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- Leadership Manual Hot & Cold List: Brian’s portion
Hot Five Sessions
#1 Becoming a Leader
I thought the games were a little cheesy, but they get the point across. Overall a great lesson. I thought the brainstorming was good and the talkback was great. This is a great lesson for students leaders and potential student leaders to walk through. It first of all addresses the [...]
- cyclical adolescent infusion
Pretty wicked awesome title, eh? Yeah, overweight graying 28 year old youth pastors have brains too!
This is a powerful title for something that is awfully fun about student ministry. Long story short, when new students jump into your ministry it gives everyone a shot in the arm.
Recently we’ve had a couple of students “step up” [...]
- it seems to be Ireland
The missions committee met last night about our summer missions trip. The consensus among the group was that Ireland was the better choice for this year. While they thought the Russia trip is fascinating their observation was that Ireland was more in line with the equipping phase of ministry we are in right now as [...]
- some fun with Sunday school
In the past few weeks and for the next few weeks, we’ve been looking at prayer. I know what you are thinking, fun and prayer rarely go together. But I should rephrase that to say that we are creatively looking at some verses that teach us a lot about prayer.
Last week, we had students paint [...]
- World Firefighters Challenge
Little did I realize this, but apparently, my big brother Aaron is pretty good at this thing. His team just finished an appearance in the world championships and they finished 3rd overall. That’s pretty cool.
I didn’t even know that the Firefighter Challenge was any kind of a real tour in that way. Let’s just say [...]
- feeling 100% better
I haven’t been sick since the pneumonia over the summer. So I was a bit taken back by the flu-like symptoms I’ve had in the past 24 hours. Still not sure if I actually had the flu or if it was because I ate like 2 lbs of leftover grapes from Light Force. The bottom [...]
- a lot of little updates
Yesterday was a pretty good day. So I have a lot of little things to comment on.
Cranky update: I’ve had some very positive breakthrough e-mails recently. It seems that by me putting a name of stuff it has helped the girls finally talk about what’s really going on. They’ll probably be horrified that I knew [...]
- assuming stuff: making an ass out of u and me
I think I may have screwed up. This whole clothing drive has snuck up on me. Not only did I drop the ball and not get the free truck service in time. Now I’m not sure I’ve even gotten a place to accept the donations. I’m waiting to hear back from Grace Centers of Hope.
I [...]
- Hot & Cold List: James’ portion
Hot as Taco Bell’s Fire Sauce…
1. “Be clear about the adult role in this process.” (23)
The role of your adults should be essential to defining your practice of student leadership. As adults come side by side with your student leaders they become a more intimate part of their lives, as they “mentor, disciple and encourage [...]
- Hot & Cold List: Nate’s portion
The “Hot” Five
1. The “Thinking Through the Inconspicuous but Critical Issues in
Student Leadership” section provides a quick, but comprehensive set of principles to be implemented in student leadership.
* Giving students true authority, clarifying the role of adults,
creating the right environment, going beyond information giving, encouraging gift-based passion-driven ministry, and [...]
