Category Archives: Youth Culture

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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Why The Pursuit of “Cool” Hurts Your Youth Ministry

By Joe Ball | Published: February 26, 2011

This was originally posted at youthministry360.com Why The Pursuit of “Cool” Hurts Your Youth Ministry February 22nd, 2011 Photo courtesy of shutterstock/Ingrid W. “Relevant” is certainly a buzzword in youth ministry circles. It seems that many youth ministers constantly focus on the next trend to embrace, seeking to appear cool and relevant to students. They [...]

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Be who you were meant to be

By Joe Ball | Published: January 27, 2011

Saw this video this morning and had to pass it along.  While it is hillarious, it also hits on a core issues most of us as youth minster face at one time or another.  It may not be a daily struggle but I know there are times when we all look at what others around [...]

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Teens experiencing Facebook Fatigue

By Joe Ball | Published: July 6, 2010

This was posted last week at the Mashable/Social Media website Online gaming site Roiworld surveyed 600 teens ages 13 to 17 in late April and found that teens spend two hours per day online on average, 80% of which is spent using a social network. These same teens are, however, showing signs of “Facebook Fatigue.” [...]

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