SMAT Archives - Discipleship

Empowered: Student Ministries Releases 4-Week Curriculum for Pentecost (Free Download)

April 30th, 2020

Are you wanting to teach your students about Pentecost but you aren’t sure where to start? Or don’t have the time to develop a series of lessons? “Empowered: A Four-Week...

IPHC Student Ministries hosts first ever Zummit

April 22nd, 2020

Many leaders are already ZOOMING multiple times every week, meeting with senior leaders and supervisors, and trying to maintain discipling relationships with students and small group leaders. While the face...

COVID-19: National Fine Arts Statement

March 18th, 2020

A great way to UNLOCK LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL is to present a student with a challenge… …and what challenging days we have ahead of us! The COVID-19 virus has caused tremendous...

The Inconvenient Truth About Virtual Church

May 20th, 2019 Josh Lafferty

There is no doubt that twenty-first century Christianity is different. The technological advances over the last 100 years have literally given us instant access to the entire world. Preaching the...

Worldview: Student Ministries 4-Part Curriculum (FREE DOWNLOAD)

March 28th, 2019

Review by Jonathan Bland Worldview, written by Stephen Jones, SMAT team leader, is a ready-to-go resource for your youth group. This 4-part series offers youth leaders a practical and accessible...

An Unpopular Gospel

March 21st, 2019

An Unpopular Gospel By Stephen Jones, Student Ministries Advisory Team Leader “And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching…” WHAT teaching, exactly? If you read the last post...

Why Lent?

February 14th, 2018 Kaleigh Hamilton

Mardi Gras. Ash Wednesday. You may be familiar with these terms, but did you know that they are all a part of a tradition called Lent? Lent is celebrated during...

“Mentor for Life” Book Review

September 26th, 2017

Book Review – Mentor for Life by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson By Kaleigh Bishop “Imagine: what would happen if every Christian committed to making discipleship a priority in his or her...

YouthQuest 2017 Recap

August 17th, 2017

YouthQuest 2017 was a great reminder of what it means to be a part of Christ’s Kingdom. Students and leaders from around the country joined together to celebrate Christ and...

YouthQuest Announces 2017 Project Offering

February 15th, 2017

Each year, YouthQuest partners with a chosen ministry to help kick-start a new project. The project offering (formerly the Global Quest Offering) funds will be collected at YouthQuest, with a...