If you stand back and look at a thriving youth ministry, you probably won't notice all the pieces and parts that are working to keep that ministry together and functioning well. But the reality is, there are important, behind-the-scenes mechanics of youth ministry that are essential if you're going to keep the ministry moving forward and impacting teenagers' lives.In Youth Ministry Nuts and Bolts, youth ministry veteran Duffy Robbins helps you build a strong ministry as you understand how to:build and manage a budgetdeal with conflictwork with parentsmake decisions (without making enemies)manage staff and volunteersevaluate your ministryfind a youth ministry job that's a good fit for yousurvive for the long haul in youth ministryThese, and a range of other issues, are the things that keep a ministry working. The reality is, nobody gets into youth ministry because they want to think about these things; but a lot of people get out of youth ministry because they didn't think about them!