Simply Youth Ministry has always been about saving youth workers’ time. I too love efficiency. I want my computer to run faster. I organize files like an archivist. I even plan my calendar down to the day and hour I’m going to fill up my car with gas. Well, not that...
Last weekend was the Simply Youth Ministry Conference, and there was lots of great training. One of the speakers, Tim Schmoyer videoed his seminar on Communicating Youth Group News with Teens and Parents and dropped it on YouTube. You can watch it here (it was really...
I know a lot of people are using text messaging as a communication tool in their ministries, but have you ever thought of using it as an actual worship tool? There's a Freebie over at YouthMinistry.com that lays out an order of worship for a worship service that...
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...
Every time I ask students if they got my email, they tell me they never check it. They might check their facebook or myspace, but even that is it or miss trying to communicate with them. The one thing they all seem to do is txt message, and they do it a lot. If you've...
