by Rhett Smith | Aug 22, 2012 | Leadership
I’m super excited to be part of The Summit this November 9-10 in Atlanta, Georgia. This event is put on by The Youth Cartel (i.e. Mark Oestreicher and Adam McLane). I love their ideas for this event, and love their passion for youth ministry. I got to spend a...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 8, 2011 | Technology
I recently just wrote the article, Maintaining Relational Presence in a Technological World, for the Fuller Youth Institute. In the article I quote a comment from a nun in Ronald Rolheiser’s book, The Restless Heart: My vocation is, at each moment, to make the...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 20, 2010 | Leadership
I wouldn’t have known what to call it then, what questions to ask, nor what to say since it wasn’t even a topic on my radar. But looking back at that ministry I would have framed it around the topic of boundaries and self-care. The only pastoral advice I...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 6, 2010 | Parenting
Youth Ministry Youth ministry is an important topic to me because of not only my time in youth ministry as a kid, but all the time I have invested in it as a youth pastor and volunteer. Combine that with my other passion on the topic of boundaries and...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 4, 2010 | Leadership
This is the final post in a five-part series on Youth Ministry, Boundaries, and Burnout. Be sure to check out the four previous posts, Youth Ministry as a Stepping Stone (Fail), Looking at the Population You Serve, Have a Schedule, and Where’s Your Identity. If...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 1, 2010 | Leadership
This is the fourth post in a five-part series on Youth Ministry, Boundaries, and Burnout. Be sure to check out the previous posts, Youth Ministry as a Stepping Stone (Fail), Looking at the Population You Serve, and Have a Schedule. The reality is that our identity is...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 29, 2010 | Leadership
This is the third post in five part series on Youth Ministry, Boundaries, and Burnout. Be sure to check out the previous posts, Youth Ministry as a Stepping Stone (Fail), and Looking at the Population You Serve. One of the great benefits of ministry in general, but...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 27, 2010 | Leadership
This is the second in my series on Youth Ministry, Boundaries and Burnout, a topic which has become very important to me over the last couple of years. In the last post I looked at how seeing youth ministry as a stepping stone to “move up” in the church...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 24, 2010 | Leadership
On Monday I had the awesome opportunity to hang out with about 100 youth pastors in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. We were all attending a Youth Specialties luncheon, checking out their upcoming events, hearing about some of their ventures, and just having a good time...
by Rhett Smith | Feb 4, 2010 | Intentional Living
Last week I wrote about some of my initial thoughts on my upcoming trip to Haiti, and with each passing day I’m getting more and more excited, and a bit more nervous as well. One of the really exciting things is the coming together and completion of the team I...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 1, 2009 | Parenting
Here is an amazing opportunity that our church, HPPC, along with some other churches are putting on for people this weekend in Dallas. I hope to see you there. “For youth pastors, volunteer leaders, and parents, When Kids Hurt challenges caring adults to help...
by Rhett Smith | May 21, 2009 | Marriage
I’m currently writing up outlines for a parenting class I will be doing over the summer at Highland Park Presbyterian Church. The class will meet once a month through the summer and will be focused on the book by Chap and Dee Clark, Disconnected: Parenting Teens...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 20, 2008 | Technology
I walked into the convention center today and saw this sign sitting at the front of the bookstore next to our book. Very cool, but pretty surreal seeing it next to books by Guy Kawasaki, Tim Ferriss, etc. Especially since I only have a chapter in the book, and...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 9, 2008 | Leadership
What is a wiki? Well, if you don’t know, let’s look at what the most famous wiki, Wikipedia, has to say. A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 25, 2008 | Leadership
Drew Sams has written a great post at Collection of Crumbs. The Power of Story in Youth Ministry (2 of 5) Drew talks about the following 8 ingredients: Ingredient #1 – Point of View Ingredient #2 – Setting Ingredient #3 – Characters Ingredient #4...
by Rhett Smith | Feb 22, 2008 | Marriage
RO has just blogged a great post over at our collaborative youth ministry blog called, What the ‘Unhooked’ Culture Means for Youth Ministry. RO is doing a series on the book Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both If you work with...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 19, 2007 | Leadership
RO Smith over at Collection of Crumbs just finished his second post on our new youth ministry blog. It is titled, The State of the Postmodern Family (Part 2). Please check out his first post, The State of the Postmodern Family (Part 1). We look forward to having you...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 17, 2007 | Leadership
Check out Drews Sams over at our new youth ministry blog, Collection of Crumbs, as he starts his first post of six, on The Power of Story in Youth Ministry. Stay tuned for more writing on Junior High, High School and College Ministry.
by Rhett Smith | Dec 14, 2007 | Leadership
Just a reminder to check out our new youth ministry group blog Collection of Crumbs. It is a site that we hope is dedicated to thinking theologically about youth ministry. A site dedicated to integrating junior high, high school and college into the life of the...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 7, 2007 | Writing
It’s been about 17 days since I last posted anything, but that’s because the last 17 days have been crazy, tiring and very exciting. A lot of great things have been happening to me personally, and a lot of great things have been happening with our...
