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XP3 – Free 3 week series!

March 17, 2014 by Chris Parker Leave a Comment

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One of the first questions I get when hanging out with another student pastor is, “What curriculum do you use?” I have gone a few different routes in the past, but have been using XP3 for about a year now. Here’s what I love most…they give you EVERYTHING you would ever need for a series and then some more. For every series you get small group questions, large group manuscript, access to bumper videos, logos, leader email templates, etc. The content seems to always be relevant, I take the manuscript and make it my own. XP3 gives both the young and well seasoned youth pastor a great platform to engage students with God’s word.

Take a quick look at this for your group, and try a free 3 week series!

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Got Curriculum? Customization.

August 11, 2012 by Chris Parker Leave a Comment

Customization. This is what I love doing…it might be the artist in me or perhaps I’m just picky when it comes to things I really care about. One of those things is curriculum. Catch up with postings #1 and #2 if your just now joining me about curriculum. The clock is ticking for some of you and may need curriculum for your students and leaders in the school year ahead!

I used LIVE curriculum last year, and my current middle school guy  at Gateway is using XP3 from the folks that help put together the Orange conference and tour each year. I remember this stuff from when I first attended the Orange conference in Atlanta some years back. Now that I have my hands on it, I gotta say, not too shabby! Like I said, I love to customize things and XP3 does give you the ability to do that. I’m teaching from their curriculum this upcoming Sunday…a lesson on God dwelling with us. Though I like the meat of the message there are some things I could do without and some of my own life story I’d like to add. Well, it comes in a word document and you can move around as much as you want!

The LIVE curriculum is very similar in giving you a PDF and Word document for both your message and your small group questions. You can also have many topics and series to pick from – plenty to customize your own school year, even for each specific grade!

If you are thinking about writing your own curriculum…I’d advise against it, my team tried this a few years back. Unless you have tons of extra time to devote, it becomes a black hole of pages, fonts, and writing. Plus, there are people already giving every day to this stuff – LIVE, Xp3, others you may add to the list. In my book, leave it to the professionals and find one that fits my ministry best.

Happy curriculum shopping!

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Got Curriculum?

July 7, 2012 by Chris Parker Leave a Comment

This past year the youth ministry staff at Wheaton Bible Church did a trial run of the LIVE curriculum put out by Simply Youth Ministry.  It somewhat became my baby from the beginning, I was intrigued by the internet platform…getting everyone signed up for it, helping design particular curriculum paths 7th-12th grade and ensuring that my leaders knew how to use LIVE. Needless to say, THIS STUFF IS AWESOME! I know each youth pastor and small group leader will have their own preferences for curriculum, and that’s the beauty of LIVE…it is totally customizable from top to bottom. You can edit each lesson to be your own, choose topics each grade will study throughout a school year AND it provides an online platform for your leaders to prepare for their group! Over the next few posts I would like to dive into deeper detail on why LIVE was a WIN for us this past year and how LIVE could be a WIN for your youth ministry this coming Fall.

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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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