I was thinking this summer that it would be cool to just be able to go to YouTube and create a playlist of videos that would be looped or shuffled while students were showing up for our youth nights this fall.
This may all be old information for many, but I thought that I would put together a video showing you exactly how to create your own YouTube playlist for your youth ministry.
What’s great about it is you can add or take videos out each week. Add funny videos to your …

Did you know that 84% of purpose statements don’t significantly impact a youth group the way they could? And did you know that 95 of statistics are made up on the spot?
Writing a purpose statement is always an exciting time. It’s inspiring to dream and pray about what God could do through the youth group.
But no matter how inspiring a purpose statement is, that does not guarantee that it will make an impact. We’ve all made banners of purpose statements and hung them up with all the fanfare, …

I have decided to create what I’m calling a parent advisory team. Other names might be “board” “committee” or something similar to that. The reason that I’m doing this is to give my youth ministry some parental guidance and for parents to begin to take some responsibility in the youth ministry.
Here are some pros and cons to consider:
Pros:

Gets some parents involved – Many youth leaders or youth workers need more parents involved and one way to get this started is by allowing some parents to meet monthly to help you …

I just got done taking a youth ministry survey and would like for you to take it as well. It only takes maybe 10min of your time and I will publish the future results.
The goal is to get 1000 youth pastors to take the survey and since I have about 1000 readers I thought maybe this could be possible.
You can take the survey by visiting: www.youthministrysurvey.com
It will be interesting to see how you answer some of the questions.
Also if you have some parents of some youth that wouldn’t mind taking …

In my new youth ministry position I’m finding that I can know more about my students simply by using Facebook.

Matter of fact, I’m now using Facebook to connect with adults and students…

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 …

If you live in places like North Central Montana occasionally you can have something like this mess up your youth ministry:

Needless to say it wasn’t bad having a night off and my family had a lot of fun playing in the 2 feet of snow that we got!