Turn your youth group website into an event LiveStream
Documenting youth ministry events is hugely important for the life of your ministry.
- It is useful in promoting future events
- It helps outsiders get a look at what your ministry has to offer
- It serves to remind students of spiritual commitments attached to events
Tim Schmoyer has a great blog post about how to make this easier in real time while allowing students to contribute. Here’s a clip from his blog post. Click here to read the entire post.
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Turn your youth group website into an event LiveStream
from Life in Student Ministry by tim@schmoyer.net (Tim Schmoyer)
Using your cell phone to update website during trips
The idea
As I’ve written before, on overnight youth trips I like to embed my Twitter account’s RSS feed into our youth group website so parents can get the play-by-play action of our trip while we’re gone. They love it for so many reasons!
Now that our new youth group website includes a special LiveStream just for our group’s online social activity, I’m taking the mobile updates to a new level for this summer’s youth group trips. Instead of all the web updates, mobile pictures and videos coming solely from me, I’ve opened it up so all the kids on the trip can contribute to our LiveStream while we’re away. I think there’s a couple benefits of this:
* All the kids feel like they have some ownership in sharing the story with what’s going on.
* Parents can see and read the trip from the perspective of the teenagers.
* Parents feel included and have a lot to talk about with their teen when they get home besides asking, “So how was it?”
* We have an ongoing “digital scrapbook” of pictures, short video clips and updates for every trip. Everyone can contribute to it.
How to set it up
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