"Youth ministry takes people who dare to be available for God andallows them to rise to greatness for the sake of Jesus Christ.Youth Ministry is grueling hours, continual heartbreak, a wretchedstomach, verbal abuse, money, time-time-time, loving the seeminglyunlovable, listening, caring, reaching out and praising God forkids.

People in youth ministry as well as any other aspect of Christianservice must be searching for ways to be used by God to effect thepresent and future. They are people who are dreaming dreams as theyreach for the stars and grasp the hand of there Creator whilewalking with the Son.

Youth ministry is scrubbing floors, setting up tables, staying uphalf the night struggling with a Biblical principle and coming togrips with how to communicate this principle to the kids.
Youth ministry is whatever we allow God to do through us, the kids,and those around us. It's helping a family through the tragic deathof a teenage son, the rape of a daughter, or the death of a mother.It's struggling with someone as they wrestle with whether life isworth living.
Youth ministry can feel like Heaven or Hell on earth. It iswatching kids grow in the Lord and giving in to temptation--it'slaughing with them and crying with them. Youth ministry is livingin the midst of their heartaches, failures, victories and strugglesduring which you're praying God will give them the strength andstamina to stand before the world and claim Jesus Christ as theirLord.

Youth ministry is a way of living not a job, party, program orSunday School class. It's allowing God to have and use our totalbeing to touch the lives of hurting, crying, love- starved teens asthey grow into adulthood."
- Mike Lewis