Close to a week ago YS! Palooza was in my back yard and one of the sessions was led by Les Christie. Besides teaching us how to plan and execute game ideas in our ministries Les also introduced us to a web app called Wordle. Essentially it's a tool that allows you to...
At our church we create a load of custom publications. When I first started I used Microsoft Publisher. Over the past 2 years I began learning Adobe's Creative Suite 5 so I have converted to an InDesign user. What kind of publishing software do you use, and why? Give...
Earlier this morning Matt McGill tweeted that he would never be the same again and followed that tweet with a link. The link was to a Gizmodo page talking about the new rendition of Settlers of Catan. That's right, according to Board Game Geek and Gizmodo, Star Trek...
This is my first YS! Palooza, and I am stoked to be here. I live 1.5 miles from the venue so it was super convenient. The price is right and, who doesn't need a day or two to refresh the youth ministry batteries? Here is a running blog of Doug Fields' message to us...
2011 was a whirlwind year for me. While serving in our student ministry, I also spent half of the year revamping all of our discipleship courses, and the other half of the year directing our elementary ministry. We built a website to host all of our discipleship...
Every Youth Pastor needs some back up, and our preferred weapon for office warfare is the Marshmallow Shooter. Each week Chris Dortch (Lead Youth Pastor at my church) and I will be showing you how to...
A few days ago Chris posted his geeky wishlist so I figured that I would post mine as well. Here it is for your enjoyment: Blue Microphone Yeti Pro. This guy does it all. With both USB and XLR hookups, 4 polar patterns to choose from, 24bit recording (4x better...
Xtranormal is a digital animation company that allows you to create your own movies! Just think of the applications: camp rules, announcements, topic teaser, discussion starter, mid=week shout...
Just the other day on twitter I saw the most interesting tweet. Stanford University was offering their iOS app building course for free through iTunes University. I have a few app ideas I want to develop so I have downloaded the videos in HD, and plan on working my...
Everyone knows it. Announcements are boring. So a few years back we decided to spice things up. We had just held a huge student conference and had brought in the improv comedy group CPR. The students went nuts over the improv. So why not combine the most boring part...
