Vision For Youth

10/28/2021

This is a very personal episode of Mel Walker's podcast since all 3 of Mel & Peggy's children are in full-time career ministry, he spent over 20 years of his own ministry serving in 2 different Bible colleges & seminaries, and he has spent the majority of the past 45 years encouraging younger genera...

10/20/2021

Current church trends reveal that most churches, for a wide variety of reasons, do not have a youth pastor. So, how can a church reach and impact younger generations without having someone with the fulltime responsibility to do that? In this episode of our podcast Mel Walker answers this key questio...

10/07/2021

Mel answers an important ministry question in this episode of his podcast by answering this, "Why Should Ministry Leaders Be On Social Media?" He understands that there is a lot of negativity surrounding the use and misuse of social media these days - and Mel dives right in to the issue in this epis...

09/27/2021

Listeners to this episode of Mel Walker's "Youth Ministry Questions Podcast" will hear him answer this key question in a bold and honest manner, "How Can the Church's Senior Leaders Learn About Emerging Generations?" In both of Mel's recent online webinars on Generation Alpha and Emerging Generation...

09/24/2021

Friends, for current Vision For Youth Facebook posts please check: https://www.facebook.com/visionforyouth.

An extended group of youth workers who interact and remain in informal contact for mutual support (conference, training, inner-city outreach, newsletters).

09/15/2021

Mel Walker says that the future of youth ministry may look like volunteer youth workers sitting around their kitchen tables with a cup of coffee and a small group of young people. He has observed that the discipline of youth ministry may be more deemphasized than ever in today's churches. Fewer Bibl...

09/03/2021

In this episode of Mel's "Youth Ministry Questions" Podcast he shares some of his observations about the cultural trends youth workers will face in youth group this Fall. Mel talks about some of the serious trends that he has noticed - and challenges other youth workers to use their observation skil...

08/27/2021

In this episode of the Youth Ministry Questions podcast Mel Walker answers maybe the "most asked" question in ministry, "How Can We Balance Our Families and Ministry?" This is certainly a common question and a common concern with today's ministry leaders. Mel has lived this issue. His kids are grown...

08/19/2021

In this important episode of his podcast, Mel discusses "How can the church be a family to kids from hurting, dysfunctional, and non-traditional households?" Let's face it, the number of kids from hurting and/or non-traditional households is growing exponentially in today's church. The days when you...

07/29/2021

In this episode Mel shares some practical ideas about how any church, anywhere can gear up for their Fall program for youth ministry. In "How to Gear Up for Fall?", Mel discusses 5 basic principles that will help any youth worker think through what to do to get ready for their Fall program. We trust...

07/20/2021

In this episode Mel shares his heart, along with some very practical advice, on "how ministry leaders can stay current in ministry". Listeners will find this podcast to be very beneficial and balanced as he lists 5 keys ways that youth workers, or any ministry leaders, can stay current in ministry.....

06/28/2021

In this episode Mel answers this key question, "How to Recruit Great Youth Workers?" Here he presents a very important principle of working with "volunteers" - and that is to recruit them instead. In this episode he shares 5 very important principles from Luke 9 & 10 about recruiting people to serve...