Use these 7 great youth room ideas to make your church meeting space feel brand-new.
"Back in my day we had to walk uphill both ways in the snow." I grew up hearing stories like this from my parents and grandparents all the time, and my eyes seemed to be in a perpetual state of rolling. It's a funny thing, though, how the older I get, the more I crave hearing stories about their past. It almost gives me a way to connect with them in a new way, and I have a new perspective to cherish their wisdom. It's also amazing how the more I deal with younger generations; I find myself using this...
A tutorial on how to create a magnetic chalkboard wall in your youth ministry office for displaying the names and faces of your volunteers.
Bringing the Web to Life is a youth ministry leadership development curriculum for congregations offered by the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries.
Your church congregation has become the lifeblood of your community and you’ve worked hard to ensure that the spaces in your church are conducive to the different needs of a varied population. The ministry team has figured out the adult spaces and the children’s rooms, but you’ve been pondering how to pull together an
A tutorial on how to make custom dry erase boards for your youth ministry office. Use them for task lists, calendars, reminders, and more.
At Redeemer Fellowship we are big on expository, experiential, theologically rich, gospel-centered preaching. But for a number of reasons (perhaps I'll explain why in a future post) we don't provide outlines. We don't even try to alliterate our main points. We do make the main idea of every sermon
Providing a space for fellowship and ministry through hospitality.
“Effective leadership is putting first things first,” insisted Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” About 30 years ago, a group of teachers, youth ministers, coaches, and I wanted to empower teens in our states with collaborative leadership skills. There were different models that provided teens with leadership training, but we lacked a model that equipped organizations with sustainable tools that allowed teens to use their leadership skills. I was on a mission to figure out how to empower adults with the tools they needed to encourage youth to be leaders without controlling or blocking their efforts. Our leadership team hosted an annual leadership institute for teens. We invited youth throughout the Midwest to learn leadership tools and practice the skills in small group settings. Throughout the course of the week, teens learned how to: Create vision and mission statements. Practice communication skills. Make decisions using consensus strategies. Develop norms for leadership meetings. Design a meeting agenda. Plan goals aligned with their vision and mission. Though I presented sessions on communication skills during the week-long training, my primary role was to be a mentor to […]
This episode is packed with helpful tips, practical (and many free) tools, and encouragement to be able to market your ministry effectively.
A tutorial on how to create a magnetic chalkboard wall in your youth ministry office for displaying the names and faces of your volunteers.
This is one of the funniest big groups games. This suits best as a teenage party game with all youth in the group. You can also arrange this funny party game in a teenage birtheday party.
Beach Towel Flip This is one of several fun and meaningful Team Building activities that we used at the 2014 Georgia Teen Institute. Though this was called “Beach Towel Flip” to coincide with our t…
(Photo courtesy of Memories on Clover Lane) Is everyone familiar with chalkboard paint these days? I have seen it on many blogs. What a f...
Our church's youth room was lacking a little and needed some serious loving. It had some couches sans 1974 and some technicolor walls (no offense to the previous wall painters) There was cardboard pieces over the windows and holes in the wall (as most youth rooms do have!) So Janet (that pretty lady in the photo below that doesn't know she's on the internet yet) and myself took on the HUGE challenge of redecorating this enormous room where all of the youth hang out. We wanted it to be cool (of course) uplifting and not make you nauseous when you walked into it. So we went with an industrial and retro kind of look with road signs on the walls (it's legal, don't worry!) and some really cool spaces for the kids to hang out. We're not completely done, but here are some photos of what we've done so far. New blinds on the wall thanks to Budget Blinds. A perfect shade of gray! Along with our fabulous stop sign that was purchased from Alice's Wonderland here in Mt.Vernon. We love to shop local! You can't see it very well but one of our awesome church goers donated some stainless steel panels for the front wall. I'll have to get a better photo of it later. Another fantastic volunteer painted this chalk board wall on the front. I then worked my magic with a Sharpie Pen......two and a half hours later......VOILA! I wanted the verses and words to be uplifting and hopefully mean something to the students that walked into these doors. I think it turned out pretty well, don't you!? So if you're in the market for some verbiage on a wall in your house....call me, baby.
I have been to Willow Creek Church many times and each time I go I see something new. During my last visit, I saw this prayer wall in one of...
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Emotion UNO quickly turned into one of my favorite games during my internship. The game is easily tailored to the patient’s needs and interests! This is also an easy therapeutic activity to…
