Beyond the Youth Room

⚡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...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Youth ministry is hard when students drift away from church, stop coming to youth group, or begin struggling in their faith. In this episode of Beyond the Youth Room, we talk about spiritual drift in teenagers, practical youth ministry follow-up, and how...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Youth ministry programs can get polished, organized, and full… while still missing what matters most. In this episode of Beyond the Youth Room, we break down why we’re completely changing our youth ministry model to focus on prayer, Bible reading, studen...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Youth ministry vision planning is one of the most overlooked parts of student ministry leadership. In this episode, we break down how to build a complete youth ministry vision plan that gives your ministry direction, clarity, and long-term purpose. From...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Youth ministry growth, first-time guest retention, and student engagement are some of the biggest challenges youth pastors face today. In this episode of Beyond the Youth Room, we break down practical youth ministry strategies to help first-time students...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Gen Alpha is officially becoming the dominant generation in youth ministry, and they are NOT just Gen Z 2.0. In this episode, we break down 4 major ways Gen Alpha is already forcing youth ministries to change — from algorithm-driven worldviews and screen...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Youth ministry, student engagement, Gen Z attention spans, and communication in youth ministry all matter more than ever—and MrBeast might understand teenage attention better than most youth pastors. In this episode, we break down what youth pastors can...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about If you’re looking for one of the best discipleship resources for teenage boys, The Measure of a Man by Gene Getz is a powerful Bible study that every youth pastor, student pastor, and men’s ministry leader should know about. In this short video, I share...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Most youth ministry Bible reading plans don’t work for teens—and that’s a problem. In this short, we break down how to get students reading the Bible, how to teach biblical interpretation, and a simple strategy to help teens build a consistent Bible-read...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Some of the most popular strategies in youth ministry… don’t actually work. In this episode, we break down 5 overrated youth ministry practices that many youth pastors rely on—and explain why they might be hurting your ministry more than helping it. From...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about If your youth ministry isn’t multiplying disciples, it’s probably not a strategy problem—it’s a systems problem. This episode breaks down a simple, proven framework for youth ministry growth, disciple making, and church growth strategy from Movement Read...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Youth ministry camps are changing—and many youth pastors are asking if camp is still worth it in 2026. If you’ve noticed lower student excitement, fewer first-time guests, rising costs, or a shift in impact, you’re not alone. In this episode, we break do...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Church History in Plain Language review — Why are there so many Christian denominations? What did the early church believe, and how did we get from the first-century church to today? In this review of Bruce Shelley’s Church History in Plain Language, we...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about What would Jocko Willink fix in your youth ministry? In this episode of Beyond the Youth Room, we break down powerful youth ministry leadership principles from Extreme Ownership and apply them directly to youth pastors, church leaders, and student minist...

⚡Get Your FREE Kits Today 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about What happens when you challenge every student in your youth ministry to share the Gospel? In this video, we walk through a simple yet powerful Gospel Challenge in which each student is encouraged to have 10 gospel conversations in 30 days. We break down how i...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about What if your youth ministry could experience real, lasting growth—not just in attendance, but in salvations, discipleship, and gospel impact? A few years ago, we were sitting at about 40 students and had seen 17 salvations. Everything looked healthy on t...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about What if your youth ministry isn’t being attacked from the outside, but slowly drifting from within? In this episode, we dive into youth ministry strategy, youth pastor training, student ministry growth, church leadership, and discipleship to uncover how...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Is God a moral monster? How do we respond when students ask about slavery in the Bible, Old Testament violence, or difficult passages about God’s character? In this video, we break down key insights from 'Is God a Moral Monster?' by Paul Copan an...

⚡Take the Evangelism Challenge 👉 https://www.generationunashamed.org/kits 🔥 Join Our Community: https://www.skool.com/beyondtheyouthroom/about Is revival coming to America? According to new data from Barna Group, a growing number of Gen Z and U.S. adults believe spiritual revival is on the horizon—but it may not come from comfort. It may come from chaos. In this video, we break down Barna’s Top...