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.
When it comes to the spiritual development of teenagers often times we think about certain doctrines and spiritual disciplines. We ask ourself what do they need to know? Like schools, churches often have a curriculum set in place for students to learn that is often broken down into oral teaching subjects. The problem with some of this is that a large part of this curriculum if not most of it is often designed for oral learners.
I rarely post youtube videos, however I stumbled upon this video that really resonated with me in my approach to telling stories in the church.
Last year in a post I wrote about creating transitional statements when incorporating video into worship services. I felt a need to write about this again because this is something our church has failed to do and I know others must be wrestling with this as well. The idea behind creating a transitional statement is [...]
Recently with our move from announcements to stories we were faced with a predicament…. that being time. When you tell some-one’s story a lot of times we have found a sweet spot of time that is typically rather lengthy. In the past we have felt that we could tell stories of life-change [...]
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