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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
Jan 09 · 5 min read

Concerns about “All You've Ever Wanted”

It's January. That means that once again, it's time for K-Love's 30-Day Challenge – something I have some concerns about.

One of my concerns about K-Love's 30-Day Challenge is that it seems to invite people to thoughtlessly consume Christian...

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#accountability #grace #Jesus gap #affirmation #music #Jesus

Jen Bradbury
Jun 04 · 5 min read

How to teach teens to notice others

A few weeks ago, my youth ministry held it’s third annual spring banquet. The event started after my student leaders approached me, saying they wanted to hold a dance for our youth ministry.

That thought made me want to vomit.

Rather than express...

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#affirmation #student leadership #youth ministry

Jen Bradbury
May 12 · 5 min read

Grateful

5minutefriday

Today, I'm linking up with Lisa-Jo Baker‘s Five Minute Friday. The rules: Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking. 

This week's prompt: Grateful .

Last week, I spent 45 minutes on the phone discussing a...

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#Five Minute Friday #gratitude #hope #affirmation

Jen Bradbury
Feb 04 · 5 min read

What I Wish I Would Have Done

In Mark Oestreicher's recent post, he wrestles with why so many youth workers are abused by their churches. After suggesting several reasons for this, he then turns the question on it's head and asks, “What if the reason so many youth workers are...

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#conflict #affirmation #youth ministry

Jen Bradbury
Jan 21 · 5 min read

Five Minute Friday: Encouragement

5minutefridayToday, I'm linking up with Lisa-Jo Baker‘s Five Minute Friday. The rules: Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking. 

This week's prompt: Encouragement.

I met with him a few weeks ago to discuss his role on...

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#Five Minute Friday #affirmation #student leadership #youth ministry

Jen Bradbury
Nov 22 · 5 min read

Affirmation as Parent Ministry

When The Five Love Languages was all the rage, I bought a copy, thinking it would be a great book for my husband and I to read together.

True confession: We never did.

A decade later I can tell you – even without ever having read the book – that...

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#parents #affirmation #love

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  • How to Utilize Secret Pals on your Summer Trips
  • Concerns about “All You've Ever Wanted”
  • How to teach teens to notice others
  • Grateful
  • What I Wish I Would Have Done
  • Five Minute Friday: Encouragement
  • Affirmation as Parent Ministry

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