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Sustainable Youth Ministry: Why Most Youth Ministry Doesn't Last and What Your Church Can Do About It is unavailable, but you can change that!

You're looking for a youth pastor. Again. What goes wrong? Why do youth ministries crumble? And what is the cost to students, parents, volunteers and church staff? Is a sustainable youth ministry possible, even after a youth pastor leaves? Youth ministry expert Mark DeVries knows the answer is yes, because he helps build sustainable youth ministries through his coaching service called Youth...

To begin tilting the climate of a youth ministry in a positive direction, its leaders need to identify a small victory, a single visible result, and go after it. The climate of a youth ministry can change with something as simple as recruiting a new team of volunteers (and commissioning them in front of the church). Another church tipped its youth ministry toward a healthy climate with a single mission trip that attracted just a handful more students than the year before. Churches are a lot like