Thought #15 in Stephanie Caro’s 99 Thoughts for Smaller Church Youth Workers quotes one of her good friends, Keith White, a youth pastor in Georgia. Keith thinks back to his teenage years:   “Growing up in a small church with a small youth group, relationships were all that we ...

Back in November, I started thinking about what to do with our EYC over Spring Break.  For the past few years, we have tried to schedule a ski trip but it has become financially prohibitive.  So this year, I tried to think out of the box and came up with the idea of a Staycation ...

Over 60 of our Houston Episcopal youth and their sponsors traveled to Breckenridge, Colorado for Snowfest 2012. This ski trip has expanded over the past five years to include seven Houston Episcopal churches (St. Martin’s, Holy Spirit, Emmanuel, St. Mark’s, Christ Church Cathedral, St. ...

What would it look like for the future of the church if our strongest leaders in our youth programs could spend three days together? What if our potential leaders had the opporunity to grow in their confidence and live into their spiritual gifts?   Convergence is a leadership ...