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Jen Bradbury
Jun 01 · 5 min read

Baby Blue Eyes

Today, I'm linking up with Kate Motaung's Five Minute Friday. The rules: Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.

This week's prompt: Blue. 

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The first time I gazed into your blue eyes I was still on the...

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#Five Minute Friday #pregnancy #love #c-section #babies #parenting

Jen Bradbury
May 20 · 5 min read

Student Leadership Team Basics: Celebrating Birthdays

Earlier in this Student Leadership Team Basics series, we talked about how the role of your student leadership team is to create a culture of welcome in your youth ministry. One specific way you can do this is by having your team recognize and...

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#identity #student leadership #culture of welcome #youth ministry

Jen Bradbury
May 19 · 5 min read

That's Hard

On Sunday, my 7th and 8th grade teachers trickled into the Youth Room after Sunday School. On this particular week – the last of our program year – they'd also been joined by one my high school youth ministry's alumni who remarked there was a...

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#Jesus gap #confirmation #Leaders #Jesus #youth ministry

Jen Bradbury
May 15 · 5 min read

The Bible: Mars Edition

Letting teens influence my youth ministry's teaching calendar means that sometimes, we talk about topics I have no interest in or even real knowledge of; Topics that if, it were solely up to me, would never in a million years make our teaching...

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#discussion #Teaching #student leadership #Jesus #youth ministry

Jen Bradbury
May 14 · 5 min read

How to Utilize Secret Pals on your Summer Trips

I'm someone who needs a lot of encouragement and affirmation.

What I've learned after 13 years in youth ministry is that most teens do, too.

As a result, I try to be intentional not only about giving teens encouragement and affirmation, but also...

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#Prayer #affirmation #Missions #youth ministry

Jen Bradbury
May 13 · 5 min read

Student Leadership Team Basics: Popsicle Stick Prayers

Some of my good friends are long-term medical missionaries in Nepal. Every once in a while, I'll get an e-mail from them saying, “We popsicle stick prayed for you this morning!”

Every day our friends – along with their three young children – pray...

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#Prayer #Nepal #student leadership #culture of welcome #youth ministry

Jen Bradbury
May 12 · 5 min read

Meet

Today, I'm linking up with Kate Motaung's Five Minute Friday. The rules: Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking. This week's prompt: Meet.

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Dear Baby Girl -

Yesterday, I was at work, discipling a teenager who I...

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#Community #Prayer #pregnancy #discipleship

Jen Bradbury
May 08 · 5 min read

Review: Hopecasting by Mark Oestreicher

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For the last several years, I've participated in the One Word 365 project, selecting a word to anchor my year. My word for this year has been hope – chosen during a scary pregnancy related stint in the hospital in January.

In addition to...

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#hope #pregnancy #Jesus #books

Jen Bradbury
May 07 · 5 min read

Firstborn but not first

I recently received a message from a friend expressing excitement over the birth of my firstborn. To be honest, the word, firstborn, jarred me.

I am, indeed, expecting a Baby Girl in just a couple of weeks who – assuming all goes well - will be...

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#hope #church #youth worker #pregnancy #miscarriage #grief

Jen Bradbury
May 06 · 5 min read

Student Leadership Team Basics: What to do at your regular meetings

Since student leadership is really about discipleship, it's important to meet with your student leadership team regularly.

In my context, I meet with my student leadership team 4-6 times over the summer (plus an overnight leadership team retreat)....

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  • How to Utilize Secret Pals on your Summer Trips
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  • Meet
  • Review: Hopecasting by Mark Oestreicher
  • Firstborn but not first
  • Student Leadership Team Basics: What to do at your regular meetings

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