On the lighter side of youth ministry… Here’s a little harmless prank I pull on students. I love messing with people. If you do, too, you might consider using this if you can do it with a straight face. Here goes… When you’re out and about with a student, at the checkout counter when he [...]

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For my high school Bible study, we did a white elephant gift exchange. The rule was we had to go to Goodwill, a 99-Cent Store or Big Lots and buy something and turn it into something else. I kind of went overboard as you can see in the video. After I shot this, I added [...]

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This is my 2nd year to do this… and my 2nd year to make a video about it. This video will waste your time. Watch it if you need such a thing… wasting time, that is. Happy holidays, Dennis

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Scott Johnson (a former small group student of mine) does amazing light shows on his house every year for Halloween and Christmas. Tonight he put this on my Facebook wall so I thought I’d share it with te youth ministry world. Any guesses what he wants to do for a career and where he wants [...]

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My boss asked me to find out how to create a QR code for Celebrate Recovery’s Facebook page. I had it done in about 1 minute for free through Google. I decided why not create one for my blog. Not sure how (or if) I’ll use it, but it’s cool. There are a few phone [...]

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I’ve seen this a few times over the years. It never gets old. Enjoy!

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I had this idea to take s’mores to the next level by using Pop tarts instead of graham crackers. It was so good that I had to share the idea here. Go and do likewise! PS: Thanks for reading VolunteerYouthMinistry.com!

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This was a short game we put together for The Landing last Friday. It’s not an original idea, but it was a fun way to get the students involved. Students ran the entire service. The setup for this game was that the computer was playing with the students. The student on stage was kind of [...]

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So I’m one of “those”. I’m sitting in line for the iPad 2. Been sitting here since 10:30 this morning. Currently it’s 2:40. Just 2 hours and 20 minutes until they release the darn thing. The cool thing is I’m about #20 in a line of about 150 people. When I get it, I’ve got [...]

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UPDATE: The Landing shirts are now available! Click here for details I haven’t put on my creative hat for a while. However, tonight I thought I’d put together a couple of ideas I could present to students and volunteers. They want new T-shirts and I’d love to get the word out to more people about [...]

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