Part of the Glue

Ever since I went to Africa this past summer God has been awakening me to his true power and my need for Him.  It’s easy sometimes to do ministry or my job with my own strength and not depend on Him or seek His direction.  Recently in our youth building we moved our prayer room from an area which was currently out of sight to a more prominent place in our facility.  A couple of our leaders decided that we needed to gather monthly if not more to pray for this ministry.  Organizing a prayer meeting is harder then you think, because a lot of times you have to deal with people’s schedules and convincing them prayer is important.  We finally came up with a time where we would meet the last Sunday of the month before our small groups and spend 30-40 minutes in prayer.  We sent out a mass email this week and just to remind our leaders we sent out a group text using tatango so they wouldn’t forget.  Prayer is one of the few things that can bring us together and unify us with one purpose.  The more we pray together the more our hearts and vision will be in the same place to reach students.   Prayer is kind of like glue in that it knits our hearts together as we seek God.

Sunday is a big day for most churches….hint it being sabbath and all.  A lot of times we focus so much attention on Sunday we ignore the rest of the week at least in a programming since.  Now with the advent of things such as facebook pages and blogs…content can more easily come into the homes of students more than once a week.  For our series that started last night called TRUE LYF we created a documentary that follows various students in our ministry and challenged them to do various spiritual disciplines.  These documentaries ended up being pretty long (30 minutes) so we decided to show a highlight clip at church and the full versions each day during the rest of the week on the facebook page.  We also decided to develop a devotional guide for students to follow the same challenge the students in the video had to do.  The benefit to adding these extras in this series is that it really allows the message to come home where life really happens.

You can check out the facebook page HERE and watch the promo below.

If you are like me you’ve waited long enough and finally are fed up with not being able to properly communicate to your students via text messaging.  I did some research earlier this week and came across a service I tried a while back but decided not to early on because of the ads that came with the text messages which I hate.  Now the ads are gone and the service is no longer free, however this site is worth checking out.  Tatango.com is a text messaging service that allows you to text groups of people and unlike most other text messaging services, this one allows you multiple admins and the ability to create subgroups which is perfect for any youth ministry.  Check out Tatango.com today…