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March 31, 2008

4 Practices in Preparing Videos for Your Youth Ministry

Have you ever wanted to have a video that would drive a point home with your teenagers, but could not find it anywhere.  Well there is hope.  Here are 4 practices in preparing your own videos for your youth ministry

  1.  The first thing you want to do is create a story on how you want your video to flow.  With in that story you want to find all the sources (googleyahoo, etc…) that will help you drive the point of your video. 
  2. Once you have your story, then you need to figure out if you want your story to acted out by others or if you want to tape people answering questions.  You can go to a park or mall and interview kids talking about your subject (you need to ask permission to video in a mall)  
  3. Now that you have with all this content on it then you need to edit it down to a short film that will drive this point.  You can use programs like iMovieWindows Movie MakerAdobe Elements and Final Cut Express
  4. When editing the film just remember these key point in prep
  • Begin and end your video with a black screen
  • Don’t go Long with it
  • Maintain continuity 
  • Start with the end in mind
  • Use Transitions wisely

With these practices and a little practice you can produce a video that will reach the youth of your church.  If you have any questions please email me.  Scott 

March 3, 2008

How Much Does it Cost to Do a Youth Ministry?

Filed under: Experience, Youth Ministry Ideas — Scott @ 8:20 pm

I am finding more and more that church people think that to do youth ministry does not cost anything.  Once you hire the minister then that is all that is going to cost them.  I am currently in a church were I need to raise my own operating cost for the ministry.  I wish that I could post what students do in a typical year and what that cost.  I think people would be surprised by the cost factor.  I am learning day to day how I need to rely on God for this funding.  Being new to this church is fun in a lot of ways but not having money to rent a van when we need to take a trip is starting to drive me crazy.  We just finished a fundraiser called Change for Change.  The hope is to raise awareness and money for the operating cost for the youth ministry this year.  This next Sunday we are going to count all the change that was given to us over the corse of the last month.  Trusting God is tough.  But I must do it.  Its His ministry not mine.  

February 27, 2008

Teaching to Word to Teenagers

Over the past few days I have been thinking about How to teach the Word of God to the teenagers in my youth group.  Today’s teens have no knowledge of who did what or how to find it in the Bible.  Somewhere we have let down teens by not teaching them the basics of the Bible and who did what.The first thing I need to do is teach them the stories about who did what and then use application to apply it to today’s life.  The Students don’t see a connection to then and now.  Start with who, what, when, then why.  Once they see it God will do the rest.  The Word is God breathed and so If we communicate it God will do the rest.  My Goal in the next few weeks is to put a plan to teach the stories and applications and watch God do His thing. Scott Leadership Resources - Youth Ministry

October 11, 2007

Building A Ministry From the Ground Up.

When you are trying to build a student ministry and you want to do it right, it starts by starting slow and finding out what will work and not work with the students in the area.  Using the tools that are out there like texting, myspace, facebook and instant messanger are great tools to start communicating and interacting with students.  The students will tell you idea’s over texting and will not do it face to face.  This is the first thing in build a ministry to Students from the Ground Up.

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