What does a (healthy) family reunion look like? Next week, a group of our youth pastors will spend 40 hours at Camp Kwasind for our annual youth pastors retreat. Granted, not all family reunions are events we look forward to, but this is one you will enjoy and remember. For me, YPR (aka our youth pastor family reunion) looks like this: times of deep laughter establishing old and new friendships
We are excited to have Gord Nichols join our CBOQ Next Gen team as our education intern. From September to April, he'll be focusing on youth ministry event management as part of his undergraduate studies. Gordon Nichols is from Tillsonburg. He's volunteered in youth ministry settings since 12 years old and felt a calling to Youth Ministry by age 16. Gordon's involvement includes summer camps (like Camp Oneida), CBOQ Youth
This past weekend, over 500 people from our family of CBOQ churches gathered in Toronto. This annual Assembly is our “family reunion”  and our theme this year was “Growing Up Together”. Indeed, we are all growing up together. Friends renewed acquaintances. Believers celebrated and worshipped God with one voice. Our presenters and speakers each challenged us with ways that we can grow together (from the various ministries to church operations
UPDATE: As of Saturday morning at 2:30am, everyone from the team left Pearson Terminal 1 to return home for rest and a time to debrief in the weeks to come. Can someone tell me why sunrise has to be at 5:45 am?  Yes we made it - it was dark. However I believe our 29 cboqyouth team members all made it to our fourth floor dorm roof to praise God in
We've revised our starter kit for church youth ministries. The overview document gives the church and youth leader starting points when determining what their new youth ministry may look like. From there, sample templates are included to help establish the foundations of the youth ministry with bonus documents which will help you take it to the next level. This starter kit is available on our Access Card. (If you don't
“Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.” ― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are The fact is, if you don't train, you don't transform. If you're not continuing to learn and stretch, then don't expect positive change. Ensuring that you and your team have on-going learning opportunities is key to sharpening their ministry skills and moving the
We are excited to launch our redesigned website. While most of the website will still function similar to the previous version, there are some changes that we have made (or will finalize soon): The website is now responsive on your mobile device. So, click on any link, and it will appear in the most optimal way on your mobile device. We'll soon be announcing how our members access section works.
Students in the church have a unique opportunity right now. They have access to their peer groups that youth leaders don’t have (and shouldn’t have). Many are creative and out-of-the-box thinkers (because many “don’t know better”). And, best of all, many of these students have shown their ministry opportunity isn’t in the future, it’s now. First of all, we’re referring to youth who are taking leadership in a particular ministry, not necessarily within your youth program. Some of these
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