Thanks friends!

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Youth Ministry Volunteer Job Descriptions

Josh at 7:46am, September 9, 2010

I’ve posted in the past about the importance of having legitimate roles and responsibilities for the volunteers in your youth ministry – you can check out some great guest posts about it in posts like 1-Sentence Job Descriptions and Mission Critical Jobs. This week Geoff Stewart offered up his student ministry’s volunteer roles brochure to share with everyone. Download it here!

JG

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SJH Episode 47: Small Groups

Chris at 3:50am, September 7, 2010
Kurt Johnston and Jason Pogue discuss kicking off a new year of small groups. ; Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: simply junior high, simply youth ministry, middle school ministry, student ministry, small groups, small group curriculum, live curriculum

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SJH Episode 47: Small Groups

Kurt at 4:41am, September 8, 2010
Kurt Johnston and Jason Pogue discuss kicking off a new year of small groups. ; Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: simply junior high, simply youth ministry, middle school ministry, student ministry, small groups, small group curriculum, live curriculum

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New: ?Google Instant?

Chris at 5:49pm, September 8, 2010

What do you think?

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New Book Officially Released

Chuck at 11:39pm, September 3, 2010

Well, College Ministry From Scratch has finally released. Actually, it released a few days ago…I just forgot! If you’d like to read a sample (the brief introduction as well as the first chapter) click here.

Below is the table of contents. I hope it’s a help to you and your ministry!

INTRODUCTION

SECTION ONE: Chapter One: A Story of Perceived Success Chapter Two: Creating And Measuring A Sustainable Ministry Chapter Three: Developing A Job Description (that fits our goals) Chapter Four: Your First 90 Days In College Ministry Chapter Five: Understanding College-Age Issues?An Overview Chapter Six: Providing A Place To Belong

SECTION TWO: Chapter Seven: Recruiting Older Adults?Overcoming Obstacles Chapter Eight: Recruiting Older Adults?Characteristics To Look For Chapter Nine: Leading College-Age Leaders Chapter Ten: One-On-One Conversations?Questions To Ask Chapter Eleven: Starting And Sustaining Effective Small Groups Chapter Twelve: Shifts In Teaching Approaches Chapter Thirteen: Seven Critical Teaching Topics Chapter Fourteen: Mission Trips?What To Include And Why Chapter Fifteen: College-Age Retreats Chapter Sixteen: Working With Interns Chapter Seventeen: Church-Based Campus Ministry Chapter Eighteen: When Students Are Away At School

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My reaction to [doug's] Dumb Idea?

Jeff at 2:00pm, September 8, 2010

A couple days ago I posted about Simply Youth Ministry’s huge contest called [dougs] Dumb Idea. They are giving away a total 30 Free mission trips to our Week of Hope program, free registrations to the Simply Youth Ministry Conference, and copies of LIVE Curriculum to 3 lucky youth pastors. Simply Youth Ministry just posted video of the day I found out…

This is video of Andy Brazelton and I discovering the contest.

Go here to sign up for the contest!

Good luck!

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Its September; do u know where ur volunteers are?

Stephanie at 6:00pm, September 2, 2010

Ur YM has kicked off for the fall or is about to. How’s ur voluntold team looking?

Mark DeVries in his epic book, Sustainable Youth Ministry, says u should have 1 adult volunteer (engaged and relational I would add) for every 5 of ur youth. How’s that going for you?

Some of u are doing great. Skip the rest of this blog then and go back to chatting on FB.

For the rest of you: having trouble getting enough good volunteers?

Three reasons why: 1) Have you asked the right people?

2) Have you given them a specific job description with clear cut expectations, boundaries, plans and purpose?

3) Are you spending more time with ur teens than w ur volunteers?

Let any one of these three facts go awry and that’s a place to start figuring out why ur begging and pleading for help. Why ur pulling out hairs u can’t spare from ur head. Why uve even resorted to asking the SP if he would like to help “chaperon” the MS lock-in. Ur are one desperate YP if it comes to that!

Stephanie

PS-u can always tell when i’m posting from my phone. grammer, spelling and abbreviations don’t seem to matter to me.

Amanda on August 20th, 2009

Jeff has been home now for one glorious week. And we are back to our “normal” crazy. And I LOVE IT. Feels like I can breathe again.

I just wanted to let you know how supported I felt by all of your so sweet comments and encouraging words while he was away. I didn’t know just how much I needed this community until last week. I read and re-read those posts everyday.

Thank you. You all truly ministered to me and helped me through a tough week.

Love to you,

Amanda

Discuss (7)

Ashley Christian at 5:46pm August 21

Amanda I’m SO glad. Busy season are rough! Some how they always manage to surprise us with how hard they are even though we’ve done it dozens of times.

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Ann at 11:15am August 23

Thank you. I agree with what Jennifer said. How wonderful that summer reminds us how great a crazy fall really is. Happy spagetti Monday

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