| 1. Schools vs. Youth Ministry |
| From Rethinking Youth Ministry on Friday, May 9, 2008 @ 9:27 AM PST in the "Blog" Category.  Over my 20 or so years in youth ministry, I've noticed a trend of the public schools taking up more and more of our young people's time. In the past, you could at least count on Wednesday nights and Sunday morning being free of school activities. This is no longer true. In the past, you could count on summers being free except for the kids who needed remedial summer school. This is no longer true. We have to struggle like crazy at my church every spring just to find one week in the summer for a mission trip when most of our youth aren't at band camp or cheerleader camp or sports camp or taking extra summer school classes so they can get into a better university. And forget about getting most of them to church camp. If they aren't doing camps related to school, they are working. So, I really resonated when I came across this youth minister's open letter (courtesy of the Youth Ministry Hilarity blog) to the local school district. He said everything I've been thinking for years:
Read the rest here. Wonder what would happen if we all wrote a letter like this and sent it to our local newspaper. --Brian Read More... |
| 2. The Man Cold! |
| From Deep Thoughts by Gman on Friday, May 9, 2008 @ 8:24 AM PST in the "Blog" Category. Read More... |
| 3. Freebie Friday #72: Pseudonyms youth group icebreaker |
| From Life in Student Ministry on Friday, May 9, 2008 @ 7:51 AM PST in the "Blog" Category. A huge thanks to Jake Bouma for donating today’s Freebie Friday! He created an icebreaker called “Pseudonyms” that encourages kids to be pretty creative as they come up with new names for themselves. Be sure to check out Jake’s blog at http://www.jakebouma.com/ and thank him for his contribution to all of our ministries. Here’s his description: It’s [...] Read More... |
| 4. Rocky is a Pens Fan- Who knew? |
| From Deep Thoughts by Gman on Friday, May 9, 2008 @ 6:03 AM PST in the "Blog" Category.  Story Read More... |
| 5. Language convertor |
| From Youthblog on Friday, May 9, 2008 @ 2:00 AM PST in the "Blog" Category. I use the Google language translator a fair amount and it's a really useful app, particularly to check stuff. I thought this was great though, translate your writing into genuine tweenage Bebo text talk. Great fun! I know a couple of parents who read this who will, I'm sure, use this for a bit of fun! I UES TEH GOGLE LANGUAEG TRANSLA2R A FARE MOUNT AND ITS A RILLY UESFUL AP PARTICULARLEY 2 CHAK STUF!!!1! WTF LOL I THOUGHT THES WAS GRAAT THOUGH TRANSLAET UR WRITNG IN2 GANUIEN TWENAEG BBO T3XT TOK!!1!!1!!! OMG LOL GR3AT FUN!1!1!1! WTF I KNOW A COUPLE OF PAERNTS WHO R3AD THES WHO WIL IMM SURE UES THES FOR A BIT OF FUN !!!1!11!! OMG Read More... |
| 6. Light live |
| From Youthblog on Friday, May 9, 2008 @ 2:00 AM PST in the "Blog" Category.
Scripture Union launched Light live yesterday, it's a bank of online ideas and links to help plan and resource groups. It's all free (but donations are encouraged). Have a look .... Read More... |
| 7. Holding the moon |
| From Youthblog on Friday, May 9, 2008 @ 1:00 AM PST in the "Blog" Category.
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| 8. Evangelical Manifesto |
| From Deep Thoughts by Gman on Thursday, May 8, 2008 @ 6:00 PM PST in the "Blog" Category. Article I wrote about this a few days ago. More info here Manifesto found here Would you sign it? Read More... |
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