My first love is youth ministry.
My second love is youth pastors.
My name is Heather, and I’m a Student Pastor in Indianapolis, the founder of Women in Youth Ministry, and a certified Spiritual Leadership Coach. I dream big and love walking alongside others to help them achieve their dreams.
2022 New Years’ Goal-Setting Workshop
With the New Year comes a time to set new goals. Whether you choose to do a SMART plan, a “word” for 2022, or make a half-hearted promise over the champagne toast, 80% of New Years’ Resolutions fail by February. In my opinion, the reason resolutions fail is because they are too vague. We don’t…
FREEBIE: Poverty Simulation (that you can even use with middle schoolers!)
Poverty Simulations are a popular way to teach students what it looks like not only to live in poverty, but also how much it takes to pay for different things that they might take for granted. I struggled finding a way to teach our middle schoolers specifically about poverty, especially since most poverty simulations are…
FREEBIE: Halloween-Themed Escape Room / Unlock the Box
Each year for Halloween, we have an event called the Halloween Heist. Each year the Heist looks a little different — one year it was a Scavenger Hunt, another year a murder mystery party. This year I decided to take inspiration from Escape Rooms and do an Unlock the Box-style event. There would be 4…
Minute-to-Win-It Games
This year we pivoted to a completely small groups-based model, which means that all of our events are now in the context of small groups too, whether they meet online or in-person. We give groups creative freedom to do some fun games online through this list I compiled, but we ALSO wanted to give special…
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Heather Lea Kenison 