Doug and Josh talk through making the most of brainstorming your Summer Calendar, and the best time to get it into the hands of your people. (SPOILER: It's before Summer!)

Josh, Jessica and Travis talk about the benefits of keeping certain experiences exclusive to each grade for your students.

Volunteers are the lifeblood of a healthy ministry. Doug, Josh and Jessica discuss great ways to keep them encouraged!

Josh, Doug and Jessica discuss what do you do when you're given unsolicited feedback. SPOILER: It happens to EVERYONE.

Doug, Josh and Jessica go over breaking up the norm by using a panel of volunteers and other ways to mix it up in your program.Get Doug's Testimony Tool here: https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/true-story%3A-testimony-tool/training-182.htmlStay Connected:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DownloadYM​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/downloadym/​Twitter: https://twitter.com/DownloadYM

Josh relates the story of how what he thought was going to be a great activity for the junior high boys in his life group...was not.

Join Doug Fields and Josh Griffin as they talk about youth ministry calendars!https://blog.downloadyouthministry.com/podcast-extra-youth-ministry-calendar-spring-2023/

Learn how you can double up on events and make it a win for your ministry!

Doug and Josh discuss how you can use planned absences as a way to develop others into better leaders.

Josh jumped on zoom with Shane Sanchez to talk youth ministry and his new book, How to See God: A Four Week Guide for Teenagers. How to See God is a four-week devotional guide for teenagers that helps them develop the skill of looking for God's Spirit at work in their everyday world. Through the fruit of the Spirit, they can begin to see what God is like and how God's Spirit shows up in themselves and in the people around them. Shane is the director of High School Content at Orange Curriculum.