Category: Allen Jackson

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Allen Jackson

Connecting with College Students

This is a guest blog written by Emily Tillman who gave this as a talk at YMI2014, the youth ministry conference at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Until May

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Allen Jackson

What Are You Reading?

Each year I go to Metro Youth Ministers meeting which is a meeting of large church youth ministers.  Every year, they ask me to present my “Top Ten Reading List”

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Allen Jackson

The Scoop on Mentoring

A increasingly popular buzz word in business and in ministry is mentoring. When I googled the word, over 3 million hits came back. As a process (or relationship), mentoring has

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Allen Jackson

An Army of One

An Army of One. I was always a little confused about the slogan that the U.S. Army used back in the day. Aside from the biblical story of David and

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Allen Jackson

Continuing Education

As you plan your celebrations for your seniors who are graduating from preschool, middle school, high school or college, ask yourself: “Is it time you progressed towards a cap and

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Allen Jackson

Relating to Parents

Relating to parents in youth ministry is a bit of a loaded issue.  I want to be quick to state my assumption–you are a youth minister who would like to

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