Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Final Session

March 27, 2009 By nick Leave a Comment

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Live Blogging Final Session

Doug Fields

  • God has the leaders you just have to find them
  • Who do you think cares more about your ministry? You or God? Don’t you think he has the shepherds ready to equip your ministry?
  • There is a myth in the church that you have to be young and cool to be a good youth worker
  • God has the leaders, we just have to look in the unlikely places to find them
  • 10% of Volunteers will come to you 90% will come because they are asked
  • 2. Raise the Bar, raise healthy leaders
  • Exous 18:17-23 (Jethro’s Leadership Advice)
  • 1 Peter 5:2-3 (NLT)
  • Seek out Humble leaders
  • You must have a screening process for leaders
  • 3. Valued Leaders become Valuable Leaders
  • Be clear with expectations
  • Care for WHO the leader is more than WHAT the leader does
  • Be specific with Praise
  • Commit to develop leaders not just recruit and hire them
  • 4. Volunteers need: Care, Conversation, Confrontation, and Challenge
  • People (Leaders) LEAVE Leaders not Ministries
  • You have to learn to confront to be an effective leader
  • Saddleback Learnings on Volunteers:
  • Training and Meetings are Overrated
  • Great Communication with Volunteers goes a long way
  • Leading Volunteers is a ministry within itself

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 6

March 26, 2009 By nick Leave a Comment

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Live Blogging Session 6

Doug Fields: Discipleship

  • 1. Discipleship cannot be reduced to programs and people
  • Discipleship can be viewed as 50% Relational 50% Educational
  • If student’s faith is married to a program or a person, when they are gone, their faith is gone
  • 2. An “On Your Own” Discipleship philosophy is a top down philosophy
  • A Discipleship Strategy is the HABITS
  • H = Hangout with God
  • A = Accountability with Another Believer
  • B = Bible Memorization
  • I = Involvement in the Church Body
  • T = Tithing Commitment
  • S = Study Scripture
  • 3. Expectations without experimentation= Frustration
  • Its better to teach people to fish versus giving them a fish
  • 4. Discipleship Never Ends
  • The PDYM model focuses on Discipleship as a Process versus a Program
  • Connecting students to an adult leader makes the difference

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 5

March 26, 2009 By nick Leave a Comment

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Live Blogging Session 5

Doug Fields: Fellowship

  • 1. Smaller is better when focusing on Fellowship (building relationships)
  • Christ had a group of 12 but invested in 3
  • Figure out how to make “Large” Feel “Small”
  • 2. Volunteer leaders are better than paid leaders.
  • Paid leaders’ main focus should be to develop other volunteer youth workers, the volunteers job is to love on kids.
  • 3. Shepherds are Better than Chaperons
  • 4. Better is Better – Tweak, Twist, Don’t Settle
  • Messy people need a small group
  • “If you build a place where Students can share their hurts and pain, they will come” – Megan Hutchinson
  • “Hurt and abandonment in teenagers in pandemic in our world today and in our youth groups–every single teen hurts.” Megan Hutchinson
  • “Pain is always top down” – Hutchinson
  • If the church doesn’t do anything to help the hurting, who will?
  • There is more than one way to do small groups
  • Small Group leaders need to be set up for success
  • Empower small group leaders to be their kids’ youth pastor
  • Small Groups rise and fall based on their leader
  • Small Groups are the Bridge to the next steps (Discipleship – Ministry)
  • The bottom line is to cultivate relational capital – Ben Taylor

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 4

March 25, 2009 By nick Leave a Comment

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Live Blogging Session 4

Doug Fields: Worship

  • There is a direct connection between Evangelism and Worship
  • We need to expand our focus of worship to celebrating God
  • Genuine Celebration is attractive and makes a heartfelt connection with unbelievers
  • We have to be careful not to create a “Club” mentality in our environments
  • Be aware of your audience.
  • Work hard for an understandable message.
  • Value Fun…What is our element of “Fun?”
  • A Front door program should be about relationships, relationships, relationships
  • The Entry Level Program can be broken down to 3 key focal areas: 1. The people 2. The place (environment) 3. The program
  • Worship is a part of everything students do. – Latasha Morrison
  • “Dont think like a youth pastor, think like a church planter” – Jason Gerdes

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 3

March 25, 2009 By nick Leave a Comment

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Live Blogging Session 3

Doug Fields: Evangelism

  • An evangelistic student ministry will have evangelistic adult leaders
  • Evangelistic leaders  NEVER stop ringing the evangelistic bell
  • You can either be a “best friend” or you can be a leader
  • No one values what you value as much as you value it.
  • Evangelistic baby steps create momentum
  • There is not just one way to be evangelical in your ministry
  • R: Reveal
  • E: Extend an Invitation
  • A: Ask if you can share your story
  • C: Communicate the How and Why of beginning a Relationship with Christ
  • H: Help them
  • Changed Lives are Evangelistic
  • Allow students to own the responsibility of sharing Christ with their friends

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 2

March 25, 2009 By nick Leave a Comment

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Live Blogging Session 2

Doug Fields

  • Purpose Driven Ministry has Godly leaders.
  • If your Ministry is bottle necked take a look at your ministry, it may be because of you.
  • Discovering God’s Purposes Begin with God’s Word. (The Great Commission & The Great Commandment)
  • You have to own the Purposes of your ministry, no one will bleed it like you!
  • If we push people to be evangelistic, we have to be that way ourselves
  • Biblical Purposes will clarify a ministries existence
  • There are several ways to say the same thing
  • Biblical Purposes will minimize conflict in your ministry
  • Biblical Purposes will help create excitement
  • A ministry guided by Biblical purposes is not easy to build…but its healthy
  • People unite under a vision that is bigger than their own
  • Will your ministry pursue Biblical Purposes?
  • Evaluate: Do the people in your ministry get the Biblical Purposes for your Ministry? (Leaders, Students, Parents, Staff, Etc.)
  • You cannot fit all of the Biblical Purposes into one Program. Make sure each Program/Process has 1 Primary & 1 Secondary purpose
  • A lot of churches are using a discipleship method on students who are being forced to be at church, so it doesn’t work.

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 1

March 24, 2009 By nick 1 Comment

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Live Blogging Session 1

Doug Fields

  • Food is a value in student ministry at Saddleback
  • Their Student Ministry was not built around theater seats and a Refinery Student Building
  • Student Ministry should be simply built on a dependence of God’s Power
  • There are a lot of Small Values for Student Ministry:
  • #1 Be Faithful in the Small Things
  • #2 Have Small Faith
  • Saddleback could give their new building back and still do student ministry
  • Value a God who is Sovereign
  • Value providing Students Opportunities to serve where they are gifted and passionate
  • Value Volunteers
  • Value Longevity, people not giving up.
  • Value Relationships:
  • Value an Intimate Relationship with Christ
  • Value Relationships with Parents
  • Value Relationships with other Leaders
  • Value Relationships with Students
  • Saddleback does not want you to be like them, they want you to be who God wants you to be.
  • What is important to you right now in ministry?
  • Do people know what’s important to you?

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I’ve Got My Wings On

March 23, 2009 By nick Leave a Comment

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I’m headed to Atlanta today to go see my Grandparents. Tomorrow morning I’ll be strapping my wings on to fly to So Cal forPDYM the Conference. Yes, I could just fly there on my own since I am Superman, but what fun would that be? If I have trouble with my Jetpack I’ll grab a flight on Delta. I can’t wait to get out to Cali with all of my friends and mostly to promote PDYM Kingdom Day which is huge! For more info you can check out http://www.kingdomday.com

I’ve got some big announcements coming soon that have not made it to my blog yet, but its going to be HUGE!!! Everything in its proper time :)

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A Thunderous Roar

March 16, 2009 By nick 3 Comments

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This past weekend the CSRA Youth Ministry Network hosted the 2009 DNOW for our local area. Typically each student ministry that participates in the local DNOW schedules a fun activity on Saturday morning/afternoon for their students to have a little fun as a group. This year we wanted our students to definitely have fun, but we wanted to use this weekend where we had 700+ students’ attention to engage them in opportunities to live beyond themselves and to invest in the lives of other people. After all, the theme was “Your Kingdom Come” and it seemed very appropriate to initiate service projects for the students to participate in.

I am a firm believer that a huge part of our spiritual discipleship has to do with our engaging in ministry and actually doing the things that we’ve been told in scripture to do. Studys have proven that the stuff we learn has been retained in our memory based on 1 part data and 6 parts emotion, essentially we remember what we experience. Therefore when we talk about discipleship, I don’t think we can remove elements that provide experience in what we are learning.

Saturday night was dynamic! The praise coming from this group of students sounded at times like a thunderous roar. In all of the local youth events, I cannot remember students so in tune with who God was at that moment in their life. I truly believe that Matt Papa is anointed and we had the privilege of having his band lead us in worship, but I mostly believe Saturday night had a lot to do with the response from earlier in the day where students were engaged in what God is all about, living sacrificially and loving other people.

I believe this picture with my buddy Steve White best sums up what the day was all about…

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PDYM the Conference: Worth the Money

January 13, 2009 By nick Leave a Comment

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I am really excited about PDYM the Conference and can’t wait to head out to Saddleback Church to attend on March 24-27. Okay, maybe I’m a little excited about getting to eat at Wahoos and In and Out Burger too ;)

With my budget being tighter this year it made me think twice about spending the money to attend a conference.

But I know the training that I’ll get, the people I’ll get to rub shoulders with, and the fact that Doug Fields will be teaching all the general sessions makes it more than worth the cost of going, plus its in Southern California! :) (Did you know you can follow Doug’s personal Twitter account? Click HERE)

I really think it’s worth you joining me at the PDYM Conference! If you want more info about the conference you can go to http://www.pdymcommunity.org/ or just leave a comment on my blog and I’d love to tell you more about it myself.

See you there!

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