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RRench — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:34:13 +0000

My Top 5 Ways to Help Parents of Teens – BAPTIST TIMES ARTICLE REPOST

RRench — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:39:40 +0000

I wrote the following article for the Baptist Times magazine Youth to Truth column, submitted Nov. 16, 2020: Youth ministry is family ministry, so a good youth pastor will help the parents parent. Sometimes that’s done best by influencing the teen, but a youth pastor that spends ALL his time with teens is neglecting their biggest influence: the parents. Two other former youth leaders and I did a video called TOP FIVE WAYS TO HELP PARENTS, and here’s what I contributed: LOVE Loving both the teens and the parents is crucial for youth ministry because love makes it

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Our Ridiculous 2019 Christmas Journey

RRench — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 21:47:13 +0000

First, I traveled through the seven levels Of the candy cane forest, Past the sea of twirly-swirly gumdrops, And then, I walked through my back door. It was a lovely door, All shaded over with a brand new pergola, And there, on the brand new porch, Was a brand new table With a glowing red button. Wanting to be a very good child And not touch what wasn’t mine, I ignored it for probably 20 years. But my brain said, “Push.” I walked to the table, Lifted my arm, Extended my finger, And pressed that button. It gave a loud

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A Day In the Life Of a Ministry Guy… (OYPO – Vol. 45)

RRench — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 19:03:26 +0000

OYPO – One Youth Pastor’s Opinion – Vol. 45 A Day In the Life Of a Ministry Guy… The famous quote says, “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.” While I know how true that is, I also want my church to know that I feel a certain level of obligation to stay productive, as my salary comes from their giving. Sure, sure, sure… spiritual people give to the Lord. But don’t tell me you’ve never wondered how much a pastor is on Facebook versus how much he’s doing

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Respect Is Given, Not Earned (OYPO – Vol. 37)

RRench — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:39:15 +0000

One Youth Pastor’s Opinion (OYPO)… Respect Is Given, Not Earned Respect is given, not earned. Never is this more evident than when a new staff member comes on board. My first years in youth ministry started in college when I worked with the teen class. Having started college at 17, I was barely older than the teens themselves, yet by my junior year I taught occasionally, ran a youth activity and was generally given respect. Had I earned it? Nope. But they were taught to show it. After graduation, my wife and I moved to Stillwater where we helped with

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I Just Finished a Thank-you Note… To a Girl (OYPO – Vol. 36)

RRench — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 23:38:28 +0000

One Youth Pastor’s Opinion (OYPO)… I Just Finished a Thank-you Note…To a Girl The young ladies of our church are the most precious people in the world. I just finished writing a thank you note to one of our teenage ladies who gave us a Christmas treat, but I texted the parents to let them know I was doing it. Sure, they’d see the note in the mail, but I want them in the loop. All the time. I’m not big on the helicopter parenting style, where the kids are pampered and babied so much that they never experience pain

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It Takes a Village (OYPO – Vol. 35)

RRench — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:33:11 +0000

One Youth Pastor’s Opinion (OYPO)… It Takes a Village My wife was buried in the passenger seat under a mound of popcorn treats. “Who’s that for?” I asked. “The teachers at church.” She said. “This is not even counting the choir members or adult teachers… just the ones who help our kids.” I was amazed. The old saying proves true: “It takes a village to raise a child.” We began to talk through who the treats were for, and, sure enough, each of the 20+ bags was for a separate person or family who invests in our kids. Nursery workers,

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2018 Christmas Greetings From President Trump and the Rench Family

RRench — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:48:19 +0000

Dear People, Believe me, this was the greatest year we’ve ever had. We’ve never had such a good year as 2018, people, and this next year of the Rench family is going to be yuge. Let me start by saying that our kids are the best. Frankly, nobody makes cuter kids than us, and Abe’s intellect is at least 10 times–I don’t know, maybe 20 or 30 times, I don’t know–maybe 30 or 40 times greater than your kid’s intellect. He’s a special first grader with tremendous potential. He’s reading at a third-grade level. I’m being humble, I really am,

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Our Christmas Party With FULL Schedule, Games, Devotional Thoughts, and Free Downloads!

RRench — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 17:56:11 +0000

We did our Christmas party early this year. It’s always a battle of schedules later in the month, so, this year, we had ours on Dec. 1! If you are a youth pastor or just someone looking for Christmas party ideas, here’s an example of the games, schedule, devo, and other ideas we used this year… Schedule 4:00 Snacks 4:15 Christmas Jeopardy 5:00 Pray/Dinner 5:25 Devotion 5:45 Gift Exchange 6:15 Family Feud 7:00 Close Food We provided chips, soda, and an Oreo bar with several different flavors of Oreos (all Double-Stuffed, of course). Some teens brought snacks to share, but

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I Went To A Youth Rally Last Friday And… [TOF Ann. Sheets]

RRench — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:58:14 +0000

I write two notes per week to our teens. This was one of them: …and you weren’t there with me. It was a bummer. I missed being home, and I missed being in this class, in particular. No, not just this class—but YOU. I missed being around you. I saw a bunch of churches I recognized. I went to college with some of their youth pastors, so I got to catch up with some of them, but what I really missed was having you along for the event. The Youth Rally itself was cool. They do theirs monthly—Bible quiz, games,

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