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.
Download note #7 for youth leaders to send to their students
Brian Ford, the guy who wrote some of our pre-trip training resources, recently did a great radio interview with WJTL in Pennsylvania. Michael Rothermel joined him, the guy who provided the photography for you guys to upload to your online profiles to use to spark spiritual discussions with friends. Listen to them talk about the vision behind the Online Missions Trip.
Here’s a shorter one I recently did with KTIS that covers the mid-west region of the United States.
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Here’s two more days worth of notes for you youth leaders to send to your youth group kids. It includes:
Download note #5 for youth leaders to send to their students
Download note #6 for youth leaders to send to their students
Thanks to Shawn Shoup for contributing these!
Pamela Huggins submitted this list. She and her husband, Joseph Huggins, are Associate Pastors at Crusaders Church in Chicago, IL. where they serve the 13-18 year olds of their congregation.
1. Change your profile picture daily (for 14 days) with a Christ-centered image.
2. Change your status daily (for 14 days) by donating it to Christ.
3. Post a Christian music video daily.
4. Use the bulletin feature to post graphics with provoking messages, video, questions, Christ-centered surveys, etc.
5. Keep an eye out for interesting articles to that will provoke discussion to post or share on your page.
6. Give Christ-centered Pieces of Flair daily (for 14 days).
7. Find 14 different Christ-centered FunSlide videos and send one daily.
8. Use iLike and dedicate songs that have a Christian message to those you are praying for.
9. Xtreme Bible Study Facebook App. Invite your unsaved friends to add the app and check out the daily short Bible study and the 3-minute Xtreme Bible Study podcast. Use it to spark conversations about Christ and allow them to have learn a bit more about what Christianity is all about.
10. Post a Christ-centered note and tag those you’re praying for.
11. Post Christ-centered blogs/notes.
12. Search Photobucket or other image sites to find Christ-centered graphics to use when leaving messages on your friends pages.
13. Create a YouTube playlist showcasing your favorite inspirational videos.
14. Search out Christian podcasts and share them with your friends.
15. Sign up for Twitter and “tweet” the gospel.
16. Send an e-mail to those you’re praying for encouraging them.
Here’s day 6 of the message for you youth leaders to send to your youth group kids. It includes:
Download note #4 for youth leaders to send to their students
Thanks to Shawn Shoup for contributing these!
For any youth leaders who are interested, every Friday at 2:00 PM EST Tim Schmoyer hosts a LIVE YM Talk. Youth workers all over the country call in to have a live conversation about issues and topics related to youth ministry.
This Friday, February 6, Bill Scott of Xtreme Talk Live will join us as our featured guest to talk with us about “becoming a dynamic public speaker.” He’s toured the country, spoken at many student conferences of over 50,000 teenagers, and has done nationally syndicated radio for teens for decades. He’s the voice in these Online Missions Trip Bible study mp3s and will also be the one teaching us how to improve our teaching skills.
Visit the LIVE YM Talk page for more info on how to join this live conversation of youth workers this Friday.
Here’s day four of the message for you youth leaders to send to your youth group kids. It includes:
Download note #4 for youth leaders to send to their students
Thanks to Shawn Shoup for contributing these!
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!
Here’s day two of the message for you youth leaders to send to your youth group kids. It includes:
Download note #2 for youth leaders to send to their students
Thanks to Shawn Shoup for contributing these!
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.
