Adam McLane

Category: YMX

  • The YMX blog

    For a few weeks now (eternity in my library of ideas) Patti and I have talked about having a YMX blog so that our blogs weren’t quite so clogged up with stuff about the company and/or youth ministry stuff for others. It’s not that we don’t love youth ministry or youth workers coming to our…

  • You Matter

    Yesterday we kicked off a series of articles at YMX. Let me tell you why I’m excited about this series. It is practical, between the eyes, encouragement to youth workers. One of the main goals of YMX is to be an encouragement to the Youth Ministry community. So I have been asking our forum moderators…

  • YMX: Something on the side

    Over the last few weeks I’ve had several people ask me about Youth Ministry Exchange. I don’t mean people from the community, I mean people from Romeo. So here is the scoop. Back in November-December 2005, I created a website with some friends of mine. It’s an online community for people like me… people who…

  • The Blog Snap: Sometimes You Can’t Hold It In

    I know exactly how Chris Folmsbee feels. Chris is Chief Ministry officer at YouthFront and President of Sonlife. He’s a class act guy and is an excellent leader. Part of being a leader is sticking your neck out. And Chris has done that. He put the nail the coffin of a great, but dying youth…

  • Ad network launches

    For at 6 months I’ve been toying with an idea that launched today. Networking youth ministry bloggers is nothing new to me. In fact, back in 2004-2005 this led to the creation of the “YS forum members blogring” which later morphed into what is today Youth Ministry Exchange. As I’ve gotten to know much more…

  • Youth Ministry Pro

    Observers of YMX and this blog will remember that we recently started “domain farming” a few domain names that aren’t currently registered… but we think would make great websites. In other words, we bought a bunch of domains hoping that if we marketed them a little, people would pay for them. Well, along the same…

  • Nominations for Best of Youth Ministry 2007

    Over at YMX, we’re accepting nominations for “Best of 2007” from the world of youth ministry. Here’s the link. If you post your list on your blog and post the link in the comments section by 12/30/07, we’ll put your name in a drawing for a $25 gift card from Amazon. (Drawing on 12/31/2007) Don’t…

  • YMX: remix

    I don’t know if my blog readers know all that is going on at Youth Ministry Exchange.Here’s a quick snapshot of recent articles.

  • How do I get published?

    How do I get published?

    There doesn’t seem to be a more common dream among youth workers than the desire to get a book deal or to get published in a national magazine. Here’s a reality check: No one is ever going to contact you to offer you a book deal or to ask for you to write for a…

  • Can you help Brian?

    This is Brian. He’s a youth worker like a lot of the readers of my blog. Brian was a youth pastor for a long time… then earlier year he took a huge leap of faith and uprooted his family from Missouri to Washington so that he could spend the summer working on a boat and…