Youth Specialties

Mark Matlock and several thousand students do the Harlem Shake at PlanetWisdom!

We can't wait for fall to get here! Visit http://www.NYWC.com for details. Make sure you save the NYWC dates: San Diego Oct 4-6 & Nashville 22-24, 2013. We have a great line up of Big Room speakers and worship leaders. Co...

Welcome to the YS Idea Lab. In this episode, Jonathan McKee offers five great ideas for training and developing your volunteers that you can do yourself. The YS Idea Lab was filmed on location at the National Youth Worke...

Les Christie is back with more tips for leading games in our youth ministries.

Les Christie shares with us some tips on leading games in youth ministry.

Youth workers---take advantage of this easy-to-use curriculum that will help you launch your high school students onto a lifelong course of faith and service. Sticky Faith Curriculum for Teenagers, a 10-session book and DV...

All students have hurts, some are better at hiding it than other. Download this free discussion guide for your ministry to begin a conversation about helping hurting kids. http://www2.youthspecialtie...

Tobias Haglund shares his story of working with Young Life Capernaum, a ministry that specializes in serving students with special needs.

The Digital Age talks about leading worship at PlanetWisdom. Visit http://planetwisdom.com for all the details about this years tour.

The Skit Guys tell you what to expect from their Planet Wisdom Session. Visit http://planetwisdom.com for tour location information.

The Planet Wisdom student conference is coming to the Bay Area in CA April 26 - 27, 2013. Visit http://planetwisdom.com/tou... for more info.

Planet Wisdom is coming to Orange County, CA April 19 - 20, 2013. Visit http://planetwisdom.com/tou... for more info.

Planet Wisdom is coming to Washington DC, March 8 - 9, 2013. Visit http://planetwisdom.com/tou... for more info.

Planet Wisdom is coming to the Dallas / Fort Worth Area Feb 8 - 9 and Feb 22 - 23. Visit www.planetwisdom.com for more information.

Planet Wisdom is coming to Tulsa, OK, Feb 1 - 2, 2013. For more info, visit: http://planetwisdom.com/tou....

Join us in Lakeland Fl Jan 18 - 19, 2013. For more info, visit: http://planetwisdom.com/tou...

Mark, Doug and Kara wish our entire YS Community a very happy and wonderful Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for?

At NYWC Dallas Tony Campolo was awarded the Youth Specialties Lifetime achievement award for his contribution to Youth Ministry

Join us in In the Twin Cities for PlanetWisdom, with Mark Matlock, Heather Flies, the Skit Guys, and worship with The Digital Age. www.Planetwisdom.com

The purpose of the YS Listens Tour is for you to see what youth workers across the country are thinking about, talking about, struggling with, noticing, and experiencing with the teenagers in their ministries.

Our tour to...

Andy Root, author of Taking Theology to Youth Ministry and Taking the Cross to Youth Ministry, talks with Mark Matlock about his new books.

YS Listens - We traveled around the country asking youth workers like you questions about their ministry. In this segment, we asked "In the last 6 months, what has surprised you in Youth Ministry?" What has surprised you...

Biblical Wisdom on Relationships - www.PlanetWisdom.com

Join us as we dive deep into the crazy, messy, complicated world of relationships.

At the National Youth Workers Convention Youth Specialties awarded Wayne Rice a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to the Youth Ministry world.

Highlights from the first day at NYWC Day 1 in San Diego.

To all those who are serving in Youth Ministry, we know it has it amazing times and it's trying time, but at the heart of it all is you desire to serve teenagers so they can follow in the way of Jesus, and we want to thank...