Uprising: The Rebuilt Student Podcast

Episode 3.5: How to form and keep forming leaders

There are topics that terrify small group leaders. Perhaps just being in a room with a dozen teens is the terrifying part. How do we build the skills, knowledge, and faith of our leaders? That's the topic for Allie and Daniel in this episode.

Episode 3.4: Building a team so it's not all on you

Delegation and empowerment is key, but it's not common in ministry. Though they struggle with it themselves, Allie and Daniel talk about how they've built a team of over 100 ministers serving students each week at Nativity.

Episode 3.3: What every minister needs from you

Inspiring, equipping, and retaining ministers is an ongoing challenge in Student Ministry. How do we prioritize our time with ministers? Allie and Daniel have some ideas to help.

Episode 3.2: Three ways to recruit new ministers

Need new ministers on your team? Who doesn't?! Allie and Daniel share three recruitment strategies that have worked at Nativity.

Here is the book we mentioned in this episode:

Building Your Volunteer Team: A 30-Day Change Project for Youth Ministry

Episode 3.1: Give people a WHY and they will serve happily

Uprising returns for Season 3 with Allie and Daniel talking about their volunteer teams and how to clarify their WHY. When we lose our WHY, we lose our way.

Episode 2.25: Still a sacramental church

Even with the advent of digital discipleship and technology connecting in ways we didn't imagine, we believe in the power of sacramental, incarnational experiences to build and deepen our faith.

Episode 2.24: What's changed, what hasn't

In post-COVID student ministry, some things will remain and some will change. We look forward to what we're keeping and retiring.

Episode 2.23: How is this generation going to be different? - PART II

Whether we call the rising teens Generation Alpha, Screenagers, or something else, what will this generation be like and how will it change our ministry with them?

Episode 2.22: How is this generation going to be different? - PART I

Whether we call the rising teens Generation Alpha, Screenagers, or something else, what will this generation be like and how will it change our ministry with them?

Episode 2.21: Should we keep hybrid ministry?

Hybrid youth ministry is mixing on campus, in-person experiences and virtual interaction, and while challenging, there have been advantage to it versus the old model. We discuss what parts of it we want to keep and why.