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!

I was searching all over the internet for this because I wanted a way to figure out how to use my blog or other social sites to send out text messages to better stay in touch with people for a cheap price. That’s when I found Chat to Text. It’s up to you if you want to do the referral part. I just love the idea!
Chat to Text is a new service which allows anyone who visits any web site set up with Chat to Text the ability to chat …

You guys have probably seen a commercial or even visited Fathead.com, but did you realize that you can make your own wall posters for your youth ministry?
There are a couple of places I found that will allow you to upload your image and then you can either print out the enlarged photo yourself or you can use another service that will enlarge it for you even with adhesive so that you can stick it to your wall.
The first service is completely free to do. It’s called blockposters.com and all you …