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Graduation

This is one of those time of years where everything gets really crazy as you are planning for summer and getting people signed up for different events. Then you add the recruiting of leaders for those events. This time of year always brings one other element that just makes the weekends unlike any other. Graduation! [...]

7Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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WEB 2.0 and your ministry

Several months ago our student ministry team got into a conversation about our website.  We had what we thought was a pretty good site that truly was not getting much traffic anymore.  So, as we debated what we should do and kicked around a lot of different ideas and thoughts before we finally landed on [...]

4Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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iPhone and iPod touch

With students all over the world getting their hands on the iPod touch or the iPhone.  With all of that comes the internet and student having the availability to be connected no matter where they are.  Inside of that connectivity also comes the privacy that no one else will be looking at it and know [...]

2Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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7 Leadership Quotes For Leaders

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~John Quincy Adams A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice. ~James Callaghan Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. ~Ross Perot Leadership can be thought of as a capacity [...]

1Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Communicating for a Change

There are a few books that one needs to re-read every couple of years.  When it comes to communicating and teaching on a regular basis on of those books from my library is, Communicating for a Change by Andy Stanley.  It is a great reminder of what one should be doing in preparing for a [...]

29May2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Teens and sex…

Having been in Student Mnistry for over 17 years I have had my share of conversations about sex with teens.  We have talked in a large group setting where we explain what the Bible has to say about sex.  We have had those conversations that you never really want to have but it comes with [...]

27May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Important lessons for Interns

What a great time for churches to be pouring into the lives of those who want to be in ministry.  Every year we bring in a team of interns and run them through the gaunlet in hopes of them leaving feeling more prepared for ministry.  Although at times it can be difficult to manage an [...]

23May2009 | | 3 comments | Continued
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Quick Communication tips

It’s Wednesday night and we have just finished a great night of ministry with our students.  You stand in the gym talking with the last remaining students as they wait for their ride to go home.  Time has passed quickly and it is already 9:30 and all of your leaders have left the building.  You [...]

18May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Saturday morning thoughts…

This morning I am sitting here and just thinking about my oldest son, Ashton. In just a few weeks he will enter into our Jr. High ministry. He is very excited to finally be old enough to be a part of what we do on a weekly basis.  He looks forward to serving and learning [...]

16May2009 | | 3 comments | Continued
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Mother’s Day

With Mother’s Day on the horizon.  At “the Quest we decided to have a couple of mom’s come and share with us the blessings they received from their mom.  Each of the ladies who shared did a great job of communicating life and faith relationships that exist between them and their mother’s.  It was interesting [...]

11May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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investment in students

Students can be some of the most frustrating individuals to work with.  They have an idea of how it should be done and never seem to take into account that you have been doing it for a while and might have learned a thing or two along the way.  Then there are those moments where [...]

30Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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