Educate + Engage Podcast

Titus Johnson shares the way to stay. It all starts with saying yes every day. There are three yeses we must say every day. Enjoy this episode to hear all three (and enjoy some fun conversation along the way). Find all your youth worker resources at EducateandEngage.com

Tim Gaddy shares insights and stories about preaching, especially in youth ministry. Youth workers are called to feed God's sheep God's Word through preaching. Find all your youth worker resources at EducateandEngage.com

Garrett Robertson shares insights and stories about servant leadership, especially in youth ministry. Every leader is called to serve the people Jesus died for. Find all your youth worker resources at EducateandEngage.com

Kelvin Shaw kicks off 2026 sharing great tips for all bivocational youth workers. If you don't work full time for your church (or at least you're not paid to work full time for your church), this episode is for you. Find all your youth worker resources at EducateandEngage.com

Marco Salinas continues the conversation from his NAYC youth worker session. Enjoy this episode to learn how to build a youth ministry that lasts the tests of teen years. Find all your youth ministry resources at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EducateandEngage.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Our UPCI Youth Ministries Bible Quizzing director, Russ Faubert, shares some funny and inspiring stories about Bible quizzing as well as practical ways your students can be involved. Enjoy! Find all your youth ministry resources at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EducateandEngage.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Our UPCI Youth Ministries president DJ Hill pulls back the curtain to give us a behind-the-scenes peek at NAYC. And he applies the same principles he used in preparing for NAYC to help you prepare for youth service, youth class, a youth rally, or any other opportunity to educate + engage Apostolic youth. Find all your youth ministry resources at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EducateandEngage.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Even if you saw social media grow up as you were growing up, you can still be a social media warrior without spending your whole day to get it done. Listen to social media tips and tricks with THE director of promotion of UPCI Youth Ministries, Kyle Thayer. Find all your youth ministry resources at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EducateandEngage.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠

It's been said that exposure births a burden. In this episode, Micaela Fedosa, Angie Clark, and Brianna Sellers share stories and testimonies about Apostolic Youth Corps trips and changing students' lives by giving them a burden to reach the world. Plus, one of them learned to look out for lizards. Find all your youth ministry resources at ⁠⁠⁠⁠EducateandEngage.com.⁠⁠⁠

Some of our students will deal with special needs. In this episode, Stephanie Gossard and Jonathan Walker share stories and practical ways to help you minister to all your students. Find all your youth ministry resources at ⁠⁠⁠EducateandEngage.com.⁠⁠

God is using Frankie Taylor to help us grow closer to Him through worship. In this episode, Frankie shares practical ways to help you make worship priority in your youth group. Find all your youth ministry resources at ⁠⁠EducateandEngage.com.⁠

Our friend and student pastor and Hyphen pastor, Regan Matheson, gives practical tips and techniques on how to partner with parents to disciple the students God is giving you. Find all your youth ministry resources at ⁠EducateandEngage.com.⁠

Our friend and NAYC coordinator, Justin Reinking, is back to give us a few more practical tips on preparing for NAYC and what to look out for while you're there in Indy. Find all your youth ministry resources at EducateandEngage.com. Find out more about North American Youth Congress at northamericanyouthcongress.com.

In this episode, the Podfather Adam Shaw returns to the Educate + Engage Podcast as our honored to guest to share his passion about increasing capacity. If you are busy, too busy, way too busy, take 40 minutes to listen in. Find all your youth ministry resources at EducateandEngage.com.

In a culture of "rock stars" in the ministry, God is still calling us to be shepherds and feed His sheep, not our egos. In this episode, Amado and Amber Huizar give tips on how to lead more like a shepherd and less like a rock star. Find all your youth ministry resources at EducateandEngage.com.

Since July 2024, we have been hearing about Educate + Engage. In this episode, Wesley Stephens, the man behind the site, will give tips on how to use all its features to help you educate + engage your Apostolic youth. Disclaimer: Don't use Educate + Engage unless you want thirteen excellent teaching series each year written by Apostolic youth workers for Apostolic youth workers and thirteen sermon...

Many of us have small youth groups, but all of us want to have big church. In this episode, Matthew and Athena Smith give tips on how to have big church with a small youth group. Hint: LED walls are just optional. ;) Find all your youth ministry resources at EducateandEngage.com.

They're called hard conversations, crucial conversations, critical conversations, tough conversations, even crunchy conversations. We don't usually like them, but we need them. In this episode, Aaron Soto shares how and when we need to have these hard conversations with our youth. Find all your youth ministry resources at EducateandEngage.com

Our new host LJ Harry interviews Justin Reinking for tips on planning for NAYC. Grab your pumpkin spice latté, a tablet to take notes (paper or tech), and enjoy! Find all your youth ministry resources at EducateandEngage.com

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In this episode, Adam chats with Seth Boyte, National P7 Coordinator, about how youth workers can maximize their impact through P7 Bible Clubs.

In this episode, Adam chats with Kyle Thayer, the NEW Director of Promotions for UPCI Youth Ministries. They talk about his journey to YM, good coffee spots in STL and how to use social media to engage your students.

Attentiveness to the needs of the people you lead will grow your influence like nothing else! In this episode, Adam talks about how walking with people through trouble increases your leadership in their lives.

In this episode, Adam chats with professional counsellor Nashola Pryce about how youth workers can provide pastoral care to young people experiencing trauma.

Social media does a lot of cool things but it doesn't shape worldviews or leadership culture very well. In this episode Adam tackles a popular phrase that has wriggled its way into leadership culture. Listen to find out more!