I understand that everyone has their own youth ministry convictions about what to do and not to do for Halloween. With that being said, I wanted to string together some ideas and hopefully there is something that will work for your youth ministry.
Pumpkin Bowling: I love this game. It’s really easy to set up and do. You will need 6 2liter bottles for the pins and 2-3 pumpkins (because they break) per bowling alley you want to create. It’s best to have someone helping with the pumpkins and someone also …

Today I wanted to share with you how to submit your youth ministry idea. I just realized that I have a bunch of people that have registered to submit their idea, however, I don’t see many articles coming in to submit.
So for the short version just visit SUBMIT YOUR IDEA
From the beginning, the first thing that you need to do is to register for access to my site. When you register you will get an email with your user name that you chose and then a generated password. Make sure …

Do you sometimes find your group to be out of control? I had this problem at one point. I racked my brain to figure out what I should do about the situation. One day it finally hit me sitting in one of my education classes! Set up what I call a group democracy. This idea came to me while were talking about rules in the classroom and how to go about that. One topic came up to have the class come up with the rules. So I took this to …

This week’s Monday Ministry Helper is from Dr. James McDonald’s book: 10 Choices. The 5 title’s are Dr. James McDonald’s, but I have placed in my own thoughts about this. This week is about making God’s word a priority. Below are 5 practical things you can do to help you and your team make God’s word a priority:

Read it - We all know that the Bible is long and so it’s important that you take a steady dose each day to maintain a health spiritual heart, mind and soul. It’s …

I had a friend forward this to me it speaks for itself:

I was totally blessed when I read a message this morning from Paul who tried my Survivor Lock-In out.
Listen to Paul:
I had survivor lock-in last February and it was a huge success. We had over 150 kids there that night. I wanted to share our You Tube video with you to help show some of the events that are apart of the lock-in. We added some of our and omitted a few as well. The pressure is on this year for another amazing lock-in. Any ideas? I have been kickin’ …

This week’s youth ministry Win it Wednesday is a downloadable video from BlufishTV for everyone. Apparently I got the attention of Justin who works for BluefishTV and he has given me a code for everyone to be able to download a free video!
What do you have to do to win? Read this post I guess because you are a winner already!
Here’s what Justin said,
Hey, Steve thanks for the mention! I don’t want to take away from the competition and Mike’s 3 downloads. But I’m am part of the bluefishtv team …