Rylie Hineman
Healthy Ministry Perspective Assignment
YOUT 201
What is a Healthy Student Ministry?
A healthy student ministry begins with the environment it is centered in. This would mean an
equal balance of healthy ministry for both the leaders and students, and ultimately focusing on
both has the potential to make the ministry thrive. This has to be done through the guidance and
love from God, otherwise the world has an easy way to make its way into the ministry. Youth
ministry can also harbor the issue of the curriculum needing to be taught. Often, there is a
combination of non-believers, new believers, and mature believers, which has the potential to
make the curriculum repetitive, and one could lose interest easily. I am yet to find a way to
balance or idealize curriculum within youth ministry in a way that could benefit everyone. I feel
like another aspect of a healthy youth ministry needs to be community interaction. Creating a
servant heart is huge for youth, and was also the beginning of my walk with Christ, so instilling a
heart for God outside of the church is extremely important when working with youth ministry.
The reason I choose this as an aspect of youth ministry is because having youth group may be the
only time that a student gets to hear the word of God. Of course, we pray that they attend a bible
study, or maybe a Sunday service, but the truth is that we have to create the atmosphere and
teach the truth that God commands of us, which also includes a servant heart.
