I’m holding in my hand this years ConGRADulations CD and it’s a great gift for your graduates in youth ministry. Mark and I dicussed over the phone that this years colors even look cooler. Here’s what he had to say:
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I love my in-laws. In fact, we have a great relationship, and I’ve enjoyed not only marrying their beautiful daughter, but becoming a part of their family.
But every family has it’s quirks, and one of the Jones quirks is their toaster. It always makes me smile.
Toast is the most popular breakfast item in the Jones household, and they have one of those long toasters that holds four slices of bread at a time. The trick is getting it toasted just right.
Since time began, every morning after the toast pops up, …

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 …

This is a lesson that I did with my youth ministry students about some tips on how to grow once they have become Christians. The powerpoint has 3 songs (Blessed Be Your Name, Holy Is The Lord, and Mighty To Save) already included and then the lesson.
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This past weekend I took some of my middle schoolers to an event called Believe put on by CIY (Christ In Youth) in Tulsa, OK. I thought that since I went to it – I could do a review for you because it’s a great youth ministry idea for middle school.
The whole event this year was themed around, “The Messiah” and it’s event that definitely catered to middle school aged youth. The first thing I noticed after I checked in our group was the set up of the event. The …

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Wow – it’s only taken me this long to write something up about my time at Scribble Sessions. I originally wrote about their youth ministry conference back in early September.
Other then getting there (because of plane delays and not getting in the hotel until about midnight) it was a good conference for being it’s 1st time!
I plan on sharing each youth ministry idea that each speaker shared so I will do that over the next few weeks, but my overall feel of the conference was good. I liked the small …