Looking for a Youth & Children’s Ministry Conference?
If you are still looking for a great continuing education event this spring, you should definitely check out the Children, Youth and a New Kind of Christianity Event happening this spring. Here are...
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Lars Rood on (Re)Imagining Christianity
This post is part of an ongoing blog series on Pomomusings entitled “(Re)Imagining Christianity.” To read about the series, as well as get a full schedule of participants, click here. What is one...
View ArticleThe Youth Cartel Introduces The Summit
My buddies Adam McLane and Mark Oestreicher from The Youth Cartel are putting together a brand new kind of youth ministry conference, and I think you should know about it. It’s called The Summit and...
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6 Weeks Until the Children, Youth and a New Kind of Christianity Conference
Only 6 weeks until the Children, Youth and a New Kind of Christianity Conference in Washington, D.C. (shoot, I better work on my travel arrangements!). As this conference gets closer and closer, my...
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See you in Washington D.C. in 1 Month!
Just got an email from the folks behind the Children, youth and a New Kind of Christianity conference being held next month. And it was a reminder that there are only 4 weeks until this conference! If...
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Children, Youth and a New Kind of Christianity: A Review
I’ve spent the past week in Washington DC at the “Children, Youth and a New Kind of Christianity” conference. It’s been awhile since I’ve been at a Continuing Ed event and it was a great chance to get...
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How to Use Social Media on a Mission Trip
Yesterday I left Ashland with 10 students to Portland for a mission trip. This is the first joint trip of the Ashland Youth Collective, an ecumenical, progressive community youth group we are...
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A Few Youth Cartel Events You Won’t Want to Miss
So you’ve survived the Fourth of July, maybe a mission trip or two this summer, and you’re thinking about what Continuing Education events you want to go to this fall… Well, maybe you’re not that...
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Student Ministry Hub – Crowdsourcing Youth Ministry Resources
If you’re like me, you’re often looking for great youth ministry resources, and Google is your best friend. But sometimes you end up having to sift through a whole lot of crap to find good games,...
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The Ashland Youth Collective: An Experiment in Collaborative Youth Ministry
When I was interviewing for this position in Ashland, I shared about how my friend Greg Bolt helped start the Bend Youth Collective, and how I thought that it could be a good model for youth ministry...
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The Best Intergenerational Christmas Pageant Ever!
Christmas pageants are not my thing. I’ll just say that at the beginning. When I was at Asbury, I purposely stayed away from having any involvement, whatsoever, with the Christmas pageant. When I...
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Only 26 hours remaining…
You will kick yourself if you miss this. If you serve in youth ministry, this is for you. I’ll keep this short. $97 for $1,000+ worth of Youth Ministry resources from 9 different producers from...
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The Best Dodgeball Balls for Youth Group Games
I’m all about doing youth ministry in creative ways, finding new ways to engage in the spiritual formation of young people today, and not just resorting back to the old games and message model of...
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Rainn Wilson’s SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions
If you watch The Office, then you know Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute. But a year or so ago, I began to hear about this spirituality project that Rainn Wilson started up, called “SoulPancake.” And then...
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Pastoral Transitions in the Age of Social Media, Part 5: Top 10 Things to Do...
Below is a list of the top 10 things I think you should do when starting at a new church, in terms of social media. This assumes that you’re doing all the normal things that you probably want to be...
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Engaging with Youth on Social Media
Post by New Trier Confessions. Last night, I had an interesting exchange about the Bible and homosexuality with a group of high schoolers that I’ve never met, and probably won’t meet. I embedded the...
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How to use Lady Gaga’s iTunes Festival 2013 “Confession” with your Youth...
(note: I don’t know how long the video will stay on YouTube, but the video was from Lady Gaga’s performance at the 2013 iTunes Festival. She shared about some very difficult situations she went...
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Best Text Messaging Solution for Your Ministry
Anyone in youth ministry knows that it’s almost impossible to get youth to check their emails these days. And while parents are much better at checking email, it’s clear that the most immediate and...
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Progressive Youth Ministry Recap
The David Crowder Band. Free swag. The Skit Guys. Chris Tomlin. Lights. Smoke. That was my first experience of a youth ministry event. I was right out of college, it was 2002, and I was in Sacramento...
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Mark Oestreicher on Pastoral Identity: Through the Lens of Belonging
This post is part of a blog series on Pomomusings, discussing pastoral identity. To read about the series, as well as get a full schedule of participants, click here. Through the Lens of Belonging As a...
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