Latest Youthgroup Podcast Episodes
204 Opening Doors
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - May 22, 2024 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“Do for others what you want them to do for you.” Have you ever had someone hold a door open for you when your hands or arms were full? Felt pretty good knowing someone cared. How many doors have you held open for people? Some of those doors you opened were emotional, spiritual, life changing, j...
203 Mackenzie Balmer - Apex Missions
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - May 15, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMackenzie Balmer was a girl who grew up without the church. When she encountered Jesus, she found out that God had a wonderful plan for her life already in place. She and her husband Zane have a unique love story and they both have a ministry profession. Mackenzie is with Apex Missions for stu...
202 Model It
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - May 08, 2024 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis episode is about taking action! Especially, acting like (aka modeling) the person you want your children and/or students to be like. “Do what I say and not what I do!” Was an old saying. It didn’t work when it was popular and it doesn’t work now. What do you want your children, grandchild...
201 NO CASH - NO HOPE - NO JOBS... 25 YEARS
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - May 01, 2024 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings25 years seems like a long time until you compare it to history. We overestimate what we can accomplish in a year and under estimate what we can accomplish in 10 years. Time and longevity matter! Invest in teenagers and your personal future will change. Life changing events happen. Students ...
200 Dr. Sarah Cooke Friend - Oncologist - Former Youth Ministry Student
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - April 24, 2024 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHow does an Oncologist end up on a podcast like this? Why would she take her precious time to give to us her knowledge and kindness? Great questions! Dr. Sarah Friend (formally Sarah Cooke) was a student in the youth ministry I was the pastor of. She gives great credit to my wonderful w...
199 Engaging with LAUGHTER!
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - April 17, 2024 09:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHaving fun with students is hard work... Gettting students to laugh along with you and/or making them smile is even harder! Why does it matter? When you get students to laugh or smile it raises their IQ levels... no joke! According a study, it makes a person 31% smarter. When you make someo...
198 NICHE DOWN! External and Internal Threats
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - April 10, 2024 09:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOrganizations and churches want to save money, so they try to hire people for one thing and put too many hats on them... that way they don’t have to spend more on staff. As a result, they complain about everything, because you are doing "little to nothing" well. That responsibility lies on t...
197 Never Stop Praying For People with Jim Halstead of Go and Tell Ministries
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - April 03, 2024 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBreaking Strong Holds… Maybe you have been praying for someone or for a certain person to have an encounter with God. An encounter life changing that it would have them seeking to ask Jesus Christ personally in their heart. Has it maybe seemed like it’s taking forever? Not even a sign of hope? ...
196 Practice To Win
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - March 27, 2024 09:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDuring a recent interview between Erika from "Erika Taught Me" and Chris Voss (Author of "Never Spilt The Difference" and a former FBI Hostage Negotiator), she asks this question: Chris, how do you use these special communication methods that you've developed during your time as a hostage negoti...
195 Caleb Turner - Youth Director at Factory Church
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - March 20, 2024 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsCaleb Turner is the Youth Director at Factory Church located in Concord, North Carolina, USA (a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina). Caleb has been in full time student ministry for a little over one year at the time of this recording and we cannot wait to share with you his life story here on ...
194 Calling or Career
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - March 13, 2024 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJeff Bezos, the founder owner of Amazon, understands and believes in the difference between a Calling and a Career. If a great business man believes in a calling, how much more should we? Are you called to serving others and adventure? Or are you stuck, because you can’t see beyond a pay check...
193 Legacy Of A Leader
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - March 06, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAndy McDaniel... Leader... Ripple... Tsunami! What is a tsunami? A tsunami is a series of extremely long waves caused by a large and sudden displacement of the ocean, usually the result of an earthquake below or near the ocean floor. This force creates waves that radiate outward in all dir...
192 Lenita Abouchabake - Founder of Teen Coach Academy
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - February 28, 2024 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsLenita Abouchabake is from Sydney, Australia and the Founder of Teen Coach Academy. This is her second interview on the Youth Worker On Fire Podcast. Lenita's business is helping adults who already serve teenagers and their families become teen life coaches. That may seem odd to some of you, b...
191 Bible Reliability
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - February 21, 2024 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMost people really do not know why they believe what they believe. Many of us who do, need to be refreshed, so that we can fight spiritual warfare more effectively. But in your hearts set Christ apart [as holy—acknowledging Him, giving Him first place in your lives] as Lord. Always be ready to...
190 Children... Not For Long
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - February 14, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhile you may be teaching, coaching, raising or leading adolescence it is important that you pay the most attention to your young children while doing the work. Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent m...
189 Comfort Management
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - February 07, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsCOMFORT... IS IT A TRAP? Most of us "work forward" -> to being comfortable, but comfort can kill you or at the least make you lose the ability to achieve or live up to the purposes God has made you for in this life. Too much comfort slows creative juices down. To much comfort can set you up fo...
188 YOU MATTER
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - January 31, 2024 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsYOU MATTER… Everything You Do Counts… Everyone You Meet Is Important! You were bought with a price [you were actually purchased with the precious blood of Jesus and made His own]. So then, honor and glorify God with your body. - 1 Corinthians 6:20 (Amplified Bible) For we are His workmanship...
187 Sabbatical with Chase Allen
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - January 24, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we interview Chase Allen (Youth Pastor at First Baptist Church Umatilla) about his month long sabbatical in 2023. Here are some of the questions we discuss: 1. How long have you been in student ministry and how long have you been at this Church? 2. Who decided you needed a ...
Year 8 Episode: 1
Christian School Radio - January 22, 2024 15:53 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Christian School Radio! Today we will be doing introductions since it is all new members and we will be going back to how all of the new members got to the school and what we enjoy about this amazing school.
186 11 Minutes Can Change Your Life
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - January 17, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBetter to have little, with fear for the LORD, than to have great treasure and inner turmoil. (Proverbs 15:16) Ed Sheeran (Songwriter/Artist) - “Writing music is like turning on a faucet. At first you get muddy water. The more you run it, the clearer the water gets. The same thing happens when...
185 God Chose You And Your Team
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - January 10, 2024 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGod has a plan for you and your team! Moses had a lot of energy when he was in Egypt and thought he knew everything. However, he found that his energy alone and his willingness to lead got him into trouble. It took God about 40 years to get Moses in the mindset to where he actually could lead ...
184 GOD HAS A PLAN
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - January 03, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHappy New Year! God has a plan for your life. I always knew I was meant for something good since I was very young… around 5th grade to be exact. But it was seldom easy. At age 15, I had a God encounter that would send me on the journey I saw in a daydream when I was 10 years old. That journe...
183 New Year's Resolutions: Word For The Year
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - December 27, 2023 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPick your… WORD FOR THE YEAR! Yes, one word. A friend of mine has asked me and many other friends to pick their “word” for quite a few years now. What is that one word that you want to define the upcoming year? Here are a few changes you can make to go from negative talk to positive and proact...
182 Fundraising... Blessing or Nightmare?
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - December 20, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFundraising… Blessing or Nightmare? (Answer: They can be both.) Usually you are either a good at: Ministering to people or 2. Fundraising (Occasionally some are both.) But it doesn’t matter. It’s not about you, it’s about God. It’s about you transferring your knowledge and your abilities to ...
181 Ian's Story with Chuck Mingonet
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - December 13, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis episode is an episode unto itself, but came out of an original interview with Chuck Mingonet (Episode 101, Navy Jet Pilot and Commander). Chuck and his wife have two children. Their daughter and her husband, became missionaries based in Spain. Ian their son (Chuck’s grandson), became ill ...
180 Keep Showing Up
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - December 06, 2023 10:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFrom the Mission Possible Devotion: "Hard days will come. People will try your patience. What you worked for won’t happen the way you hoped it would… when you want to stop pursuing excellence, just keep showing up." 1 Cor. 15:58 - "My beloved brothers and sisters, be firm, immovable, always ex...
179 OVERNIGHT SUCCESS
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - November 29, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe 10,000 hour rule (as written by Malcolm Gladwell) is not quite enough to become an expert. There are “4 things it takes to be an expert”, according to a YouTube personality. 1. REPEATED ATTEMPTS WITH FEEDBACK. EXAMPLE: A tennis player must have immediate feedback to become great or good....
178 Matt Ferguson - CIO at Storyland Studios & PlainJoe
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - November 22, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMatt Ferguson is the CIO (Chief Innovation Officer) and Head of Storymaking at Storyland Studios and PlainJoe (A Storyland Studio). Matt is a master of encouragement and leadership. His creative and insightful nature has led him to incredible opportunities vastly beyond our time together, when...
177 Environments Matter
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - November 15, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEnvironments your students, parents and volunteer staff drive into, walk into, and engage others with… It sets the mood and the tone for learning and caring. All student Ministries are not made or created equal. All students are not made for all student ministries. Both students and student mini...
176 I'M A MESS BUT DIFFERENT IS GOOD
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - November 08, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHow is Different good? It’s good because God has made us very unique and individual since before birth, according to Psalm 139. People as a whole (or in groups) don't usually like “Different”, because conformity is easier to understand. Conformity is predictable and doesn't cause surprises. Di...
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