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Using Twitter on Mission Trips

Last Updated June 10, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

I thought I’d share a quick idea I had for our mission trip this year: using Twitter to keep parents and the congregation updated. The first two years I took our current youth group on our mission trips, I would upload pictures and write up the day’s events to our youth ministry blog. Unfortunately, it […]

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Twitter Life for the Week of 2009-05-10

Last Updated May 10, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

Doing a little blog maintenance and updating. # Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/luthermergent to join # @jakebouma how’s that? in reply to jakebouma # Beginning my morning with some Phyllis Tickle. http://bit.ly/2VLAe # Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #youthministry #lutheran #theology # @ypguybrit maybe if you twitter more you can […]

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Twitter Life for the Week of 2009-05-03

Last Updated May 3, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

FAFSAizing. Ugh. # It’s been a demanding weekend. Good, but demanding. Feels good to relax this afternoon and evening. # RIP Pontiac http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/27/autos/pontiac_obit/index.htm?postversion=2009042711 # @ypguybrit whoa, that’s kinda ahead of time. Way to go. in reply to ypguybrit # @scottlenger Thanks for the RT on http://tinyurl.com/c8yl4d in reply to scottlenger # @jakebouma Thanks for the […]

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Twitter Life for 2009-04-26

Last Updated April 26, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

@YouthMinBlog tatango. # going home to get some reading done # Finally read YM 3.0 by Marko today. Mixed thoughts. Review forthcoming. # Uh oh. Work PC is doing weird things. Don’t ask if I’ve backed up. # If my PC ever fires back up, I’m thinking Mozy. Other recommendations for online backups? # @savagehowie […]

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Join the YouthMinistry Twibe

Last Updated April 21, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

Looks like the whole Twibe thing might be taking off. Although functionality is pretty low right now (they say they are developing it), essentially it is a way to create groups on Twitter. I started a YouthMinistry twibe. To join, just tweet “Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/youthministry to join” and you will automatically be […]

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My Dream Youth Ministry Communication Application

Last Updated February 18, 2009 by Matt 16 Comments

No, it doesn’t exist yet, but I wish it did. If any super web-savvy people (who also happen to have a ton of money or can get people to invest) could pull this off, they could make a killing off of this idea for an application. It would be especially helpful in youth ministry but […]

Filed Under: Theology, Youth Ministry Tagged With: communication, email, facebook, myspace, text messaging, twitter, web 2.0

Best Youth Ministry Books

These are the books that will completely change the way you think about youth ministry, for the better. Links are to my reviews of each book.

Teen 2.0 by Robert Epstein

A psychologist makes you question every assumption you have about adolescence.

Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry by Andrew Root

Why build relationships? Root’s answer will surprise you.

Best Youth Ministry Books: Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher

Yesterday I finally read Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher, and since I’m one of the latecomers to the conversation I won’t summarize the book too much. Marko has linked to tons of reviews on his blog if you are interested in more in-depth summaries. If you are fairly in-tune with a lot of the […]

Best Youth Ministry Books: Postmodern Youth Ministry

Postmodern Youth Ministry by Tony Jones is the book I would recommend to youth ministers if they could just read one youth ministry book. I first read the book in my Foundations and Practices of Youth Ministry class at John Brown University. After the preface to the book there is a page titled, “The Day […]

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