Youth Ministry Hacks

In this episode Justin sits down and chats with Derry Prenkert. With 20+ years serving at the same church, Derry has been able to craft a plethora of experiences and resources that help students and parents in their spiritual journey. It is because of this we wanted to hear some of the hacks he has learned thoughout the years to be in one place for so long. I don't know about you, but this is a pe...

This is a mini-sode because Matthew is out traveling the world and Justin does not know how to do all the cool music-like things we normally have on the podcast. But since we didn't want to go too long without an episode here we have this awesome episode (Forgive us for the background noise, we were recording at the DYM 100 conference). Soooooooo... We have Frank Gil with us talking about hacks on...

In this episode Justin and Matt talk about how they have learned to think big but start in small, reachable steps and setting goals to which will pay off big in the long run. They walk through their process of how the team went through this year and share some hacks in hopes can help others do the same.   They talk through: How to have big goals Setting OKR's (Objectives and Key Results) How to se...

In this episode Matthew and Justin talk about how their ministry is re-launching small groups this year. They talk about how the last time was not as successful and why that was. They walk through what they did different this year and talk through hacks based off what they learned to launch/start/train small group leaders to make them successful.   Check out their small group registration: ccvsoca...

In this episode we are joined by Sean Lord (Sean on the couch) talking through future planning, dreaming and calendar stuff for the future in ministry. One of the best things you can be for your ministry is prepared.  We just planned all of 2018 and we go through our process with our team.   Google Calendar View:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jRh64NgLt_L9YE0cHvqn69v9cvPl2bR6OgMJnH4NDMk/...

In this episode Justin and Matthew talk about hacks in service programming. They recently lead a Master Class at CCV (their church) with the family ministry department about the "what's, why's, and how's" of service programming and they wanted to share that content. You will here a little bit of their service flow and how to make sure you have balance, pace and space in your service program. Add t...

This week Matt and I were out and about as we are wrapping up our summer time schedules. This week they both had separate conversations with two guys who have built up quite a summer camp culture in their churches. They have taken their summer camps to another level and we have seen them first hand so we wanted them to share how they were able to build the hype for summer camp. Some things covered...

In this episode Matt and Justin chat through hacks in how to begin to change the culture of your ministry into something you as the leader desire to see. Chances are there are a few things that you want to change in your ministry. You want your students to respond better, take notes, you want your leaders to be an example of this. Whatever it is, this episode will talk through some hacks that you...

We had a such a good conversation about student led bands that we wanted to make it two episodes. We continue the conversation on how to effectiveley start and maintain student led bands and create a culture of leadership on stage with our co-host Matthew Ferrer. Here are some of the resources mentioned in this episode: Worship Band from Start to Finish  https://www.group.com/product/60654web-wors...

Thanks all for listening. It's been so fun as we start of this podcast with answering some questions. If you want to send in a few questions and talk about hacks in student ministry, send it over to theotherstudentministrypodcast@gmail.com . This is part 1 of a 2-part conversation with Matthew Ferrer, our co-host of this podcast, talking about hacks in having a student led band. Matthew and Justin...

On this episode we have the Lead Family Ministries Pastor of Christ's Church of the Valley Rory Elderage talking about his transition into his new role and how he has been able to make some significant changes rather successfully within the first year.  Being new and changing things can be hard and we want to give you some practicial hacks on what to do, what to not do, and what to wait on doing w...

In this episode we welcome Rachel Ceballos, college pastor at CCV, to chat hacks in how to have tough conversations with students so they want to come back and still be a part of the ministry.   We talk through how do we talk about porn, homosexuality, and other tough topics, not our stances, but how do you talk about these things in way that allows people to have room at the table despite not agr...