YMblogs.com is devoted to serving volunteer and professional youth ministers by providing them with a place for conversation, reflection, and news from the youth ministry world.

YMblogs.com also equips youth workers for ministry and feeds their spirit with posts from the leaders in youth ministry from across the country. Here you will find training, encouragement, and support.

YMblogs.com is an initiative of the Center for Youth Ministry Training (CYMT) and the Lilly Foundation. The CYMT is a non-profit corporation based in Brentwood, Tennessee, dedicated to equipping, encouraging, and empowering adults who work with young people in the church or parachurch. CYMT staff members oversee the operations of YMtoday.com.

YMblogs.com is a part of the family of YM sites that also includes YMtoday.com, YMbookstore.com, YMclassifieds.com, and coming soon YMtraining.org.

Here are a few of our regular contributors to YMblogs.com

YMdeech - Dietrich Kirk

You can find him on Twitter @ YMdeech or  Facebook.

My name is Dietrich Kirk and everyone but my mom, wife, and child call me “Deech.”  I am the Executive Director of the Center for Youth Ministry Training and serve as an Associate Pastor at Brentwood UMC.  I have served youth ministries with as few as 5 youth and as many as 500 since 1993. My blogs for YMblogs will be focused on Leadership, New Trends and Research, Training, and How2′s.  I hope that these will be helpful to you as you develop your ministry.

YMprof – Andrew Zirschky

You can find him on Twitter @ YMprof or Facebook.

YMcoach – Lesleigh Carmichael