I get a TON of traffic of those of you looking for youth group lessons. I actually don’t have too many lessons on my site right now, but will eventually be adding some.
There is however a service that you may be interested in that I recommend called: THE ZONE
What do you get when you join THE ZONE?
Each week you get a brand new Bible lesson outline to use in your classes.
A handout you can …
About a year ago Jeff Borton contacted me to let me know that there was a book that was on its way called Simple Student Ministry. He asked that I would let others know about it on my blog to gather some input from other youth workers across the country.
Last fall I was playing around a bit with the idea of going back into full time youth ministry. Some of you even remember me blogging about my interview with the church in Des Moines, IA…
Last week for our youth ministry we did a persecuted church, prayer, and worship night. It was awesome!
Here’s what we did so that I can share the idea with you:
We estimated the size of the group that was showing up and picked a small room to squeeze everyone in close together.
We had candles for the students to hold and a sheet of paper with songs on it for them to follow.
We opened in prayer, watched a voice of the martyrs film about Christians being hurt for their faith and how …
I had Jamie Starrett approach me to let you know about some resources of his called Youth Ministry ToolBox.
What Youth Ministry Toolbox provides is PowerPoint lessons and PowerPoint games for youth ministry for a $40 a year subscription which after checking out the lessons and games inside – I think they would be a good buy for your youth ministry.
Here is a few examples of the PowerPoint games on the inside:
YouTube – How Well Do We Really Know It?
Terminator Salvation
Twilight Trivia
My WiKi Can Beat Up Your WiKi
There are over a …
Why are youth pastors blamed for every bad thing any young person ever does in church?
And why do some parents put so much pressure on youth pastors to disciple their students, while taking little responsibility for their own kids’ spiritual lives?
These questions will probably continue to haunt us for a while, but it’s interesting to see study after study demonstrate just how influential parents can be (like this one and this one).
Here’s the kicker. In spite of the incredible influence parents have on teens, they don’t use it. Parents are …
Ok, so I have been playing around with Twitter for a little while now and the idea popped into my head that I could use Twitter to communicate with my youth ministry!
Is anyone doing this? If so I’d like to hear about it.
Some may ask why? Listen to this: you can set twitter up so that your updates will automatically text the phones of those that follow you. Yeah – so what a great way to communicate to your students.
Here’s what you need to do:
Go to twitter and sign up …
It has come to light that a major problem plaguing youth groups around the country is what happens to their high school seniors after their first year at college. Most of the time, their involvement with youth groups dead ends after their initial enrollment in school as they get easily distracted by the prospect of easily meeting friends at parties. It is this problem that has frustrated youth ministers for the past few years. While they build up great youth members throughout their high school years, they are losing them …
Yeah I was shooting for the rhyme. Well I broke down and joined Twitter this week and want to invite you to follow me to see little updates that I got going on throughout the day and week.
I will now be brain storming on how to use Twitter for a youth ministry game so if you got some ideas, please contact me with them and I hope to formulate something that can be fun for you and your youth group.
You can follow me @ http://twitter.com/stevemblanchard
Also, I have some updates provided …