Q&A for How to Lead a Successful Youth Ministry

Yes. Every forum to gather people is an opportunity to showcase the goodness and love of God. Before the competition, you can arrange to pray and join hands with the team and share a scripture that will become a seed in their lives.

The Gospel. While this may seem like a overly simplified answer, the greatest mistakes that youth pastors tend to make is to try and make every message conform to what they think the youth want to hear. Young people today have a very strong desire for "real" leadership and can see quickly through all of the fluff that pastors are trying to feed them. Trust your young congregation with full and unabridged lessons from scripture and you will find that real leaders with real hunger for righteousness will come out of your congregation. When it comes to being effective and relatable, tie this real Biblical teaching to ways that they can apply it at home and in school.

Get them involve in the planning and execution. Choose a leader who has charisma from among them.

My suggestion would be is to invite them to one of your Youth Night and allow them to see the young people in action; giving them the opportunity to become involve in the evening's event; thus allowing them to decide if 'this is where they want to be.' Youth connects to Youth; they are honest; outspoken and genuine; however, they know how to relate the Gospel in ways that their peers are able to see how much Jesus values them as a person; therefore allowing Jesus into their lives.