Comments on: Using Journals for a Weekend Series

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:46:30 +0000

I’ll try to find a bunch of bulletin formats we’ve used over the past couple of years and post them … not sure where we’re currently at is where we’ll be staying for long …

By: Brett Ayers

Brett Ayers — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:31:26 +0000

It’s good to mix things up a bit. It will definitely help your 40 days series to be super memorable!

I’ll jump on the bulletin template bandwagon, too… if there’s enough room.

By: Andy Lawrenson

Andy Lawrenson — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:32:03 +0000

I was wondering how the journal was working out. I hope you looked through the ones you had to throw away to see if there were any good tid bits to use for future messages

By: Joshua Riffle

Joshua Riffle — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:50:26 +0000

Can you send me a copy too please? My teens love their “One Month to Live” journals. I’m just loking for ideas.

By: Andy Barnette

Andy Barnette — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:39:25 +0000

In my last ministry we used journals probably once a month or every other month and the teens enjoyed them most of the time. I had them leave the journals at the church and would give them to the students when they graduated. I just knew they would take them home and not bring them back or would lose them or even leave them at the church for me to pick up anyways.
I would be interested in seeing your template for your bulletin though. i think its a great idea and have not decided how i want to do one. would you mind emailing me a copy?

By: Nathaniel Dame

Nathaniel Dame — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:09:36 +0000

Notebooks are a great idea.

Have you ever tried a bigger one that you could even use for a whole year? Pictures this: Nicer journals that you could even have students chip in to help pay for (you take a lot more ownership for something you put down your own dough for). Push hard for a month for students to bring it every week and promise rewards of some sort randomly throughout the year for people that have them. Could even highlight it by having student leaders come up & share what they’re learning in their personal devotionals and journaling in their journals. Teach on quiet times & journaling & note taking in youth group & church, and tie it all into the journals. So you’re using the journal to instill life habits, and they carry it with them everywhere so they’re reminded of those life habits whenever they see it–vi sa vi branding (when you see a Nike swoosh, you think sports, Coca-Cola, you think tasty beverage, etc.). So it’s not just a note-taking tool but an ongoing reminder them of what the Lord’s teaching them. This generation is very visual. MTV & marketers everywhere are all about visual ques–this is a simple one we could use as youth pastors.

What do you think?

By: Vince Weimer

Vince Weimer — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:02:53 +0000

Thanks to Chris for the question about your bulletins. I would also be interested in seeing one or getting an electronic template of what they look like. We are still a young ministry and have not found a way that we like yet. Thanks for the awesome updates and ideas that you put out on this blog!

By: Chris Folkestad

Chris Folkestad — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:37:28 +0000

Any chance of seeing what your bulletins look like? We have tried on several occasions, in several formats. We just can’t seem to find anything that works well.

By: Chase M

Chase M — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:12:19 +0000

I love having the notebooks!!

By: chase p

chase p — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:05:34 +0000

I really love the whole notebook idea!! I have been writing down stuff everyday! It’s so great