Author Archives: Joe Ball

Challenging students to a life of purity

By Joe Ball | Published: February 15, 2012

I hadn’t been at Edgewood long, maybe less than a year, when the promotion material for the first “True Love Waits” Campaign came across my desk.  I knew almost immediately that it was something we needed to do.  I had no idea that my first major emphasis while at Edgewood would be talking so openly [...]

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Ten Trends That Will Reshape Youth Ministry

By Joe Ball | Published: February 13, 2012

What will youth ministry look like in 2020? There are more studies of young people and their faith today than at any time in human history. Despite this wealth of information, our methods have not significantly changed since contemporary youth ministry was birthed in the 1950s and 60s. That will change in the coming years. [...]

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Community Ministry

By Joe Ball | Published: February 9, 2012

From painting fingernails in nursing homes, to pre and post game events around a football game, to hosting the middle school band’s Christmas concert this episode’s discussion revolves around getting your student ministry and your church involved in the local community. Two of our YMN coaches, Lee Meadow, student pastor, Memorial Baptist, Frankfort  and Tree [...]

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Season 2 of Despising None Vidcast to begin this week

By Joe Ball | Published: February 7, 2012

Last fall we  posted 9 vidcast all dealing with topics unique to youth ministry.  This Thursday we will launch season 2 of the despising none vidcast.  Steve Coleman and Tim Ashley return from last season and joining them this season are Jay Montgomery, FBC Carrollton, Lee Meadows, Memorial Baptist Frankfort, Tara Clark, Clay Village in [...]

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Super Bowl Copyright issues

By Joe Ball | Published: January 31, 2012

One of America’s most sacred holidays is fast approaching. The 46th National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl® is less than two weeks away and many churches are preparing for one of their biggest evangelistic opportunities of the year. The Super Bowl® has the largest economic impact of any regular human event with literally every demographic [...]

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How teens communicate

By Joe Ball | Published: January 24, 2012

Been paying attention to the way the teenagers in your life communicate? Besides the parenting implications of turning a blind eye, observing American’s burgeoning adults will help predict their media habits as they grow older—or so says a study this month from Ericsson ConsumerLab. “As they get older, teenagers start to use communication tools in [...]

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2012 a year of Milestones

By Joe Ball | Published: January 10, 2012

50, 70, 21, 30, 1 and 50. No, those aren’t the signals Tim Tebow calls at the line of scrimmage or the combination to the gold vault at Fort Knox. Those numbers represent the milestones that our family will celebrate in 2012. 50-We start the year celebrating 50 years of marriage of Joe and Vicki [...]

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balancing ministry to church kids and kids from the community

By Joe Ball | Published: December 19, 2011

Most of us will at some point face it, what to do when students from the community become part of the youth group.  This can be unsettling to some families in the church. Two of our YMN coaches, Steve Coleman, Youth Minister at Richmond FBC, Richmond KY and Kris Billiter, Minister to youth and families [...]

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Learning “culture”

By Joe Ball | Published: December 15, 2011

This time of year, as we collect the Lottie Moon Christmas offering and participate in the week of prayer for international missions, I always think of our IMB missionaries that are taking the Gospel to the ends of the world. We have good friends that have spent the last twelve years overseas.  They work in [...]

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Grandma, can I eat at the big table this year?

By Joe Ball | Published: November 24, 2011

One of my memories of Thanksgivings is waiting for the day I would finally get to eat at the adult table.  It was a long time in coming, and took a lot longer than I thought it should.  My cousins and I spent years banished to the children’s tables and patiently, well maybe not so [...]

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