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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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- Featured: Jonathan’s Book Awarded Youth Outreach Resource of the Year
- Something You Can Use: Make Your Talks Interactive…How?
- Coming Soon: Next week get ready for a special “Narnia” episode of our podcast where Jonathan Interviews C.S. Lewis’ Stepson Douglas Gresham
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| Featured: Jonathan’s Book Awarded Youth Outreach Resource of the Year |
Big Congratulations to our own Jonathan McKee who just won the 2008 Youth Outreach Award for his book, Getting Students to Show up: Practical Ideas for any outreach event 10 to 10,000
Each Year OUTREACH Magazine takes a look at thousands of resources and awards 10 different categories. Some of you might remember Jonathan winning the Youth Outreach category in 2005 with his book, Do They Run When They See You Coming. Jonathan’s new book, Getting Students to Show Up just clinched the win in the same category for 2008.
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| Something You Can Use: Make Your Talks Interactive… How? |
Yesterday Jonathan shared some great ideas in his blog that youth workers can use to make their talks or sermons interactive and fun. Check it out (and if you haven’t subscribed to his blog yet, click here, or look for the red subscribe button on the left sidebar of his blog).
Interactive Sermons Via Cell Phone
Description: Start your message by saying “if you have a cell phone, please turn it on silent mode” then proceed to say “I want you to text two people in your address book this question ” …whatever pertains to your topic. How does prayer work? etc. then continue your talk for a few minutes then ask who has a response. build off of their responses. This make for a great illustration for any topic.
– Jason Meredith
Thanks Jason. Great idea. I love incorporating current culture and modern technology to our ministry.
I can totally picture talking with kids about a topic like evangelism and then asking them, “What do your friends think of God or the church? Text them right now and ask them, ‘Would you go to church if I someone invited you? Why or why not?'” What a great way to poll current attitudes and feelings of those just one degree of separation from your youth group.
This makes me think of the one suggestion we heard in a comment in that “Cell Phone Use at Youth Group” blog. Kenneth commented the following:
unless the phone is making noise every time they get a text or call, i don’t worry about it. can you see the head pastor calling out a member in the main service every time a man or woman pulls out their phone?
as far as trips, if a kid would rather talk or text on his phone at a retreat or camp than listen to me, i let him. when jesus was teaching, i can’t see him always pulling judas back in to listen to him even though judas was more interested in counting the money outside the meeting.
but for those who need an idea, here’s one that i got from a pastor in washington that works quite well. i have the kids text me any questions that pop into their minds while i teach. when i’m done teaching, i read the questions aloud and answer them. i usually leave around five minutes to answer the texts…
| Coming Soon: Next week get ready for a special “Narnia” episode of our podcast where Jonathan Interviews C.S. Lewis’ Stepson Douglas Gresham |
Listen to it for free on iTunes next week! (CLICK HERE) Or, if you don’t have iTunes already… jump on Apple’s web page for a free download, then click on our podcast page.
In this episode, Jonathan and Furby have a fascinating conversation with Douglas Gresham, stepson of C.S. Lewis and co-producer of the upcoming new Chronicles of Narnia film, Prince Caspian.
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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.