Chris Bishop

My old ritual, as youth group would wrap-up on Sunday evenings and the young’ns were heading home, was to say to them “Be Safe.” Isn’t that a strange way to say goodbye? Of course, all I meant was “Have a good week and come back in one piece” but is that really the best advice [...]

  Marco is one of the most influential youth workers I have come across.  Recently he wrote the book youth ministry 3.0.  this has been a book that has provided me with some great reflection about the way that i am currently in ministry.  Youth Specialties let him go as a result of a differing [...]

As i have been thinking about the books that i have found useful there has been a torrent of books that i have thought about as I have begun to try and resource youth workers with some of the better youth ministry books.  Unleashing God’s Word in youth ministry had been a really great resource [...]

The Duel from Chris Bishop on Vimeo.

  Hey come to the corn maze with MUMC and get lost with us.  We are going to Lawer’s farm corn maze. Cost is $5 and kids under 5 are free.  A flashlight, warm clothes and old shoes are a good idea.  Extra money for snack, and if you would like to do the pumpkin [...]

I just picked up the new Andrew Root book the other day called Relationships unfiltered. His first book, Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry, is a great read.  This new book is a more accessible version of the first.  It is not better or worse just “condensed” as root puts it.  I am going to be trying [...]

Some conversation with the rest of the staff has gotten me thinking about some of the pitfalls of the way that youth ministry is done. As clergy we were talking about how churches in our area are moving away from a ministry of convenience to a ministry that seeks depth.  They have been doing this [...]