Let me just start by saying that I see this as a HUGE thing for our youth today! I see this as something that can be done across the country! I may be dreaming big here, however, I wanted to give you a wonder youth ministry idea about doing a local missions trip.
Last week I participated in a local missions project in our community called REACH. We named it REACH – you could name it whatever you like.
What is REACH?
REACH is a week long local missionary experience available for participation …

Have you ever asked the question, why do my students come to youth group?
There are two answers, and they’re not always the same: The answer students give if you ask them directly (conscious or perceived motivations), or what really motivates them (true motivations).
To figure out what really attracts students to meetings, you have to watch them. What’s the first thing they do when they come in? What do they spend the most of their time doing? What do they seem to enjoy the most, and the least? Here are the …

This is Tom with AskMeMyStory.org
In April ’08 as I was praying and asking God why I had such a hard time turning conversations to the spiritual, He revealed ‘ask me my story’. Since then things have progressed to the point of starting AskMeMyStory.org
It is a website and interactive community that seeks to equip and encourage Christians to share their story and that of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  One tool that is not free that was part of the vision is our ‘ask me my story’ t-shirt. 100% of net …

This can be a fun youth ministry game or event. Coordinate efforts from all the other youth ministries in your town and hold a massive youth ministry Easter egg hunt. For some reason high school and Jr highers still love to chase after Easter eggs and I’ve done it with both large and small groups and it always is a fun thing to watch.
For the event:

88% of children raised in Christian families leave church at the age of 18, never to return. 64% of decisions for Christ are made before the age of 18, and 77% are made before the age of 21. We can’t sit back and watch this generation be stolen out of our own churches and homes. By God’s grace, we must take action, and we must do it now.

I couldn’t help but smile when I saw Greg’s Post today so I thought that I would share it with you on here so that Greg could have some more views. When I looked today at 8:00pm MST he had only 47 views, but I’m pretty sure it’s going up!
Look out everyone Greg now knows how to put videos on the blog!
Here’s some encouragement to stayin alive sharin your faith:

Hey – I’ve been taking a Christmas break, but I’m I have also been planning on doing a Survivor Lock-In this Friday Jan. 2nd in our town and so for the rest of the week I will be updating you on how it’s going.
About the end of September I mentioned to our middle school youth that we were planning a Survivor Lock-In and now it’s the week of the lock-in and so I’m trying to get as much done as possible so that I have nothing to do but the …