Part of the Glue

I recently launched a new ad campaign for our youth group through facebook.  Once you have a facebook fan page setup you can go to your fan page and click promote with an ad.  The great thing about these ads is that you can target them to 13-18 year old students that live within a certain mile radius of your city.  You can also decide how much you want to spend and choose between clicks or impressions.  Creating a facebook ad campaign for your youth group may help get exposure in your community due to the high volume of students that are on facebook.  Visit facebook.com/ads for more info.

A couple of months ago our student media team at my church entered the 24 hour film race.  We had to write, shoot and edit a short film in 24 hours.

Our film has gone on to the national competitions and we need your help.

Vote for our film “the choice” HERE and spread the word.

The truth is most students in your ministry are not actors and the few that can act probably still aren’t incredible.  We recently did a series on evangelism in our youth ministry called ASK.  The concept was to thread a series of videos together that show students being afraid to ask something.  The last video focuses on asking your friends about God, while the first three are other real life situations.  These videos were actually easy to shoot because we didn’t have to record audio on site.  After filming each video we would go into our studio and record the voice over separately.  I recommend this approach as an easy means to creating videos because the acting is all through facial expressions and is not dependent on a students ability to say lines.

Ask – Bathroom

Ask – Girl

Ask – Text

Ask – Faith