7 Things I’ve Learned from 7th Graders
This week, I was a substitute small group leader. Now, here’s the thing you need to know about being a substitute small group leader: when you sit down for the first time with a bunch of middle schoolers you barely know…you’re not going to have a...My Soapbox Rant About Empowering Volunteers
Yesterday I gave you some of my favorite snippets and takeaways from the 2013 Middle School Ministry Campference. I hope you checked it out because, seriously, there was a heck of a lot of goodness in those notes.
Now, to keep the Campference conversation going, I want to tell you about a little Campference tradition that I got to be a part of this year: the Soapbox Sessions. Apparently, every year, Marko asks a handful of Campference people to give quick little 5-minute “soapbox rants” in response to this question:
“What is one thing you wish every middle school youth worker would stop doing, or start doing, or understand?”
And, this year, he asked me to get in on it.
So here’s my response, inspired by my 5-minute Campference Soapbox Rant.