April 2011
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WatchThis week’s youth ministry resource highlight is the game: “SPIN THAT WHEEL!” It’s a super sweet interactive crowd game that you can use any time in your youth ministry programs. Watch the video above to see all that “SPIN THAT WHEEL” has to offer!
Click here to learn more about/purchase “SPIN THAT WHEEL” today!
Pax,
Rob
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Youth Ministry Poll: What is your favorite part...
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5 Great Ideas To Try With Your Jr. High Small...
I just got back a few minutes ago from my weekly jr. high small group. And it was…AWESOME! It’s such a huge blessing to get the chance to disciple a group of teenagers through their journey of understanding who Jesus is and how they can live for Him. And let’s be honest…it’s just plain FUN to hang out with jr. high students. Here is a list of “5 Great Ideas To...
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Glo Bible is now out for Mac/PC/iPad!
I am MORE THAN EXCITED that Glo Bible is now available on Mac/Pc/iPad! I’ve been playing around with this new software all morning and I can say that it has TONS of great content that you can use for your own personal study as well as prepping for youth ministry messages, sermons,etc. I’m also thinking that it would be SUPER COOL for youth ministries if you had a computer set up...
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WatchCheck out the newest Simply Youth Ministry podcast with my friends Doug, Matt, Katie and Griff!
Pax,
Rob
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WatchIn today’s vlog I chat with Nikkie, who is in charge of “connect” on our student ministries team. Her job is to assimilate new students to our ministry and get them connected with our volunteer leaders. Here are some of her thoughts on some simple ways to get new students connected to your youth ministry.
Pax,
Rob
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Here is a Facebook message I received from a...
New Student Leader: I just wanted to let you know that I'm super excited about being involved as a student leader and I can't wait to see what God has in store for Saddleback Orange's youth ministry! For the past few months I feel like God has been telling me that I need to step up and get involved in the church, so this is really awesome. I can't wait to get to know everyone better next Sunday!
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Help me design the new iheartyouthministry.com...
Hey there youth workers! I’m really excited to announce that some friends and I are working right now on developing a brand new iheartyouthministry.com iPhone/Android/Blackberry app! The app will be FREE and will be a great way for us to distribute helpful youth ministry content/resources to everyone on a mobile device. So now I need your help. What would you like to see on the new app?...
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iheartyouthministry.com "Mystery Giveaway" contest
All right youth workers…get ready…for the iheartyouthministry.com “MYSTERY GIVEAWAY” contest! I am about to give away some very cool youth ministry resources (I can’t tell you what they are…because it’s a mystery!) and if you want to win them, here’s what you have to do:
1) Be one of the 1st 20 youth workers to write a blog post about your...
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Communicating With The Parents In Your Youth...
Last night my student ministries team and I began to design a new 3-week series that we are starting on May 8th entitled “How To Raise Your Parents”. We have some great ideas that we have come up with and I’ll be sure to share some of those with the iheartyouthminsitry.com community soon (I’ll post up some cool game ideas, videos, backgrounds, bumpers, etc.), but it got...
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Youth Ministry Resource Highlight: "EVERNOTE"
Just yesterday I discovered an AWESOME tool that all of us can use as we lead our youth ministries. The application is called “EVERNOTE” and the idea is simple: every time you read a great blog post on youth ministry, leadership, program ideas or you are in a meeting and you happen to doodle something great on a napkin…EVERNOTE allows you to save all of those notes in different...
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WatchJust because everyone loves a good laugh on a Wenesday…:D Enjoy this video featuring my friends: Chris, Jake & A.C.
Pax,
Rob
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Saddleback Orange's Student Leadership Pathway
For the past few weeks I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the idea of student leadership. Having a solid student leadership team is essential in building a strong infrastructure for your youth ministry. Enlisting, equipping, empowering and encouraging your student leadership team is just as vital as pouring into your volunteer team within your youth ministry setting. This is a short...
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Youth Ministry Poll: How do you utilize student...
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When It Comes To Your Volunteers...BE A BARNABAS!
As I blogged about earlier last week, I really love working with a team. Youth ministry is so much better when you get to work collectively with a group of like minded youth workers to impact students lives for Christ in amazing ways. But how do you care for those volunteers/staff/leaders who work with you in your youth ministry? How can you help prevent volunteers from burnout, boredom and...
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The power of a TEAM!
Last night my student ministries team and I met for our weekly “design” team meeting where we plan out our upcoming weekend series. I was so blown away by the power of a TEAM last night that I just had to post about it today.
Going into the meeting all we knew was this: We wanted the weekend to be themed around Jesus. That’s it. That’s what we were starting with. As our...
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Lunch with Griff...too much steak...and other...
Today I got the chance to hang out with my friend Josh Griffin who is the High School Pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA. Josh is an awesome guy/awesome youth pastor/Star Wars nerd and all around great guy.
I took Josh out to a steak house (that’s how we roll in South Orange County baby!) and we ate massive amounts of beef. But we also had the chance to talk about youth...
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Youth Ministry Thought: Every student deserves to...
Today I had the chance to go out to lunch with a great youth worker by the name of Twigs Reed. Twigs serves as the director of YoungLife in Orange County (for more information on YoungLife click here). We spent a couple of hours just talking about what God is up to in our ministries and how we can better reach the students in our area with the Gospel.
But there was one thing that really stuck...
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WatchThis weekend one of the students in our ministry was out sick. So I gathered our core leaders together and we shot this quick “get well soon” video with an iPhone.
Here is the text message response that we got from the student:
“OMG THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEOO!THAT MADE ME SMILE :))))) ur guys are awesomeee! :) nice meeting you rob’s wife and the the popcicle man?!hahaha...
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iheartyouthministry.com Easter freebie!
Hey there youth workers! Click here for a FREE zipfile full of great stuff that you can use this easter for one of your weekend/mid-week programs. This easter freebie includes an editable photshop file where you can edit the text to whatever name you want. It also includes a FREE 5-minute countdown and a 4-up promotional postcard PDF. Enjoy and happy easter!
Pax,
Rob
