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Youth Ministry Questions
The Source for Youth Ministry's most recent featured answer: QUESTION: Our youth group is small with 8 to 10 girls, ages 8th thru 10th grade. Several girls are constantly talking trash about each other. The trash gets passed around and around. Any suggestion to get control? Patty, Roanoke, VA ANSWER: Dear Patty, Thank you for contacting The Source for ideas for ministry with the trash-talking girls in your youth group. It's frustrating when you're trying to be a youth leader and feel like you have to be Dr. Phil in a referee outfit! Been there. Take heart: God is at work in you and the girls you care about. My overall advice is probably what you already know and are doing: Remain prayerful for these girls. Half of them probably wouldn't join in the gossip and backbiting if the other half weren't doing it. In other words, that's probably not the true character of some of the girls. The trick for you is to focus in on and call out what their true character is. So, keep your heart soft toward Jesus and them. Model a Christ-like response to their attitudes and conflict. Here's a link to an article that I think is relevant to your situation, Mean Church Girls. Click the following subjects to see what The Source had to say! 
ABUSE:
Avoiding Burnout:
CAMPUS MINISTRY:
COLLEGE MINISTRY:
CURRICULUM:
DISCIPLINE:
EVANGELISM:
EVENTS:
I don't see events! Where are they?!! Dress Code for Unchurched Kids at A Dance?
EXITING A MINISTRY:
FAMILY AND MINISTRY:
FUNDRAISING:
GAMES:
Do you have any biblical games? Do you have any games for 'small' youth groups? What can I do on an 8 - 10 hour bus ride?
GROWING YOUR YOUTH GROUP:
HOMESCHOOL:
MANAGING ADULT LEADERS:
How do I use chaperones on a trip? Should I PUSH my flakey staff? My Staff Won't Play With Kids! Fatal Attraction Staff Any resources for interview/screening volunteers? Staff Guy Wants To Be A Ladies' Man How can we involve the men's fellowship group in our church with our youth?
MATURITY:
MEETING SPACE:
MONEY FOR MINISTRY:
MOVIES:
PARENTS:
Mad Parents Don't Like My Dating Advice Parents Won't Let Them Go To Church So do you tell the "mooner's" parents or what?
PLANNING:
POLICIES:
How do I confront a sexually active kid? Do I let kids smoke at my program? I need advice about our church's new abuse policies for our ministries.
PRAYER:
PREACHING:
PROGRAMMING:
How do I lead a large group? We have the opportunity to lead big church! Are games and fun activities appropriate teaching tools? How do we meet the needs of both outreach kids and growth kids for our weekly youthgroup meetings?
RESOURCES:
Where is a good place to get Bibles for students? Where can I get a creative "New Person Form?"
RULES:
SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS:
STUDENT LEADERSHIP:
TEENAGE BEHAVIOR:
Moon Over Louisiana! Kids Want To Snuggle During Worship Help me not kill this kid! My Kids Ignore New Kids Kids Won't Shut Their Big Yappers! Do you have any insight on teen "cutting" from a youth culture perspective? What do you know about suicide? Girls Crushing on Male Youth Leaders Gossipy Girls... How to do I tame the trash talking? How do I help this hurting student who won't open up?
TRAGEDY:
TWEENS:
WOMEN IN MINISTRY:
YOUTH CULTURE:
YOUTH PASTOR CONDUCT:
YOUTH PASTOR NETWORKS:
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