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Kristen Lascola from North Coast Church gives weekly insight and tips on how to build healthy leaders, teams and churches in Youth Ministry. With over 17 years in Student Ministry, Kristen shares her knowledge and experiences and frequently features guests from various ministries, churches and leadership roles so that you can use proven strategies to increase your impact from your leadership role. This podcast will help you grow your leadership skills, enhance your ministry, build a volunteer staff, grow your influence and create a healthy work environment so that you can help take the ministry God has you in to the next level. Hit subscribe and get ready to advance your leadership!

Ministry Coach Kristen Lascola

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Kristen Lascola from North Coast Church gives weekly insight and tips on how to build healthy leaders, teams and churches in Youth Ministry. With over 17 years in Student Ministry, Kristen shares her knowledge and experiences and frequently features guests from various ministries, churches and leadership roles so that you can use proven strategies to increase your impact from your leadership role. This podcast will help you grow your leadership skills, enhance your ministry, build a volunteer staff, grow your influence and create a healthy work environment so that you can help take the ministry God has you in to the next level. Hit subscribe and get ready to advance your leadership!

    Not Connecting With Your Students? 3 Things You Must Do!

    Not Connecting With Your Students? 3 Things You Must Do!

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    Coleader is a platform for youth workers to find programs with everything included,  – programs for youth groups, Bible studies, retreats, parents' nights, special events, and more.  Every series and event on Coleader includes everything you need to run it, delivered in a tool to help you make it your own.

    Not every youth pastor or youth worker is an extrovert...and that is okay!  But as an introvert, or maybe just as someone who doesn't naturally have the gift of instantly being able to connect with students, it can be challenging to strike up conversation or have rapport with a student at youth group.  In this episode, we discuss 3 ways to help you connect more easily with your youth ministry students.

    If you have it on your heart to support this ministry, please consider going to our Patreon page at: www.patreon.com/ministrycoach

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    (#036) How to Get New Students Connected to Your Youth Group
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    (#125) Why New Students May Feel Uncomfortable at Your Youth Ministry - 5 Things to Avoid!!
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/11703371

    (#092) Mistakes to Avoid When a New Student Comes to Youth Youth Ministry
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/11071721

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    • 38 min
    Work Smarter NOT Harder in Youth Ministry - 5 Youth Pastor Tips!

    Work Smarter NOT Harder in Youth Ministry - 5 Youth Pastor Tips!

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    Coleader is a platform for youth workers to find programs with everything included,  – programs for youth groups, Bible studies, retreats, parents' nights, special events, and more.  Every series and event on Coleader includes everything you need to run it, delivered in a tool to help you make it your own.

    If you are looking to avoid the feeling of constantly being overwhelmed, always playing catch up in your youth ministry and barely keeping your head above water then this episode is for YOU!  We break down 5 ways that you can flip the script in your student ministry and get ahead!  It's time to start working smarter NOT harder!

    We love hearing from you all and we do our best to provide powerful and insightful youth ministry content on a weekly basis to be that coach and mentor you may not have, but desperately need.
    If you have an episode idea, please E-Mail us at MinistryCoachPodcast@gmail.com!

    If you have it on your heart to support this ministry, please consider going to our Patreon page at: www.patreon.com/ministrycoach

    You may also enjoy these episodes:

    (#011) Plan a Whole Year of Youth Group Games in Under 30 Minutes!
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/11071721

    (#134) How to Make Your Meetings NOT SUCK! Youth Pastor Tips
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/12201765

    (#113) Feeling Overworked in Youth Ministry? (Top 5 Productivity Killers)
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/11149815

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    • 29 min
    How to Keep Your Youth Ministry Strong During Tough Times

    How to Keep Your Youth Ministry Strong During Tough Times

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    Coleader is a platform for youth workers to find programs with everything included,  – programs for youth groups, Bible studies, retreats, parents' nights, special events, and more.  Every series and event on Coleader includes everything you need to run it, delivered in a tool to help you make it your own. 

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    Hard times fall on all of us...youth pastors are no exception.  Throughout scripture, we see so many examples of leaders who had to push through difficult times...Moses, David, Paul, and so many more.  So how do we not only get through tough times but keep our youth ministry afloat during it as well?  In this episode, we take a look at 5 ways you can keep your student ministry strong during hard times.

    We love hearing from you all and we do our best to provide powerful and insightful youth ministry content on a weekly basis to be that coach and mentor you may not have, but desperately need.
    If you have an episode idea, please E-Mail us at MinistryCoachPodcast@gmail.com!

    If you have it on your heart to support this ministry, please consider going to our Patreon page at: www.patreon.com/ministrycoach

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    (#132) Handling Conflict in Youth Ministry (Overcoming Obstacles & Adversity)
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/12114908

    (#118) Are You Losing Your Heart for Youth Ministry? 3 Ways to Get it Back!
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/11403641

    (#093) Youth Pastor Self Care: Making Time for Yourself & Avoid Burn Out
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/10298852

    (#054) Youth Ministry Tips: Finding Motivation During Frustration
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/8552480

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    • 30 min
    5 Tips on How to Increase Youth Ministry Participation

    5 Tips on How to Increase Youth Ministry Participation

    No matter what size youth ministry you have, these 5 tips will help increase your youth group participation for events and your midweek program.  We have all experienced the crushing feeling of having low turnouts at youth group or an extensively planned event.  It hurts!!!  In this episode, we will be going over the right times to plan, simplifying sign ups, how to promote and hype up your ministry to get the most participation and much more!

    We love hearing from you all and we do our best to provide powerful and insightful youth ministry content on a weekly basis to be that coach and mentor you may not have, but desperately need.
    If you have an episode idea, please E-Mail us at MinistryCoachPodcast@gmail.com!

    If you have it on your heart to support this ministry, please consider going to our Patreon page at: www.patreon.com/ministrycoach

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    (#098) Get More Sign Ups for Your Youth Ministry Summer Camp
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    (#069) 5 Ways to Motivate Your Students to Invite Friends to Youth Group
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/9124031

    (#110) ULTIMATE GUIDE for Fall Kick Off Events for Youth Ministry - 20 Event Ideas!!!
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/11036063

    (#108) Summertime Event Ideas for Youth Ministry
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/10912789

    (#071) Youth Ministry Overnighter - Fun Lock In Games & Theme Idea
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    • 34 min
    Equipping Your Student Leaders to Reach New Students in Youth Ministry!

    Equipping Your Student Leaders to Reach New Students in Youth Ministry!

    When a new student comes to our weekend service or midweek program, it's very natural for us as the youth pastor to go and welcome them.  If you have a solid volunteer team, they will more than likely go up and introduce themselves to the new student as well; however, what makes the biggest and best impression is when your students are the ones welcoming a new student and introducing themselves to them. In this episode, we give you some practical and actionable tips on how to equip your student leaders to actively welcome new students into your youth ministry so that they are more inclined to come back again and again.

    Books mentioned in this episode:
    "Sticky Teams" by Larry Osborne - https://amzn.to/3L64vWk
    "Sticky Church" by Larry Osborne - https://amzn.to/3oAbejE

    We love hearing from you all and we do our best to provide powerful and insightful youth ministry content on a weekly basis to be that coach and mentor you may not have, but desperately need.
    If you have an episode idea, please E-Mail us at MinistryCoachPodcast@gmail.com!

    If you have it on your heart to support this ministry, please consider going to our Patreon page at: www.patreon.com/ministrycoach

    Thank you to our newest "Hall of Fame" supporter on Patreon: David Williams!

    You may also enjoy these episodes:

    (#040) How to Start a Student Leadership Team in Youth Ministry
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/7774198

    (#036) How to Get New Students Connected to Your Youth Group
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/7249987

    (#074) Going from New Student to Student Leader in Youth Ministry
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/9363217

    (#125) Why New Students May Feel Uncomfortable at Your Youth Ministry - 5 Things to Avoid!!
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/11703371

    (#092) Mistakes to Avoid When a New Student Comes to Youth Youth Ministry
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/10257480

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    💥ℹ️ COLEADER ℹ️💥 is a new platform for youth workers to find programs with everything included – programs for youth groups, Bible studies, retreats, parents' nights, special events & more.  Every series & event on Coleader includes everything you need to run it, delivered in a tool to help make it your own.  ➡️ Get your free trial here (NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED)➡️: https://share.coleader.co/F5wTrb/join
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    • 29 min
    Youth Pastor: Increase Your Influence Through Servant Leadership!

    Youth Pastor: Increase Your Influence Through Servant Leadership!

    As a youth pastor, servant leadership should be a foundational philosophy of how we lead.  In this episode, we take a look at what servant leadership is, what it looks like in your youth ministry and go over 4 self-assessment questions to ask yourself to further your character and leadership as a servant.

    Book Mentioned in this Episode:

    Renovated: God, Dallas Willard, and the Church That Transforms
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    We love hearing from you all and we do our best to provide powerful and insightful youth ministry content on a weekly basis to be that coach and mentor you may not have, but desperately need.
    If you have an episode idea, please E-Mail us at MinistryCoachPodcast@gmail.com!

    If you have it on your heart to support this ministry, please consider going to our Patreon page at: www.patreon.com/ministrycoach

    You may also enjoy these episodes:

    (#080) Youth Pastor Leadership: 8 Skills You Need to Master
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/9644903

    (#058) Leadership Skills for Youth Pastors - 9 Effective Leadership Traits
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/8711168

    (#059) Leadership Skills for Youth Pastors - 9 Effective Leadership Traits (Part 2)
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/8749167

    (#131) How to Level Up Your Leadership Skills in Youth Ministry
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/12066529

    (#127) Youth Pastor Leadership Principles Learned from "THE CROWN"
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/11825182

    (#020) Increase Your Influence in Leadership with Emotional Intelligence - Interview w/ Elise Boggs Morales
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/974710/episodes/5367292

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    💥ℹ️ COLEADER ℹ️💥 is a new platform for youth workers to find programs with everything included – programs for youth groups, Bible studies, retreats, parents' nights, special events & more.  Every series & event on Coleader includes everything you need to run it, delivered in a tool to help make it your own.  ➡️ Get your free trial here (NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED)➡️: https://share.coleader.co/F5wTrb/join
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    • 33 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
62 Ratings

62 Ratings

S81116 ,

Game Changer! (Pun intended)

I’m so glad to have stumbled upon this podcast! Kristen and Jeff are the perfect team and so fun to listen to. The things I’ve learned have been invaluable and they willingly share resources. We have now played 7 of their games and my kids have loved them all, which is saying something for my picky group. 😉

Thanks for what you guys are doing. Cannot rate this highly enough!!

bible-fan ,

Very helpful

This is my favorite youth ministry podcast! The tips and ideas shared are ones that you can easily implement in your own context and apply to many size youth groups. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience with the rest of us!

shoe_jk ,

Great content and Ideas

I really appreciate the conversational style and how they bring a lot of practical experiences to the conversation!

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