Controlled Chaos Junior High Middle School Youth Ministry Podcast Network Christ In Youth

Thanks to our partners at CIY!  Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify  Intro done by: The Honest Youth Pastor from Twitter Show Outline: Kurt and Justin talk about Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. They give some great programming tips and games to play during the holidays. They also share a lot of what their churches do for fun during the holidays. Listen to get some tips and tricks for the upcoming holidays! "1:00 Holidays for junior higher’s 1:35 Kurt talks about his experience with Halloween 2:31 Sponsor CIY Believe Tour 4:16 Halloween in the church 5:19 Why Kurt isn’t a big fan of harvest festivals 6:23 Justin throws out an idea for Halloween 7:47 Marketing campaign at Justin’s church 8:52 Fun programming Halloween bits 10:49 Teach on something scary from the Bible 11:50 Justin tells a funny story about a bear 12:45 Thanksgiving time! 12:58 Fun programming Thanksgiving bits from Justin 13:50 ""Thanksgiving is a great time to teach o

Thanks to our partners at CIY!  Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE |   Intro done by: Gerald Fadayomi, Browns Bridge Church Leader Guide for your leader team (and this week parents).  Just send them this podcast, send them the leader guide and have discussion with them! Show Outline: We have Carey Nieuwhof here talking about everything parenting. Carey talks about the natural tendency for junior highers to withdraw from their parents. He gives some tips on how to be a present parent during that time and encourages parents to put the relationship with their kids before their work. Carey ends with giving practical tips on how leaders and youth workers can partner with parents. Some tremendous insight from Carey you will no want to miss! 1:18 Book Launch Emails 1:40 Justin Intro’s Carey Nieuwhof’s older audio 3:44 Carey talks about middle schoolers withdrawing 4:43 What parents freak out about 6:14 It’s a loss when kids withdraw 7:02 Secret sauce for le

Thanks to our partners at CIY!  Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify  Intro done by: Chad Daugherty, Middle School Pastor , Church at the Mall, Lakeland Campus Download Episode Leader Guide:  This is so you can forward this podcast to your team and then talk about with questions that we write to help you win as a youth worker. Show Outline: Host Justin Herman and Kurt Johnston discuss all things about teaching. They talk about the importance of teaching both formally and informally, being prepared, teaching in series, and what junior higher’s are the most interested in. They also give great practical tips on teaching and how it should align with church culture. Kurt and Justin tell personal experiences and funny stories along the way. You won’t want to miss it! 0:36 Piece of encouragement from Kurt 0:50 “Remember you’re placing seeds that you may not see grow for a long time but don’t place your value and success in what you see today.” -Kurt J

Thanks to our partners at CIY!  Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify  Intro done by: Todd Jones We have Andy Stanley here discussing his passion about middle school students and tremendous advice for volunteers and youth workers. Andy expands on a career longevity in youth ministry, mistakes hes seen in youth workers, and how vital having a relationally driven ministry is. He ends with more amazing advice and unpacking the phrase "Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone. "1:40 Huge Announcement 1:56 Join Book Launch team 3:00 Brand new resource tied to podcast 4:29 Look back at content from Andy at Catalyst 4:43 Leadership tip for leaders at North Point 4:56 “It is crisis that creates the connectivity and it’s crisis that creates the significance of your ministry.” 5:12 Book recommendations for young youth worker 6:16 How reading Next Generation Leader will impact youth workers 8:16 Why Andy is so affirming to middle school 11:00 ""It

Thanks to our partners at CIY! Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify Intro done by: Vivi Diaz, SandalsChurch Topics for this episode:   We answer YOUR questions! Today, Kurt Johnston and host Justin Herman answer questions regarding maintaining relationships with new high schoolers, low and high priced prizes, and how to lead in an unsuccessful ministry. Kurt and Justin bring dynamic answers that can help in many contexts of junior high ministry! Give it a listen, you'll love it! 2:22 Sign-ups for Believe Tour 4:04 Intro to Q & A video 5:34 Listener asks a question about best prizes for junior higher's 6:04 Kurt discusses tips for low priced prizes for junior higher’s 8:18 Justin discusses high priced prizes for junior higher’s 8:29 ""What you catch em to is what you keep em to.” -Justin Herman 11:15 “Prizes can become a part of the culture, it doesn’t just have to be an item you buy.” 11:30 Change the word prize to reward 12:00 Justin menti

SPECIAL EPISODE: A conversation with Chris Avery, Youth Pastor from Inland Hills Church. Thanks to Chris Avery for givng us the chance to have a window in to how he is doing, how is group is doing and how we can support him.   In this special episode: Chris Avery, Inland Hills Church, Facebook Justin Herman Sandals Church Carey Nieuwhof Blog Thanks to our partners at CIY! Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify Our Controlled Chaos Podcast Partner CIY, Christ in Youth. CIY- Christ in Youth   Our Sponsors.  Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri (where Justin went to college) ORANGE- The XP3 Orange Curriculum  Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers! Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep

Thanks to our partners at CIY! Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify Intro done by: Justin Kowalski, Sandals Church Riverside CA  We are here with Britt Kitchen! He is bringing his insight on having a small group driven ministry. He provides insight on how to choose your leaders, how to maintain a culture of prioritizing small groups, and how to make small groups an authentic place for junior highers. He brings his own experience to the table and is passionate about junior highers. Listen if you want to WIN and learn how to make small groups important. 0:35 Intro to Britt Kitchen 6:27 Worship tips on how to coach a musician 8:03 “Work to be a partner with your worship leaders.” 9:01 Britt’s elevator speech about his experience 11:27 Stepping into someone else’s shoes 13:47 Small groups being essential to strategy and motto 17:19 Britt explains stage personalities and values 20:14 Risks in being a small group ministry 22:48 Have to be careful when

Thanks to our partners at CIY! Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify Intro done by: Erik Williams Topics for this episode:    Gerald Fadayomi is here to discuss how middle school ministry is so vital for the high school ministry that he is a part of. He gives tips on leadership and the importance of seeking God first. He also reveals the vitality of relationship between middle school pastors and high school pastors. His high school pastoral perspective gives us insight into the importance of junior high ministry to set them up for success. Check out his book "Before You Go" where he asks amazing questions to foster discussions for senior high schoolers transitioning. "0:54 Thank you sponsors! 1:57 CIY booth at Youth Specialities 2:30 “One of the differences between power and influence is, the powerful will punish those that wrong them, the influential will forgive this that wrong them. The powerful will wonder where there power went, the influen

Thanks to our partners at CIY! Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify Intro done by: The amazing hosts of the Rethinking Youth Ministry Podcast Topics for this episode:   For our BIG milestone episode (25 can you belive it) we got 2 amazing people who have NEVER done a podcast before, our (Kurt and Justin) wives.   Ministry and Relationships. How do you live on a ministry salary.  How to create the right boundaries. Whose on this episode?  Justin Herman & Brittany Herman- Sandals Church Kurt Johnston and Rachel Johnston- Saddleback Church   Be part of #ChaosNation Facebook Group | Twitter | Instagram   Meet the HOST! Justin Herman Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Email   Our Controlled Chaos Podcast Partner CIY, Christ in Youth. CIY- Christ in Youth CIY MIX- Summer Camp  CIY Believe- Weekend Event     Our Sponsors.  Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri (where Justin went to college) ORANGE- The XP3 Oran

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! Orange XP3 Middle School Central Christian College of the Bible Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify Intro done by: Luke Angus, Trinity Church, Redlands California Topics for this episode:  Did we mention we have Patrick Lencioni !!!!! Most of our listeners are younger leaders, many leading a team for the very first time. Give them your "#1 DO" and your "#1 DON'T". Change is hard.The President of Fuller Seminary said “people don’t fear change they fear loss” So when taking over a role at a church give us some advice about how to implement change roll out an effective change management strategy. In your book, 5 Disfunctions of a team, you make the case that TRUST is the very most important quality among a team...so lack of trust is the biggest disfunction. How might you equate that with building trust with young teenagers and their parents in a church setting? Define the difference between Mission and Vision? In your

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! Orange XP3 Middle School Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Mo Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify   Topics for this episode:   Professionalism. Tattoos The new book and our goal of 100,000 Whose on this episode?  Justin Herman- Sandals Church Kurt Johnston- Saddleback Church    Things mentioned in the episode: Free Resouce- Postcards for your youth ministry! Marko The Youth Cartel Tattoos Controlled Chaos BOOK (PRE ORDER NOW)     Be part of #ChaosNation Facebook Group | Twitter | Instagram   Meet the HOST! Justin Herman Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Email   Our Controlled Chaos Podcast Partner CIY, Christ in Youth. CIY- Christ in Youth CIY MIX- Summer Camp  CIY Believe- Weekend Event   Thanks to our Sponsors.  Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri (where Justin went to college) ORANGE- The XP3 Orange Curriculum    Question or Show ideas? Email Justin at J

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! Orange XP3 Middle School Central Christian College of the Bible Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify   Intro done by:Marc Vinzon from Mariners Church (former staff member of Justins) Whose on this episode?  Justin Herman- Sandals Church Kurt Johnston- Saddleback Church Josh Griffin- Download Youth Ministry Tyler Rees- Orange   Things mentioned in the episode: Free Resouce- Postcards Middle School Ministry Campference- Youth Cartel Believe Tours- CIY The Orange Tour- ORANGE National Youth Workers Converention- Youth Specialties Download Youth Ministry University   Mariners Church Forest Home Camp The Debrief - Sandals Church CIY Move Camp (High School) CIY Mix Camp (Junior High)    Be part of #ChaosNation Facebook Group | Twitter | Instagram   Meet the HOST! Justin Herman Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Email   Our Controlled Chaos Podcast Partner CIY, Christ in Youth. CIY- Christ in Youth CI

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! Orange XP3 Middle School Central Christian College of the Bible Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify Topics for this episode:   The Upside of NO, This history of the podcast! How hearing NO to an idea set me on the path to start controlled chaos! Summer camp, time off policy, or lack of policy for post camp for staff.  Different from church to church, we talk about what its like in our churches. Volunteers, specifically at camp.  They are the BEST... most of them either take vacation time to be at camp, then they go right back to work.  But we touch on the expectaions we put on volunteers overall. Health, how do we create health for our leaders with everyting we ask them to do. Be mindful of the sacrifice your leaders make for you!   Whose on this episode? Kurt Johnston & Justin Herman Things mentioned in the episode: Download Youth Ministry University Episode 0008- The Power of 3, Kurt is back & Jon Acuf

  Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify   Topics for this episode:   Thank you!  Thanks to our great sponsors Central Christian College of the Bible, and ORANGE... Yes! ORANGE! We love Orange and we love MS Curriculum!!! You need to check it out, its the best out there! Generation Z tip of the week: Millennials are skipping entrepreneurship, but Gen Z is picking up their slack -- 72% of high schoolers want to start their own business someday, and 61% of college students would rather be entrepreneurs than employees, despite the clear difficulties they expect to face. For that means student leadership looks different, how we call them to invest in the ministry is of far greater value.  ARTICLE HERE Andrew Root answers a question of how to talk to students about the end times. Jadner Lugo shares with us what was happening on the ground in Haiti! Dr. Jim Burns sits down with us to talk about Sex!  Part 1 of 4 (over the next couple months) The int

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! Orange XP3 Middle School Central Christian College of the Bible Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify Whose on this episode? Justin Herman, Brad Lomenick, Kurt Johnston Things mentioned in the episode: Controlled Chaos Book by Kurt Johnston Brad Lomenick Brads Books   Be part of #ChaosNation Facebook Group | Twitter | Instagram   Meet the HOST! Justin Herman Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Email   Thanks to our Sponsors for this episode.  Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri    Question or Show ideas? Email Justin at Justin@ControlledChaosPodcast.com Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers! Podcast hosted by Podbean Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! Orange XP3 Middle School Central Christian College of the Bible Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify   Whose on this episode? Justin Herman, Kurt Johnston   Be part of #ChaosNation Facebook Group | Twitter | Instagram   Meet the HOST! Justin Herman Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Email   Thanks to our Sponsors for this episode.  Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri  Question or Show ideas? Email Justin at Justin@ControlledChaosPodcast.com Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers! Podcast hosted by Podbean Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers. Leave us a 5 Star Rating and Review on iTunes or our Facebook Page.   Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE |   Topics for this episode:   Youtube, this is all attached to the Generation Z tip of the week (read below).  Youth Cartel, Marko (Episode 0003) and Adam the founders of the youth cartel talk about managing conflict. Our first Blog Review comes to us from Kevin Libick, he is a student pastor with over 15 years of ministry experience. Most of that time has been dedicated to middle school ministry. Currently, he is the Student Ministry Pastor at Christ Chapel Bible Church in Fort Worth, TX. He wrote an article I LOVED about tackling tough transitions so I reached out to get him on the podcast to talk more abou tit. Generation Z Tip of the week (this is from Ashely Bohinc at Orange... She was on Episode 0005) Recent studies have shown between 80-95% of Generation Z uses Y

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! Orange XP3 Middle School Central Christian College of the Bible Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify Topics for this episode:   Screen time stats for Generation Z.  We got this from the Barna Study on Generation Z.  If you haven’t gotten it, you can get it here.. https://www.barna.com/product/gen-z/ Kurt and Justin sit down with Jeff Walling from Pepperdine University to talk teaching junior high students.  This is the episode you will want to send to your volunteers, interns, anyone that wants to grow as a teacher. Thanks to Saddleback PD podcast for letting us use their AIRSTREAM for recording this Episode.  First of our new monthly installment... GET ROOTED with Dr. Andrew Root.  This month he answers "What about the fact youth ministry doesn’t show up in the bible?"   You're going to love the answer.   Whose on this episode?  Justin Herman, Sandals Youth Network, Host, Speaker, Bald. Kurt Johnston, Saddleback N

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! Orange XP3 Middle School Central Christian College of the Bible Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher |YOUTUBE | Spotify Topics for this episode: This episode is unlike any we have every done. We talk to Sam Collier the director of city strategies for Orange about race and diversity in youth ministry. How you can help move the conversation forward.  How you can help move your church or high school ministry forward.  SO many great thoughts that challenge you to think. You will love this episode… it’s the one you will want to send to more people.  Whose on this episode? Justin Herman, Sam Collier Generation Z Tip.  Generation Z will be more global. Ford Motor Campany 2015 trends report (reasearch that cost millions that you can learn for free!) Things mentioned in the episode: Middle School Ministry Campference Connect with Sam Collier Sam’s book Find Your Voice onAmazon Sam’s book Find Your Voice on Kindle 5 Ways To Communicate With

Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on: | iTunes | Podbean | Google Play | Stitcher | Topics for this episode:   Fun and Money.. What you catch them to is what you keep them to. A big budget, zero budget… doesn’t matter.  Fun is who you are. Generation Z TIP Talking about Authenticity. Dan Scott Interview.  Author of Amazon #1 Children’s Ministry book Caught in Between. Kids Ministry students that disengage! The magic age of 11. The brain pruning.  (Justin has a moment of sounding smart) Small Group leading.  Concreate thinking. How to get past a difficult relationship with the kids person. A couple minutes with Clay Scroggins at Catalyst West.   Whose on this episode? Intro Andrew Valdez, Notre Dame Church NYC, Justin Herman, Dan Scott, Dr. Clay Scroggins   Things mentioned in the episode: Controlled Chaos Book by Kurt Johnston Rethinking Youth Ministry Podcast- Generation Z Barna Generation Z Twitch Caught In Between Dan Scott Dan Scott Twitter How to lead when you’re not in charge. Clay Scro