Latest Youthgroup Podcast Episodes
122 Real vs Counterfeit
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - October 26, 2022 09:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA secret service agent came to meet with our high school group one Sunday and talked about his experience with identifying real vs counterfeit money. The agent mentioned that they spend more time learning about real currency and a less time on counterfeit... Why? Well… when you know the real thi...
121 Hank Schneider - Former Youth Ministry Volunteer
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - October 19, 2022 09:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHank Schneider is one of the most loyal volunteers I ever had on my student ministry staff. Hank tells us all about... Some life threatening and heartfelt missions trip moments. His experience as a foster parent. Working in the school system. College Football And more! This episode is ...
120 God's Words In Your Mouth
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - October 12, 2022 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsI was in San Diego, California for a conference and one of the speakers began with this prayer, “Your words in my mouth Lord. Not my words, but Your words.” That conference was many years ago, but I have never forgotten the impact of that prayer on my life. It came from Jeremiah 1:9. This epis...
119 My Pastor and Original Mentor
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - October 05, 2022 09:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDr. Fred Hill was my pastor since I was in middle school. I came to know the love of God for the first time through him and his ministry. All ministries that God has led me to and allowed me to lead are because Dr. Hill said “Yes” to God when asked if he would become the pastor at our church. ...
118 The Happy List
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - September 28, 2022 09:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHappiness is something we need in order to be smarter and a clear state of thought. According to research, when we are happy, we become 31% more productive. Some researchers even say we become smarter. The business world understands something’s about being “wise as serpents and harmless as dov...
117 Passion Counts
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - September 21, 2022 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPEOPLE PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR HEART IS! What’s inside this episode? Seems like churches think student ministry is less valuable than adult ministry. How can we change the tide from devaluing students and their families? If the world spends billions of dollars on winning over teenagers ...
116 Jim Halstead - Go and Tell Ministries - Pastor and Evangelist
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - September 14, 2022 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJim Halstead started Go and Tell Ministries after working with students and discipling them for many years. Jim is a man who started life without a clue about who God is. A young man who did not grow up going to church. When I first met Jim, I had been 5 years into a student ministry that woul...
115 It's Later Than You Think
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - September 07, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“It’s later than you think” is a line in the movie “The Adam Project”, which is repeated several times. The movie is Sci-Fi, but even though it mentions time travel, the real story was about loving the people we are responsible for. God sees loving those we are responsible for as more important ...
114 Be Heard. Be Seen. Be Gone.
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - August 31, 2022 09:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings3 things that will change how others receive you and your ministry… Be Heard. Be Seen. Be Gone. I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of time making sure to set a good impression with people. Is it that maybe in certain enviornments we spend too much time attempting to do so? I was a Campu...
113 Body Language
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - August 24, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWish you could change the outcome of a meeting or conversation before it even gets started? What if someone could teach you how to position yourself in order to positively enhance your interactions with others? Seems like we all should know these kinds of things. Well… someone does! This per...
112 Kevin Tolson - Former Battalion Chief - Firefighter
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - August 17, 2022 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsKevin is a former Fire Chief and trumpet student of mine back in my hometown. I was just out of college and he was a high schooler at that time. We have stayed in touch all these years later and he is now one of my go to prayer warriors. When Kevin prays, God moves into action. While on the jo...
111 Am I Enough?
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - August 10, 2022 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn our adolescents, we believe we can do anything! Then one day someone or somebody starts telling us to “be realistic”. They say we are not funny, not creative, not smart, not pretty, not likable, or not strong enough… and the list goes on and on. It grows on us and forms us into people who set...
110 Negotiate...is it a Bad Word?
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - August 03, 2022 09:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIf I had known about these certain key word changes in the beginning of my ministry, many of the conflicts I experienced would have had a much different outcome! Negotiate… seems like such a mean spirited word. Many people avoid it at any cost and for good reason. It used to mean that you coul...
109 Jimmy Rivera - President of Mission Discovery
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - July 27, 2022 09:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAs long as I can remember there being a Mission Discovery (student missions organization), I remember Jimmy Rivera being there. He was at every missions trip I took my students on with Mission Discovery along with Mission Discovery founder, Maury Buchanan. Jimmy is the guy you traveled with if...
108 World Wide Student Missions Trips - How it happened and why to consider it!
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - July 20, 2022 09:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsStudent missions trips change students lives, their families lives, and will change your life forever! They give students a broader and better world view very quickly. They see the person of Jesus Christ’s teachings in action! It becomes real to them while building shelter for the poor, feeding ...
107 Justin Cox - Fireflight - Grammy and Dove Award Nominee
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - July 13, 2022 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJustin Cox is a brilliant musician, songwriter, and former youth student of mine. The band he is in, Fireflight, performed for student ministries in our area churches and later would become a worldwide name in the music industry. He volunteered in our student ministry program, went on miss...
106 Death of a Student
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - July 06, 2022 09:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWarning: This episode contains movie spoilers. You might need to know this. If you do, it most probably will take you by surprise. When a student dies it’s unnatural… It’s unexpected… It’s unsettling… It shakes a community. It will shake you up as well, but you are who many will look to for co...
105 Fast Food and Jesus - One Student’s Salvation Story
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - June 29, 2022 09:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNot what I expected! We should never be surprised at how God shows up and shows off but I still get surprised. Margot looked like any churched student and she hung out with those who were. But at one breakfast meeting I got more than I expected. God doesn’t wait for us to be ready. He inserts ...
104 God Sightings - Success Stories of 2 Students
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - June 22, 2022 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBilly and Ashley are a boy and a girl that do not know each other. They are more than a decade apart in age, lived in 2 different cities, and from 2 separate ministries I was in charge of. They both had encounters with God in different ways, but the results were similar. The way they came to kno...
103 Chad Brewster - The Rock - Middle School Volunteer
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - June 15, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsChad stands 6 foot 3 inches and is built like a pro wrestler. When he walks in a room you know it! He is no nonsense and unconventional for a student ministry volunteer. He didn’t usually smile or just say hi to new students. He stood tall looked down at them and asked, “What’s your name?”… stil...
102 Grateful - Thank You For Listening
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - June 08, 2022 09:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTo our listeners, you are the reason this podcast exists. We appreciate each person who listens and shares these episodes with others who need to know what they can do to love, coach, teach, disciple, encourage, lead, and volunteer to help teenagers grow in spirit and truth through Jesus Christ....
101 Captain Chuck Mingonet - Vader One - Navy Jet Pilot, Commander, Mentor, Father, and Family Man
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - June 01, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTop Pilot, “Vader One” Captain Chuck Mingonet considers himself a small town Florida boy, but if you know this Florida boy he is all Man. He entered into pilot training in 1984 with the United States Navy and was the distinguished graduate for his class. He received his Navy wings in 1985 and be...
100 Ryan James Edwards - Growing up a Youth Pastor’s kid
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - May 25, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRyan is my first born of 3 children, married to his wife Brittney of 10 years, and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music producer specializing in the TV/Film industry, multi-business owner, and avid adventurer. His entire life from birth th...
099 Chase and Lisa McAllister's Love Story
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - December 19, 2021 02:39 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"Love makes the World go round!" is a saying I heard growing up. At least in Lisa and Chase's case it does make their world go round along with their now teenage girl. God's Love for us created a world and a Universe whether it, "technically", made the world go round or not, Love has certainly ...
099 Lisa and Chase McAllister's Love Story
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - December 19, 2021 02:39 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"Love makes the World go round!" is a saying I heard growing up. At least in Lisa and Chase's case it does make their world go round along with their now teenage girl. God's Love for us created a world and a Universe whether it, "technically", made the world go round or not, Love has certainly ...
098 Stay Pray Jim and Pat Ferguson 2 Get Coached
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - November 10, 2021 06:56 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis Part 2 of my interview with Jim and Pat is very short and to the point. If you want to be in the right place, make God decisions and stay where God puts you then 1. Pray 2. Pray 3. Pray. If you need to change that habit that has followed you all of your life, then get a personal coach or tr...
097 Jim and Pat Ferguson Volunteer Youth Workers World Wide Impact
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - November 02, 2021 02:51 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJim and Pat met in South Florida. She was a cheerleader, he was a football player. Sounds like an all American love story and it was. But there were a lot of twists and turns through out the years. They would later be some of my wife's volunteer youth workers all before I met her in Lake County ...
096 Honolulu Campus Life Military Chase McAllister 2
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - October 15, 2021 16:02 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis Part 2 about Chase McAllister Retired United States Air Force but NOW working full time as a Campus Life Director from the same military base he spent his last years at as a soldier. This is a closer look at how he followed God's calling on him to ministry. How can his story help you? How c...
095 Chase McAllister Honolulu Hawaii
Youth Worker On Fire Podcast - August 31, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsChase is 20 years retired military with the US Air Force. 2 years of his military career he was working with Campus Life on base. Now he is a full time Campus Life Director for the Military Base ministry. @chazzymacirl on Instagram and @yfcclmilitaryhi will lead you to YFC Campus Life-Military...
Innovative Kids Ministry with Westside Church in Kearney
NextGen Conversations - April 27, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAt Westside Church, a two-year-old satellite campus of First UMC (Kearney), a little grant money and creativity took the kid's ministry to the next level. Through digital mediums and activity box deliveries, the church kept connecting with families despite the strange circumstances of 2020. List...
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