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Episode 118

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Together again. Doug, Josh, and Jana are joined by Jake (sitting in for Matt this week). After too much information about Jake’s medical history, and the sad saga of Brody Griffin it’s time for some questions. Topics discussed: Creative Time with God, and new book by Doug Fields, promoting events, how a youth pastor should spend his time, moving from a paid position to a volunteer one, the importance of someone believing in you, dealing with budget cuts, and working with the senior pastors family.

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Monday Miscellaneous

- This past weekend we wrapped up our three-week, “Piece Of My Mind” series. One of our volunteers who is an executive at UPS did a FANTASTIC job of sharing his heart with our students. So apparently the answer to the question “what can brown do for you?” is: Lead an excellent JH lesson!

- I read Tony Jones’ blog because he makes me think about things I normally don’t in ways I normally wouldn’t. I haven’t made any comments about the YS sale to YouthWorks! because I really don’t know enough about either organization to have any credible insight. But, I have said in a few circles that I believe the youth ministry world needs a vibrant YS. Here, Tony has a great post sharing some of his insight that helps me feel confident YS will continue its youth ministry calling under its new ownership.

- Speaking of Youth Specialties, I’m pretty sure most people that read my blog also read Marko’s (but I don’t think most people that read his also read mine as I’m sure he has WAY more readers), but in case you don’t, you can see here that he isavailable forspeaking and training events. He is a fantastic communicator/trainer, and I’m trying to come up with an excuse to use him myself!

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Crowd Sourced Video Projects

Over the last week, I’ve come across two different video projects online that are using or used the power and reach of the internet to produce them. The first one is a group that setting out to remake Star Wars, but letting people pick their favorite scene and recreate it however they want. The second is a music video that that was written, produced and shot by user submissions to the creators youtube channel. He also has a bigger vision of getting this song on the UK music charts to raise money for charity.

Here are the videos:

Star Wars: Uncut Trailer from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.

I just love the idea, and really enjoyed the results. I was thinking this could be a fun youth group project. Getting different groups of kids to shoot different parts of video and putting them all together could be a really fun activity. I used to volunteer in a ministry that had a film festival of student made films every year and something like this would have been a great addition. And with the availability of cameras like the Flip

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Soul Food! If you love yourself, feed yourself!!!

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Wanna Help?

I’m trying to finish up some chapters in a forthcoming book (The Slow Fade). Do you want to help? It’s easy. If you’re working in college ministry I would love to see your job description!!! Did the church you’re at give you one? If you could get it to me in one of the following ways that would be great. I’m not going to be quoting any one individually, my goal is to see how they all compare to one another in a variety of areas. Anyway, if you’re up for it, you can get it to me:

• by posting it in the comments section – this might be good for others to see as well
• by sending an email to stacy@colossaechurch.org
• by putting a link to a URL I can check out.

Thanks a ton.

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God runs through it!