Here’s a freebie to give away. It’s a Powerpoint game that I made. It’s called A&B because well those are the two options. It’s just random questions to get the students going. I included the PP, the Jpeg’s, and a editable PP so the readers can add their own questions […]
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Youth Ministry on the Cheap: Game Night
When I was in bi-vocational ministry, I learned quickly that youth ministry had to happen on a small budget. (And by small, I mean miniscule.) Every month, I would scrape and claw and put together an event on a shoe-string budget. Every year I asked for a raise in budget, […]
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MInistryPlace.Net on the road… ICYC…
This weekend, Brent Lacy from MinistryPlace.Net will be teaching one of the Youth Leader Workshops at the Indiana Christian Youth Convention in Anderson, Indiana. Brent will be teaching a workshop on Rural Youth Ministry. The first 20 attendees will get some really great free resources from ministry partners YS, BGEA, […]
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Back 40 to 10/40… The Bhutanese Refugees of Rochester
This weekend, my wife and I are on a scouting trip for the missions team at our church. We are in Rochester, New York, with a pastor that ministers to a church plant founded and full of Bhutanese refugees that have been relocated from Refugee camps in Nepal and India […]
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Youth Ministry on the Cheap…
We are going to be starting a new series of posts at MinistryPlace.net called “Youth Ministry on the Cheap”. I know that there are a lot of rural youth ministries that have small budgets, some have shrinking budgets, and others have no budget at all. So here at MinistryPlace.net, we […]
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Rural Ministry in a Grocery Store…
At a local Pastor’s prayer breakfast, I heard the following statement: I do a large part of my ministry at the local IGA. I see people that would never walk into my office for counseling. I ask them how they are doing and they tell me. A lot of times […]
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Turkeys, Hot Dogs, Teenagers, The Gospel.
Ok. I will try and explain this the best I can…. Yes, we bowl with turkeys in the church fellowship hall. Yes they are frozen. Yes, the trustees know about it. Yes, students from all over come to find out if we are really using turkeys. Yes, we use the […]
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Special Needs and Rural Ministry…
There are a few factors in youth ministry that are “universals”. It does not matter what your context is in youth ministry, at some point you will have one or multiple students in your ministry with special needs. It may be mild, it may be severe, but it will happen. […]
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Gangs and Rural Ministry….
The title of this post sounds like an oxymoron, but it is becoming a real problem. It has been for a while in parts of the country. Unfortunately this problem hit a little too close to home a few years ago. I grew up in a small town in Southern […]
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Free Resource: Letters to A Teenager Series
If you could speak God’s truth into a group of teenagers about one thing, what would it be? That is the question that I posed to several people that love and work with teenagers all over the country. This series is based on those answers. I am glad to offer […]
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Strange things you find at the Covered Bridge Festival… #ParkeCountyCBF
In my book, I spend a whole chapter on how to leverage fairs and festivals to build relationships, and ultimately God’s Kingdom. This week is the Covered Bridge Festival in the county where I live. As I have been out talking with people, taking in some great food, and meeting […]
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Lessons From The Bible Found on The Farm: The Vine
In John 15, Jesus makes the claim ” I am the vine, you are the branches, …if someone remains in me, they will bear much fruit”. The crowd that Jesus was speaking to may have been overlooking hills full of vineyards, or there may have been some that had experience […]