It’s 40 40 40 sale time at Simply Youth Ministry. If you are looking for a great deal on some great youth ministry resources, for the next 40 hours you can get 40% off at SimplyYouthMinistry.com for 3 days only.
You can also grab 40 free backgrounds.
Want to win 40 movie tickets? CLICK HERE for more info.
Over at Simply Youth Ministry.com, there’s a great new resource for helping make the most out of your mission trips this summer. Prepare, Go, Live. Here’s a little from it’s description:
Few things will bring the gospel to life for your students like heading out onto the mission field. Spending a day, weekend, or longer in service to God, for his love, and with people in need brings the calling of Christ vividly into focus. With this easy to implement 3-part missions trip curriculum, you’ll get everything you need to get your students ready (Prepare), devotions for the trip (Go), and follow-up materials (Live) to make their experience part of an ongoing, godly lifestyle. And what good would we be if we didn’t include helpful stuff for leaders to make the whole trip more fun for everyone? No good at all, so we’ve given you plenty.
Also in honor of this new resource, over on SimplyInsider.com there’s a contest for the best mission trip stories, and 3 winners will get Flip cams. One of the funnest little cameras to come along in quite awhile.
Also I wanted to let you there’s still a 50% media sale going on. Here are some of my favorites:
Also, use the promo code: PLUGGEDIN to get free shipping on orders over $99.
I told you about the Super Awesome bundle last week, I just found out the Super Awesome Bundle now has a new tier.? If they get to 5oo bundles they will add Save the Planet
to the bundle.? It’s a deal that just keeps getting better.? Remember it’s only good till Friday.
A few weeks ago I posted about the Macheist bundle, which was a great way to get great software at an incredible price. Today we have a bundle that’s made for Youth Workers, the Super Awesome Bundle. For only $49 you get over $230 of resources. It’s a great collection of speaking series, games, and training for volunteers. The nice thing for us geeky media types all the games and series are made with media in mind and include backgrounds and other elements.
It includes: Hooked, All Out War, Hmmm, Race This! 2, Game On 4, Power Play 5, and Training on the Go. Check out: Super Awesome Bundle for complete descriptions.
It also gets better the more that are bought. At 100 bundles, Transmit Vols 1 & 2 and Backpacks 6 (Summer Pack) will be added (which already happened), and at 250 Guy Talk Girl Talk 2 for everyone whose purchased the bundle.
10% of the sales to the Glue Boys organization.
Check out this video showing how the products were picked:
I saw this on @Zondervan‘s twitter today, and I thought I’d pass it along. Right now you can get a free copy the TNIV Bible in Ebook format. It’s available for both the Amazon Kindle
Pick the link for the version you would like to get:
In honor of Tax Day the folks over at Simply Youth Ministry are having a special sale. Save 15% on any orders over $99.
I know I’ve had my eye on some of the Media products that are already marked down 50%.
The Igniter Backs are great. I’ve used a few of the volumes and have really liked them. The Tracks look really good also.
Yesterday Simply Youth Ministry and Worship House Media launched the Simply Youth Ministry Media Store, a new media store with a focus on media for youth ministry. It a huge collection of movies, backgrounds, countdowns, still images and software with youth ministry in mind. There’s also a great section of Easter stuff if you need any last minute videos or backgrounds.
They also provide weekly freebies that are great (check out the link on the homepage).
LINK: Simply Youth Media Store
This may not be super geeky, but it’s a super great deal. You can pick up Youth Leader Training on the Go for only $7.99 (Retail $29.99). It’s a great resource from Doug Fields for keeping your volunteers trained and encouraged. It contains 52 training sessions that work great in your team meetings. Plus an audio CD with 12 short audio trainings, and a CD with all the handouts. It’s worth checking out.
I must make a confession, I love jokes and playing pranks on people, but unfortunately for me I’m one of those people that always has stuff backfire. I was reminded today about an Aprils Fools joke I tried to play on my office a few years back that didn’t work out like I thought it would.
I was working as a network administrator for a small company, and we had just started supporting Macs as option for users. Those that had them loved them, and those that didn’t were split into the “I wish I had one” and “don’t make me use one” camps. I didn’t really realize how strong the feelings on both sides of this issue were. I thought it would be funny to send out an email detailing out our plans to transition the entire company over to Macs. I included a time line and schedule for when the transition would take place. I figured it wouldn’t take long for people to realize that it was April 1st and it was all a joke. But no, people didn’t catch on very quickly. After the email, some departments began to celebrate, and I immediately got responses back from people that were not going to switch and they wanted me to know it. Even some of the company executives that would have had to be part of the decision were taken in by it and wanted to setup meetings about how this would effect their departments. Even my boss was taken in by it.
I quickly had to confess that it was just joke. April Fools everyone. For many it was a relief, but those that were celebrating the switch were not as amused.
Oh well, I thought it was funny.
Anyone else have any pranks that backfired?
I written about SimplyTxt before, but I wanted to highlight a new feature: Reply. Now when you send out a text to an individual or a group they can reply back and you get the message in your “Message Stream.” It always was a great tool to blast out messages to your students, staff, and parents, but now they can talk back, making it even better.
Watch this quick video to see how the whole system works:
Try out the 30 day free trial. I think you’ll like it. It’s one of the quickest and easiest ways I’ve found to communicate.
LINK: SimplyTxt
