Youth Specialties
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Life Tattoos
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=19079446&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00adef&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 The other weekend, when Heather and I were at the National Youth Worker Conference in Atlanta, there was a rapper who opened some of the main sessions named Propaganda. He really stood out to Heather and I, for a variety of reasons. We loved his style, his message, his presence – hopefully one of…
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Steve Taylor is the man
This past weekend I was at the National Youth Worker’s Convention in Atlanta, which was an awesome experience. Lots of amazing training, ideas, networking and more. But I have to confess, one of the highlights for me was getting a chance to meet Steve Taylor, the director of the film Blue Like Jazz (based on the…
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Games: Video Edition by Youth Specialties
I recently purchased the ‘Games: Video Edition‘ DVD from Youth Specialties. I have to admit, I was kind of skeptical about it, but a friend recommended it so I figured I would give it a shot. I love it. There are 25 different game ideas on the DVD, all of which are great. What’s different is that instead…
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Philippians: Ultimate Joy and Peace (Sunday, 10/2/11)
This Sunday we were in week four of our four week series on Paul’s letter to the Philippians. We’re using The Complete New Testament Resource, Volume 1 from Youth Specialties as a launching pad for the series; Paul R taught the high school while Matt O taught the middle school kids. In particular, we focused on Philippians…
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Philippians: Reaching for the goal (Sunday, 9/25/11)
This Sunday we were in week three of our four week series on Paul’s letter to the Philippians. We’re using The Complete New Testament Resource, Volume 1 from Youth Specialties as a launching pad for the series; Chris Z taught the high school while Elise M taught the middle school kids. In particular, we focused on Philippians…
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Philippians: Shining as Stars (Sunday, 9/18/11)
This Sunday we were in week two of our four week series on Paul’s letter to the Philippians. We’re using The Complete New Testament Resource, Volume 1 from Youth Specialties as a launching pad for the series; I taught the high school while Jennifer B taught the middle school kids. In particular, we focused on Philippians 2:12-18,…
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Philippians: United and working together (Sunday, 9/11/11)
This Sunday we launched a new four week series on Paul’s letter to the Philippians. We’re using The Complete New Testament Resource, Volume 1 from Youth Specialties as a launching pad for the series; I taught the high school while Matt O taught the middle school kids. In particular, we focused on Philippians 1:27-30, with a goal…
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The PK Song
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=22947566&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00adef&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 I saw this over on the Youth Specialties blog and got a kick out of it. It’s a song written and performed by some PK’s on a retreat together. I grew up a Pastor’s Kid (and a Missionary Kid, and Teacher Kid) and it’s true!
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Romans 13 (Sunday update, 2/27/11)
Wow, I am way behind in Sunday updates! February is always one of the craziest youth ministry months of the year for me, with two different retreats on two different weekends (in addition to the weekend mission trip and conference in January), and my blogging has fallen behind! Basically, we continued our series on Romans,…
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I want a hot seat
Youth Specialties just posted this video the other day from an event they did for youth workers. Man, it brought back some memories! If you don’t know what a hot seat is, you weren’t in youth group in the 70’s. Basically, it was a stool set up with a push button controller that you could…