Outback Steakhouse Deal

If you like Outback, here’s a deal for you.  Get a $10 Outback gift certificate for free.  Then buy a $25 (or more!) Outback gift card from the gift card table at church and you’ve got a fun night out that supports our youth!

A New Thing

Tony Morgan is covering the Whiteboard Sessions on his blog.  One interesting note from Mark Batterson’s speech:
I’d rather have one God idea than a thousand good ideas.

Right now, I feel like we’re coming up with lots of good ideas in Student Ministry.  Are they leading to (or springing from?) a God idea?  I don’t know.  [...]

Texts From God

Remix Open Gym 2008

Our Remix youth got together last night for activities in the gym. As usual, several of our kids brought friends. After playing some fun variations of kick ball and dodge ball (Thanks Tim!), we settled down for devos and pizza.
Darcy talked about how sometimes we only read our Bibles because [...]

Conformation

I can’t tell you how many times I see students misspell “Confirmation” as “Conformation.”  This is highly amusing to me knowing the traditional confirmation ministry is much closer to conformation in design and mind set.  I suppose there is some Biblical evidence for the misspelled name:
Romans 8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined [...]

Gifted

I’ve said it before.  I think our youth are super talented.  Two examples this evening:

 I just got home from a coffee house at the corner of Clarence Center and Goodrich.  It was a cozy little joint with a homey atmosphere.  I was there to see Lauren’s artwork.  Tonight was her senior art show at the [...]

Teens and Tech

About a month ago, I wrote about our new workshop for parents of teens (or others who are interested) titled Parenting the Internet Generation.  We’ve created the publicity piece for the event:

The event is open to anyone who wants to participate, so if you know someone who might be interested, tell them to come.  [...]

My Bible

Our My Bible event starts this Sunday.  For Student Ministry, this means that we lose one of our ace teachers for the quarter, namely Marsha Peth.  Marsha does such a great job with our 6th Grade Sunday School every week.  Her big heart and willingness to do anything to reach the kids are big assets [...]

Selling Through Story

One of the things our consultant told us about communicating is that we should sell ourselves through the art of telling our story.  Our story communicates who we are, what we believe and where we’re going in a powerful, personal way.  I loved the idea.  We have an awesome collective story to share as a [...]

Praying for Youth

My 3 month goal from the National Youth Ministry Conference was to develop a plan for praying for our youth on a regular basis. This would not replace the 3rd Thursday Prayer group (which, btw, actually meets this Thursday because of Maundy Thursday last week), but rather would be a supplement to it. [...]

A Heart For Youth

I got to spend the better part of two hours sharing with our OPUS (Older Persons Up to Something) group about our student ministry today. I loved my time with them. I love talking about our youth and what we’re doing in ministry with them, and the OPUS gang loved to hear about [...]