Build a Youth Ministry That Lasts
We walk alongside Catholic parishes to strengthen their youth ministries by equipping leaders, developing healthy teams, and creating sustainable cultures where teens encounter Jesus.
Build a Youth Ministry That Lasts
We walk alongside Catholic parishes to strengthen their youth ministries by equipping leaders, developing healthy teams, and creating sustainable cultures where teens encounter Jesus.
Why So Many Youth Ministries Struggle
Lack of Clear Vision
01
Many youth ministries are busy but not deeply aligned. Without a clear vision, intentional leadership, and a strong sense of purpose, programs can become reactive, inconsistent, and difficult to sustain.
02
Weak Systems, Limited Support
Healthy youth ministry requires more than good intentions. To thrive, it needs practical support for the youth minister, parish alignment, volunteer development, intentional communication, and strong programming.
03
Turnover Comes at a High Cost
When youth ministry leadership turns over, momentum is lost, trust must be rebuilt, teens drift, families disconnect, and volunteers lose confidence. Too often, the parish spends time and money starting over instead of building something healthy and lasting.
What You Can Build With Bosco Coaching
Strong leaders
Healthy Teams
Unified, well-trained volunteers and core leaders with shared ownership of the mission.
Sustainable systems
A Culture of Engagement
A clear plan created months in advance. Healthy communication and practices that ensure the long-term health of your youth program.
A ministry marked by belonging, hospitality, Gospel proclamation, and life-giving encounters with Jesus.
Clarity, confidence, and practical ministry skills for your youth minister without adding to the pastor’s workload.
Scott Bagshaw has spent over 20 years serving in Catholic parish youth ministry and 30 years in broader ministry leadership. He knows firsthand what it feels like to carry a ministry alone, to struggle with burnout, and to wonder if the work is making a difference.
That experience is exactly what makes him the right person to walk alongside you. Scott brings practical wisdom, proven systems, and genuine pastoral care to every coaching relationship.
Meet Scott Bagshaw
20+
years in parish youth ministry
30+
years of broader ministry experience
How It Works
Months 1 and 2: Foundation
Assess current ministry, clarify goals, and strengthen core team structure.
Bosco Coaching walks alongside your youth minister and parish leadership for 12 months with personalized mentoring, skill-building, practical tools, and systems to help build a youth ministry culture that thrives and lasts.
Strengthen youth night execution and events, improve planning rhythms, train and better utilize the core team.
Months 3 and 4: Implementation
Months 5-12: Stability and Growth
Ensure long-term health, leadership development, and transition planning so the ministry thrives after coaching ends.
Who Is This For
Bosco Coaching is designed for Catholic parishes that are serious about building healthy, sustainable youth ministry and are ready to invest the time and commitment it takes to get there.
What's Included
Weekly meetings in Months 1 and 2, every other week meetings in Months 3 to 12, ongoing email and text support, custom resources and planning tools, decades of proven ministry insight, and transition planning for sustainable growth.
This partnership works best if:
A small percentage of your parish youth is engaged in parish life
You’re ready to build a thriving youth ministry culture, not just run programs
The youth minister is capable but lacks practical training
You’ve experienced a recent turnover in youth ministry
You want to invest in the long-term spiritual health of your parish youth
Youth ministry is not growing
This may not be the right fit if:
You are looking for a quick fix or short-term help
Your parish isn't ready to commit for a full year
If there is little openness to feedback, change, or growth
If you're looking for a one-size-fits-all program instead of a tailored coaching partnership
If your parish is not yet ready to invest in long-term growth for youth ministry
Trusted by Ministry Leaders
Having known Scott Bagshaw for over thirty years and having watched him in both professional and ministerial settings, I can honestly say there’s no one more qualified to guide and lead new or young leaders to higher tiers of youth ministry success.
Mark Hart
CIO, Life Teen International
Scott taught me how to walk the line between trusting the Lord will show up in miraculous ways and working to create the environments for others to experience God's love and grace.
Emy Burton
Music Director
Scott Bagshaw is the kind of leader youth ministers actually need. He doesn't just train youth ministers; he builds them up into the leaders they didn't know they could be.
Rick Grinstead
National Catholic Youth Director, Alpha USA
Julia Monahan
Youth Minister
Scott was a guide on my own spiritual journey, and his training and support were crucial to my success in ministry. I remain deeply grateful to Scott for it all.
Trusted by Ministry Leaders Across the Nation
Having known Scott Bagshaw for over thirty years and having watched him in both professional and ministerial settings, I can honestly say there’s no one more qualified to guide and lead new or young leaders to higher tiers of youth ministry success.
Mark Hart
CIO, Life Teen International
Scott taught me how to walk the line between trusting the Lord will show up in miraculous ways and working to create the environments for others to experience God's love and grace.
Emy Burton
Music Director
Scott Bagshaw is the kind of leader youth ministers actually need. He doesn't just train youth ministers; he builds them up into the leaders they didn't know they could be.
Rick Grinstead
National Catholic Youth Director, Alpha USA
Julia Monahan
Youth Minister
Scott was a guide on my own spiritual journey, and his training and support were crucial to my success in ministry. I remain deeply grateful to Scott for it all.
Ready to build youth ministry that lasts?
You do not have to figure this out alone.
Let’s start a conversation about where your youth ministry is today, where you hope to see it go, and how Bosco Coaching may be able to help.
