The most valuable earthly asset to any youth pastor are great adult leaders. If you are a youth pastor with only 5 kids within your totally isolated area, you do not need any one else to give you a hand. But in any other situation, you need to surround yourself with the most talented people you can.
What I hear most is complaints about how youth pastors cannot find good leaders. I hate hearing this. That just means you have not done a good job looking for leaders and turning over every rock until you have great ones all around. My best advice is to first listen to the Holy Spirit. I have found that great leaders are being led to help out by the Holy Spirit and all you have to do is prompt them and find a place where they will be used. Just remember to be slow to pull people in. It is infinitely easier to never ask a bad leader in than to get rid of a bad leader once they are there.
Good volunteers are a ministry multiplier. One person cannot do enough to really lead a group of students by themselves. However, if you have a team of awesome adult leaders, you can really get a lot of personal work done in the lives of your students. We recently had a retreat where we spend time after each service in personal prayer. We sent the leaders out to pray with the students and thanks to the quality leaders, every student had the opportunity to pray with an adult. That is true ministry at its finest.
In Him
-Schutte
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