The Morning After Ministry Show

It’s been a crazy THREE WEEKS, but we’re back! Thank you for joining us as we recap our Christmases, Tim’s Ski Trip, and so much more. We’ll be back at 11am each and every Monday in 2019, and we hope you’ll come hang out! We love all of our sponsors, and are especially thankful for what DYM University is doing in our churches. We are so glad we get to play with them! https://www.dymuniversity.com/...

It was a busy week in ministry, as the weeks leading to Christmas often are. We were both preaching yesterday, and Andrew had a funeral and covered youth group as well. We talked church Christmas plans, and the excitement of some off time next week. Last week we were talking about how this would be the last show of 2018, and we wanted to do something fun. We reached out to our frineds in the DYM p...

When we showed up to record today, we couldn’t hep but to ntice that Andrew’s office had been transofrmed into a winter wonderland. The students at his church broke in last night and covered every surface with wrapping paper, sticky notes, balloons and Christmas lights. We talked about the imprtance of a senior pastor being approachable to the students in the church. Tim’s parents joined his churc...

Advent season is upon us, and our churches have already been busy. We’e had church wide activities, family ministry get togethers, and we’re just getting started. We discussed about starting a new Christmas series, and finding points of application from stories that we all know so well. Andrew started a series on the four Fear Nots of the Christmas texts with Zechariah yesterday. Tim is doing a si...

There’s nothing like cming back into the office after a very long, and very gluttonous break. We were both off for most of Thanksgiving week, and talkd about the vacation hangover that we felt yesterday in our wrship services, and today at the office. We talked about what to do with Christmas teaching, since every year we need fresh content. We discussed repeating messages, finding new content, or...

It sure was hard to NOT be with all of our friends this week at NYWC in St. Louis, but we each had some great ministry experiences and family time. But we miss our DYM peeps. Andrew spoke at Tim’s youth group, and the weatherman made us change some plans. It’s hard to be at a bonfire when it is 82 degrees, but the students were excited and it was a great night. Andrew also wrapped up his church’s...

What a fun show we had talking about some of our favorite subjects: ourselves and Download Youth Ministry. We figgured that after 10 months and 41 episodes, we should let people know how we met, how we became friends and what role DYM has played in that relationship. After sharing a bit of our story, we talked about our newest resource that DYM has released. It is a Thanksgiving resource on Luke 1...

We are live at YPS! The best free conference in the world! We talked about our weeks a little bit, but spent the majority of our time with our buddy Javier Sola. Javy has recently let his leadership know of his desire to look for what’s next. We talked about transitions and how to honor your church while deciphering what’s next. We love all of our sponsors, and are especially thankful for what DYM...

It is birthday week for both of us Tim turned 31, and Andrew turned 36…we are aging, but at least we’re not as old as Doug Fields. We talked about the birthday weeks we had and then dove into some ministry highs and lows. Andrew had a great week. There was tangible momentum in multiple places in the church. He got to fill in with the youth ministry, and endeared himself to some of the older people...

Today’s show started on an innapropriate note, and didn’t get much better as we went on! Last week we were asked about embarassing things we said while preaching, so we kicked off the show with that, and boy did it set a tone! We played a few rounds of a new game we have that is available in the DYM store that is all about halloween candy. It is available here. https://www.downloadyouthministry.co...

Despite the Jags horiffic defeat, Tim was is good spirits, and remained loyal dressed in his Jags gear. We opened talking about what we meant to talk about last week…newbies. Tim’s church just did a newcomers lunch. Andrew’s church gives out mugs, and one of his former youth ministries had a separate lounge area for new comers. We discussed what worked well and hasn’t worked well in welcoming and...

For the first time in what feels like forever, it was just the two of us this morning. Get this. We actually talked about what our past wek of ministry looked like, it sounds like a great concept for a show. Both of our churches our in church-wide campaigns. Our sermons and small groups are linked up and studying the same thing. Tim’s church has also incorperated the student ministry into their ca...

We are back from DYM200, and it was refreshing and exhausting. It was so wonderful to meet first timers and reconnect with some of our favorite people. We LOVE being a part of the DYM community, but we both got reality checks as soon as we landed. Both of us had extensive dad duty, and we were both preaching just a few days after we got home. We did two shows last week, and the timing was a little...

Tonight was so much fun! We had David Wood and Dr. Jim Burns on the show. David did some magic, and it was amazing. If you don’t watch the facebook live show, go back and find it (or skip to minute 8)! David talked about how he was able to follow his passion in ministry and builld relationships with students through magic. He wowed us all, and can wow you too. Find him at davidwoodmagic.com and fo...

Hey World! We are live today from a hotle room in Irivine, CA. We skipped church this yesterday, and everything worked out just fine without us. It was a great week to turn over things to volunteers and other staff. We were joined by 8 of our closest friends in the room this morning to talk about our pre DYM 200 prep. We are so excited for this week, and to do another show LIVE from DYM 200 tomorr...

Show Notes Episode 33: Preachy Teach Stuff and a Life of Moderation Over the weekend we had the chance to participae in the 2nd Annual Church Safety and Liability Conference. We moderated a pannel discussion with people who were far more serious, and armed, than we were. Andrew shot a bunch of people in simulator that went through different church safety scenarios. It was determined that he should...

Episode 32: Security Matters and Draining the Tank This morning we were joined again by Jim Howard of Trinity Security Allies. Trinity Security Allies is hosting the 2nd Annual Church Safety and Liability Conference this coming Saturday, September 15, in Trinity Florida. More info can be found about the conference here. https://www.trinitysecurityallies.com/church-safety-conference.html We have be...

Have we got a deal for you! Our biggest resource ever in the DYM store, the One Year. One Click. Bundle is being offered for just $30! This is only happening for this week, so don’t miss out!. https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/1-year-1-click-50-week-teaching-bundle-youth-group This morning we were joined live by our wives! Between the two of them they have 24 years of being married to a pastor...

In honor of our 30th episode, have we got a deal for you! Our biggest resource ever in the DYM store, the One Year. One Click. Bundle is being offered for just $30! This is only happening for this week, so don’t miss out!. https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/1-year-1-click-50-week-teaching-bundle-youth-group This morning we talked about the views we get from the pulpit that noone else is privy t...

This morning we are both excited and exhausted. Excited because we are both back live and in person for the first time in several weeks, but we’re a bit sleepy cause we were out late since our homie Josh Griffin was in town! We are so excited that NYWC is going to be in our back yard next November. This morning we talked about the real stinker Timmy had to deal with at church yesterday…someone poo...

Today Andrew was with DYM legend Ken Leslie, at Epcot. He won our day at Disney contest in the spring, and is in Florida for the week with his wife Jaime. We talked about his transition after fourteen years of youth ministry, into his new role as assistant pastor. We answered some viewer/listener questions about rebranding and relaunching a ministry. We also played Ken’s newest DYM game “Which Pra...

With Tim on his way to California to celebrate a decade of marriage to the wonderful Stephanie Miller, Andrew was joined this morning by Justin Halog. Justin is the director of student ministries at Faith Community Church in Seminole, FL. Which happens to be the possition that Andrew held for six years before becoming the pastor at Safety Harbor Community Church. We discussed Justin’s first year i...

We were back in action this morning in the SHCC studio (Andrew’s office) with a whole bunch to talk about. Tim’s student ministry held their camp reunion/silent disco party on Wednesday night. We talked about the pros of hosting a “camp reunion” and the additional students it brings out. Silent Events provided the gear for the party. They came in cheaper than $10 a person, and were great to work w...

Today Andrew was with Landen Crouch, in Russleville, Arkansas. Landen is leaving his church of 7 years next Sunday, to take another possition. In this episode we talked about how you know it is time to go, what you go through when you’re looking, and how to transition well. Check out our resources in the DYM store here: https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/shop?author=8 Be sure to check out Lande...

Today we were joined by one of our favorite DYM authors and DYM Podcast Network hosts, our Friend Derry Prenkert. Derry hosts a show called “My Third Decade” where he talks about what he has learned in his 22 plus years at the same church. Today we were talking to Derry about camp. He is currently in his SIXTH camp of the summer. We talked the pros and cons of hosting and running your own camp vs...