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Here’s a teaching video we showed a few weeks ago on forgiveness, revenge and poison. We filmed it at my friend Kirk’s house. If you look closely, you can see the William Howard Taft Raft resting safely after it’s legendary maiden voyage. Check it out…
Monster: Forgiveness from Lifeline Student Ministries on Vimeo.
Hey student ministry type people, my church is hiring two full-time positions. Both of these positions are part of the student ministry team my friend Jon and I lead. Here are the job posts:
Female Small Group Coordinator – High School Ministry
Kentwood Campus Middle School Coordinator
If you’re interested, here’s a little background on our church and student ministry…
Ada Bible Church has been around for about 30 years and our senior teaching pastor, Jeff Manion has been leading the church for most of them. When he began, the church met in a living room and now we are a multi-site church of 10,000. We are located in Ada, Michigan which is near Grand Rapids. Feel free to live stream a service or check out our video archives to get a feel for what we’re about. Here’s a link.
Our student ministry team of 13 staff is built around collaboration. We each have our separate areas of expertise and responsibility but whenever possible we work together to create great environments and experiences for our volunteers and students. More than anything else, our student ministry is focused on small groups. We believe that the conversations that happen between volunteer leaders and students are the magic sauce of student ministry. If you’re looking for a strategy of ministry category to put us in, it would be Orange.
If you’re interested in learning a little more about our student ministry, here are two of our websites:
We’re looking for new team members who value collaboration, empowering others and excellence in student ministry. Oh, and we only want people who are fun. We love what we do and we have a lot of fun doing it together. If you’re interested or know of someone who would fit well with our team please apply or have that person apply. I’d also be happy to answer any questions you have through email.
Recently, an all-star couple who serve in our student ministry discovered a great game and passed it on to us. It’s called Kahoot. Essentially, it’s the same type of trivia game that you play in restaurants like BW3s except that you can create your own quizzes and surveys with graphics and text.
The way that it works is you create a quiz beforehand and then students log into kahoot.it through their mobile devices. All they have to do is create a username and enter the pin # Kahoot gives you when you create the game. And, of course, you can instantly boot that annoying kid who creates an obscene username. I see you Amandahugandkiss!
We’ve been experimenting with the game for a few weeks and love it. Last week, we used it in our large group setting for the first time, we were able to explain the game, have students log in, and play the game in 5 minutes.
We are in a teaching series called Selfie where all the imagery is build around social media, so our Kahoot game was “Name that App.” We showed the logo for 11 different apps and students had a few seconds to pick the correct answer out of four options. Our students and volunteers loved it! After each question, the game tells you what place you are in and on the main screen it lists the top five players. It’s basically the best game ever.
If you are a teacher, youth worker, give presentations or have a ginormous family you should totally check it out. According to Kahoot’s site, 500 people have played at once and it can accommodate many more. You can use it for surveys or quizzes and anyone with a device that can connect to the internet can play. It’s so much fun! I can’t wait to try it as part of a presentation.
If you have a genius youth group game, I’d love to hear about it. Let’s be real, finding great games is one of the most annoying parts of student ministry. None of us have time to search the web for hours! If you’re fresh out of game ideas, feel free to stop by my friend Jon’s game site: youthgroupgames.org
Our student ministry is currently in a teaching series called Selfie.
It’s all about identity–who we are and how we think about ourselves. For imagery, we’ve focused on social media. It’s been fun and at times hilarious. Here’s a video our team made about how we would look if we acted like we do on social media in real life. I love the Facebook feed part…gets me every time. Enjoy!
Social Media In Real Life from LifeLine Student Ministries on Vimeo.
An appropriate alternate title for this video would be: “Al Ate Pixie Sticks For Breakfast.” This is another great example of why Al would be just as great in front of the camera as he is behind it. Enjoy
Announcement: Camp Lifeline from LifeLine Student Ministries on Vimeo.
A few weekends ago was our snow camp. We took 11 charter buses to Timberwolf Lake Camp. Our staff and volunteers pulled together to put on an amazing camp. I’m very proud of the Lifeline team. Here are some highlights.
Snow Camp 2014 RECAP from LifeLine Student Ministries on Vimeo.
We themed our camp around the Olympics and it was pretty awesome. Here’s one of your hosts, “Rob Costas.”
And here’s our torch relay video…
Snow Camp Intro | Torch Relay from LifeLine Student Ministries on Vimeo.
Here’s our latest LifeLine announcement video. By the way, today is the last day to sign up for snow camp. You can sign up here: http://www.adabible.org/lifeline/events/
Snow Camp | Timberwolf Promo from LifeLine Student Ministries on Vimeo.
Here is our latest announcement video. It’s a little something about snow camp…
Announcement: Snow Camp from LifeLine Student Ministries on Vimeo.
We have incredible small group leaders in LifeLine. Our volunteers are simply the best. One of the things we are doing this year is highlighting our leaders by sharing their stories. I’m a big believer in stories, whether students or leaders. We, as people are captivated and moved by stories. We’ve done our best to leverage this phenomenon in our ministry.
Here’s a story video of Katie Turner who is one of our top notch volunteers. Props to Ryan Humm for shooting, Al Shepard for editing this and Lindsey Bandy’s apartment for uh…hosting the shoot.
Katie Turners Story from LifeLine Student Ministries on Vimeo.
This week we revealed our summer mission trips to our student and volunteers with a ridiculous video. I mean, how else would you do it?
Announcement: Knapp & Cascade Mission Trips from LifeLine Student Ministries on Vimeo.
This year we are hoping to send 270 students on mission trips. That’s way too much paper! Have you noticed that some mission organizations require a tree’s worth of paperwork? Thankfully, our resident web genius, Jon VerLee designed this registration page for us which streamlines the process and saves the rainforest.
LifeLine Missions Registrations
If you are a youth worker, when and how do you reveal your mission trips? Also, how do you do registrations and collect paperwork?
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