Beyond the Youth Room

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 🔥 Join Our Community There are a lot of youth ministry “best practices” that youth pastors are simply expected to follow. But are they actually helping us make disciples? Over the years, we’ve stopped doing several things that are extremely common in youth ministry and student ministry. Some of these were practices we used to believe in ourselves. In this video, I’...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 🔥 Join Our Community Sermon: https://youtu.be/kSSCEqwsuJU?is=Ne7bitCkVKubjVHf How do you actually share the gospel as a youth pastor? And how do you create a culture of evangelism in your youth ministry where students are regularly hearing and sharing the gospel? In this episode of Beyond the Youth Room, we talk about youth ministry evangelism, gospel conversations...

⚡Take Our FREE Evangelism Challenge 🔥 Join Our Community Filled with FREE Resources How do you write a youth sermon that is biblical, engaging, and actually connects with teenagers? Sermon writing and sermon preparation can be one of the hardest parts of youth ministry, especially when you’re preaching every week. In this video, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my youth sermon prep process an...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 🔥 Join Our Community What should you actually do in your youth ministry this year? We just finished planning our full youth ministry calendar, and we’re sharing all of it: youth group events, sermon series ideas, summer camp, winter camp, outreach events, discipleship, evangelism, middle school ministry, high school ministry, and more. If you’re a youth pastor look...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about How do you know if your youth ministry is actually making disciples? We surveyed more than 130 students in our student ministry about their spiritual growth, Bible reading, Scripture memorization, prayer, church attendance, discipleship, evangelism, and...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about How do you build a youth ministry from scratch—especially in a church plant? In this episode of Beyond the Youth Room, church planter and former youth pastor Brandon Hembree joins us to talk about youth ministry, church planting, discipleship, evangelism...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Gen Alpha isn’t Gen Z—and youth pastors need to understand what makes this generation different. In this episode of Beyond the Youth Room, Shane Pruitt and Dr. Shelly Melia, authors of Reaching Generation Alpha, join us to talk about Gen Alpha, youth min...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about How do you build a youth ministry discipleship plan from scratch? In this practical youth ministry discipleship deep dive, we walk through a simple discipleship pathway for students, how to create a clear student discipleship strategy, and how youth past...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about What does discipleship actually look like in youth ministry? Many youth pastors and student ministry leaders want to make disciples, but common youth ministry discipleship myths can keep us focused on programs, attendance, Bible knowledge, and spiritual...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about If you're leading a declining youth ministry, struggling youth group, or stagnant student ministry, where do you start? In this episode of the Beyond the Youth Room Podcast, we break down how to grow a youth ministry, rebuild a struggling youth minis...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about How do you build evangelism into your youth ministry programs? In this video, I share three practical strategies youth pastors can use to make sure students hear the Gospel every time they come to youth group. We cover first-time visitor follow-up, reach...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Our students have shared the Gospel more than 7,000 times—and what we’ve learned has completely changed how we approach youth ministry evangelism, discipleship, and student leadership. In this episode of the Beyond the Youth Room Podcast, Ryne and Keith...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about How do you build a youth ministry that doesn’t depend entirely on the youth pastor? We’re talking about youth ministry leadership, volunteer development, student leadership, delegation, ministry burnout, and how to build a sustainable student ministry th...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Use youth ministry surveys to accurately measure student spiritual growth, identify discipleship gaps, and stop leading based on assumptions instead of data. Most youth pastors know their students' stories—but very few know the spiritual health of th...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about What can a busy summer of youth ministry, student ministry, summer camp, mission trips, and student discipleship teach you about leading students better? In this episode of Beyond the Youth Room, we share the biggest youth ministry lessons we learned aft...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about How do you build a thriving college ministry when your church doesn't have a college pastor? In this episode, we share the exact framework we used to launch a thriving college ministry that helps high school graduates stay connected, grow spiritually...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about If you're wondering how to grow your youth ministry, reach more teenagers, increase first-time visitors, improve student ministry outreach, and build a culture of evangelism instead of relying on big events, this episode is for you. We analyzed over...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about If you're a youth pastor, youth leader, or student ministry volunteer who has ever driven home from youth group wondering, "Is any of this actually making a difference?" this episode is for you. Keith shares a powerful youth ministry testim...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about After nearly 30 combined years in student ministry, we're sharing the 5 biggest youth ministry mistakes we made early on—and what we'd do differently if we could start over today. Whether you're a new youth pastor, volunteer youth leader, stu...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Most youth pastors want to develop student leaders, but many student leadership teams never become what they were intended to be. In this episode, we discuss one of the biggest mistakes in youth ministry leadership: choosing student leaders based on beha...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about What does the latest Barna and Christ In Youth Gen Alpha Report reveal about Christian teenagers, youth ministry, and the future of student discipleship? In this video, I break down one of the most comprehensive studies of Christian teens to date, highli...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Youth ministry growth doesn't happen by accident. If you're a youth pastor or student ministry leader looking to build a disciple-making youth ministry, increase student engagement, train students to share their faith, and create a culture of eva...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about 📺 Wes Huff Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpNgxsiNoOA&t=87s Is Gen Z actually moving toward high church, liturgical worship, and more traditional Christianity—or is social media exaggerating the trend? In this episode of Beyond the Youth Roo...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Why are families willing to sacrifice thousands of dollars, travel every weekend, and completely rearrange their schedules for travel sports—but not always for youth ministry? In this episode of Beyond the Youth Room, we unpack what travel sports can tea...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about What does a typical week actually look like for a youth pastor? In this video, I'm pulling back the curtain and sharing my complete weekly workflow as a full-time student pastor. From sermon prep and program planning to family time, exercise, Sabbath...