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Videos you gotta see about the 2010 trip

Just got the 2010 Online Missions Trip overview video uploaded and published to YouTube! Check it out!

If you’d like to use this video somehow to help promote the Online Missions Trip with your youth group, you can download the original video files here:

Also, you gotta see this video about social media. What we’re doing with the Online Missions Trip truly comes at a critical time.

Have questions for a youth pastor?

MinistryQuestions.comLast week I released a new website called MinistryQuestions.com.

FOR TEENAGERS
There are hundreds of youth workers and youth pastors on the site every day, so if you’re a teen and have questions for them, there’s an entire category there dedicated to you called “Teen questions for adults.” It’s a great place to get real, honest answers from youth pastors.

FOR YOUTH WORKERS
If you’re a youth worker, this is the perfect place for you to ask questions and get almost instant feedback, advice, ideas and suggestions for any question you can think of that’s related to ministry. Take some time to answer other people’s questions, too.

Check it out: www.MinistryQuestions.com

Note 7 to send to your youth group kids

Here’s day 12! A great resource from Shawn Shoup! Send it to your youth group kids to help encourage them through the Online Missions Trip.

  • Encouragement to finish strong
  • Action steps
  • Scripture
  • Stories

Word DocumentDownload note #7 for youth leaders to send to their students

Notes 5 and 6 to send to your youth group kids

Here’s two more days worth of notes for you youth leaders to send to your youth group kids. It includes:

  • A couple action steps to take
  • Scripture
  • A place for personal stories
  • Questions to ask your kids to report back

Word DocumentDownload note #5 for youth leaders to send to their students

Word DocumentDownload note #6 for youth leaders to send to their students

Thanks to Shawn Shoup for contributing these!

Day 6 of a message for leaders to send to their youth group

Here’s day 6 of the message for you youth leaders to send to your youth group kids. It includes:

  • A couple action steps to take
  • Scripture
  • A place for personal stories
  • Questions to ask your kids to report back

Word DocumentDownload note #4 for youth leaders to send to their students

Thanks to Shawn Shoup for contributing these!

Day 4 of a message for leaders to send to their youth group

Here’s day four of the message for you youth leaders to send to your youth group kids. It includes:

  • A couple action steps to take
  • Scripture
  • A place for personal stories
  • Questions to ask your kids to report back
  • A personal message from Shawn Michael Shoup for youth leaders.

Word DocumentDownload note #4 for youth leaders to send to their students

Thanks to Shawn Shoup for contributing these!

Download 14 days of audio OMT Bible studies

Our friends at Xtreme Talk Live are updating their Facebook app every day with both written and audio Bible studies that are geared specifically for teens who are investigating Christianity as you talk with them about it. Add the Facebook application to your profile today and then invite some of your unsaved friends to add it, too!

Last week we posted a Word document that contains all 14 of the written Bible studies for the Online Missions Trip so you can use them with your youth group or however else you’d like during the remaining days of this experience. Today, we’re giving you all 14 of the upcoming 3-minute Bible study mp3s from Xtreme Talk Live that they recording specifically for this Online Missions Trip. Use them at youth group, post them on your blogs, turn them into movies for YouTube, whatever you’d like. Get creative!

mp3 downloadDownload 14 Online Missions Trip bible studies in mp3

Day 2 of a message to send to your youth group

Here’s day two of the message for you youth leaders to send to your youth group kids. It includes:

  • A fun and easy topic to blog about or write a note about in Facebook that will bring God up, “25 things about me.”
  • Scripture from John 10:10.
  • Questions to think through and send back to the youth leader.

Word DocumentDownload note #2 for youth leaders to send to their students

Thanks to Shawn Shoup for contributing these!

For Youth Leaders: resource to help your kids through the next 2 weeks

The Online Missions Trip has officially started! As you can imagine, this can be an intimidating time, especially for teens who have never started a spiritual conversation with a friend. Shawn Shoup, a youth pastor in Rapid City, South Dakota, is sending a note of encouragement along with some tips and scripture to his youth group kids almost every day throughout the next two weeks. Thankfully, he’s agreed to make his notes available for other youth leaders to send to their kids, too.

Youth leaders, you can download the first message below. Others will be forthcoming on this blog, so keep an eye on it in the near future.

Word DocumentNote #1 for youth leaders to send to their students

Facebook app to use during the Online Missions Trip

Xtreme Bible Study Facebook App

During the Online Missions Trip, the Xtreme Bible Study Facebook app will be updated every day with both a Bible study and 3-minute audio podcast Bible study geared specifically toward your unsaved friends.

Invite your unsaved friends to add the app and check out the daily short Bible study and the 3-minute Xtreme Bible Study audio podcast. Use it to spark conversations about Christ and allow them to have learn a bit more about what Christianity is all about.

And even after the missions trip is over, use the app and the daily podcasts to stay in the Word yourself!

Here’s a download of the Bible studies that will be coming up over the next two weeks during the Online Missions Trip:

Word DocumentOnline Missions Trip Bible Studies

(The Xtreme Bible Study Facebook app was written by Tim Schmoyer. Bible studies are written and recorded by Xtreme Talk Live, an international youth ministry based in Nashville, Tennessee.)