Today’s free resource is Blabberize, a fun little tool to animate photos with recorded speech. Upload any picture, select the mouth area, and record your voice with your computer mic. You’ll see the mouth area move with your voice! This has a ton of fun potential for youth ministry, or just when you get bored. [...]

Easter weekend is less than a month away. Do you know what you’re going to teach on? For many of our students, they’ve heard the same lessons over and over again (and that’s not necessarily a bad thing…). If you’re looking for a way to get your students to look at the weekend of Easter, [...]

Looking for a quality newsletter to send to your parents to keep them updated on teen culture? Then check out the Real World Parents newsletter. You can put it on your website, on facebook, or in emails. The best part? Its FREE! So click on the image below and check it out.  

If you’re like me, you have all these great ideas for events and activities. But, that ONE important detail, like reserving hotels, slips your mind and your left with everyone sleeping in vans down by the river. Well, this form is for people like us! From my own collection of organizational helps, the Event Planning [...]

If you are looking for a good website that provides devotions either for personal use or for ministry use, dailydevos.org is a great site to check out. Dailydevos.org was created specifically for use by youth ministers to encourage the teens in their ministry to be in God’s word. They provide daily devotions (of course) online [...]

In a timely post, my friend Mike Kupferer wrote in his blog (Reflections) about the need for youth ministers to have friends their own age. He said, Just know that having a friend your age is important to your longevity in youth ministry. You need to build friendships with adults who will hold you accountable. [...]

If you’re looking for a tremendous website with lots of freebies, the Life In Student Ministry website is for you. Run by Tim Schmoyer, it has free resources every Friday (and they are all high quality resources). On top of that, Tim provides regular blog posts on a variety of topics and a weekly “Live [...]