Growing up my family was notorious for setting up our Christmas tree late. I don’t mean after Thanksgiving late, first week of December late, I’m talking the week of Christmas late. I didn’t think much of it until we drove one Christmas Eve to my grandparent’s house across states. The... read more
YouTube is a video platform that allows users to upload videos and share them with others, either privately or publicly. After creating and verifying your account, you can simply share the video URL through church communication avenues or by embedding the video on your web page. Most students are familiar... read more
Episode 19: Worship through music! It’s honestly probably one of the harder things to pull off during a worship experience. Especially if you aren’t a musician or don’t have a background in sound or playing an instrument. At the same time it can feel like an expectation to include a... read more
Episode 19: Worship through music! It’s honestly probably one of the harder things to pull off during a worship experience. Especially if you aren’t a musician or don’t have a background in sound or playing an instrument. At the same time it can feel like an expectation to include a... read more
Episode 18: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! That’s right ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about ANNOUNCEMENTS. How can we go from viewing them as a “necessary evil” to getting the most out of this time in our programming. It pains us to see this part of a worship experience go... read more
Episode 18: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! That’s right ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about ANNOUNCEMENTS. How can we go from viewing them as a “necessary evil” to getting the most out of this time in our programming. It pains us to see this part of a worship experience go... read more
Episode 17: Let’s talk about guests.. visitors.. people who are coming to your program for the first time. Maybe they are there for Easter, coming with a friend, or just moved to town and googled your church and showed up. It is so important that they will have a good... read more
Episode 17: Let’s talk about guests.. visitors.. people who are coming to your program for the first time. Maybe they are there for Easter, coming with a friend, or just moved to town and googled your church and showed up. It is so important that they will have a good... read more
Episode 16: We have all had that “uh-oh” moment. We are in need of a game and we don’t know what to do. Maybe just didn’t get to it in our planning, maybe we forgot to pick up the resources needed or maybe something came up, and you need a game... read more
Episode 16: We have all had that “uh-oh” moment. We are in need of a game and we don’t know what to do. Maybe just didn’t get to it in our planning, maybe we forgot to pick up the resources needed or maybe something came up, and you need a game... read more
Episode 15: If you are in ministry for any length of time, and if you are in student ministry for at least a week, YOU WILL MAKE MISTAKES. I like to think of it as “a part of the job.” Besides accepting this, there really are a few practical steps... read more
Episode 15: If you are in ministry for any length of time, and if you are in student ministry for at least a week, YOU WILL MAKE MISTAKES. I like to think of it as “a part of the job.” Besides accepting this, there really are a few practical steps... read more