PYWA Blog
Messy Lent
By Maggie Johnson Phillips Lent is tough. It is a tough season liturgically, and it can be a tough season to teach to young people. Advent is much...
Better Together
By Kate Satterstrom It wasn’t very long after I began a new call in Oregon as the Director of Children, Youth, and Family Ministries, that a...
The Four Best Things
Advent is the best time of year. Both inside and outside of the church are full of lights, love, and hope. It can be easy to get swept up in the...
When Everyone’s Talking About Politics
We’ve all been there. Sometimes you can feel it coming from a mile away, and sometimes it comes out of nowhere, but it happens: things get...
Pizza Math & Other Hard Questions
By Rebekah Witt I joke that all youth directors need someone to do pizza math with. It’s a real thing: figuring out how much pizza to buy for a...
You Don’t Need a Shovel to Sort Through that Pile of…Curriculum
by Kris “Bubba” Brammer Feeling a little overwhelmed by all those curriculum samplers and flyers about the best new curriculum ever? I don’t know...