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Colton HarkerMore Posts Student Art Wall

This weekend, our Create ministry launched our new student art wall! The Create ministry is a team made up of all of our painters, sculptors, doodlers, and pinteresters. It is such a fun ministry and we use them all the time to execute projects like our college destination map and even use them to help with stage design!

Their newest project was to put together a wall where students can display their art. I love this idea because this gives students the opportunity to show their art in a way that they don’t usually get to. Artsy students can often be the ones that don’t fit in super well with other students, so it is great to have another avenue to reach out to them. This wall gives our students a consistent goal and a piece of our ministry that they get to own.

We made sure to add a piece that told the purpose of the ministry and the wall in general.

I’m so excited about the future of this wall. I can see us using themed art for worship nights or art aimed around a specific weekend series (addiction, persecution, etc.). Easy idea that can be used in any ministry!

Colton [Email||Twitter]

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Josh GriffinMore Posts “Where Are You Going?” Graduating Senior Calendar

I’m so excited about this! About a year ago I had this fun idea that we create a senior calendar to show where students are headed after they graduate from high school. One of the challenges of our youth ministry is keeping track of students once we get to the finish line – we were hoping this was a way we could celebrate and build community for students as they finished up. Ashley is one of the students who heads up the Create Ministry in our youth group and put in a ton of time making this random idea a reality. We started using it this weekend at youth group – during services students could fill out little cards with their information on it and drop it into a small collection bucket. Ashley or one of the other student leaders would then make pins for their school and/or add them to an existing school already on the map. For some seniors who have already dropped out of youth group (argh) we’re trying to get their information from Instagram and Facebook so it is complete as possible.

So in addition to the visual display for the next two months, we could use use the information to keep in contact with students all over the US, send care packages and help them find Christian community more quickly, too. It has already been such a fun exercise – I’m sure it will become one of the most interesting places for people to check out as they walk through our church.

Here’s a closer look at it, notice how each state is themed in some way in the fabric choice – the attention to detail is insane!

I absolutely love how it turned out, and a much simpler version could be made with a $10 map and pushpins if you want to get one up in your ministry by next weekend. I hope this is something you steal or inspires you to do something even cooler in your church!

JG

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Josh GriffinMore Posts Krispy Kreme Parody Video

I blogged about Krispy Kreme a few weeks ago after HSM Summer Camp – this weekend we played a funny parody music video made by some of our students. Got lots of laughs!

JG

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Josh GriffinMore Posts Brainwashed Spoken Word

One of our amazing students, Ashley Donahue, wrote and performed this spoken word at the close of our Brainwashed series. So good – and I’m so proud of her!

JG

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Josh GriffinMore Posts You Matter Spoken Word

So proud of our students this past weekend in HSM at Saddleback. Students from Mission Viejo took over for You Own the Weekend – no adults took the stage, it was completely student run! The video above features one of our students performing a spoken word she wrote called You Matter. Strong!

JG