Games are often the easiest thing to default to. If only five students show up and the room feels quiet, play a game. If the group is loud and restless, play a game. Or maybe if the lesson wraps up early, play a game. None of those decisions are wrong.
I got a group FaceTime call from some of my students at the time. I picked up knowing one of two things would happen: either they’d make fun of me for no reason, or they had a real question about the Bible they wanted to ask. It, of course, was
2025 was a wild year, wasn’t it? As we move into 2026, youth pastors are navigating several forces all at once. The curriculum landscape is less centralized than it was just a few years ago. Many ministries are rethinking what discipleship should actually look like. And perhaps most importantly, the
