Elders, and other Youth Pastors make informed decisions that rework the traditional ways of finding, interviewing and keeping youth pastors in a local church to make them more sustainable. Additionally it helps these church leaders remember (and sometimes rethink) why they hire youth pastors in the first place. One or two of these things will be refreshers for the average Youth Pastor, (though not for the average church leader) and several will provide a new framework for Youth Pastors on the values the already hold.

The second section (15 chapters) helps Senior Pastors and/or other church leaders to understand what a Youth Pastor is thinking and/or hoping for from them. (ie. Youth Pastor's want their Senior Pastor to have their back.. etc)

There is a discussion guide included so that it can be used for Senior Pastors (or supervising pastors) to engage in meaningful discussion with their Youth Pastor about each chapter. This way the Youth Pastor is able to speak for themselves on each issue. The discussion guide will also be helpful for search teams to discuss and do the ground work for hiring youth staff.

I'm pretty excited about "Inside the Mind of Youth Pastors".

more to come.