Here is a youth ministry idea that you may want to try (it may just happen anyways) on your way to a summer camp with your students.
Try arranging a fake church van or bus breakdown about 1 mile from the camp or retreat you are headed to and have your students walk the rest of the way to camp. It often seems like students talk more about the van breakdown then they do the event or activity sometimes.
Once they get close to camp drive by with the van with a …

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Become a Facebook FAN of Youth Ministry Ideas (you can find this on my site).
Scroll down to the bottom of this post just below the google ads and click on the icon with the “f” and share this post in your Facebook status.
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I wanted to update you on some things that I have done, plus give you a glimpse into something that I’m working on coming down the road.
So what have I done?
Well I decided to get more social by adding a Youth Ministry Ideas fan page on facebook and I encourage you to join. Next, I have decided to do a separate twitter account specifically for Youth Ministry Ideas because I thought it would be better for those that are more into twitter that just want youth ministry related updates so …

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 …

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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!
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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 …