One of our amazing summer interns, a journalism major at Pepperdine, is helping launch a 3-month experiment in HSM. In our 5-year plan for our ministry, I have us slated to go after parents with focused efforts in 2011, so this is exciting to say the least. We’re going to do a series of summer newsletters for parents – lot of info on what’s going on, what’s ahead and arm them with ideas and discussion starters for their students.
I know it is critically important to equip parents to disciple their kids, and for too long student ministry has aimed to take on that primary responsibility. We’re using The Parent Link (they’ve got a 30-day trial going on right now) as our basis for the newsletters, and highly customizing it to our own needs.
It goes out the door tomorrow – PDF to an email list and a few printed copies at the info area, too!
JG
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Josh Griffin has been in youth ministry for 15+ years and serves as the High School Pastor at Saddleback Church. [
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will you provide a copy to download and check it out?
Any way you can send me a copy of your newsletter that you are sending out. The reason that I have not gone with them before is because there stuff looks so “churchy” and non-relevant…Hard to tell but yours looks different…any way to be able to see that.
We have been using the Parentlink for a few years now and really like it. I don’t have to come up with the content but I can also add to or delete (never have deleted) as well. I love the flexibility and our parents enjoy getting this each month along with the calendar on the last page, suitable for fridge hanging.
You can now grab it here: http://www.saddlebackfamily.com/blogs/hsm/index.html?contentID=2635
Enjoy! JG