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Kristen Lascola from North Coast Church gives weekly insight and tips on how to grow the size and health of your Youth Ministry! With over 20 years in Student Ministry, Kristen shares her knowledge and experiences and frequently features guests from various ministries, churches and leadership roles so that you can use proven strategies to increase your impact from your leadership role. This podcast will help you grow your leadership skills, enhance your youth group, learn new youth group games, put on impactful youth ministry events, build a thriving volunteer staff, grow your influence and create a healthy environment so that you can help take the ministry God has you in to the next level. Hit subscribe and get ready to advance your youth ministry! https://www.growyouryouthministry.com/

Recent Episodes

3 Things You Need to Immediately Eliminate From Your Youth Ministry!

Your youth ministry can be packed with “good” things and still be drifting away from the results you actually want. We wrestle with the leadership tension so many youth pastors feel: we can pull it off, we can find the volunteers, we can make it happen, but should we?? If your calendar keeps getting fuller while your discipleship pathway remains blocked, it may be time to subtract some things from your youth group before you add. In this episode, we walk through three specific categorie...

28 MIN

4 Things a LARGE Youth Ministry Can Learn From Smaller Ones

Big youth groups bring big momentum. The worship can feel electric, the games can be epic, and the room can feel full of life. But there’s a quiet risk that shows up as you grow: students stop feeling seen. So how can you avoid this and some of the other problems that come with being a large youth ministry? Ideally, we’re chasing the best of both worlds, the energy of a large student ministry with the care and connection of a small youth group. Today we take a look at 4 things tha...

22 MIN

5 Things a SMALL Youth Ministry Can Learn From Larger Ones

A "bigger" youth ministry, doesn't automatically mean a "better" youth ministry; however there are some important things that a small student ministry can learn from large ones. In this episode, we’re talking about five things smaller youth groups can learn from larger youth ministries. We start with a simple shift that changes everything: consistency. Having been a youth pastor and experiencing everything from a small youth group to a large one, we will be sharing personal ...

30 MIN

The 7 Types of Events That Your Youth Ministry NEEDS!

Now is a great time of year to plan out your youth ministry calendar of events for 2027! Instead of having a random mix of events, make sure you get intentional on the type of youth ministry events you want to have. From outreach style events to community connection, make this next year a huge win for your youth group by balancing out the calendar well to build a healthier, growing youth ministry without burning out yourself or your team. If you’re planning your youth group event...

26 MIN

Is Your Youth Ministry Welcoming or Confusing?!? Here's How to Tell...

➡️📝 Interested in an Audit for your Youth Ministry? E-mail us at [email protected] and we can send over more information! ⬅️ *** A brand-new student shows up at church and freezes in the hallway. They do not know where to go, how check-in works, or whether they are even allowed to grab a donut. That moment is where a lot of youth ministries lose students, not because they are unkind, but because the experience is confusing. We want growth, we ask kids to invite friends, yet we so...

42 MIN