Category Archives: Youth Culture

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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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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Who says teens can’t do the right thing….?

By Joe Ball | Published: November 1, 2011

Originally posted today on  yahoo. Tue Nov 01 10:49am EDT Teen rowers give up medal dreams to help capsized foes By Cameron Smith It’s always said that high school sports are supposed to teach young athletes the value of good sportsmanship. Now we all know that at least two prep rowers from Philadelphia are listening. [...]

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Understanding Youth Culture

By Joe Ball | Published: September 16, 2011

  Steve Coleman, Minister of youth at FBC Richmond and one of our Kentucky youth ministry coaches recently lead a workshop at Super Saturday on today’s youth culture.  Below is an article written by Robin Bass of  the Western Recorder on his workshop. Elizabethtown—In some circles they are called “digital natives.” Others refer to them [...]

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4 Things I Hope All Senior Pastors Know About Youth Ministry

By Joe Ball | Published: September 6, 2011

This was originally posted at afterthemusicstops.net.  There is a link to there at the end of the post.   I have been thinking and praying about writing this post for some time now.  In the past few weeks, months, and years I have heard of and known many youth minsters or youth pastors that have [...]

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Training Opportunties coming soon

By Joe Ball | Published: August 18, 2011

Just wanted to remind you about the Super Saturday trainings that will be held in five locations across Kentucky. Dates & Locations August 27 at Elizabethtown, Severns Valley Baptist Church September 10 in Lexington at Porter Memorial Baptist Church September 10 in Paducah at Lone Oak First Baptist Church September 17 in Owensboro at Bellevue [...]

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Divided the movie-a quick review

By Joe Ball | Published: August 8, 2011

There has been a lot of buzz lately about this movie.  I was made aware of it a couple of weeks ago.  I have watched it, pondered it, thought through what it was saying. Sent a link to the movie for our regional coaches to watch and respond back to me, and all the while [...]

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Learning from “Our” Students

By Joe Ball | Published: July 14, 2011

We have all seen the reports, stats, read the blogs and internet postings of what students are dealing with today.  And while the statisticians go to great length to authenticate their results, there is always in the back of my mind the thought that says, “But is that really reflective of the students I work [...]

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Texting Teens: Typing Replaces Talking

By Joe Ball | Published: July 6, 2011

After a close encounter with a texting teen at a busy intersection recently, we wondered: Has texting taken over as the primary form of communication for today’s teens? We found our answer with this Infographic from Lab 42, which polled 500 social-networking Americans aged 13 to 21. The headline stat: 71% of the respondents preferred [...]

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Using social media to facilitate discussion

By Joe Ball | Published: May 13, 2011

At one of the Iron Sharpening Iron youth leader events we just finished, one of our conversations moved to a discussion of how some students when given a chance to dialogue about the evenings lessons would sit stone-faced when required to ask questions or respond “out loud”, but as one youth minister put it, would [...]

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