Dealing with a Failing Student Leadership Program
by: Leader Treks

Youth ministry a strange and beautiful animal, isn’t it? It’s built upon the incredible hope of reaching a generation and creating lifelong disciple-makers. Youth ministry requires vision and action, but it also requires risk, vulnerability, and sometimes failure.

I’ve been a student pastor for nearly 19 years now. I have seen extreme growth and extreme decline over these years at different churches. Back in 2013 I took the position of student pastor at a church in Waco, TX, inheriting a youth ministry that was a shell of what it once was.