CUEnotes
YouthCUE's blog on topics of youth choir ministry, leadership and professional well-being
Adults providing leadership to teens, your work has never been more important than it is right now!
As we are all in the process of helping our students deal with COVID-19, we have a super-important job to accomplish! At a time when the population as a whole is feeling insecure and scared, when public discourse has often degenerated into childish name-calling, when...
Lord, (please) make your children one
Forty years ago this fall, I completed my masters and immediately began serving as minister of music at First Baptist Church in San Antonio. My first Sunday morning there, I was in for a most pleasant and powerful surprise at the end of the service. For several years,...
Providing our students a smooth ride
Stagnation is a death-knell in student choir ministry. Go on automatic pilot for one week too long, and your ministry with students will suffer.
A healthy break helps all of us desire more
For the past several weeks, our part of Texas had begun to feel a lot like Ireland in winter. Rain. Continual rain. More rain. Occasional wind. Cool temperatures. Then more rain.
Strong leadership
The church was falling apart, the youth ministry and youth choir included. A young, bull-in-the-china-shop senior pastor had wreaked havoc upon the community of faith for more than three years, dividing and conquering at every possible turn.
Fifteen years after YouthCUE fertilized the Astro’s turf, Houston won the World Series
Watching the World Series at Minute Maid Park in October reminded me of an incident from 2002 in that very stadium.
Do you desire to impact teenagers’ lives for the better? Then get yourself plenty of help!
Whether working a youth choir ministry in a church, within a school system, or in the context of a larger community, we directors need to give thoughtful consideration to finding ourselves lots of help. Here is the six-month series of articles coming in 2018 and...
Want to be an effective youth choir leader this year? Help is on the way!
Whether you’ve directed a student choir for thirty-three years, three months, or thirty minutes, here is some of what you and I are going to need to be effective leaders for today’s students: Information – We need to know what’s new, what are the trends, and how can...
The New Year’s gift every teenager needs
Facebook is currently abuzz with many of our choral colleagues taking in annual music conferences across the nation. Many of these gatherings are reading sessions by the hour, directors in search of fresh artistic expressions of faith and music publishers making...
What is the effect of a crowd of kids?
On December 27, the Associated Press reported that “700 juveniles” created a massive disturbance at a New Jersey mall, frightening and terrorizing the shoppers in the evening hours the day after Christmas. The teenagers took over the place, kicked in doors, broke...
