Simply Youth Ministry
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Sunday report (April 18th)
This week we were in our fifth of six weeks in our series called HABITS, part of our annual teaching focus on spiritual habits that are a vital part of the Christian life. So far we’ve covered the H (Hang time with God – quiet time), the A (accountability), the B (Bible memorization), and the…
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The church won!
Last week was a crazy week! Good, lots of ministry, but exhausting! Doug Fields frequently speaks of the importance of ministers balancing their ministry lives and family lives; that in general there should be a healthy balance between the two because the challenge is that both can legitimately demand more time and attention than we humanly have. But,…
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Summer missions update
Our preparations for our summer mission trips are going strong! All told, between our trips to Ukraine, Chicago and Maine, we currently have 62 leaders and teens taking part in missions this year! It’s incredibly exciting to see the momentum starting to build, the teams growing and the prep getting serious as we come close to our…
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Sunday report (April 11th)
After a week off for Easter, on Sunday morning we were back into our six week series called HABITS, part of our annual teaching focus on spiritual habits that are a vital part of the Christian life. So far we’ve covered the H (Hang time with God – quiet time) and the A (accountability) and…
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Sunday report (March 28th)
Sunday morning we were in week three of our six week series called HABITS, part of our annual teaching focus on spiritual habits that are a vital part of the Christian life. So far we’ve covered the H (Hang time with God – quiet time) and the A (accountability). This year we’re using the series…
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Sunday report (March 21st)
Sunday morning we were in week two of our six week series called HABITS, part of our annual teaching focus on spiritual habits that are a vital part of the Christian life. This year we’re using the series ‘Building Wise Habits’ from the Live Curriculum, a great four year resource we’ve been using this year in…
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Student Small Groups update (March 17th)
Wednesday night was the first small groups since daylight savings kicked into gear, which meant it was the first one to start during daylight in a long time! It’s always a surprise how attendance is going to turn out after a time change, season change, or if a local sports team is in the championship.…
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Sunday report (March 14th)
This week we started a new small six week series designed to help students develop spiritual “HABITS” that will help them grow spiritually on their own. Each week, we focus on a different letter from the acronym HABITS. Our focus this time was “H” which stands for “Hang Out with God,” in other words, quiet…
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Student Small Groups update (March 10th)
I think I spent the whole week in meetings and this update slipped by me! We had a GREAT small groups last Wednesday night! The middle school students were doing small group studies from Simply Youth Ministry’s Active Bible Studies; it was the study entitled ‘Picture Perfect.’ We spent the evening talking about how the Bible…
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Must-have Youth Ministry books
There are five must have books in student ministry for me – they’re the ones I keep buying in bulk and giving to my team and teens. Each one of them has value in specific ways that for me are critical for adults and students in our student ministry program to be aware of. Part of it…