Today I bought StudentLeaderMinistry.com. It’s not up, yet. On the plane home from the Simply Youth Ministry Conference I was brainstorming some ideas. This was one of them. I’m curious to see what happens with it. It could be a lot of fun, a great source of encouragement, and a training place for student leaders.
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I’m looking for some input from youth ministry students about what you love about your leaders. I’d love your input. We’re going to use this to brag on your leaders. It’s going to be great.
Please keep your answers short. We’re just looking for a line or two about what makes you love your adult youth [...]

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This weekend at the Simply Youth Ministry Conference VolunteerYouthVolunteerMinistry.com got some great mentions from Kurt Johnston and Doug Fields. I love getting the word out about what’s going on here and getting volunteer youth workers sharing ideas.

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I’m heading out to Chicago for the Simply Youth Ministry Conference on Thursday. Watch VolunteerYouthMinistry.com for summaries of what’s going on. There’s some good stuff coming this week!
Also, if you’re on Twitter, watch for the #SYMC2010 hashtag.
You can also follow me on Twitter. My Twitter name is dbeckner

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Today we had an incident at our Refinery Grill at Saddleback Church. It looks like there was a fire in the kitchen of our grill. However, there wasn’t a fire, there was just a smoke exhaust problem. The sight of the sprinklers going off is quite amazing. Here’s a video…

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Thank you for checking out this bllog! There’s been a huge jump lately in readership of VolunteerYouthMinistry.com. I appreciate everybody who takes time to read it!
If you like what you see, can you please let your friends know about this blog? The goal of this blog is to contribute some insights (and failures) I’ve had [...]

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Youth ministry bloggers with iPhones will be happy to know that Wordpress 2.2 is out today! I don’t use it to post blogs very often, but it is a great tool that just got even better. Click here on your iPhone to go to the app.

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VolunteerYouthMinistry.com gave a flight and admission to the SYM Conference to a volunteer youth worker (click here to see the details). Here’s an interview with the winning youth worker.

And the winner is:
Justin Dougan
of
Wichita, Kansas!

While Justin serves as a volunteer, he is the lead youth worker at West Haysville Baptist Church.
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One of our former High School Ministry volunteers shot a video of his wife crying at the end of Star Wars then posted it on his blog . I know! Who would cry at the end of such a movie? Or maybe the better question is, “Who would videotape his wife crying? …and live to [...]

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The cool thing about this commercial is that it was produced by Pastor Erwin McManus of Mosaic in Los Angeles, CA.
Click here for more details about the video
Click here for information on the winners and finalists
Click here to see how it ranks on USAToday’s Ad Meter (at the time of this writing, it was at [...]

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