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Jan 2020
46m 35s

Ep. 45 – Youth Group

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About this episode

In this episode we talk about the history of youth ministry, why churches need youth groups to make that sweet sweet money, we talk about the games they play (both fun and scary), we talk cool youth pastors, and cool youth group names.

We also discuss the darker side of youth ministry. Like what can happen you you trust a random person to spend hours alone with your kids.

As always we are not experts, we just google this stuff.

Hosted by Trevor Poelman and Damien Doepping

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