Closing the back door to your youth ministry
Our youth ministry has been dealing with some difficult circumstances over the last several years in regards to awareness. We currently have a student ministry building that is literally located across the highway from the rest of our church. We provide shuttles on Sunday morning for students to ride over there, however we still face the issue of awareness because we are not literally connected to the other church buildings. Over the last several months and really the last year we have been building a campaign to close the back door to our ministry. We built a website www.lyf.net in the fall of 2008 to bring about awareness online. Just this past weekend our ministry hosted a ministry fair inside the commons of our church. We setup different booths with giveaways, information and giant displays that hopefully yelled “yes we do have a youth ministry…come and check us out.” We started telling better stories during our worship services by creating short 2-minute videos that tell the stories of serving and leading in our ministry. Below is one of the videos we recently showed.
- Your website is a story
- 7 ways your youth ministry can use twitter effectively
- From announcements to stories
- Using social media to bring traffic to your website
- Telling stories no one else will tell
