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We are all inspiration seekers.
In youth ministry we seek to inspire the youth in our communities. We seek to inspire for God. How creative can I be? How long can we walk that culturally relevant tight rope? Can we make cooler logos and use “artsy’er” PowerPoint backgrounds? We seek to inspire.
There [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I had Jamie Starrett approach me to let you know about some resources of his called Youth Ministry ToolBox.
What Youth Ministry Toolbox provides is PowerPoint lessons and PowerPoint games for youth ministry for a $40 a year subscription which after checking out the lessons and games inside – I think they would [...]
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 [...]
Youth Ministry Ideas is currently # 1 for the keyword, “youth ministry ideas” on the top 3 Search Engines: Google, Yahoo, and MSN. From my site statistics that’s how many of my readers have found me. Others have found me from my posts listed in the search engines.
This obviously isn’t because I have the [...]
Tools are Important
Imagine trying to clean a public bathroom using only your tongue. You won’t want to imagine it for too long (take my word for it).
I think sometimes we forget how important it is to have the right tool. If you don’t know anything about carpentry, auto mechanics, or [...]
40 Icebreakers for Small Groups is a FREE ebook compiled from several articles posted on Insight. I thought it might be helpful to put them together in an eBook (708kb) for youth leaders to download. In addition, [...]
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