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Living out God’s purposes: Grow—Your Commitment to Spiritual Maturity
We were in week three of a five week series entitled ‘Living out God’s purposes’ in Student Quest this week. It’s actually centered around our student ministry purpose statement, ‘We are real people, in love with a real God, making a real difference in the world.’ That statement contains five values, or purposes: Real People: Fellowship…
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Living out God’s purposes: Your support in community (Sunday, 10/16/11)
We were in week two of a five week series entitled ‘Living out God’s purposes’ in Student Quest this week. It’s actually centered around our student ministry purpose statement, ‘We are real people, in love with a real God, making a real difference in the world.’ That statement contains five values, or purposes: Real People: Fellowship…
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Living out God’s purposes: Evangelism (Sunday, 10/9/11)
This was the first in a new five week series entitled ‘Living out God’s purposes.’ It’s actually centered around our student ministry purpose statement, ‘We are real people, in love with a real God, making a real difference in the world.’ That statement contains five values, or purposes: Real People: Fellowship Real God: Worship, Discipleship…
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Short Term Missions resource 80% off!
Wow – this is an amazing deal! I’ve been using this resource for the last couple years with our group and it has been amazing. Part of what I like about it is that everything in it is also included digitally on a CD with the right to reproduce it like crazy within your church…
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Minor Prophets, Major Messages: Malachi (Sunday, 9/4/11)
This Sunday was the sixth, and final, week in a series we’ve been doing on the Minor Prophets. I have a couple purposes behind these updates; one is to help keep parents informed on what we’re up to in the 6th-12th grade Sunday morning classes. The second purpose is much bigger in my mind –…
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Group Texting made easy
Okay, so this post is for the iPhone users out there. I just bought an app that is going to save my youth ministry budget a ton of money! Sweeeeeeeeet. It’s called Group Text, and it’s a simple little app that integrates with your iPhone’s text messaging. It enables me to send mass texts to…
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Student Ministry Communication
In recent years one of my evaluation checklist items during the summer has been thinking about how we communicate and inform our families and students – with technology and what works changing from year to year (remember when every good youth pastor used MySpace and AOL Instant Messenger?), it’s something that has to be constantly…
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40/40/40 Sale at SYM
It’s that time of year again; Simply Youth Ministry’s biggest sale of the year on a TON of youth ministry products! 40 hours, 40% (or more) off, and 40 free backgrounds! Click the link/box above to check it all out!
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All new Live Curriculum editions!
I am REALLY excited about the two new editions of Simply Youth Ministry’s Live Curriculum, a fantastic youth ministry resource we’ve been using the last couple years. Two years ago we got the original Live Curriculum, a four year, balanced high school small group curriculum plan. My leaders and groups LOVED it, so last we year we…
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HABITS: Bible memorization and study (Sunday, 5/8/11)
We have been continuing our ‘Growing Spiritually’ teaching series on Sunday mornings (a HABITS series), with Matt O teaching the middle school students this last Sunday and Paul R teaching the high school students. The lesson series is from the Live Curriculum, a great youth ministry resource. Here’s the recap and some follow up ideas for…