Tag Archives: family time

Summer is a great time for family ministry

By Joe Ball | Published: June 18, 2012

Summer is here, that time in most youth ministry schedules where things go full throttle until mid August.  With camp, Mission trips, VBS and amusement park trips it seems at times there is hardly any time to breathe.  Let me encourage you this summer to intentionally create opportunities for students and their parents/guardians to participate [...]

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Planning a balanced ministry calander

By Joe Ball | Published: May 1, 2012

There are a plethora of ideas, meetings, programs and camps to involve your students in.  How do you plan a calendar that meets your ministry needs and also honors the commitments of families and the church as a whole?  Tara Clark, youth and children’s minister at Clay Village Baptist in Shelbyville and Jay Montgomery, Associate [...]

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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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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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Time Management-Establishing Priorities

By Joe Ball | Published: November 17, 2011

There are only 24 hours in a day, yet some of us our better managers of our time than others. Two of our YMN coaches, Steve Coleman, Youth Minister at Richmond FBC, Richmond KY and Kris Billiter, Minister to youth and families at Walnut Street Baptist in Louisville, KY are our guest today. The Conversation [...]

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Balancing ministry with family

By Joe Ball | Published: October 25, 2011

There is no substitute for time with your family. Two of our YMN coaches, Steve Coleman, Youth Minister at Richmond FBC, Richmond KY and Kris Billiter, Minister to youth and families at Walnut Street Baptist in Louisville, KY are our guest today. The Conversation in this episode centers on finding a healthy balance between ministry [...]

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It all started with a pocket knife

By Joe Ball | Published: October 17, 2011

It was a pretty typical Sunday. I got up and got ready for worship.  We went to worship and then had lunch at El Nopal.  On this Sunday I was flying out in the afternoon to San Antonio for a meeting with other State Sunday School Associates. Gina and I ran to Kroger for some [...]

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5 thoughts on parenting

By Joe Ball | Published: April 12, 2011

It seems that this season of ministry has me being asked a lot about parenting teenagers.  I am sure some of that has to do with the season of life that Gina and I are in.  In less than six weeks our youngest will turn twenty and we will no longer be the parents of [...]

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Eleven for 1/11/11

By Joe Ball | Published: January 11, 2011

It seems that everybody is compiling a list this time of year.  I have seen reports on the best books of 2010, the best new electronic gadgets for 2011, 11 tips for losing weight in 2011, and on and on and on.  So I thought I would be a part of the movement, so below [...]

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Guarding your time with family

By Joe Ball | Published: November 9, 2010

As I look across the landscape of youth ministry I see youth workers everywhere struggling with the balancing act of doing ministry and spending time with family. There is always one more meeting to attend, one more student to see or event to plan.  So I asked some youth workers across Kentucky how they guard [...]

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