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I wrote the email, but they will never know.

April 17, 2015 by Chris Parker 3 Comments

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This week my inbox continues to receive a handful of the same looking emails… and they are all from my small group leaders. It could be surprising, but it’s not, I planned for this to happen.

Partnering with parents can sometimes feel unreachable, but it’s just like anything else we do, if it seems unreachable perhaps we haven’t reached for it yet. I focus my small group strategy by always training with a weekly WIN for my small group leaders. When they walk in the door for the leaders meeting they see the WIN on the board and the WIN was emailed to them earlier in the week. I make sure my WIN(s) revolve around the subjects found in the book Lead Small. This ensures I don’t forget anything that could reinforce our strategy when training and equipping leaders.

This year the bulk of my WINs will revolve around partnering with parents. If you don’t know why that’s important or how critical it can be, perhaps I can convince you. A mom of high school student recently said to me, [Read more…]

Filed Under: Leadership, Student Ministry, Technology Tagged With: email, lead small, small group leader, student ministry, win, Youth Ministry

Best Bible Memory Apps

March 17, 2015 by Chris Parker 10 Comments

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We live in a day and age where technology can work both for and against us. I spent my last airline flight playing a game, listening to a podcast, memorizing a bible verse and falling asleep to some classical music. All of these things were done on my phone.

While in high school I dedicated the book of Philippians to memory. This was done through long and tedious hours of writing out each verse by hand. I made note cards and [Read more…]

Filed Under: Student Ministry, Technology Tagged With: app, app store, best app, Bible, bible memory, game, memorize, scripture memory, student ministry, verse, Youth Ministry, youth pastor

Kearning is very important. More about logo design.

May 29, 2014 by Chris Parker Leave a Comment

 

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If  you were to speak with anyone that knows me pretty well, they would probably tell you that I strive for excellence and am very particular about how things look, almost to the point of annoyance. Currently I have a design contest running for a NextGen logo. With hundreds of designs being submitted, I am sometimes shocked and even taken back to see what some people would submit. At the very least, let’s get the kearning right. So, what is kearning? I’m so glad you asked and yes it is very important with any design. It’s a fancy word for appropriate spacing.

Did you know GOOGLE changed it’s logo this past weekend, and you didn’t even notice? Not until now.

When you are branding or coming up with a new logo get all the feedback that you can. Email it out, print it and hang it up in your program/office space, ask people both inside and outside the church to vote on a few different options.

Filed Under: Church Planting, Technology Tagged With: branding, church, creating, kearning, logo, logo design, student ministry, stumin

Hey there, my name is Chris. I wake up every morning thinking youth ministry. If you are in the same boat, then I know you will identify with me, because you also live the life of a youth pastor .

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