So you do not have Photoshop or Illustrator. You can still make some neat graphics without expensive programs. Here we show you a quick idea of making graphics for your ministry by using presentation software like Keynote or Powerpoint.
tis the season for a Youth Healing Service
We know teens hurt. Offer some sacred spaces for healing of the youth ministry. This is a simple youth healing service to help you give such a space.
Youth Ministry Retreat Snack Idea
Ever wonder what neat ideas you can insert into your youth ministry retreat? Of course you have, so have I. Here’s a fun snack idea to put together for your next youth group retreat. Here you have the Shepherd’s Trail Mix which is a neat package of snacks that have
Beyond Soup Kitchens & Sardines : Youth Ministry as Practical Theology
Great talk by Rodger Nishioka on “Essential Strategies for the Practice of Youth Ministry”. He does some ‘group work’ conversations so be prepared to scan ahead. Or you could even prep for his activities and watch this talk with your leadership team doing the activities.. Okay, you’ll be like me
150+ Youth Ministry Logos [FREE]
Give thanks to a raining college football Saturday (and a 3 year old who actually napped) for this fun. Put together over 150 plus logos and graphics that can be used in your youth ministries. I took a few requests (thanks to Twitter) but tried to create some neat logos
Motivation 3.0 in Youth Ministry
Unbuild how you motivate teenagers and stop doing youth ministry.
Leading in the Wesleyan Way
Had a chance back in the fall to stick my head in and out of this Wesleyan Leadership Conference. I would have attended fully had it not been for a DevoZine planning ‘retreat.’ The conversations were great between the attendees and led to some really great work. The keynote speaker
Where We Are in Youth Ministry
What are some of the trends and research telling us about our youth, millennial teens and young adults, the upcoming youth culture and how our youth ministries & churches can respond? I put together this presentation for a weekend retreat for the California Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church
Youth Group Party Game for that BOWL which is SUPER
We love a good party and we love to play games. So why not create a BINGO game for this years NFL Bowl that is a super game? We don’t want to have the trademark lawyers of the NFL on our behinds so we’re just calling this the “Big Game
Alternative Teaching Ideas for Youth Ministry
What’s In the Hand? We might feel pretty clueless as youth workers throughout most of our time with teenagers. One thing we are not clueless about is our teenagers obsessions with their cell phones. So it wasn’t a shocker to be reading this article on how teenagers are complimenting their
How to Make Online Ministry Registrations for Free
Sometimes you have a need to get youth or adults to sign up for events but cannot or don’t want to wait around till the next gathering time to have that done. Doing something like that online used to be a coders only kind of job, not so anymore. With
Interview with Young People’s Ministries
Had an opportunity to sit down with Hank Hilliard of the General Board of Discipleship’s Division on Ministries with Young People for their monthly webinar. Took this time to share some of the idea behind YouthWorker Circuit and other big ideas.
Build a Killer Website for Your Youth Ministry!
With this 30 minute video we go through how easy it can be to create a website for your youth ministry. We use WordPress as a content management system so that once we make the set up of the site we don’t have to do any page design, just
