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Weekly Resources, Ideas and Articles from The Source for Youth Ministry
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
| In This Issue |
- Featured: One Kid, Two Kid … If Dr. Seuss had Chaperoned Our Last All-night Event!
- Free Contest: Don’t Miss the 2005 Hideous Heap Contest! We’re Rewarding Youth Workers for Their “Junker” Cars!
- Something You Can Use: What if God Was One of Us? Free “Joan of Arcadia” Discussion Guides
- Highlighted Free Resource: Jonathan’s Feature Article in the Spring YS “Magalog”
- Opportunities to Hear Jonathan Speak/Train: Atlantic CANADA, Seattle, Sacramento …
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| Featured: One Kid, Two Kid … If Dr. Seuss had Chaperoned Our Last All-night Event! |
March 29, 2005
What if Dr. Seuss had chaperoned one of our “all-nighter” outreach events in 2005? Perhaps this would be found in his archives …
- One kid, two kid,
old kid, new kid.
Flabby kid, toned kid,
clean kid, stoned kid.
Some come from near.
Some come from far.
Some come with friends in their lowered cars.
Say! What a lot of kids there are!
Some like to drink.
Some wear pink
And some of them just straight up stink!
Why do they drink, wear pink and stink?
I don’t know. Go ask your shrink!
This one is a kid named Blunk.
Blunk is just a little punk.
I’d like to stick Blunk in my trunk.
Then I’d have a Blunk punk trunk!
I do not like this one so good.
He’s from the burbs, but thinks he’s from the hood.
He wears lots of gold.
He wears a big ring.
How the heck can he afford all that bling, bling?
I do not know, ask his dad. He’s doing a dime in Sing Sing.
Bump, bump, bump.
That must be a kid named Stump.
Stump’s car goes bump.
He has a $7,000 car stereo, but lives in a dump.
Stump is also plump.
He just sits on his rump listening to bump, bump, bump.
Stump is so plump that he has seven lumps on the hump of his rump.
Stump goes bump, bump, bump on his plump rump with the seven lump hump.
So many kids.
They come and go.
Some learn fast.
Others learn slow.
We really want to reach them,
And help them to grow.
But with what the church pays our youth worker …
You’d never know!
| Contest: Don’t Miss the 2005 Hideous Heap Contest! We’re Rewarding Youth Workers for Their “Junker” Cars! |
That’s right! It’s time for The Source for Youth Ministry’s annual HIDEOUS HEAP CONTEST – A FREE contest where you can earn some great prizes just for being a youth worker and driving a hideous heap! Youth Specialties is sponsoring the contest again and has kicked in some great prizes, including the grand-daddy of cool prizes … paid admission to their national youth workers convention in one of three U.S. cities. (A $350 value!)
CLICK HERE TO SEE A FEW OF THIS YEAR’S ENTRIES SO FAR
Don’t waste time … only a few more weeks to take a picture of your heap! Get those entries in now.
| Something You Can Use: What if God Was One of Us? Free “Joan of Arcadia” Discussion Guides |
What if God was one of us? What if he wanted to grab the attention of a teenager today … what would he do?
That’s what JOAN OF ARCADIA Writer/Producer Barbara Hall was wondering when she came up with the concept that has turned into the hit show on CBS, Friday night’s at 8:00. And now there’s a resource with discussion questions for every episode-a free resource you can access every Thursday night before it airs.
JOAN OF ARCADIA Writer/Producer, Barbara Hall, says, “When my daughter was about to come of age, I began to wonder what it would look like if God tried to grab the attention of a teenager today. What would that process look like, and would a modern teenager be able to have the fortitude to follow that calling? Then I sort of pictured what my daughter would do if God ever talked to her, and I knew she would be the type to argue with God, getting snippy.”
JOAN OF ARCADIA is one of only two shows on network television to discuss issues of faith. Why not use it for kicking off discussion?
(And scroll down to the bottom for the
study guides for each episode.
A new episode airs this Friday!)
| Highlighted Free Resource: Jonathan’s Feature Article in the Spring YS “Magalog” |
Looking for a great way to keep updated with new youth ministry resources, books and curriculum? Have you seen the YS Magalog? The Magalog is a free quarterly magazine/catalog with some great quick articles about youth ministry as well as a catalog of available resources to help you with your ministry. What have you got to lose … it’s free! (CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THIS FREE RESOURCE)
The Spring Magalog features an article by THE SOURCE’s own Jonathan McKee, highlighting his new book DO THEY RUN WHEN THEY SEE YOU COMING. Don’t miss this hot new book that everyone’s talking about. (CLICK HERE TO GET THE BOOK)
Saddleback’s Kurt Johnston says it well:
- “Most youth workers feel like we just aren’t reaching enough students for Christ; at least that’s how I feel. In this book, Jonathan took me on a journey that was both convicting and encouraging at the same time! Instead of a few “happy hops to Heaven,” Jonathan provides a holistic approach to reaching this generation of un-churched students.”
Kurt Johnston
Junior High pastor, Saddleback Church
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| Opportunities to Hear Jonathan Speak/Train: Atlantic CANADA, Seattle, Sacramento … |
Some of you have been asking when Jonathan is coming to your city to speak or train. Here are a few opportunities to hear this month:
“MoreSaltplease” Youth/Youth Leader Event, April 1-2, 2005, Halifax, CANADA:
Atlantic Canada’s largest Creative Arts training event now has a special opportunity for youth pastors. You can take part in the Youth Leaders Training event featuring Jonathan McKee while your teens choose from over 30 hands on workshops in such areas as skateboarding, rap/hip hop, break-dancing, gospel graffiti, puppets, drama, mime, illusions, video production and more!
“Let’s Get Dirty” Spring Youth Rally, April 22-24, 2005, near Seattle, WA:
Looking for an event to motivate your students about making an eternal impact in their community? Register now to bring your high school students to the Kitsap Pavilion in Bremerton, WA to hear Jonathan McKee talk about Reaching Your Unchurched Friends, to worship the Lord, and to “get dirty” engaging in service projects in the area.
Bayside Church, 2005 Thriving Churches Conference, April 27-30, 2005, near Sacramento, CA:
Come hear incredible speakers like John Ortberg, Earl Palmer, comedian Bob Stromberg and music from Lincoln Brewster. Then attend great breakout seminars from ministry professionals including The Source for Youth Ministry’s Jonathan McKee. “In the last nine years I have watched Bayside Church explode from 24 people to over 8,000 while leading thousands of people to Christ. This is a highly contagious church with THRIVING ministries. Need your batteries recharged? This conference will help you and your people fall in love with God and ministry all over again.” – John Maxwell
Keep a look out for more dates in upcoming EZINES and on Jonathan’s speaking calendar. Soon you’ll see dates for this fall when Jonathan will be training at the YS National Youth Workers Convention on the West Coast in the end of September, doing his “Reaching Out to the Unchurched” training in Paris, Tennessee (not France) on September 24th, and Speaking in Pittsburgh Nov. 18-20th … and more
Jonathan McKee is president of The Source for Youth Ministry and author of the new book “Do They Run When They See You Coming? Reaching Out to Unchurched Teenagers.” (CLICK HERE FOR THE BOOK) Jonathan speaks and trains across the country and provides free online resources, training, & ideas for youth workers at www.TheSource4YM.comDelivered free via e-mail to subscribers each week. We encourage you to distribute this newsletter freely and ask only that you not change its contents.
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Jonathan McKee
Jonathan McKee is the author of over twenty books including the brand new The Guy's Guide to FOUR BATTLES Every Young Man Must Face; The Teen’s Guide to Social Media & Mobile Devices; If I Had a Parenting Do Over; and the Amazon Best Seller - The Guy's Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. He speaks to parents and leaders worldwide, all while providing free resources for youth workers on TheSource4YM.com. Jonathan, his wife Lori, and their three kids live in California.