Last week for our youth ministry we did a persecuted church, prayer, and worship night. It was awesome!
Here’s what we did so that I can share the idea with you:

We estimated the size of the group that was showing up and picked a small room to squeeze everyone in close together.
We had candles for the students to hold and a sheet of paper with songs on it for them to follow.
We opened in prayer, watched a voice of the martyrs film about Christians being hurt for their faith and how …

Session 4 was about creating excellence in worship. My hope is that these ideas from the worship summit could also be used in your youth ministry. Ross Parsley spoke about this with a foreword by Darlene:
Darlene – Excellence in worship.
What is excellence? I don’t want to bring him my left overs. Excellence is when you come and bring your finest. When we do this – it’s almost like there is magic in the air. It patterns the whole glory of God. Don’t equate excellence with performance.
Developing a ministry of worship. …

After lunch we watched a funny intro video to the Q & A session with Lincoln Brewster called: ConfessionsVideo.com – this video is basically the relationship between the sound board people and worship leaders it should at least make you smile.
Hopefully this question and answer section of the summit might spark some youth ministry ideas for how to handle worship development.
Here are the questions and answers with Brewster:
Brewster: What are the key components that can be destroyers or builders?
There can be barriers between people on the platform and those in …

The title of session 2 is: God Songs – with Brewster Baloche Doerksen Scott
In this session they spoke about how they begin to write songs and what inspires them and some tips on how to get your own songs started. Again I thought that this would be great use in youth ministry as well so enjoy this session:
Baloche: How do we take a sense of wonder of a sunset and transfer that into a song.
What attracts people to a song?
Doerksen – There is this deep calling to deep thing. When …

This past weekend I attended the worship summit by satellite @ the Central Assembly Church in Great Falls, MT. I wanted to first say that it was awesome! I usually lead worship for youth ministry meetings and the time spent was fabulous and really encouraged me. I’m going to share with you the 5 sessions that we had together. It was a one day conference so they packed a lot in. I also should say that I was taking note of each section so some of the stuff may be …

Below is 3 worship songs on a powerpoint and each song has the lyrics and chords to download with word. The songs are:

Amazing Love
Every Day
Refiner’s Fire

yg-july-9-2008 (power point)
amazing-love (word doc lyrics and chords)
every-day (word doc lyrics and chords)
refiners-fire (word doc lyrics and chords)
CLICK HERE for Vol 1

This is an idea that I found on another youth ministry page and it definitely worked out really well for my group.
All you need is tea candles, a lighter, and something to put all the candles on just to be safe. If your youth are like mine were, they liked to put the hot wax on their fingers after we were done.  
Each night to close out youth group meetings this is a nice way to end everything. We’d turn out the lights just enough to have the first person …