Tom Pounder, Author at YM Sidekick

YM Devo: What Are You Building?

This is a new “Category” and something I will be doing once a week. As a youth minister I know

Fellow Youth Ministers. The survey below is designed to find out what kind of training youth ministers have had and

If you look at the title and say to yourself, what is a “Bridge event”, let me clarify before I

Now that we are well into the Spring semester, it is a good time to re-evaluate where you are at

Communicating with leaders is vital to having a successful ministry. If your leaders do not feel apart of what is

There is so much in ministry that can get you down. Whether it is challenging students, difficult working with other

This past Sunday, a lot of youth ministers in Indianapolis, New Orleans, Minnesota and New York had an interesting decision

As I have said in a few different posts, our Super Bowl Party is probably one of our biggest outreach

Boundaries can be very hard to set and maintain. But, it is important for you to set them up so

On Monday, Mark McGwire confirmed what many people always suspected – he used steroids for much of his career including