This week on the podcast we listen to a different podcast that Word of Life offers. This one is called Multiply! Youth Ministry Podcast hosted by Brian Baker. Here is the description and show notes for the Multiply! podcast.
Many youth ministries struggle with finding and keeping great leaders. Today's guest on the Multiply! Podcast is Bob Johnson. Bob has been the Youth Pastor at First Baptist Church in Glen Este, OH for 19 years. He has built a strong leadership team, with the standard tenure of his leaders averaging 8 years. On today's episode, Bob shares his experience and insights from years of creating and retaining great teams.
Takeaways:
Why is it important to have a leadership team?
- God does not need us, but He does choose to use us
- You need to develop leaders and students at the same time
- As a pastor, you are not called to do the work of the ministry, you are called to equip the saints to do the work of the ministry
The Process:
Errors people make in recruiting youth leaders:
This is the link that you can use to listen to more episodes from the Multiply! Youth Ministry Podcast Podcast. lcm.wol.org/multiply/