HeyJaredNextGen Matters
Those leading in Next Generation ministries are navigating a complex landscape of relational, emotional, and organizational pressures that demand resilience, creativity, and deep community connection to sustain impactful ministry in a rapidly changing world.
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#33: Engaging Your Home School Student (Building a Missional Culture Pt.4) (opens the original)
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Show Overview This episode of NextGen Matters pulls back the curtain on the spiritual, social, and emotional realities of homeschool students in youth ministry. Rich sits down with Matt and April McClay of Huntington, WV — both ministry leaders and homeschool parents — to explore misconceptions, discipleship needs, co‑op dynamics, missional engagement, and how churches can better integrate and empower homeschoolers. The conversation highlights the diversity within homeschool families, the balanc
#32: Engaging Your Christian School Student (Building a Missional Culture Pt.3) (opens the original)
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Christian school students often appear spiritually strong from the outside but what's happening beneath the surface? In this episode, Rich takes an honest look at the spiritual condition of students in Christian school environments as he interviews Andy Lawrenson. Andy is campus pastor. of Liberty Christian Academy (Lynchburg, Virginia) where he daily shepherds and leads the spiritual formation of over 2,000 students, specifically over 800 Middle and HIgh School student. With over 35 years in lo
#31: Engaging Your Public School Students (Building a Missional Culture pt.2 with Travis Deans) (opens the original)
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As summer fades and backpacks reappear, Rich kicks off Part 2 of the Building a Missional Culture series—focusing on the greatest mission field students will ever step into: their local school. Whether public, private, or homeschool, every student has a place to live out the gospel. In this episode, Rich sits down with longtime friend and ministry veteran Travis Deans, Northeast Director for the National Network of Youth Ministries (NNYM). With 30 years of experience helping students bring Jesus
#30: Students Reaching Students (Building a Missional Culture Pt. 1) (opens the original)
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Episode Summary: In this episode, Rich unpacks why students are uniquely positioned to reach other students with the gospel of Jesus Christ. You'll hear why the school campus is the greatest mission field your ministry touches, how today's 34 million teens are spread across public, Christian, and homeschool environments, and the five ways Jesus reached people that students can imitate right now. He challenges ministry leaders to stop thinking merely in terms of "youth group" and instead build a
#29: Making the Mission Last (Interview with Tim Wadsworth) (opens the original)
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Episode Summary Every mission trip ends with students returning home inspired and full of stories about what God has done. But what happens when everyday life begins again? School starts, schedules fill up, and the excitement fades. In this follow-up episode, Rich Brown sits down with veteran student pastor Tim Wadsworth to discuss how ministry leaders can intentionally help students carry the spiritual momentum of a mission trip into everyday life. Using the Five Pillars of Mission Trip Follow-
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