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Youth Ministry Resource of the Week

Speaking to Teenagers is a great book to help you improve your serve teaching students on a weekly basis. Everything from room setup to helpful steps on how to prep a youth talk. Good stuff!

Over the past couple of years I have been journaling about youth ministry online and in my Moleskine. The good, the bad, the ugly – this book is a collection of many of those thoughts.

99 Thoughts for Youth Workers by Josh Griffin
Get it at Simply Youth Ministry today!

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New Winter / Spring 2010 Catalog

Chris at 10:38pm, January 27, 2010

Here’s our latest catalog. We are really excited about these resources and how they can help you and your ministry.

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Random Randomness

Kurt at 8:24pm, February 3, 2010

- BIG NEWS FOR MARK OESTREICHER AND MAYBE FORYOU, TOO! Markohas just laid out details of his plans to starta youth ministry coaching plan. If you are looking for a fantastic opportunity to be mentored by one of youth ministry’s best thinkers, I couldn’t recommend this opportunity more highly!Check here for more details.

- Just heard that Taylor Guitars is giving away five free guitars at our Radicalis conference next week! I found this interesting because I had heard in the past that Taylor never gives away free guitars…that they don’t sponsor musicians etc. So this seems like a pretty big deal. As a fun side note, Bob Taylor served on the board of elders while I was at Skyline Church in San Diego and both of his daughters attended our junior high ministry. Now that my son, Cole, is an avid guitar player I have always wanted to try to get a deal on a Taylor for him….you know, Bob’s way of saying “thank you”. But to date, I haven’t found the courage to ask.

- This weekend we are starting a new series called, “Cup O’ Joe”. We are decorating the stage like a coffee shop and I will be telling the story of a different Old Testament hero of the faith each week. Each person highlighted will have a name that starts with “JO” (thus the creative, and somewhat confusing, title/theme of the series). We are teaching on Jonah, Joseph and Joshua. Should be pretty fun [...]

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Free iPhone Apps from FreeAppADay.com

Chris at 4:30pm, February 2, 2010

I must confess that I’m a sucker for a freebie, especially iPhone apps, but sometimes it’s hard to find good ones. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the quality of the ones that FreeAppADay.com has been giving out. It’s been mostly games, but I’ve snagged a couple of fun ones. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch it’s worth checking out. Remember each app is only Free for one day, so it might be something you want to check daily, or they also allow you to sign up for emails to notify you of the freebies for the categories you are interested in.

Enjoy!

LINK: FreeAppADay.com

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Haiti?

Jeff at 3:00pm, January 17, 2010

My thoughts have been with everyone in Haiti for the last several days. As many of yours have as well. What a horrific tragedy. The questions are already coming in to our office, “Are you going to have any trips to Haiti?” And that poses a dilemma for us. We didn’t have any ministry partners in Haiti before the disaster. And it doesn’t feel right to try and connect with people at this point who have way to much to do besides take calls from us…

So here’s what we are doing and I encourage you to do the same for now. We are giving as individuals and as an organization to our friends at World Vision. World Vision was on the ground from the beginning and is doing all that it can to bring aid. We also have a relationship with Compassion International and I know that theyhave been involved from the beginning as well. The people at World Vision and Compassion are amazing, passionate followers of Jesus that will be doing everything they can to bring healing and hope to Haiti. Please consider supporting them during this incredible time of need.

There will be time to go and help inHaiti… and that time willlastfor years!The ability to travel there andhelp will start very soon. My suggestion to all of us would be to offer financial support to those best positioned to help during this time. And consider going to help when things [...]

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A look into CM 101

Chuck at 12:50am, February 6, 2010

Ok, it’s been about 5 months since College Ministry 101 was released and I just saw this. How dumb am I? If you haven’t checked out the book yet, and desire to read the introduction and first three chapters, click here. Kinda cool that you can get an idea – and some ideas – even if you don’t buy the book!

Next week, the blogging will pick back up. I promise. I just needed a little break…

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Simple Love

Amanda at 5:25am, February 4, 2010
Our church had an amazing conference this past weekend and we called it “Lumen”. I am so proud of the church that I serve to have embraced and challenged its people to dialogue about controversial issues and how we, as loving followers of Christ, should always wrestle with these things and respond. Some of the [...]

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

Jeff at 5:57am, September 3, 2009
If you came last your and loved it, this year is going to be even better! Yo, there is a new URBAN TRACK, that is going to be HOT!!!!!! You need to check it out!!!!! www.simplyyouthministry.com