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Supporting youth pastors and youth ministries.

Student Ministry Essentials exists to equip, strengthen, and support youth pastors and youth ministries for successful kingdom impact. We recognize the vital role that training and networking plays in the life of student ministry. SME is committed to serving you and takes seriously the opportunity to help you inspire, motivate and challenge the students and student leaders God has entrusted to your care.

home-page-accentDr. Charles "Poker" Boyd has been in student ministry since 1982. He earned his BS degree in Criminal Justice from William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on a baseball scholarship. During his senior year, he began sensing a call to ministry. After spending his summer in Europe playing baseball on team USA, he enrolled at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary where he earned his Masters degree in Religious Education. In addition to serving the local church, Poker has been an Adjunct Professor to The Baptist University of Florida since 1998 and most recently Samford University in Birmingham, AL where he additionally wrote all of Samford's Ministry Training Institute's Student Ministry courses. Dr. Boyd has served several churches over his career including FBC Panama City, FL and FBC Oviedo FL and FBC Tallahassee, FL. He joined the staff at Live the Life Ministries in Tallahassee November 2001 as a citywide director for strategic youth ministry initiatives and professor of Student Ministry. During this time he was able to develop many of the resources and concepts that gave birth to SME as a full time consulting ministry. By dedicating the balance of his ministry years to strengthening, encouraging, and equipping student ministries and youth pastors, it is his passion to see ministry to students become more effective, healthy, and mature.

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Poker Boyd’s love for teens came through loud and clear with our students.  His life and ministry reflect his passion for youth ministry and we were the beneficiaries of his experience and expertise while he was with us. Poker is a man of deep conviction and focus; yet his message was clear and also easy for our students to grasp. Poker is the kind of youth ministry leader we want our students to meet.”   Roger Glidewell Founder, Executive Director Global Youth Ministry (formerly Sr. Student Pastor of FBC Orlando, FL)

Available @SMEonline.net
Paperback: $15 (Free Shipping)
Hardback: $22 (Free Shipping)

Available @ Amazon.com
Kindle: $8.99
Paperback: $16.49
Hardback: $26.49 +3.99 S&H

Available @ XulonPress.com
Paperback: $16.49
Hardback: $26.49 +$3.80 S&H

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Raising and Releasing Your Children as Disciples
By Charles Boyd | November 2, 2023 | 0 Comments

While my title sounds like a promotion for student ministry in the local church, it isn’t. Do we need student ministry excellence in our local churches? Absolutely, and I have given my entire career to that endeavor. In reality, student ministry and parenting are the sole and the laces of the same shoe. I am […]

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