Today only (January 26, 2012), get (regularyly $6.99) for only $2.99! Click the picture below to save some cash!

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I am a big fan of Simply Youth Ministry’s products. I’m an even bigger fan of them when they’re on sale! Load up!!!

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I did a 5-minute promo to our High School Ministry volunteer small group leaders this week. I talked for about 5 minutes describing The Landing and why hurting students would need to go. I also explained the packet which contained the items below: 1. A snazzy envelope with our bookmark printed on it along with [...]

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I put together a journal for the journaling station at The Landing the week we did lesson 39. The lesson does not come with small group questions because the students are expected to spend the entire time doing the prayer stations. These journals also served as a source of questions small groups could work through [...]

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Download the free PDF by clicking here Here’s the handout I gave parents at this year’s Meet & Greet for Life Groups. This year I added a requirement that students need to respect their parents to be part of my Life Group. It seems a lot of the counseling I do with families comes down [...]

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Here’s a great tongue-in-cheek video the brilliant Parker Stech did to get students to consider joining a small group. Life Groups with Parker from HSM on Vimeo.

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Our High School Ministry did a 2-week series on the topic of secrets. It was an EXCELLENT way to nudge students to get help with their issues and to direct them toward The Landing. This is the video they used at the beginning of the service. I stole this video from here Here’s the series [...]

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You can order these banners by clicking here As part of a strong back-to-school push for our ministry, I’m ordering some banners to help students understand what our ministry is all about, how it can help them, and who should attend. Here’s a peak. They might go through some editing before I place the order [...]

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Nobody’s paying me to say this. I just absolutely LOVE this free system we started using to take payments for shirts at our ministry, The Landing at Saddleback Church. I’ve seen this product, but never used it or even gave it much thought before we needed it. The Pros: – Easily accept credit card payments [...]

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I made new name badges today for our leaders. They are designed to match our new shirts for The Landing. I thought I’d share the files with others in case you wanted to do the same. No need to reinvent the wheel, right? [This is what the finished product looks like] Here are the documents [...]

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