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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today we're talking about five secrets to creating a
strong student leadership teamin your youth ministry.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome to the Ministry Coach Podcast, where we
give you weekly tips andtactics to help you fast track
the growth and health of youryouth ministry.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
My name is Jeff Laskola and this is Kristen
Laskola and we're continuing ourconversation from last week
today about student leadershipteams, because this is the
season for it and I want to makesure that you guys are ready to
go to launch your team, toexecute it well, to have a
successful year, and maybe thisis the one more nudge you need
(00:47):
to actually start your studentleadership team.
I cannot tell you how much ofan impact it makes in the
overall health of your youthministry and starts to teach I
just did my presentation today,so it's all fresh in my head but
starts to teach students thatwe are needing some of us to
move from a consumer mindset toa contributor mindset when it
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comes to church, and this is theperfect way to do it.
So I say this little phrase tothem over and over again.
I didn't think of it.
It was our senior pastor, chrisBrown, who says all the things
that are wise.
He said, like speaking toChristians specifically, he says
the church doesn't exist foryou, you are the church and you
(01:34):
exist for the world.
And I think the sooner we helpstudents have that mindset shift
, it's good for them and it'sgood for the church Because,
like we talked a little bitabout last week.
I would have probably reachedthe end of my relationship with
the church if I continued in myconsumer mindset Because, like
(01:56):
there's never going to be thisperfect youth group or perfect
worship set or perfect game orperfect small group, like
there's so many things that,especially in our Western world
of low pain, tolerance, highneed for everything to be
perfect, I think if we saw thechurch as needing to like be
(02:17):
curated to our preferences, wewould all give up a long time
ago.
I'm not talking about heresy andtoxic behavior.
I'm just talking aboutpreferences that are not being
met because, you know, we lookaround the church with just a
critical eye and almost seeourselves as the customer.
You know, and as a youth pastor, sometimes I feel like a
(02:38):
customer service representative,you know, based on some of the
emails I get or the phone callsI get, like I'm providing a
service for the community whichone could argue that there is an
element of that.
That is the job, but that is notthe core of what the church is.
You know, obviously I wanteveryone to come and have a
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great experience and feelwelcomed and comfortable and
loved.
But if that's all I'm doing,I'm not the church, I'm a hotel
lobby, right.
So we want students just tothink differently and deeper
about the purpose of church.
So I said it a few times todayof you are the church and you
(03:19):
exist for the world.
And I'm not telling you that tosay like hey, so snap out of it
.
You're not the customer, moreof like.
You won't be satisfied.
If you keep yourself in the seatof a customer Like, your
relationship with the churchprobably will end or you'll be a
church hopper for the rest ofyour life and you'll never put
roots down anywhere because yourview of the church is incorrect
(03:43):
.
Now that view of the church isokay.
When you're just gettingstarted, I think of like, do I
fit in here?
Can my family grow here?
Is this a match with us?
But I think there comes a pointin your relationship with God
and the church where you need tonow switch your mindset to okay
, like now where am I serving?
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How am I contributing?
What part do I play here?
What purpose do I serve?
here, and it's so life-givingfor the individual.
So how can we make our studentleadership teams really strong
for this next coming year?
Today we're going to talk aboutfive ways we can do that, and
number one is creating communitywithin that student leadership
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team.
Like we talk about, the numberone way to build community a lot
of times is through the vehicleof small groups, and that's
kind of the discipleship modeland this is like neck and neck
with that.
That is right there with it.
And we talked last week about myown personal experience of how
I no matter how many Biblestudies I go to or worship
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services I go to or churchservices I go to I have never
felt community like I do withthe team I'm serving with.
Like there is just somethingexponential about serving
alongside someone, and so whatwe want to teach students is to
go from being just a spectatorat church to being a part of an
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inner group that makes thingshappen, that has a shared goal
and vision for furthering thekingdom of God, and through that
we're building relationships ona different level and a
different scale.
So is your student leadershipteam designed with the goal in
(05:33):
mind for community to happen?
To me it almost feels like it'sa youth group within a youth
group.
So it's like we have the bigyouth group on Tuesday night and
that's everyone comes.
But then on the first Friday ofevery month from six to eight
we have just the studentleadership team meet and it's
almost like this different gearof youth group and it feels like
(05:56):
a more.
It's a smaller group so we canconnect differently and some
student leadership, like at our,some of our other campuses they
even do like retreats with justtheir student leadership team.
I've done those in the past,just maybe taking them to a
conference or something likethat.
I think one way that reallyfosters community.
(06:19):
I can't really do this verywell anymore, but I used to love
having them at our house forthe meetings and I did notice a
different level of community.
We were smaller then and so itwas doable.
I can't keep up with the amountof junior hires and nowadays I
can't have them in our houseanymore.
(06:41):
Our house would be sacrificed.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Would sacrificed not be here anymore.
You bring up an interestingpoint, though, and I have a
question for you.
So you're saying like the, youor the, the student leadership
is kind of like the youth groupwithin the youth group yeah what
if your youth group is justreally small?
do you not have studentleadership?
Or do you say, yeah, like, anddo you like limit?
Like if you only had 10 kids,it's like, well, I'm only gonna
(07:04):
let five of you do it.
Or is it like we have 10 kidsif all 10 want to be in it, they
can do it.
Like, how do you what?
How would you approachsomething like that?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
yeah, I think it would be weird if it was like
everyone.
So if I had a super small youthgroup, I think what I would do
is I would limit it by an age,so like maybe it's this special
perk that's only for eighthgraders and I've seen youth
groups, especially larger ones,do that.
I let any grade sign up, butit's.
(07:33):
I don't know if you know whoKatie Edwards is.
She worked at Saddleback.
She might still be there Iactually don't know but she was
the junior high pastor there fora really long time and I had a
long conversation with her acouple of years ago about
student leadership team and shesaid it's a privilege that she
only allows for her eighthgraders.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And so they like kind of work up to it and look
forward to it, and that's notfor a lack of having a lot of
students, either.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Oh no, or not having enough students and she probably
does that because she has somany students does that because
she has so many students.
So if you had 10 students andsay three of them were eighth
graders, you could extend theopportunity just for them and
you could have this little likePeter James and John, little
core going on Um.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
what if it's like six through 12, would you delimit
it just to the seniors, or justjuniors and seniors, or um case
by case?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Probably I would look at my numbers and I would see I
mean I really wouldn't want tomix junior.
Like you know me, I don't likemixing junior hires and high
schoolers for youth group and Ithink that that feeling is
exaggerated when I think aboutdoing it on a student leadership
team.
So if I were combined I wouldprobably just have it for
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juniors and seniors.
So I think that's a way for itto be like still like a set
aside kind of group that you'regoing to take discipleship way
further with, because theirrelationships usually help set
the tone, just like your leaderrelationships, like with your
small group leaders, help setthe tone for the relational
(09:05):
health of the youth groupoverall.
You know, mine is maybe adifferent size, you know from a
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lot of youth groups, but I dosmall groups within my student
leadership team you know, and ifnothing else, we split up guys
and girls and we talk about theBible study.
Sometimes we all stay together.
I just feel like we don't getanything done.
There's just too many.
But yeah, just like having likesmall group within the small
group kind of thing.
(09:48):
But think if you were to showup to my student leadership
meeting and I hate calling it ameeting, because anything that's
a meeting from my perspectiveis boring.
I don't like meetings.
So I think when you walk in ona Friday night you would wonder
(10:10):
are you having a party or areyou doing a meeting?
And it's hard to tell.
Like it is super fun.
So the way I structure it, youknow they come in, we have music
, we all have dinner together.
They pay for it, by the way, soyou know if you're like, well,
I don't have the budget for food, I charge them $5 and it covers
it.
And then we play a game.
(10:31):
And this is where I really liketo get creative, because
there's I have my tried and truegames.
I do my game calendar ahead oftime every year, but sometimes I
want to beta test a game and Idon't want to risk a throwaway
night at youth group, because Ihave a lot of students and so if
we played a game and it didn'twork, that's a bummer, like I
(10:55):
just wasted a whole you'redisappointing a lot of kids.
You are and I wasted a wholeyouth group night on a game.
But then when you read about anew game or you invent a new
game in your head, you're like Idon't know if this is going to
work.
Like so I test them on mystudent leadership team and I
tell them that like hey guys,guinea pigs you're the first
ones to ever try this, Likewe're going to see what we think
(11:16):
and then we'll even talk aboutit after.
Okay, so what was fun?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
about that.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
What didn't work, or well.
I think if the teams weresmaller it would have been more
fun, or no, they cheated.
So you need to make a rule thatsays you can't da-da-da-da-da.
So we kind of talk about it andthey're sort of like the it's
(11:42):
like it's me and my interns andthen them, and like we kind of
allow them to do ministry withus, like kind of pull back the
curtain a little bit and they'resort of on the inside of what's
going on.
So in that sense it's reallyfun.
And sometimes the games that Iwant to play with them are a
test.
And then sometimes it's likeI've wanted to play this game
forever, but our youth group istoo big, so let's just play it
(12:04):
with us, and it's really fun.
Or I need all these supplies ifI'm going to play with 150 kids
.
But, if I only play with 30 kids, great I can play it, you know.
So I make sure that we're alwayshaving fun because I want them
to come and look forward to itand not be like meeting but like
almost be bummed if they missedit.
(12:25):
You know, and the advantage formiddle school on a Friday night
and I think I've mentioned thisbefore is they don't drive.
So when I try doing our studentleadership meetings, like after
church on a Saturday night orafter church Sunday afternoon,
they were like this is the worst.
I'm like what's the difference?
(12:45):
And they're like we like havingplans on Friday and like all of
our friends are here and it'sso fun.
And you know it's always likean event and now it's just like
tacked on to church and we wouldhave been here anyways.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I'm like okay, so.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I went back to Friday nights because I was thinking
for myself two birds, one stoneand I don't have to do another
night.
But I was like, all right, we'regoing to lose the energy and
momentum if I, you know, takethat away.
So I went back to Friday nightsand then we do our meeting and
we learn our leadership stuff,we go over our homework and then
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we have dessert at the end ofthe night and you know it's just
fun, the energy is high and youknow I like doing it in homes,
we're too big for that.
So if you do it at the church,that can also be really fun.
Like they feel like they own theplace because it's just like
the 30 something of us there andthey run all around and go
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crazy, and so you just like Ifeel like that's a mantra for
student ministries in general,and student leadership is no
exception If it's not fun,people won't come, people will
not be a part of it.
And you know, I was thinking onthe way to church today like I
feel like so many pastors liketreat people in a sense of like
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how people should be or how theythink people should be, instead
of just accepting how peopleare and humans enjoy fun.
So you need to make it fun theend kind of thing.
I think sometimes people arelike well, people should get
here on time, so we're not goingto put out any more rows of
(14:20):
chairs.
What's here is here.
It's like shoulda, coulda,woulda, but they're not.
So put out more chairs, like I,I don't know.
Like there's just certain things, like just take people for who
they are on some of those youknow, so number three would be
challenge them.
So I love this aspect of studentleadership because it's like
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students who have signed up tosay I'm ready for a challenge
you know like, and I can go alittle deeper with our Bible
study because this is a groupthat is signed up for a
challenge.
They're signing up for acommitment, they are ready to be
like, maybe go next level intheir faith and I can challenge
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them on my curriculum.
A little bit of the Biblestudies tend to be deeper than
just a small group typecurriculum on a Tuesday night,
because that net is really wideon Tuesday night All kinds of
kids are coming and not that Ilike water the gospel down, but
it's more the questions.
Leaders can take it deeper ifthey need to.
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But some of these kids this istheir first experience of church
and so what they're capable oftalking about is different than
a leadership team.
It should be, you know.
So I love going a little deeperwith my leadership kids because
as a pastor who has been doingthis for a long time, it
scratches an itch for me too.
I love to be able to talk alittle more deeply and challenge
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kids on leadership stuff andyou know I challenged them to
get outside their comfort zonebecause again they've signed up.
I'm here for a challenge, so youknow I will look at them and
say, hey, you better go greetthat kid, they're all by
themselves.
Who, where?
Okay, and some of them are likeoh no, I don't know.
And I love saying like, hey,this is what we signed up for.
(16:11):
Like our comfortability is notthe priority right now.
Like somebody feeling welcomedin our church and wanting to
come back so they meet.
Jesus is the priority right now.
So let's get over it, and Iwouldn't do that to just any old
kid who came in my classroom,you know.
But my student leadership, Ihave a license to say nope, we
are the church, this is what wesigned up for.
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And it's good for them to bechallenged and pushed.
And when we do our serviceproject, we work with autistic
adults and it's good for them tobe challenged and pushed.
And when we do our serviceproject, we work with autistic
adults and it's uncomfortablefor them at first, and then by
the end of the night they'recrying and wanting to do it
again next week.
Can we do this every week?
Can we do this every month?
Can we?
You know, because they werepushed outside of their comfort
zone and had to minister topeople who are different than
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them and it leaves a mark onthem Like it is so, so good for
them If you have a safe way todo homeless outreach.
I've had.
You know.
Students have a similarexperience where they just get
in the car and start bawlingbecause it was just so outside
of the norm of what they like,the positions they are put in.
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You know what I mean visitingthe elderly, visiting the sick,
just getting kids to kind of seea world that is bigger than
their pinterest feed and theirsports team of everything kind
of fits into neat, nice boxesfor them.
But kids have pinterest feeds,girls do really 100.
(17:41):
Yeah, you know, and everyonewants everything like,
especially girls like.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
They want it all to be perfect and cute and
aesthetic and exactly the sameas all their friends.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yes, but just getting their world a little bigger, of
like hey, there's people thatit changes them, it helps them
to see and it challenges theirlove too.
Of like they feel better,knowing I do love people like
you know that are different thanme, and getting to use the love
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of God that's in them.
You know we always say like, oh, find that kid at school who is
sitting by themselves and youknow.
But it's like, ok, but is theremore than that?
And there is, and students arereally good at it when
challenged.
So, number four inspire them andempower them with all the
things that we have been talkingabout.
You know, like I said thatphrase, make sure they
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understand you are the churchand you exist for the world.
And one thing I try to get themto understand.
So I do a big training withthem on how because you know,
junior hires like love them,they're adorable, but they can
be awkward conversationalistssometimes, and so I train them
on just a very basic socialskill of how to talk to a new
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person that you don't knowone-on-one Right, and I forget,
people don't know how to talk topeople how to human.
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Especially 12 year olds.
So I take them through thesesimulations of okay, new kid and
I give them different scenarios.
This kid is shy, but you cantell they want to be involved.
They just don't know how.
Okay.
And then I simulate aconversation with them and I say
here's a question that youcould ask, or here's a way you
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can invite them to participate.
Okay, and then I simulate aconversation with them and I say
here's a question that youcould ask, or here's a way you
can invite them to participate.
Okay, different scenariothere's a kid who's sitting in
the corner, doesn't want to bebothered and is kind of hostile
and he's annoyed that you'retalking to him.
How do you handle that?
What do we do next?
How do we get out of theconversation if we need to?
What about the kid who is superfriendly and excited to be
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there?
What do we do next with them Ifthe conversation stops and you
feel awkward?
What do we do next?
What's some good.
So I give them these questionsthat they can put in their back
pocket of like, for example,it'd be like hey, like I don't
know if we've ever met Like myname's Kristen.
Uh, what school do you go to?
That's a great place to start.
(20:27):
Oh, I go to this junior high.
Oh, what grade are you goinginto?
Oh, I'm, or what grade are youcurrently in?
It's summer.
That's why I said that, uh, I'min seventh grade.
Oh, that's awesome.
Do you know anyone at thischurch?
Or how did you come here?
Like, did you get invited byyour friend or are you just
checking it out?
Okay, see what they have to say, then you know, pick up on
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their energy.
Are they desperately trying toget out of this conversation
with you?
Then just say hey, well, I'm soglad you're here.
I just wanted to say hi.
You know, if you want to hangout, we'll be over here.
I just want to let you know.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
If you want to hang out, we'll be over here I just
want to let you know thatneither one of us wants to have
this conversation, so let's endit now this is all kristin's
fault, just so you know.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Um, so I try to take them through that and then I
have them partner up with eachother and try to just start
conversation and I say, one ofyou act shy and like just act
like yourself hard to draw outand or just like Just stare.
From Zach Workin, remember hewould talk about just like how
to like lead with complimentstoo.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Like your shoes.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, like, oh my gosh, are those the new Nikes?
Those are so cool, like where'dyou get them?
Or you know, just you cancompliment them on whatever
Right, and I mean I know formyself myself, a compliment goes
a long way.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Like you know, everyone loves to be
complimented someonecomplimented me on my shoes just
the other day, and he happenedto be a shoe shine person in the
mall, so he wanted my businesstoo I'm sure he meant it
compliment and I was like, no, Idon't hear anything else, i'm'm
sure he meant it, yep, so causeyour shoes probably were not
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the shineable type anyways.
Um, there were vans.
So yeah, I don't know what hewould have done, just dusted
them off, or something.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Who knows?
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I don't know, maybe he could have worked magic, I
didn't know there was such thingas shoe shiners anymore.
They're always in the airport.
That's what I think of.
And yeah, it was the carlsbadoutlet mall.
He was there and he said Icalled me boss.
I get called boss by people alot do you like?
it.
I don't know, it's interesting,but anyways he said, hey boss,
love your shoes, man.
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And then then he said somethinglike, something like I can I.
That was all I heard.
After that he said somethingabout cleaning ember, I don't
know what.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I was like no thanks, no thanks.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Everybody likes compliment.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
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Speaker 1 (22:49):
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All right, let's get back tothe episode.
Okay, number five platform andappreciate them.
So one way I love to platform mystudent leadership team is
through our student leadershipbio boards.
So there's a board it's just onlike foam board but it's a
print, and there's a spot fortheir picture, and then all the
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questions and I've talked aboutthese before and it's like
what's your favorite food andwhat do you wanna be when you
grow up?
What's your SOS job?
What's your favorite moviequote?
What's your favorite app?
What if you could travelanywhere in the world?
Where would it be?
And I just put those up in myjunior high room and it's just
like kind of like hey, here'syour student leadership team for
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the next year, and people likelove to just sit and look at
those and I think that's a greatway to appreciate them through
some platforming, because theydo work hard and I think
sometimes it's fun to giveleaders who are serving just
special perks.
We allow them to be a part of alot of video shoots that we do.
So if we're doing a video shootlike we did a new one on our
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rules, it was so funny and, likehell, we just told them all the
rules and then they had to like, act them out and like the
cringe is like creeping okay,they were.
so cute it was, it was really itwas good, and so we filmed it.
Or like, sometimes they'll filmgame instructional videos with
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us you know how to play a game,and they'll like do the
different steps of the game.
When we do a student takeovernight, we'll film their
testimonies or whatever.
So, anyways, it's just likecool to give them these special
privileges, like hey, you get tobe in the video, or hey, your
picture's up on this thing, orwhatever, and I think that
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creates a strong team as well,because they're proud of
themselves.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You know and.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I think I don't think there's anything wrong with
that.
It's not like vain attention, Ijust think it's a nice like hey
, here's, here's the team that'sgoing to be serving our church
and our youth group.
You know why not?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You have talked about those boards before, the leader
boards and student leadershipboards we have.
If you want to see what theylook like, we've done them in
two episodes.
Both were the tours that we did.
One of them was the weekendservice room tour I think you
have all your student leadershipbio boards up there.
(26:06):
And then the one we did of theentire youth group.
We'll link these episodes below, but they have a section just
where you can see the little bioboard and a lot of people ask
how do you make those?
What are they made from?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
so you, they're pre-printed, correct yeah, so we
have the privilege I would.
I do have a graphics departmentat our church and they have
created the graphic and thenthey just print it on that foam
board and then they cut it okayso that's like, obviously, like
there's probably a print shop ina 10 mile radius from your
(26:31):
church that could do that orcould you even like online, go
to I don't know like a dollarstore and just get frames or
something?
totally you could.
You could do it any way, justput the same name.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Favorite Disney character, favorite movie, quote
all that stuff Anyways checkout those episodes, you'll see
kind of what they look like andthen just I don't know, be
creative.
There's nothing really thatspecial about them, they're just
fun to look at.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
They are.
Yeah, there's a ton of ways youcan do the bio boards Cheaper.
Like you said, go to DollarTree, get the frames.
I mean a million ways to do it.
But yeah, it's just a coolthing.
If you want to do themdigitally and have them rotating
on your TV someone brought thatup as an idea the other day
it's like, yeah, put them inProPresenter If you don't have
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like the capacity to print,that's free.
You could just have each studentup at a time and it's like on a
rotating on your pre-showbefore you know church starts,
or youth group or whatever thatcould work.
So, yeah, those that's, that's,that is, those are five secrets
to creating a strong studentleadership team.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
There you go.
All right, we're going to do acommunity comment of the day and
then we're going to do ourgiveaway winner for this week
and the community comment of theday and then we're going to do
our giveaway.
Winner for this week and thecommunity comment of the day
comes from I love this name,none your business 707 sassy,
who says there is a lot ofwisdom in this.
Love your content.
It has been incredibly helpful.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Thank you so much wish I could say who to thank,
but for that.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But it's none your business all right, we're gonna
do the um giveaway winner forthis week, which we're giving
away rhino skin dodgeballs.
Six inch coated foam.
Rhino skin dodgeballs yeah,these are.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Can I be the winner?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
no, you already have some of those and they these
tend to last a long time I wasabout to say you're right, I do.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I have a lot of them and I've had them for years.
Junior hires can't destroy them.
The only risk you run is themlosing them.
Like you know, they throw themand you're like where did it go?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
like, but if you look up in the church there's
probably some of the rafters atany given time.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yes, and I always count them before I put them
back in my bag and I I'm like,okay, I'm missing two, where are
they, you know?
So we search high and low.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yes, all right.
The winner for this week RhinoSkin Dodge Balls is Christy
Johnson.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Congratulations, christy Johnson, for your Rhino
Skins.
Congratulations, christyJohnson, joy of rhinoskins.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
All right, if you guys want to join the giveaway,
you have a chance to win, andnext week is actually going to
be the last week of the giveaway.
I thought we might be doing twomore weeks after that, but it's
actually just one more week.
So this is it.
Make sure you get your entriesin.
You can gain more entries bydoing comments in the videos
below, and actually we have fulldetails of the giveaway
(29:24):
instructions or we'll link thatbelow, so check that out.
But you can get extra entriesfor comments.
You can get extra entries 25extra entries for leaving a
review on our apple podcastchannel I have a question.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Make sure you guys do that.
They've already left a review.
Can you I honor that?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
yeah, so take a screenshot.
That's very important becauseotherwise we don't know who is
who, because sometimes it has aname like none your business and
I'm like I don't know who youare.
So make sure you, when youemail to us, you screenshot it
so we know who it was.
But yeah, if you've done it inthe past, by all means put it on
there.
We will honor that still so.
Thank you guys so much forwatching and listening, and
we'll see you next time.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Okay, punch my eardrum.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Bless you.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Today we're talking about five secrets to creating a
strong student leadership.
Today, we're talking about fivesecrets to help you create a
strong student ministryleadership team in your student
ministry youth group.
Today we're talking about five secrets to creating a
strong student leadership teamin your youth ministry.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome to the Ministry Coach Podcast, where we
give you weekly tips andtactics to help you fast track
the growth and health of youryouth ministry.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
My name is Jeff Laskola and this is Kristen
Laskola and we're continuing ourconversation from last week
today about student leadershipteams, because this is the
season for it and I want to makesure that you guys are ready to
go to launch your team, toexecute it well, to have a
successful year, and maybe thisis the one more nudge you need
(00:47):
to actually start your studentleadership team.
I cannot tell you how much ofan impact it makes in the
overall health of your youthministry and starts to teach I
just did my presentation today,so it's all fresh in my head but
starts to teach students thatwe are needing some of us to
move from a consumer mindset toa contributor mindset when it
(01:11):
comes to church, and this is theperfect way to do it.
So I say this little phrase tothem over and over again.
I didn't think of it.
It was our senior pastor, chrisBrown, who says all the things
that are wise.
He said, like speaking toChristians specifically, he says
the church doesn't exist foryou, you are the church and you
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exist for the world.
And I think the sooner we helpstudents have that mindset shift
, it's good for them and it'sgood for the church Because,
like we talked a little bitabout last week.
I would have probably reachedthe end of my relationship with
the church if I continued in myconsumer mindset Because, like
(01:56):
there's never going to be thisperfect youth group or perfect
worship set or perfect game orperfect small group, like
there's so many things that,especially in our Western world
of low pain, tolerance, highneed for everything to be
perfect, I think if we saw thechurch as needing to like be
(02:17):
curated to our preferences, wewould all give up a long time
ago.
I'm not talking about heresy andtoxic behavior.
I'm just talking aboutpreferences that are not being
met because, you know, we lookaround the church with just a
critical eye and almost seeourselves as the customer.
You know, and as a youth pastor, sometimes I feel like a
(02:38):
customer service representative,you know, based on some of the
emails I get or the phone callsI get, like I'm providing a
service for the community whichone could argue that there is an
element of that.
That is the job, but that is notthe core of what the church is.
You know, obviously I wanteveryone to come and have a
(02:59):
great experience and feelwelcomed and comfortable and
loved.
But if that's all I'm doing,I'm not the church, I'm a hotel
lobby, right.
So we want students just tothink differently and deeper
about the purpose of church.
So I said it a few times todayof you are the church and you
(03:19):
exist for the world.
And I'm not telling you that tosay like hey, so snap out of it
.
You're not the customer, moreof like.
You won't be satisfied.
If you keep yourself in the seatof a customer Like, your
relationship with the churchprobably will end or you'll be a
church hopper for the rest ofyour life and you'll never put
roots down anywhere because yourview of the church is incorrect
(03:43):
.
Now that view of the church isokay.
When you're just gettingstarted, I think of like, do I
fit in here?
Can my family grow here?
Is this a match with us?
But I think there comes a pointin your relationship with God
and the church where you need tonow switch your mindset to okay
, like now where am I serving?
(04:06):
How am I contributing?
What part do I play here?
What purpose do I serve?
here, and it's so life-givingfor the individual.
So how can we make our studentleadership teams really strong
for this next coming year?
Today we're going to talk aboutfive ways we can do that, and
number one is creating communitywithin that student leadership
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team.
Like we talk about, the numberone way to build community a lot
of times is through the vehicleof small groups, and that's
kind of the discipleship modeland this is like neck and neck
with that.
That is right there with it.
And we talked last week about myown personal experience of how
I no matter how many Biblestudies I go to or worship
(04:51):
services I go to or churchservices I go to I have never
felt community like I do withthe team I'm serving with.
Like there is just somethingexponential about serving
alongside someone, and so whatwe want to teach students is to
go from being just a spectatorat church to being a part of an
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inner group that makes thingshappen, that has a shared goal
and vision for furthering thekingdom of God, and through that
we're building relationships ona different level and a
different scale.
So is your student leadershipteam designed with the goal in
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mind for community to happen?
To me it almost feels like it'sa youth group within a youth
group.
So it's like we have the bigyouth group on Tuesday night and
that's everyone comes.
But then on the first Friday ofevery month from six to eight
we have just the studentleadership team meet and it's
almost like this different gearof youth group and it feels like
(05:56):
a more.
It's a smaller group so we canconnect differently and some
student leadership, like at our,some of our other campuses they
even do like retreats with justtheir student leadership team.
I've done those in the past,just maybe taking them to a
conference or something likethat.
I think one way that reallyfosters community.
(06:19):
I can't really do this verywell anymore, but I used to love
having them at our house forthe meetings and I did notice a
different level of community.
We were smaller then and so itwas doable.
I can't keep up with the amountof junior hires and nowadays I
can't have them in our houseanymore.
(06:41):
Our house would be sacrificed.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Would sacrificed not be here anymore.
You bring up an interestingpoint, though, and I have a
question for you.
So you're saying like the, youor the, the student leadership
is kind of like the youth groupwithin the youth group yeah what
if your youth group is justreally small?
do you not have studentleadership?
Or do you say, yeah, like, anddo you like limit?
Like if you only had 10 kids,it's like, well, I'm only gonna
(07:04):
let five of you do it.
Or is it like we have 10 kidsif all 10 want to be in it, they
can do it.
Like, how do you what?
How would you approachsomething like that?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
yeah, I think it would be weird if it was like
everyone.
So if I had a super small youthgroup, I think what I would do
is I would limit it by an age,so like maybe it's this special
perk that's only for eighthgraders and I've seen youth
groups, especially larger ones,do that.
I let any grade sign up, butit's.
(07:33):
I don't know if you know whoKatie Edwards is.
She worked at Saddleback.
She might still be there Iactually don't know but she was
the junior high pastor there fora really long time and I had a
long conversation with her acouple of years ago about
student leadership team and shesaid it's a privilege that she
only allows for her eighthgraders.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And so they like kind of work up to it and look
forward to it, and that's notfor a lack of having a lot of
students, either.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Oh no, or not having enough students and she probably
does that because she has somany students does that because
she has so many students.
So if you had 10 students andsay three of them were eighth
graders, you could extend theopportunity just for them and
you could have this little likePeter James and John, little
core going on Um.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
what if it's like six through 12, would you delimit
it just to the seniors, or justjuniors and seniors, or um case
by case?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Probably I would look at my numbers and I would see I
mean I really wouldn't want tomix junior.
Like you know me, I don't likemixing junior hires and high
schoolers for youth group and Ithink that that feeling is
exaggerated when I think aboutdoing it on a student leadership
team.
So if I were combined I wouldprobably just have it for
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juniors and seniors.
So I think that's a way for itto be like still like a set
aside kind of group that you'regoing to take discipleship way
further with, because theirrelationships usually help set
the tone, just like your leaderrelationships, like with your
small group leaders, help setthe tone for the relational
(09:05):
health of the youth groupoverall.
You know, mine is maybe adifferent size, you know from a
(09:28):
lot of youth groups, but I dosmall groups within my student
leadership team you know, and ifnothing else, we split up guys
and girls and we talk about theBible study.
Sometimes we all stay together.
I just feel like we don't getanything done.
There's just too many.
But yeah, just like having likesmall group within the small
group kind of thing.
(09:48):
But think if you were to showup to my student leadership
meeting and I hate calling it ameeting, because anything that's
a meeting from my perspectiveis boring.
I don't like meetings.
So I think when you walk in ona Friday night you would wonder
(10:10):
are you having a party or areyou doing a meeting?
And it's hard to tell.
Like it is super fun.
So the way I structure it, youknow they come in, we have music
, we all have dinner together.
They pay for it, by the way, soyou know if you're like, well,
I don't have the budget for food, I charge them $5 and it covers
it.
And then we play a game.
(10:31):
And this is where I really liketo get creative, because
there's I have my tried and truegames.
I do my game calendar ahead oftime every year, but sometimes I
want to beta test a game and Idon't want to risk a throwaway
night at youth group, because Ihave a lot of students and so if
we played a game and it didn'twork, that's a bummer, like I
(10:55):
just wasted a whole you'redisappointing a lot of kids.
You are and I wasted a wholeyouth group night on a game.
But then when you read about anew game or you invent a new
game in your head, you're like Idon't know if this is going to
work.
Like so I test them on mystudent leadership team and I
tell them that like hey guys,guinea pigs you're the first
ones to ever try this, Likewe're going to see what we think
(11:16):
and then we'll even talk aboutit after.
Okay, so what was fun?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
about that.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
What didn't work, or well.
I think if the teams weresmaller it would have been more
fun, or no, they cheated.
So you need to make a rule thatsays you can't da-da-da-da-da.
So we kind of talk about it andthey're sort of like the it's
(11:42):
like it's me and my interns andthen them, and like we kind of
allow them to do ministry withus, like kind of pull back the
curtain a little bit and they'resort of on the inside of what's
going on.
So in that sense it's reallyfun.
And sometimes the games that Iwant to play with them are a
test.
And then sometimes it's likeI've wanted to play this game
forever, but our youth group istoo big, so let's just play it
(12:04):
with us, and it's really fun.
Or I need all these supplies ifI'm going to play with 150 kids
.
But, if I only play with 30 kids, great I can play it, you know.
So I make sure that we're alwayshaving fun because I want them
to come and look forward to itand not be like meeting but like
almost be bummed if they missedit.
(12:25):
You know, and the advantage formiddle school on a Friday night
and I think I've mentioned thisbefore is they don't drive.
So when I try doing our studentleadership meetings, like after
church on a Saturday night orafter church Sunday afternoon,
they were like this is the worst.
I'm like what's the difference?
(12:45):
And they're like we like havingplans on Friday and like all of
our friends are here and it'sso fun.
And you know it's always likean event and now it's just like
tacked on to church and we wouldhave been here anyways.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I'm like okay, so.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I went back to Friday nights because I was thinking
for myself two birds, one stoneand I don't have to do another
night.
But I was like, all right, we'regoing to lose the energy and
momentum if I, you know, takethat away.
So I went back to Friday nightsand then we do our meeting and
we learn our leadership stuff,we go over our homework and then
(13:19):
we have dessert at the end ofthe night and you know it's just
fun, the energy is high and youknow I like doing it in homes,
we're too big for that.
So if you do it at the church,that can also be really fun.
Like they feel like they own theplace because it's just like
the 30 something of us there andthey run all around and go
(13:39):
crazy, and so you just like Ifeel like that's a mantra for
student ministries in general,and student leadership is no
exception If it's not fun,people won't come, people will
not be a part of it.
And you know, I was thinking onthe way to church today like I
feel like so many pastors liketreat people in a sense of like
(14:00):
how people should be or how theythink people should be, instead
of just accepting how peopleare and humans enjoy fun.
So you need to make it fun theend kind of thing.
I think sometimes people arelike well, people should get
here on time, so we're not goingto put out any more rows of
(14:20):
chairs.
What's here is here.
It's like shoulda, coulda,woulda, but they're not.
So put out more chairs, like I,I don't know.
Like there's just certain things, like just take people for who
they are on some of those youknow, so number three would be
challenge them.
So I love this aspect of studentleadership because it's like
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students who have signed up tosay I'm ready for a challenge
you know like, and I can go alittle deeper with our Bible
study because this is a groupthat is signed up for a
challenge.
They're signing up for acommitment, they are ready to be
like, maybe go next level intheir faith and I can challenge
(15:04):
them on my curriculum.
A little bit of the Biblestudies tend to be deeper than
just a small group typecurriculum on a Tuesday night,
because that net is really wideon Tuesday night All kinds of
kids are coming and not that Ilike water the gospel down, but
it's more the questions.
Leaders can take it deeper ifthey need to.
(15:26):
But some of these kids this istheir first experience of church
and so what they're capable oftalking about is different than
a leadership team.
It should be, you know.
So I love going a little deeperwith my leadership kids because
as a pastor who has been doingthis for a long time, it
scratches an itch for me too.
I love to be able to talk alittle more deeply and challenge
(15:50):
kids on leadership stuff andyou know I challenged them to
get outside their comfort zonebecause again they've signed up.
I'm here for a challenge, so youknow I will look at them and
say, hey, you better go greetthat kid, they're all by
themselves.
Who, where?
Okay, and some of them are likeoh no, I don't know.
And I love saying like, hey,this is what we signed up for.
(16:11):
Like our comfortability is notthe priority right now.
Like somebody feeling welcomedin our church and wanting to
come back so they meet.
Jesus is the priority right now.
So let's get over it, and Iwouldn't do that to just any old
kid who came in my classroom,you know.
But my student leadership, Ihave a license to say nope, we
are the church, this is what wesigned up for.
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And it's good for them to bechallenged and pushed.
And when we do our serviceproject, we work with autistic
adults and it's good for them tobe challenged and pushed.
And when we do our serviceproject, we work with autistic
adults and it's uncomfortablefor them at first, and then by
the end of the night they'recrying and wanting to do it
again next week.
Can we do this every week?
Can we do this every month?
Can we?
You know, because they werepushed outside of their comfort
zone and had to minister topeople who are different than
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them and it leaves a mark onthem Like it is so, so good for
them If you have a safe way todo homeless outreach.
I've had.
You know.
Students have a similarexperience where they just get
in the car and start bawlingbecause it was just so outside
of the norm of what they like,the positions they are put in.
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You know what I mean visitingthe elderly, visiting the sick,
just getting kids to kind of seea world that is bigger than
their pinterest feed and theirsports team of everything kind
of fits into neat, nice boxesfor them.
But kids have pinterest feeds,girls do really 100.
(17:41):
Yeah, you know, and everyonewants everything like,
especially girls like.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
They want it all to be perfect and cute and
aesthetic and exactly the sameas all their friends.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yes, but just getting their world a little bigger, of
like hey, there's people thatit changes them, it helps them
to see and it challenges theirlove too.
Of like they feel better,knowing I do love people like
you know that are different thanme, and getting to use the love
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of God that's in them.
You know we always say like, oh, find that kid at school who is
sitting by themselves and youknow.
But it's like, ok, but is theremore than that?
And there is, and students arereally good at it when
challenged.
So, number four inspire them andempower them with all the
things that we have been talkingabout.
You know, like I said thatphrase, make sure they
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understand you are the churchand you exist for the world.
And one thing I try to get themto understand.
So I do a big training withthem on how because you know,
junior hires like love them,they're adorable, but they can
be awkward conversationalistssometimes, and so I train them
on just a very basic socialskill of how to talk to a new
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person that you don't knowone-on-one Right, and I forget,
people don't know how to talk topeople how to human.
(19:21):
Especially 12 year olds.
So I take them through thesesimulations of okay, new kid and
I give them different scenarios.
This kid is shy, but you cantell they want to be involved.
They just don't know how.
Okay.
And then I simulate aconversation with them and I say
here's a question that youcould ask, or here's a way you
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can invite them to participate.
Okay, and then I simulate aconversation with them and I say
here's a question that youcould ask, or here's a way you
can invite them to participate.
Okay, different scenariothere's a kid who's sitting in
the corner, doesn't want to bebothered and is kind of hostile
and he's annoyed that you'retalking to him.
How do you handle that?
What do we do next?
How do we get out of theconversation if we need to?
What about the kid who is superfriendly and excited to be
(20:07):
there?
What do we do next with them Ifthe conversation stops and you
feel awkward?
What do we do next?
What's some good.
So I give them these questionsthat they can put in their back
pocket of like, for example,it'd be like hey, like I don't
know if we've ever met Like myname's Kristen.
Uh, what school do you go to?
That's a great place to start.
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Oh, I go to this junior high.
Oh, what grade are you goinginto?
Oh, I'm, or what grade are youcurrently in?
It's summer.
That's why I said that, uh, I'min seventh grade.
Oh, that's awesome.
Do you know anyone at thischurch?
Or how did you come here?
Like, did you get invited byyour friend or are you just
checking it out?
Okay, see what they have to say, then you know, pick up on
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their energy.
Are they desperately trying toget out of this conversation
with you?
Then just say hey, well, I'm soglad you're here.
I just wanted to say hi.
You know, if you want to hangout, we'll be over here.
I just want to let you know.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
If you want to hang out, we'll be over here I just
want to let you know thatneither one of us wants to have
this conversation, so let's endit now this is all kristin's
fault, just so you know.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Um, so I try to take them through that and then I
have them partner up with eachother and try to just start
conversation and I say, one ofyou act shy and like just act
like yourself hard to draw outand or just like Just stare.
From Zach Workin, remember hewould talk about just like how
to like lead with complimentstoo.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Like your shoes.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, like, oh my gosh, are those the new Nikes?
Those are so cool, like where'dyou get them?
Or you know, just you cancompliment them on whatever
Right, and I mean I know formyself myself, a compliment goes
a long way.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Like you know, everyone loves to be
complimented someonecomplimented me on my shoes just
the other day, and he happenedto be a shoe shine person in the
mall, so he wanted my businesstoo I'm sure he meant it
compliment and I was like, no, Idon't hear anything else, i'm'm
sure he meant it, yep, so causeyour shoes probably were not
(22:03):
the shineable type anyways.
Um, there were vans.
So yeah, I don't know what hewould have done, just dusted
them off, or something.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Who knows?
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I don't know, maybe he could have worked magic, I
didn't know there was such thingas shoe shiners anymore.
They're always in the airport.
That's what I think of.
And yeah, it was the carlsbadoutlet mall.
He was there and he said Icalled me boss.
I get called boss by people alot do you like?
it.
I don't know, it's interesting,but anyways he said, hey boss,
love your shoes, man.
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And then then he said somethinglike, something like I can I.
That was all I heard.
After that he said somethingabout cleaning ember, I don't
know what.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I was like no thanks, no thanks.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Everybody likes compliment.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
All that to say.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Hey friend, I just wanted to interrupt this episode
for a second to let you knowabout an awesome opportunity for
you and your youth ministry.
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All right, let's get back tothe episode.
Okay, number five platform andappreciate them.
So one way I love to platform mystudent leadership team is
through our student leadershipbio boards.
So there's a board it's just onlike foam board but it's a
print, and there's a spot fortheir picture, and then all the
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questions and I've talked aboutthese before and it's like
what's your favorite food andwhat do you wanna be when you
grow up?
What's your SOS job?
What's your favorite moviequote?
What's your favorite app?
What if you could travelanywhere in the world?
Where would it be?
And I just put those up in myjunior high room and it's just
like kind of like hey, here'syour student leadership team for
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the next year, and people likelove to just sit and look at
those and I think that's a greatway to appreciate them through
some platforming, because theydo work hard and I think
sometimes it's fun to giveleaders who are serving just
special perks.
We allow them to be a part of alot of video shoots that we do.
So if we're doing a video shootlike we did a new one on our
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rules, it was so funny and, likehell, we just told them all the
rules and then they had to like, act them out and like the
cringe is like creeping okay,they were.
so cute it was, it was really itwas good, and so we filmed it.
Or like, sometimes they'll filmgame instructional videos with
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us you know how to play a game,and they'll like do the
different steps of the game.
When we do a student takeovernight, we'll film their
testimonies or whatever.
So, anyways, it's just likecool to give them these special
privileges, like hey, you get tobe in the video, or hey, your
picture's up on this thing, orwhatever, and I think that
(25:28):
creates a strong team as well,because they're proud of
themselves.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You know and.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I think I don't think there's anything wrong with
that.
It's not like vain attention, Ijust think it's a nice like hey
, here's, here's the team that'sgoing to be serving our church
and our youth group.
You know why not?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You have talked about those boards before, the leader
boards and student leadershipboards we have.
If you want to see what theylook like, we've done them in
two episodes.
Both were the tours that we did.
One of them was the weekendservice room tour I think you
have all your student leadershipbio boards up there.
(26:06):
And then the one we did of theentire youth group.
We'll link these episodes below, but they have a section just
where you can see the little bioboard and a lot of people ask
how do you make those?
What are they made from?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
so you, they're pre-printed, correct yeah, so we
have the privilege I would.
I do have a graphics departmentat our church and they have
created the graphic and thenthey just print it on that foam
board and then they cut it okayso that's like, obviously, like
there's probably a print shop ina 10 mile radius from your
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church that could do that orcould you even like online, go
to I don't know like a dollarstore and just get frames or
something?
totally you could.
You could do it any way, justput the same name.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Favorite Disney character, favorite movie, quote
all that stuff Anyways checkout those episodes, you'll see
kind of what they look like andthen just I don't know, be
creative.
There's nothing really thatspecial about them, they're just
fun to look at.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
They are.
Yeah, there's a ton of ways youcan do the bio boards Cheaper.
Like you said, go to DollarTree, get the frames.
I mean a million ways to do it.
But yeah, it's just a coolthing.
If you want to do themdigitally and have them rotating
on your TV someone brought thatup as an idea the other day
it's like, yeah, put them inProPresenter If you don't have
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like the capacity to print,that's free.
You could just have each studentup at a time and it's like on a
rotating on your pre-showbefore you know church starts,
or youth group or whatever thatcould work.
So, yeah, those that's, that's,that is, those are five secrets
to creating a strong studentleadership team.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
There you go.
All right, we're going to do acommunity comment of the day and
then we're going to do ourgiveaway winner for this week
and the community comment of theday and then we're going to do
our giveaway.
Winner for this week and thecommunity comment of the day
comes from I love this name,none your business 707 sassy,
who says there is a lot ofwisdom in this.
Love your content.
It has been incredibly helpful.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Thank you so much wish I could say who to thank,
but for that.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But it's none your business all right, we're gonna
do the um giveaway winner forthis week, which we're giving
away rhino skin dodgeballs.
Six inch coated foam.
Rhino skin dodgeballs yeah,these are.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Can I be the winner?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
no, you already have some of those and they these
tend to last a long time I wasabout to say you're right, I do.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I have a lot of them and I've had them for years.
Junior hires can't destroy them.
The only risk you run is themlosing them.
Like you know, they throw themand you're like where did it go?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
like, but if you look up in the church there's
probably some of the rafters atany given time.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yes, and I always count them before I put them
back in my bag and I I'm like,okay, I'm missing two, where are
they, you know?
So we search high and low.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yes, all right.
The winner for this week RhinoSkin Dodge Balls is Christy
Johnson.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Congratulations, christy Johnson, for your Rhino
Skins.
Congratulations, christyJohnson, joy of rhinoskins.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
All right, if you guys want to join the giveaway,
you have a chance to win, andnext week is actually going to
be the last week of the giveaway.
I thought we might be doing twomore weeks after that, but it's
actually just one more week.
So this is it.
Make sure you get your entriesin.
You can gain more entries bydoing comments in the videos
below, and actually we have fulldetails of the giveaway
(29:24):
instructions or we'll link thatbelow, so check that out.
But you can get extra entriesfor comments.
You can get extra entries 25extra entries for leaving a
review on our apple podcastchannel I have a question.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Make sure you guys do that.
They've already left a review.
Can you I honor that?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
yeah, so take a screenshot.
That's very important becauseotherwise we don't know who is
who, because sometimes it has aname like none your business and
I'm like I don't know who youare.
So make sure you, when youemail to us, you screenshot it
so we know who it was.
But yeah, if you've done it inthe past, by all means put it on
there.
We will honor that still so.
Thank you guys so much forwatching and listening, and
we'll see you next time.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Okay, punch my eardrum.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Bless you.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Today we're talking about five secrets to creating a
strong student leadership.
Today, we're talking about fivesecrets to help you create a
strong student ministryleadership team in your student
ministry youth group.
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