Archive for the ‘planning’ Category
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Don't get bent out of shape about deadlines and sign-ups. While you need a good count for an event you don't have to be rigid. Instead, build flexibility into your planning! It's much better to recruit an extra driver with the understanding that you may not need her than it ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Ever sit in a meeting or brainstorming session and wonder how you were going to make your random notes into an outline encompassing all the aspects of your plan and turn it into something that works with the way you think? If you haven't tried mind mapping yet, there's no ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Ever get to the theme park, concert, or festival, try to reach one of your students or volunteers whose new cell number never got into your phone? How about your students' friends who came along? Yeah, me too.
As you're loading the vehicles for your next trip, give each ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
It's one of the simplest and most useful bits of training you and your volunteers can have - a first aid class. With the many activities on the average youth ministry schedule, and 1.3 daredevils per 10 students, there is always the potential for minor-to-major owies. Having leaders ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
You know you've been meaning to. However, because [fill in reason here] you just haven't gotten around to organizing, archiving, and backing up your computer files and another [week/month/year] has gone by.
Today's tip will prevent the loss of last year's mission trip pictures, your videos, your lessons and letters, but ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Among the hundreds of youth work staff and volunteers I've known, I don't think I've ever met one that loves meetings. To be honest, it's a rare youth workers that even likes meetings. Be that as it may, meetings with pastors, leaders, students, community members, parents, elders... well, the list ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
One of the most frequent youth ministry dilemmas (and nightmares) is deciding what constitutes an appropriate movie to see with youth or show at a youth gathering. This will vary, obviously, depending upon the ages of the students and what level of fill-in-the-blank-potential-pitfall is acceptable to you, youth and parents.
Well ...
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