{"id":4276,"date":"2013-01-30T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2013-02-20T09:39:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:39:43","slug":"growing-youth-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate\/2013\/01\/30\/growing-youth-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing youth ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have said it before and will say it again, We LOVE our Youth Pastors!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4288\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2013\/01\/jim1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"82\" \/>So lets welcome Jim Murphy, Pastor of Student Life Covenant Church, Bemidji<\/p>\n<p>to the blogging world: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthegrowingedge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.OntheGrowingEdge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out his blog &#8211; he will share experiences on the growing edge of ministry with students, their families, and the larger church. It includes posts about his ministry priorities and attitudes, systems and strategies, epic fails and lessons learned. It&#8217;ll also be about\u00a0the internal struggles with change and self doubt, the external pressures of expectations, the realities of long working days, the exponentially difficult learning curve of managing a growing ministry, the relentless cry of crisis and need, and many more issues that I&#8217;ve experienced as our ministry has grown and changed.<\/p>\n<p>Jim would like to share this blog with other youth pastors and ministry leaders for the sake of common support and even conversation. 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