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There's always something more urgent than social media! Well, in this week's "vlog" style episode (check out youtube to see it!), I'm here to prove that you can post every piece of content out of my "Social Media Pack" in under 16 minutes! Oh- And did I mention that our church is hosting a conference while this is going on? Can it be done? Let's dive in and see, together! ❄️ WINTER SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/posts/winter-seasonal-144943791?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=postsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link 🦸 HYBRID HEROES GET THE PACK FOR FREE! https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/178 Youth Ministry Leader Cohort (it's free!) https://www.ymlcohort.com/ 👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz -------------- 🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉 We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context! The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe! https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick -------------- 🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU! Some of the below links are affilate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products //VIDIQ https://vidiq.com/hybrid //BEST DYM RESOURCES https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym //OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 //YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100 https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit -------------- 🕰️TIMECODES 00:00 What is the 8 post challenge? 01:48 Post #1 - The Coffee Challenge 03:49 Post #2 - The On the Way to Run Thru 04:50 Post #3 - The Bathroom Challenge 05:24 Post #4 - The Recruit on The Fly Challenge 06:27 Post #5 - The One Take, No Retakes Challenge 08:40 - Post #6 The Multiple Students Challenge 10:31 Post #7 The Before Getting out of my Car Challenge 11:50 Post #8 - The Secret Cohort Post Challenge 12:12 How I Did, overall 12:55 6 Minutes Per Week? -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00;00;00;01 - 00;00;18;24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry People always say that social media takes too much time. So I kind of want to put that theory to the test. This week I'm testing my seasonal social media pack while here at work in live time. All eight posts one week. And oh, by the way, we're hosting a conference this week, so I'm as busy as I've ever been. 00;00;18;33 - 00;00;23;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Stopwatch starts now. Let's do this thing. 00;00;23;26 - 00;00;56;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Good morning. It is before 7 a.m.. The week of November 3rd. As I mentioned in the hook, I have a we are hosting as a church a massive conference called the Cross Creek Collective, where I'm actually slotted to be on stage multiple times. So what I wanted to try to do was prove to myself and you, and issue a little bit of a challenge that I could post all pieces of my social media pack in less than 16 minutes worth of collective time over the course of a week. 00;00;56;17 - 00;01;14;59 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I'm going to go two posts per day, and that will give me a glimpse into every single piece of content in my social media pack. The Winter Seasonal Social Media Pack is currently available. Link down below in Patreon if you want to check it out, but I'm going to be posting week of November 3rd from the fall seasonal social media pack. 00;01;14;59 - 00;01;32;22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry There are two categories. There's the done for you category and those are so plug and play. I'm going to say those are only going to take me a minute to post each. And then there's the custom for you category. And I'm going to film a custom brand new piece of social media content across all three social channels. YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. 00;01;32;22 - 00;01;51;00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But three minutes for each of those 16 total minutes. And we're going to be tracking my progress all throughout the week. And every single one of these is going to also be paired with some sort of time challenge. So why don't we hop into Monday morning? I'm going to use one that requires a little bit more time of me this morning. 00;01;51;00 - 00;02;13;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we're going to go ahead and we're going to do the Bible Trivia one. Now full disclosure I have not taken a look at this Bible trivia since the day I wrote it. And this is the full social pack, which means at some point in the summer is when I made these trivia questions. So, I don't have them memorized. 00;02;13;10 - 00;02;32;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I want to simulate what it would be like if you also downloaded this pack and used it. So all right here that the water's done. So we're going to pour that in over there. And then I'm going to film on my camera right here. And I got the questions pulled up on my computer screen right in front of me. 00;02;32;06 - 00;02;37;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So just a second. 00;02;37;10 - 00;03;10;18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry One minute to shoot, one minute to edit, one minute to post to all three of the platforms that I use TikTok, Instagram, YouTube. So go. Use overlay. There we go. All right, so there's that. Now I'm going to caption it. Let's pick a style. Let's do this style. I'm going to add some quick music sound sound add sound. 00;03;10;23 - 00;03;45;47 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry How did you do. Select all copy post done. What we're going to do is we're going to allow this time and let's check on the status of our coffee. I still don't even have half a cup in here yet. So, I did beat the challenge. We got it before the coffee. I went 32 seconds long, but we're going to make up for that because we have eight posts, so we have to do all of this in 16 minutes. 00;03;45;52 - 00;03;48;52 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Coffee time. 00;03;48;57 - 00;04;11;19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right, so like I said, I'm heading across, conference. I have run through, at 1:00. It's like 1230. So I am heading across the creek and I'm just going to post this as I go. So copy paste, caption copy. And it's still uploading. Worst thing is I'm just out of range of Wi-Fi. Oh, there we go. 00;04;11;19 - 00;04;37;31 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I got it posted on YouTube, on Instagram, and then like as you can see, literally the longest thing that this has taken me to do is switch between accounts like this. Downloaded. This is from the Dunphy. So this one's only supposed to take a minute. The minute is just taking as it's loading and I always gotta make sure that the song is appropriate to Holy forever post. 00;04;37;34 - 00;04;55;28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What is this done? And about a minute and 30 over time. So I don't know if maybe I'll get this done in 16 total minutes, especially with men on the street and transition videos. But then we're going to try. We're gonna try and make it some time tomorrow. So yesterday was full planning day today Tuesday is day one of the conference. 00;04;55;28 - 00;05;17;16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we're gonna have other church leaders and planters here. I gotta shave some time. I'm going to make a cup of coffee. We're going to get our day started. But this challenge this time challenge is actually going to be the bathroom time challenge. So, I'm going to take this in with me. I'm going to post the time of how long it takes me, but for obvious reasons, the camera's going to stay right here. 00;05;17;21 - 00;05;23;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry A few moments later. 00;05;23;17 - 00;05;46;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I'm at the conference now. Backstage. You can see the right on here. My challenge now is I have not recruited anyone for this transition. Videos. Shoot, edit, post three minutes. I'm hoping to make up some time on it. It's, one of our students shows up for the conference. I can hopefully just recruit them in to do it, so we'll see. 00;05;46;20 - 00;05;50;55 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'll let you know. 00;05;51;00 - 00;06;07;39 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I like doing TikTok because it auto saves it. Got to make sure when we're putting it in here that we take the sound off. And that way we have sound in the full video for both. It doesn't like auto edit it a little effect so that there's like a little jump thing because that's what the video does. 00;06;07;39 - 00;06;38;16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So add some captions, let it auto transcribe it, upload boom. 228 we bought back 30s. That was huge. I'm hoping that we can get some quicker ones tomorrow as well. Tune in for Wednesday's post. Let's see. We yesterday are 228. Really helped us out. We're 72 seconds over right now. So this morning the challenge is to do a one take, no retakes. 00;06;38;16 - 00;06;57;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I have not looked at this yet. And I am going to be filming it right here, selfie style, just using my laptop as my screen. And then I'm going to pull my script up. And so if you download my social pack, I have this script, and you find one that works. So I'm going to do, when it gets cold. 00;06;57;06 - 00;07;17;51 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is from the fall pack. We got five of these in the winter pack as well that you can use one take no retakes. So minute to shoot, minute to edit, a minute to post. I'm hoping to gain some time in this three minute thing. It's 832. I like to get this done here. So that I can get back over to this morning's main session. 00;07;17;56 - 00;07;23;40 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Fall means colder days. 00;07;23;45 - 00;07;47;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right, so my stopwatch is at 37 seconds, so I'm going to go to TikTok once again. TikTok auto saves. It means colder days. All right. I'm going to add this text on scree

Thanksgiving is over, but we're just getting started! In this episode, Nick gives his 4 course meal of FREEBIES for youth pastors, 4 things for YOU, along with the 1 Mystery Course that can unlock everything! SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/177 Games https://www.patreon.com/posts/9-amazing-dym-142425755?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=postsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link FREE E-Book https://www.patreon.com/posts/complete-guide-142500019?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=postsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link //Coaching https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching //Social Team Checklist https://www.patreon.com/posts/social-media-138081327?source=storefront 30 CONNECTION IDEAS https://www.patreon.com/posts/30-small-group-141961735?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=postsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link CALENDAR https://www.patreon.com/posts/winter-spring-141564188?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=postsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link SURPRISE MYSTERY DISH Hybrid Heroes Patreon Membership https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry 👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz -------------- 🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉 We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context! The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe! https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick -------------- 🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU! Some of the below links are affilate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products //VIDIQ https://vidiq.com/hybrid //BEST DYM RESOURCES https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym //OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 //YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100 https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit -------------- 🕰️TIMECODES 00:00 4 Course Feast for Youth Workers 00:40 Appetize 02:21 Side-Dish 05:33 Main Course 06:46 Dessert 07:30 Mystery Course - 2x Growth Strategy -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:23:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Thanksgiving's over. I got one more meal left for you. I have four courses of thankfulness that I am serving up right now, in every single one of them. As a free resource for you. The youth worker. From games to social media to small group material and calendars, and the one secret dish that is the exact strategy that I used to double my youth ministry in just under two years. 00:00:23:17 - 00:00:44:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I will show you how you, if you stick around to the end of the episode, can unlock that template and start using it in your youth ministry this week. So before you crash on the couch, grab a four piece record. This one's for you. Welcome, everyone, to the Hybrid Ministry Show and Happy Thanksgiving! Well, hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show. 00:00:44:13 - 00:01:14:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry As always, I am your host, Nick Claussen. And happy Thanksgiving. At least that's the day that this episode drops. Whether you are watching it on actual Thursday of Thanksgiving or you are catching up after the holidays, we are glad that you are here. And I have four freebies that I am giving out today, so all of those are linked down below in the podcast or YouTube description, as well as one template that is going to change everything for your youth ministry if you fully lean in and adopt it. 00:01:14:13 - 00:01:38:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But let's go ahead and get started. The first freebie is actually nine freebies. It is nine free games. These are all different games that I, in my time as an author and a youth pastor, have created and submitted to download Youth Ministry. And many of them are a part of a series. And so, you know, if you are a download Youth Ministry member that you get store credit. 00:01:38:14 - 00:02:05:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so if you like any of these, you can go back and you can grab some of them in the future with some of your store credit. And then I believe one of the games is actually a three part that I'm including. And so it's not exactly nine. It's like 12. So, head down to the description, down below in the podcast or in YouTube and check out my nine favorite free dim resources on the store. 00:02:05:06 - 00:02:31:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All given to you for free as just a way to say thank you. I'm thankful and I'm grateful for you as a subscriber, as a Patreon member, or as an email, newsletter, contributor. So we're excited to have you guys a part of the hybrid ministry universe. This next one here, I, I've honed over time, and I've been giving away a completely free e-book for as long as I can remember. 00:02:32:00 - 00:02:53:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I guess it's not as long as this show's been around. But then, probably a year and a half ago, I want to say, or two years ago, I was asked by my friend Derek Prescot, who is, one of the gatekeepers over at Download Youth Ministry. If I could provide a mystery item for the, the dim, member, downloads. 00:02:53:24 - 00:03:15:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I gave I made a refresh to my hybrid ministry e-book and my original e-book, my original like strategy for youth pastors was post, you know, two times a day or whatever. And I have content to support the ability for you to do that two times a day. And that's actually how much we still post on social media in our student context. 00:03:15:03 - 00:03:34:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I've found over time as a coach, you pastors. And which, by the way, I do offer coaching. So you can check out that down below. Not free, but you can check it out. So part of this that is tends to be a little bit too much. And I'm also in like a free cohort right now. Also, Daire Pinker, the youth ministry leader cohort, fantastic free resource that I've partnered with. 00:03:34:21 - 00:03:55:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I'm taking, some other youth workers or church communications people through a social media deep dive, cohort. And so, ten pieces of content is a lot because there's a lot on our plate. Not anymore. It's Thanksgiving, it's over. It's all gone. But there's a lot on our plate. Workwise. And so I've adjusted my e-book and now I'm giving this one away for free. 00:03:55:05 - 00:04:17:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so this is my honed in once the complete guide to crush. So social media and youth ministry. If you downloaded any of my seasonal social media packs, this has been an included piece to that. Now I'm giving this away standalone for free. So if you're interested in that, or if you've downloaded my audiobook and now you want this one, this is probably the one I'm going to start pushing out here going forward. 00:04:17:15 - 00:04:50:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Three reasons for why you should do social media. The state of youth ministry, social media as it stands today via some informal data and some informal polls. And then what you should do in a simple three times per week posting schedule along and complete with different content ideas. And so one of the videos linked in this e-book will give you like 8 or 9 different styles of videos that you can start doing as well as, if you, our Patreon member, you know, that we talk about, every single week. 00:04:50:23 - 00:05:14:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Ways that you can get involved. And the seasonal social pack will also give you other templates and archetypes that you can use. So this is free down below in the description or in podcast. Go grab it if you want to, lean into social media and start crushing it in your youth ministry. More than just posting static standard Canva graphics, or the ones that you can download from free social media packs. 00:05:14:06 - 00:05:30:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry As good as those are, and frankly, as better designed as those can be, those just aren't the things that perform very well on social media. So if you really want to crush it, you probably need to start creating and finding a way to create a little bit of custom content that highlights your name, your faces, and your people on your social media. 00:05:30:20 - 00:06:02:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And this e-book will tell you exactly how to go about doing that. The third gift, the third freebie that I'm giving away here is my 30 connections idea. This is a free small group. This is a free small group resource for your small group leaders and actually an episode linked right here. I went through and I toured our leader workroom, and this is a digital, thing, a digital download that we allow our, our people to have, in our leader website. 00:06:02:28 - 00:06:23:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so it's 30 different ideas, like 30 different icebreaker ideas for small group leaders. And so myself and a couple former staff members and I put this together. And so like ten of the ideas or mine, ten of the ideas are there's ten of the ideas or someone else's. And then we compiled, we collaboratively edited, and then now we offer and give this away to our small group leaders. 00:06:23:05 - 00:06:45:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So there may be some like particular language is kind of like aimed at like small group leaders in my church and in my context. But this is really, really a good and fantastic resource that you can use. It's PDF. Go ahead, grab it and download it, print it, share it, whatever you to do and give it to your small group leaders and be a hero and save yourself tons and tons of time. 00:06:45:22 - 00:07:08:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then the fourth, gift, the fourth course of this meal is my, calendar template

Ever wondered what’s inside a great youth ministry volunteer room? In this episode, Nick walks through his own space—showing you everything from the snack and coffee setup to the leader resource area, check-in station, and supply closet. You’ll leave with practical ideas (and links!) to create a welcoming, well-equipped hub that keeps your leaders fueled, prepped, and connected every week. 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The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe! https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick -------------- 🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU! Some of the below links are affilate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products //VIDIQ https://vidiq.com/hybrid //BEST DYM RESOURCES https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym //OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 //YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100 https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit -------------- 🕰️TIMECODES 00:00 Show me your volunteer rooms question! 00:23 Snacks & Coffee Area 01:01 Office Supply Area 01:34 Fall Social Pack 02:48 Supply Closet 04:14 Leader Check-in Area 05:42 Leader Group Resource Tools -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:22:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In this episode, we are going to show you my church's youth ministry volunteer room as we're answering this question. Show me your volunteer rooms. We are looking to make a new volunteer headquarters and are looking for inspiration. We're talking snacks, decorations, and things leaders love. So let's go on a little field trip and I'm going to show you my church's leader workroom. 00:00:22:14 - 00:00:50:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Let's go. So this right here, just some basic, you know, and, like, common snacks, a leader fridge, which is also a spot where a lot of our people, store leftovers and food and then, of course, gotta have coffee. So this whole section here is filled with different, like, K-Cups, which I personally hate. Which is why I have pour over in my office in the next room over. 00:00:50:03 - 00:01:09:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But, this is something for our leaders, you know, Wednesday nights, Sunday morning, they come on in here, they grab a cup of coffee, they make it happen. This are here was actually paid for about one of our students, so that's pretty cool. Here's a printer. And this is where most of our, basic easy printer, printing needs can be done here. 00:01:09:23 - 00:01:34:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry There is a bigger one, in another part of the office, but we just use this one as much as we can, a microwave in case we need it. And then just some very basic, paper supplies and cards and, cutters and stapler. Hole punch, in fact, that the cutters are here. This right here is where we keep, radio for, our security and safety team when they need it, when they're looking for it. 00:01:34:12 - 00:01:51:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Hey. Quick break. Let me ask you a question. Are you still waking up every day? Is youth pastor scrambling to figure out what you need to post on your social media? Blurry dodgeball. Pick a video that your leader sent you that's a little bit pixelated, because iPhone still hasn't updated fully to RCS yet. You see, you don't need that kind of stress this fall. 00:01:51:16 - 00:02:14:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's why I created this, the fall seasonal social media pack for youth pastors. It is three months worth of done for you content done for you, paired with some customization so that you and your leaders and your students are the faces and the personalities on your student ministry Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube shorts feed. So here's the thing. You can grab my pack right now over on Patreon. 00:02:14:28 - 00:02:35:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And did you know that monthly hybrid. Here are Patreon members who only pay $4 per month and get a bonus podcast. They get this pack completely for free, so if you do the math for three months worth of social media content, it's only $12 where the pack is 1799. Either way, it is a steal for you and it will take away the stress of posting. 00:02:35:09 - 00:03:00:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you can grab that pack right now and start becoming a master at social media and hybrid ministry. In your youth ministry context, rooting for you as you are crushing it this fall in your student ministry, right here is meant to sort of be our like, supply closet, right? So like, a leader can theoretically come in here anytime they need it and then get anything that they might be looking for. 00:03:00:14 - 00:03:22:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So of course, we got markers and then we got some branded pens. And these are here are actually one of our favorite things. Like we use these like little personalized whiteboards all the time. They're really like good for games and stuff like that. These are here are like just labels, for, for check in and for printing and then down here and we just got to order. 00:03:22:14 - 00:03:40:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So don't be like, holy crap, those people are all about snacks. But this is, we just got a big Sam's order. These are our snacks. So these are what we include. Back over here. And this is, like, just the back up stock of it. This right here. I've gone over this before. This is our leader. 00:03:40:17 - 00:03:59:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They're not a leader. This is our our newcomer welcome box. And so, this is where we store a bunch of them, and then our check in team, they know to come and stock this for actually link right up here. Top left of the screen. I'll link to video where I detail an outline, our entire welcome box process. 00:03:59:12 - 00:04:16:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So this is like a leaders like go to spot everything that they could use, everything that they can need. Plus some just like backup stuff, you know, along with like first aid and, you know, necessary things. Like a kid gets an injury, we can go straight here, we can get all we need out of there. Turning the corner here. 00:04:16:02 - 00:04:35:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is our, leader check in station. So leaders are not allowed to check in until they've gone through our entire volunteer process, which I'll also link down below our volunteer process. And this vets them. Make sure that they went through all of our training and that they went through, all of the, the legal ministry safe things that they need to do. 00:04:35:22 - 00:04:51:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then they can go ahead and they can check in here. Well, we say is if it comes out of this printer here, you'll notice, manually, I'm going to print this here. We say that that green means screened. And so that means if someone in our ministry has on, like, a green lanyard, they're good to go. 00:04:51:20 - 00:05:16:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This board right here, you can see, different, this is like our weekly lessons, bottom lines. We'll also have the, like, connect group sheet right here, for our leaders as they come in on, like, a, Sunday to grab it. And then we have a monthly leader, a weekly I'm sorry leader podcast. And so, our leaders that win stuff, this is, our beginning of our cycle. 00:05:16:02 - 00:05:40:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So all these leaders are new to our team, and then this is where they can grab, their leader gift, their leader mug, all that type of stuff. This right here is our, Wednesday evening safety, safety laminated sheet, assignments. So we'll post this right here on the board. And then we'll also throw it into our leader group chat so that everyone knows where they should be and where they need to be. 00:05:40:27 - 00:06:06:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then right around here, just a couple more shelves and zoom out a little bit. A couple more shelves right here. This is just some more leader, resources. So this is like some, throw Intel, some yay or nay. We got Play-Doh in case we need it. We got some dice, we got some, break the ice games are all look down, and, I'll link a bunch of this stuff. 00:06:06:09 - 00:06:26:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Financing scavenger hunt, card game. I'll link some of these things so that you can, find them. You can buy them. You can, supply them for, for your own area if there's some that you want. And then the la

Struggling with youth ministry planning, church communications, or ministry calendars? In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Podcast, learn the 5 levels to create the ultimate Youth Ministry Calendar that rules them all! Most skip Level 1—but stick around for the one strategy that fixes all your communication issues and grabs parents’ attention with tips, visuals, and free downloadable designs. 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Well, in today's episode, I'm going to share with you the five levels to create a solid youth ministry calendar, the one that will rule them all. While most don't make it past level one, you should stick around to the end of the video and see the whole thing because I reveal at the end the one trick that I've started adding to all of my calendars that it solves the communication problem once and for all. 00:00:34:16 - 00:01:06:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Oh, and plus there's a free calendar link down below in the YouTube video or the podcast description. Welcome everyone to the Hybrid Ministry show. Well, hey everybody, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. I am your host, Nicolas, and excited to be with you. As we're talking through the five levels of a youth ministry calendar creation. And the reason we're doing this because we're actually, and we actually are and have been in a playlist where we've been discussing different questions that I have come across on different youth pastor Facebook groups. 00:01:06:25 - 00:01:30:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And today, this one, I have, a question that says, hey everyone, I'm looking for examples of an at a glance calendar that highlight your major annual events. Pictures, please. You don't need to include spontaneous or smaller events, just the main ones that plan each year. And so we're going to be looking at what I have been passing out historically, and how we've tried to not only solve the communication problem, but it also helps with our, our visitors and all that sort of thing. 00:01:30:17 - 00:01:51:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So actually, there's a carefully curated playlist with all of those elements, calendar discussions and a welcome box that we have and communication issues linked right here. Tap the video. Go ahead and check it out on YouTube. But step number one is you need to have and this is the one that most skipped. But you need to have a reputable website okay. 00:01:51:28 - 00:02:17:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Because if you want a quote as this question says an at a glance calendar, then you need to have a website that is actually up to date that when people don't have the information that they need from your calendar, they know where they can go and what they should do. In fact, everyone in our student ministry knows and understands that like the calendar doesn't exist with this this piece of literature that they're bringing home. 00:02:17:08 - 00:02:43:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is, again, as the question as this is high level, this is simply highlights. This isn't every single thing. I've seen calendars designed with every single thing, the entire calendar for the year. But like that, that is not what we pass out. And I'm going to share multiple different reasons why. But one of the reasons is because our website handles a lot of the rest of the stuff that is going to be needed in order to communicate that. 00:02:43:05 - 00:03:04:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So you need to make sure that you have a website that's actually like navigate. Well, that's decent. It's a decent guest experience and it's up to date. The second thing is you want something that's designed well. If you look at the one here on screen, this is one that we, are giving away. Link down below. The templated, the blank version. 00:03:05:01 - 00:03:29:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is within our church's approved brand color palette and guides. So like, these are the student ministry colors within our church's color palette. So that's the first step of it. The second thing is like when I'm designing it, I typically choose a font or two that are like our fonts for the year. And then I'm just gonna be honest, like, icons are fun, but like, emojis are great. 00:03:29:13 - 00:03:50:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I try to just like link an emoji to some of the different events that we have. And that does a great job for it. The other thing is, like you see off to the side, here's like I also try to create some sort of icon that goes with like this season. So for fall we've done like coffee cups or we've done football helmets for the summer, we've done suns. 00:03:50:09 - 00:04:11:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And we, you know, in the spring we've done flowers. And so it gets tricky, especially if you're trying to do different ones and you're like doing them year over year. But you'll see the one linked right here. And you can go ahead and get the templated version link down below in the description. But you want your design to be something that, like, feels a little bit familiar but doesn't feel identical because you don't want them to think I've already got this. 00:04:11:18 - 00:04:28:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like they need to understand, like, no, this is a new one. Hey, quick break. Let me ask you a question. Are you still waking up every day? Is youth pastor scrambling to figure out what you need to post on your social media? Blurry dodgeball. Pick a video that your leader sent you that's a little bit pixelated, because iPhone still hasn't updated fully to RCS yet. 00:04:28:15 - 00:04:50:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You see, you don't need that kind of stress this fall. That's why I created these the fall seasonal social media pack for youth pastors. It is three months worth of done for you content done for you, paired with some customization so that you and your leaders and your students are the faces and the personalities on your student ministry Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube shorts feed. 00:04:50:29 - 00:05:10:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So here's the thing. You can grab my pack right now over on Patreon. And did you know that monthly hybrid here? A Patreon members who only pay $4 per month and get a bonus podcast? They get this pack completely for free. So if you do the math for three months worth of social media content, it's only $12 where the pack is 1799. 00:05:10:25 - 00:05:37:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Either way, it is a steal for you and it will take away the stress of posting. And you can grab that pack right now and start becoming a master at social media and hybrid ministry. In your youth ministry context, rooting for you as you are crushing it this fall in your student ministry. And another major thing that you're going to want to do here, which is level three, is you only want to include events that you, particularly and specifically choose. 00:05:37:27 - 00:06:00:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And want to highlight. You don't want to put every single thing on your calendar. No, no, you want things that you only want at a high level. And so the way to make it visually appealing, in my opinion, and in my book, and to make it small and concise, is to not overwhelm it with information, but to only make it things that are noteworthy for families to know. 00:06:00:21 - 00:06:23:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry For example, we a lot of times say we meet every single Sunday. We meet every single Wednesday. However, these are ones you want to know about, and these are also ones that you want to know that we're not meeting because we meet every single week. But these in particular take note. We are not meeting. Additionally, and especially as it pertains to our spring calendar, we will post things about our, about our like winter weekend. 00:06:23:26 - 00:06:44:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And we'll also post, say, the dates for our summer camp communications already gone out for that. By the time this calendar gets in the hands of our students mid-year and like December. But this one is important that it just, you

There's nothing worse than speaking to an out of control room full of students. In this episode, I explain my 5 levels, escalating to most effective, way to control a wild room with your teaching content and approach. 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You know, early on in my youth ministry days, I knew that the students were the problem. But over my last 15 years, I began to wonder what if part of the chaos is actually my fault? 00:00:24:19 - 00:00:45:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Today, I'm going to be breaking down the five levels of taming a wild youth through and at the end of the show, make sure that you stick around, because I am going to share with you the shift that Marvel understands that I saw, that I began to start to see students truly lean in without needing to raise my voice. 00:00:45:16 - 00:01:11:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Welcome, everybody, to the Hybrid Ministry show. Well, hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show. Today we're addressing this question. How do you handle disruptions during teaching time? I'm tired of stopping my lessons to redirect a few, and in this episode, I want to detail and outline my five levels of taming a wild room. And here's what you got to understand is that I actually invite and embrace chaos. 00:01:11:09 - 00:01:32:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like in our space. We could very easily, and let's be honest, probably even more, I probably even make a little bit more sense for us to do it in rows, but instead we're a middle school heavy on Wednesday night, midweek, type of context. And we put them around round tables. And last year we increased our chair intake around the tables from 8 to 10. 00:01:32:08 - 00:01:52:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we're inviting even more chaos to sit around each of those tables. That being said, it's a calculated risk that I try to facilitate and operate with the idea of community, worth and willing to take that risk so that we can get the better. And on the other side, however, that does mean that sometimes we do face a wild room. 00:01:52:21 - 00:02:12:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So with that being said, let's dive into my five different levels. Level number one is this tell them. All right. Tell them to stop talking and I get it. And that and that question you're saying like I'm tired of doing that. Now, if you are doing that on a regular basis, then maybe some of these other levels are going to be worth your while. 00:02:12:13 - 00:02:31:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But to start it off, if you have a wild room, you just need to very simply like be firm. And actually it's interesting because I asked a group of, table leaders that I have in my youth ministry, that try to actually help keep some of my students on track and keep some of our, our, lessons, like on the rails, so to speak. 00:02:31:10 - 00:02:48:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And they were asking me the other day, like, how do you do that? How do you lean in to kind of that with, with students? And I ask you guys, do you guys think that I mean, like, do you consider me personally mean? And they're like, no, not at all. And I was like, but am I able and willing to be firm when I need to know? 00:02:48:26 - 00:03:12:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, oh yeah, definitely. And so you have to understand that if you're the youth pastor, maybe you're young, maybe you're afraid of like, people thinking you mean students not liking you. Like you can still be firm and they can still like you? Those two things are allowed to be the same thing at the same time. Right? And another thing that I've actually even done is like, I've gone directly up to some of the bigger tables, in the last couple of weeks. 00:03:12:24 - 00:03:26:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I said, hey, listen, do you guys want me to split you into two tables? Like, no, no, no, please don't do that. Please don't do that. And I'm like, great, I will not. But I'm also going to expect you to act like adults, which means I am not going to ask you guys multiple times to be quiet. 00:03:26:27 - 00:03:40:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if I do have to ask you to be quiet, then I will begin to split the tables. But if I can trust you, and if you can lock in, if you can engage, then I'll let you stay together. And that that has actually really worked really well for some of our tables. Because you know how it is. 00:03:41:00 - 00:04:16:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You got a big table. You look over there, this is what you get. It wasn't me, it was them. It was their zoom. It was then. It wasn't me. So the second level is know them, right? No. These students know how they learn. Right. And one of the things that we have leaned into consistently is I cannot tell you in youth ministry, the last time that I spoke my entire message without any sort of gap or without any sort of break, like youth pastor, if you're trying to teach for 30 minutes straight, like, what are you doing? 00:04:16:14 - 00:04:53:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, you know that your students don't learn that way. In fact, if you look here at the Pyramid of learning, auditory lecture style based learning is the least effective of all the styles of learning. So why are you trying to keep their attention with a lecture style message for 30 or greater minutes? In fact, there's like the whole theory that, Gen Z and Gen Alpha's attention span is less than seven seconds, and we get that data from click through rates and like, bounce off rates from websites like people spend only on average seven seconds or less on a website. 00:04:53:28 - 00:05:14:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so the theory is that they have a shorter attention span than a goldfish. But the reality is, is that they know within seven seconds or less if this thing is going to be worth their time. Take for example, on the other hand, the flip side, the highest grossing movie movies of all time are all greater than 2 to 3 hours. 00:05:14:04 - 00:05:37:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Avengers endgame is an over three hour movie, and when it came out, it became the highest grossing movie of all time. Why can't a movie that's greater than 3.5 hour or greater than three hours, at least keep a student's attention because it knows how to keep things moving and students, if they're interested, they will lean in. So know them and break your message up with a gap in the middle. 00:05:37:10 - 00:05:59:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yet for some reason, you continue to drone on and this is what you get. The inside of a middle school boy's brain. Did I eat dinner? Is his shirt inside out? When is this? Over six. Seven? Is it actually why? I have a Patreon devoted to this. Every single week I share with you how I'm breaking up my message. 00:05:59:20 - 00:06:25:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And in the past, when I was younger, listening to the way other youth pastors that are a little bit further along than me were planning and programing their services, help get my creative juices going. So for just $4 a month, $48 for a year, not only will you get my weekly breakdown of what we're doing in our youth ministry, but you'll also get access to my full seasonal social media pack in all the seasonal social media packs as the seasons rotate through. 00:06:25:29 - 00:06:43:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Hey quick break, let me ask you a question. Are you still waking up every day? Is youth pastor scrambling to figure out what you need to post on your social media? Blurry dodgeball. Pick a video that your leader sent you that's a little bit pixelated, because iPhone still hasn't updated fully to RCS yet. You see, you don't need that kind of stress this fall. 00:06:43:03 - 00:07:06:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's why I created this the fast seasonal social media pack for youth pastors. It is three months worth of done for y

Before your next interview, watch these 5 levels of interview tips. We'll offer 5 levels of tips plus 5 levels of tests for you to land the perfect church job! The twist at the end, most youth pastors miss! 🍂 FALL SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-seasonal-137477671?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=postsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link 🦸 HYBRID HEROES GET THE PACK FOR FREE! https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/173 PDYM https://walmrt.us/3VPcdtK 4 Chair Discipling https://walmrt.us/4lHUgbc 👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz -------------- 🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉 We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context! The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe! https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick -------------- 🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU! Some of the below links are affilate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products //VIDIQ https://vidiq.com/hybrid //BEST DYM RESOURCES https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym //OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 //YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100 https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit -------------- 🕰️TIMECODES 00:00 5 Levels of Interviewing 00:29 Level 1: The Basics 02:22 Level 2 Apprentice 05:58 Level 3: Pro Mode 07:54 Level 4: Mentor Mode 10:17 Level 5: Boss Level -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:02:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So you land a youth ministry interview. 00:00:02:27 - 00:00:05:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Congratulations. But now what? For you 00:00:05:23 - 00:00:07:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry walk in and start pitching 00:00:07:16 - 00:00:10:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Fortnite lock ins. I'm going to share with you my 00:00:10:09 - 00:00:19:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry five different levels of interview techniques that I've used in my over 15 years of youth ministry, and probably more than 50 different interviews. Make 00:00:19:15 - 00:00:25:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry sure that you stick around to the end, because I'm going to throw a twist at you that most youth pastors miss. 00:00:25:15 - 00:00:28:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Welcome, everybody to the hybrid Ministry show. 00:00:28:16 - 00:00:44:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, hey everybody, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. My name is Nick Klassen. I am your host, and we're going to be answering this question. What advice would you give to someone going into their first interview for a youth pastor position, knowing that the only experience they have is as a leader or a volunteer? 00:00:45:00 - 00:01:02:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like I said, we're going to be walking through my five levels of youth ministry, and we're going to share a tip and then a test that you are going to lay out before the church. And so the first tip is make sure that you show up on time and that you dress appropriately like this. Listen, this is the basics. 00:01:02:05 - 00:01:22:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Be there when you say you're going to be there. Dress how you feel like you should just for the job. But the test okay is a little bit of, maybe a little bit of a surprise is that maybe don't dress quite so appropriately and see how the church responds to maybe you showing up in shorts, you showing up in a t shirt. 00:01:22:03 - 00:01:38:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, listen, you have to be willing to maybe not land that particular job, but I know in my experience, there's been times where like one time I went to a church and I didn't want to go to a church that was all stuck up and where I was going to have to dress up every single week and wear a tie. 00:01:38:08 - 00:01:57:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I went to meet the youth pastor. It was a Saturday afternoon, and I was like, you know what? I'm wearing shorts and we're just going to see how they respond to that. And to their credit, they responded actually really well. But there's, there's a, element in there where you're kind of like watching and observing and seeing how they're going to respond. 00:01:57:11 - 00:02:16:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, you have to know the context you have to know where you're walking into. And in most interviews that either I've been a part of or that I have hosted, the interviewee, does tend to be the more overdressed, but that all depends on the type of church that you're going to find yourself at, in the type of context that you find yourself in. 00:02:16:21 - 00:02:21:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But the very basics is show up on time and be as professional as possible. 00:02:21:26 - 00:02:44:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Level two is what I call the apprentice mode, and in this, the tip is that you need to research the church and its values. You should watch a couple or listen to a couple of sermons. You should read their about page. You should not be surprised if they don't have a denomination listed in their name, what their denomination is that they've just changed their name from. 00:02:44:17 - 00:03:12:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But you should have, some info and some basics about this church from some of the research that you've pulled up online. Now, the other thing, the test in this is that you should have questions about their values queued up that you find that you are genuinely curious about. So as you're having the interview and as they're asking you things and you notice something, they ask a certain question. 00:03:12:27 - 00:03:35:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I want you to earmark that, because at the end of every interview, they say, what questions do you have for me? And when I'm in the interview worksheet, I want that person to ask me questions about where I work. I want to be able to help fill out the picture for what it looks like. And when they say, I think I'm good right now, that I'm just going to be honest, is a little bit of a turnoff for me. 00:03:35:21 - 00:03:59:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so in the same way, be gearing up and have some questions. So for example, at the church I work at now, I noticed that their small group system all meet on Sunday morning, which at the exact same time, so does student ministry. So I ask questions about the value of small group as well as what it means for me as a youth pastor at this church, to be able to be in and around and a part of community. 00:03:59:10 - 00:04:22:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I got what I needed. Another thing that happened at this church was I asked questions about where they stand and how they feel about social media and hybrid ministry. This is the Hybrid Ministry podcast, and since I've been here in the last three years, we've experienced two acts growth in our youth ministry attendance and in our youth ministry involvement. 00:04:22:08 - 00:04:38:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But it didn't come with a little bit of a price where some people were like, do you know what the youth ministry is doing and how much emphasis and and how much time and effort they're putting in to social media and we had to overcome a little bit of that with some people who are a little bit put off. 00:04:39:04 - 00:04:58:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But our approach to our hybrid ministry, but as you can see, it's paid off. Hey quick break, let me ask you a question. Are you still waking up every day as a youth pastor, scrambling to figure out what you need to post on your social media? Blurry dodgeball. Pick a video that your leader sent you that's a little bit pixelated, because iPhone still hasn't updated fully to RCS yet. 00:04:58:28 - 00:05:21:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You see, you don't need that kind of stress this fall. That's why I created this the fall seasonal social media pack for youth pastors. It is three months worth of done for you content done for you, paired with some customization so that you and your leaders and your students are the faces and the personalities on your student ministry Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube shorts feed. 00:05:21:12 - 00:05:41:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So here's the thing. You can grab my pack right now over on Patreon. And did you know that monthly hybrid? Here are Patreon members who only pay $4 per month and get a bonus podcast. They get this pack completely for free, so if you do the math for three months worth of social media content, it's only $12 where the pack is 1799. 00:05:41:08 - 00:05:58:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Either way, it is a steal for you and it will take away the stress of posting. And you can grab that pack right now and start becoming a master at social media and hybrid ministry. In your youth ministry context, rooting for you as you are crushing it this fall in your student ministry 00:05:58:07 - 00:06:04:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry level three takes me to my Pro mode, and it's to ask my favorite interview question of all time. 00:06:04:11 - 00:06:28:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the question is this if I accepted this job and I started tomorrow and I did an amazing job, I hit a home run. What did I do? What did I do? That's my tip. I want you to ask that question. Regardless of if you're new and just an, a volunteer stepping into a potential paid youth ministry position or a youth ministry veteran. 00:06:28:08 - 00:06:52:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And here's why. And honestly, the tip is the test. Because this question will show you and it will reveal. And it will, like a detective, uncover what your interviewer, what your boss, what your senior pastor, whoever it is, the personnel committ

In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, we tackle the cellphone problem in youth groups and reveal a 3-step phone prevention strategy for youth ministry that actually works. Instead of fighting students for their phones, you’ll learn how youth pastors can use a variety of tools to their benefit, including how to turn phones from a distraction to an actual asset. 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And frankly, it's 00:00:17:01 - 00:00:24:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry a lot easier than fighting kids to get rid of their phones. Welcome everyone to the Hybrid Ministry Show. 00:00:24:10 - 00:00:29:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, hey, everybody, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. In this episode, we are answering this question. 00:00:29:05 - 00:00:34:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What are the ways that you have been able to keep students from being on phones during lessons and smog? 00:00:34:17 - 00:00:34:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Glad you 00:00:34:26 - 00:00:51:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry asked. Here's my three step strategy. Step number one is a central parking location. Like you read the comments of this post and just about everyone has either like some charging stations solution a little like hanging basket, 00:00:51:02 - 00:00:54:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry place for them to just like, leave their phones in the middle. 00:00:54:23 - 00:01:11:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Some different pictures, some different links to different things. We even had at our church at one point in time, we had like cell phone lockers. So this is like lockers with temporary codes where you go, you put your phone in, you create your own code, and then you come back and you get it. At the end of the night, we no longer have them. 00:01:11:12 - 00:01:30:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I tell you why in a minute, but, that's an option that was like the most, like next level solution. But basically everybody does it. Like, you just make that the thing. Hey, everyone, put your phones here before we go on into the room for youth group. The other option, let's be honest, like one of the good things that they could be using on their phone is like the Bible app. 00:01:30:26 - 00:01:49:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so if you're teaching from the Bible, you're going to give them some sort of like scripture lesson, and they're going to pull their Bibles out on their phone to read it. But then you know how phones work. That's because distraction there, over there, then playing clash clans in a minute, and they're no longer reading the Bible because you stopped reading the Bible in your lesson. 00:01:49:19 - 00:02:15:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, the solution set in two is just very simply like, provide paper Bibles, like if you want kids not on their phones and you want kids in the Bible, provide paper Bibles everywhere, all throughout your space so that there's no excuse for it and or also encourage, and even like potentially bribe and reward students who do bring their paper, Bibles to youth group to engage with Scripture in that way. 00:02:15:23 - 00:02:16:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The third 00:02:16:13 - 00:02:20:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry and most effective way, in my opinion, this is more of like in a small group setting. 00:02:20:04 - 00:02:25:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if you're in like a large group, room, this doesn't quite work. But in a small group setting, 00:02:25:04 - 00:02:35:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm a huge fan of the idea of a thing called a group covenant. Okay. And a group covenant is essentially something that you do at the beginning of a small group term or cycle. 00:02:36:09 - 00:02:55:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So you got to think about this. If you have like groups that never break for any sort of rhythm or any sort of reason, then you got to create natural kind of like start points. So, you know, beginning of the school year, maybe like beginning of the calendar year, something like that. Or in certain contexts I've worked in, we've, we had three distinct small groups cycles. 00:02:55:12 - 00:03:15:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we had the fall, the winter and then the summer. And so and then each of those ran for 12 weeks at a time or whatever. And so, during the beginning section of those, you, you have a small group covenant. So you talk about rules and expectations. What's the expectation in this group for treating one another and all those types of things? 00:03:15:21 - 00:03:20:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry However, in that the other thing that I recommend, 00:03:20:13 - 00:03:41:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry is you ask, what are we going to do about phones? And you let the students decide, and that's more powerful than you having temporary cell phone lockers. That's more powerful than you having paper Bibles. When you let the student say, decide and dictate what's going to happen with phones, that's where the wind is found. 00:03:41:10 - 00:04:07:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you just simply ask, what are we going to do about phones? They come up with it. And I've always found that students in a group covenant setting actually make stricter rules than rules that you would probably want to make for them. And so let them decide through the avenue of a group covenant, which, by the way, is one of the things I did not see in the comments of the description, however, of that of that question. 00:04:07:11 - 00:04:24:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry However, this is the hybrid ministry show, and so I would be remiss to not talk about the ways in which I have actually tried to use phones as an asset. And so in our student ministry, when I started here and this episode links right 00:04:24:00 - 00:04:31:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry here, I detailed and discussed how our hybrid ministry strategy has to our growth over the last three years. 00:04:31:29 - 00:04:55:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so when I got here, one of the moves we made was we went from rows to tables. That was a major decision and quite frankly, a thing that people had. Some issue with that at first. But now we do tables pretty much consistently. And whenever we take them away, people like you don't like rows anymore. So it's just funny to watch how people kind of change and transform over time. 00:04:55:18 - 00:05:21:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But one of the things that we're leaning into is sidekick. And so we have a poll, a QR based poll, which is one of the features of the new beta sidekick, which, by the way, if you didn't know, you can jump into co-leader or co-leader Premium plus, with code Hybrid Ministry 1001 word. They'll give you 10% off co-leader, which also gives you access to all of the sidekick stuff. 00:05:21:08 - 00:05:41:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so one of the benefits and they're still kind of working out some of the kinks, about sidekick and its relationship with the legacy version. But one of the kinks or but one of the best parts about the new version, the beta version of sidekick is, the, the poll voting. And so we use that all the time. 00:05:41:20 - 00:05:59:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so poll voting kids get their phone out their skin and they can vote. They can use it for games. They can use it for messages. We even use it sometimes in the pre-roll. I tell you what, I'm going to do that I'm going to link down below our sidekick set up because, it's still not all the way full proof yet. 00:05:59:12 - 00:06:09:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so sometimes pro presenter is a better option. And so we actually run both on two different machines, and show you how we set that up. Link down below. 00:06:09:06 - 00:06:16:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Hey, quick break. Let me ask you a question. Are you still waking up every day? Is youth pastor scrambling to figure out what you need to post on your socia

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But I'm just going to be honest, none of that, none of it moved the needle. It wasn't until I learned not only that volunteer leaders matter, but it's when I unlocked these five shifts. It directly impacted the size in the health in the reach of my youth ministry. 00:00:25:04 - 00:00:46:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry These aren't just some quick hacks. No, they're foundational principles that have revolutionized my thinking and led to real, measurable growth. But the best news of all for you? Not necessarily me. In each of these moments is that each one of these shifts, similar to like levels in a video game, come with a big bad boss of a failure story. 00:00:46:23 - 00:01:08:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I'm going to share each and every one of those failure stories with you until I had to defeat a different boss in one of my different 15 years of youth ministry, each boss becoming worse and the failure stories becoming more and more epic until we get to the final one, which left me not only questioning my job in that church, but also my youth ministry career. 00:01:08:27 - 00:01:29:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We're going to share these together in the hybrid ministry. So welcome everyone. Glad to have you. Well what's up everybody. Welcome to the Hybrid Minister Show. If you didn't know, we've been in a playlist here, talking and answering some different questions that I stumbled across in youth pastor Facebook groups. And this one today says I have officially crossed the line of 50 small group leaders. 00:01:29:00 - 00:01:47:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And for those of you who have 50 plus volunteers that are deeply invested in a week, how is you? How is your leadership of that team different than maybe a smaller team or so those of you who've crossed that line, how did you shift your leadership? So we're going to talk about the five levels of leadership, shifts that I've made. 00:01:47:02 - 00:02:07:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, frankly, I'm sitting right now at a position with greater than 50 leaders, and I would attribute, some of these shifts to be, what, some of those kind of, like, main things are. So with kind of that context out of the way, let's look through and chat through the five different levels. So the first level was the chaos level okay. 00:02:07:13 - 00:02:22:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So like in this chaos level I would constantly be frantically getting things set up. And I don't know about you, but I'm a little bit of a time optimist. And so what that means is like if I was like, okay, youth group starts at six, that means I need to get there at five to start getting things ready. 00:02:22:20 - 00:02:40:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I quickly learned I had to start moving that time back more and more because, you know, one of the things that would happen is I'm getting ready when students start showing up and I think they're going to show up at like 550, but instead students show up at like 530, and I am running out of time to get things set up. 00:02:40:18 - 00:03:02:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I feel chaotic in my spirit as they're there. And I'm also not able to give them any sort of attention or any sort of like relational equity, because I'm getting set up. So the next week I bump it back to five to maybe say 430, so I get a little bit more time. But then as I grow and as things in the ministry get more and more elaborate, and as we add more and more elements, I need more and more time. 00:03:02:05 - 00:03:21:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So the shift I had to make was the shift from the chaos to the control. Right? And so I could be in control. I could make that a moment that I actually owned that thing. And that was honestly a very like level one, very rookie mistake. And so the main shift I had to do is I had to start getting ready earlier. 00:03:21:08 - 00:03:36:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I had to start planning before Wednesday. I had to start planning on Tuesday, I had to start setting up earlier in the day. Whatever I needed to do. And the feel is this is that, early on, kids would walk in while I'm getting ready and I would be annoyed that a kid is there and like, I shouldn't be that way. 00:03:36:25 - 00:03:53:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, I'm a youth pastor, right? And so the shift, the very simple shift I had to make was if I just get set up earlier, then when a kid walks in, I'm done. They're not taking away something that I feel like I need to do, and I can devote and give my full attention to that kid who shows up early, which is a great thing for that kid. 00:03:53:27 - 00:04:14:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And with just that small, subtle shift, I started to see, more and more kind of like growth. I was more prepared for my leaders. I wasn't scrambling to get them things like printed out and handouts and service orders and all those types of things like those are all ready to go. When I started to do that, when I was more in control, when I was in less of a chaotic vibe, that all started to help. 00:04:14:23 - 00:04:35:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, there wasn't much right in that first level, as it pertains with volunteer leaders, because the second level here is the lone Ranger level. And for many, many years in youth ministry, I felt like it was my job because frankly, I'm getting paid by the church to do the youth ministry. But it wasn't until I started to learn this idea of delegation. 00:04:36:01 - 00:04:57:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right? And, the only real moments where I was able to get to a spot where I realized I had to go from Lone Ranger to delegation was when I had to defeat this big, bad boss. One Thursday. I was sitting in my office and I had, like, 20 to 25 new student, welcome. Like postcards that I had to write. 00:04:57:12 - 00:05:21:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It was just something that we had to do. Every time we had a new student, we had to write out a card. And every single week at this church, I was getting more and more new students, like 20, 25, like I was at a multi-site megachurch, and I was getting more than 20 new students every single week. And so I was, I had just started, taking over that position full time, independently. 00:05:21:04 - 00:05:37:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I had worked with, a coworker for, several months, and it was my first week without her, as kind of my counterpart in my my boss walks in, who's my campus pastor who didn't know anything about these cards or anything like that. It wasn't him who assigned those to me. And so he's like, hey, you got a minute? 00:05:37:28 - 00:06:02:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I was like, literally, no. And I didn't look up. And I kept frantically writing while he's at my door and I'm trying to talk within. I'm trying to have conversation with them. I can't even remember what it was about, but. And I knew that that was rude. I knew I should have put my pin down. I looked at him, but what that was going to mean was I wasn't going to get to leave work on time when I needed to leave work, and that was also a value of mine. 00:06:02:07 - 00:06:25:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so in that moment, I was like, I never want to get to the spot again. Like, I need to delegate some of this off. I need to do what only I can do. And there are plenty of volunteers and there are plenty of people. I had an amazing check in team that could have very easily at the end of check in when you know, it's like, let's say the event starts at six and it's 610 and most of the students have checked in. 00:06:25:06 - 00:06:46:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They're there for the next hour and 20 minutes like they had plenty o

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But here's 00:00:09:13 - 00:00:20:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry something that someone might not tell you about some of these theme nights is that in every single one, there is an opportunity for a huge mistake. Sometimes it was funny, sometimes it was painful. 00:00:20:21 - 00:00:21:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And one time I 00:00:21:14 - 00:00:23:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry even thought I might be getting fired. 00:00:23:19 - 00:00:37:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so before you try this for yourself, in this episode, I'm going to share with you my five favorite theme nights from my last 15 years in youth ministry. And the one mistake I learned from each of those, so that you don't have 00:00:37:02 - 00:00:39:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry to learn it the hard way for yourself. 00:00:39:12 - 00:00:54:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Welcome my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry show. Well, hey my friends, welcome back to the Hybrid Ministry Show. I am your host, Nick Claussen, and I have been in this recent playlist asking and answering different questions found in different youth ministry 00:00:54:00 - 00:00:55:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Facebook groups. And this 00:00:55:19 - 00:00:55:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry one 00:00:55:27 - 00:00:59:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry says, hey, what are some theme nights you've done with your group that your kids have really enjoyed? 00:00:59:20 - 00:01:03:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like Jersey night? Crazy hair. Looking forward to some ideas. 00:01:03:16 - 00:01:03:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And 00:01:03:22 - 00:01:03:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry so 00:01:03:28 - 00:01:23:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I figured, hey, I want to share some of my best theme nights. And I've discussed this before in some recent episodes. In fact, we did kind of like a fall playlist master class thing where I talked about my strategy for youth ministry. And oftentimes I'll make a theme night, a cultivate night, which is a bring your friends and invite style night. 00:01:23:22 - 00:01:36:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so one of the very first, invite style nights that I did as a youth pastor was one that I grew up as a teenager doing my youth pastor shout out to Pastor Tim Blow. He did an event 00:01:36:16 - 00:01:42:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry called Duct Tape Night. And, then I went several years later to intern for him, and he also did it. 00:01:42:06 - 00:02:02:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so then when it was my turn to be a youth pastor, it was time to do duct tape night. And so we do all kinds of different duct tape. We buy a bunch. We encourage students to, you know, bring like, bring something made out of duct tape that they made, will play, you know, games with duct tape or I even have a game I download youth ministry, called duct tape Trivia. 00:02:02:28 - 00:02:23:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's one of my very, very first vivid early on games. And then we'll even play, like, steal the bacon. But in the middle, we'll we'll play, like, steal the duct tape instead. But one probably like the star of the show. Like the thing that kids and students and even leaders look the most forward to is the duct tape a student to the wall challenge. 00:02:23:00 - 00:02:41:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, like, I was, like I said, within my first couple, months, even weeks of of taking this new job and got a couple kids and decided to duct tape them to the wall. And that's all well and good. No one got hurt. I mean, if you get enough duct tape, they literally can stick to the wall and they're not going to fall down. 00:02:41:20 - 00:02:42:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That wasn't the problem. 00:02:42:27 - 00:03:00:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What was the problem was as soon as, they started to fall off the wall, we started to take them down off the wall. It took the paint with them. Mind you, I'm in week, like, three and a half of this job. And so, you know, it's Wednesday night. The entire church is their kids ministry, youth ministry, adult ministry. 00:03:00:12 - 00:03:01:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so at the end of the night, 00:03:01:18 - 00:03:14:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry all the adults like how duct tape night go because, like, they knew about it, heard about it, but had never, like, seen an event like this before. And we're like, oh, good, good, good. And I was talking to my, my senior pastor, my boss. Right. And I was like, oh, it's awesome. 00:03:14:25 - 00:03:31:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We had this, we had this, we had this many new kids, whatever. Oh, also, I had, kid, pull some of the tape off the, some of the paint off the wall with the duct tape. So just, you know, tell me, like what color paint that was, and, I'll. I'll repaint it. No big deal. 00:03:31:29 - 00:03:53:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. And he goes that we had to have that, like, specially painted with it in a very special way with, like, a sponge and like a finish. And the person who did that doesn't even live here anymore. They live in Georgia. And like my eyes, I'm just, like, wide eyed. Like what have I done? So I have to somehow get this wall repainted. 00:03:53:26 - 00:04:14:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But reach out to this person who doesn't go to the church anymore. And so within my first couple weeks of ever having a job, I took paint off the precious youth room walls that had been done in a very special and particular way, and so I've learned when you do that duct tape thing, don't put it on paint. 00:04:14:05 - 00:04:34:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I did put it on a brick wall, but it was a painted brick wall. So then in future years, I, stopped putting it on paint because it definitely was always taking the paint in the finish and the drywall off, but it is still an amazing and great event that you can theme, around duct tape. And it's it's a little bit niche and it's a little bit off the beaten track. 00:04:34:06 - 00:04:51:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So it's not your typical style of night. This one right here is one that we just did three weeks ago, and we called it our Back to School night. But in front of the, night, we spelled it with a k parentheses with the K. Back to school night, and we went medieval 00:04:51:21 - 00:04:53:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry themed. And, if you're due, I am member. 00:04:53:27 - 00:04:57:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Back in January, they dropped a, game called 00:04:57:02 - 00:05:04:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Loot and Lunacy, and we were going to play Loot and Lunacy at some point in January. But I remember we were in 00:05:04:13 - 00:05:14:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry our run through in our Q to Q and the game. It's just like long, like there are ten sides, ten questions, and they're each like a minute and 30s or so long. 00:05:14:09 - 00:05:32:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you needed to carve out a good 15, maybe even 20 minutes to the whole game. And so that night, right on the moment, right on a dime, I actually decided to switch to another game. So I held loot and lunacy just in my back pocket, knowing I wanted to go back to at some point in the future. 00:05:32:11 - 00:05:50:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so when our back to school came around, I was like, let's, let's build a night around loot and lunacy. And in the meantime, we built up

Youth ministry theme nights are some of the BEST ways to get students inviting friends and to build momentum in your group. But here’s the thing nobody tells you—every single one of my theme nights has come with a mistake. Sometimes it was funny, sometimes it was painful… and one time I thought I was getting fired… Before you try these for yourself, let me give you my five best theme nights from 15 years in youth ministry—and the one mistake I made in each, so you don’t have to learn the hard way. 🍂 FALL SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-seasonal-137477671?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=postsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link 🦸 HYBRID HEROES GET THE PACK FOR FREE! https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/169 Fall Masterclass https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLngXlSr64YaLfP12NPWmpBzXoCcEsAyBF Duct Tape Trivia https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/duct-tape-trivia/kids-ministry/games-1029.html Loot & Lunacy https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/loot-and-lunacy/games/video-enhanced-9909.html Patreon (K)Night Episode https://www.patreon.com/posts/back-2-school-k-137095993 Christmas Movie Bracket https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/the-ultimate-christmas-movie-showdown/christmas/christmas-games-9784.html Patreon Christmas Episode https://www.patreon.com/posts/hybrid-christmas-117617122 👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz -------------- 🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉 We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context! 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But here's 00:00:09:13 - 00:00:20:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry something that someone might not tell you about some of these theme nights is that in every single one, there is an opportunity for a huge mistake. Sometimes it was funny, sometimes it was painful. 00:00:20:21 - 00:00:21:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And one time I 00:00:21:14 - 00:00:23:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry even thought I might be getting fired. 00:00:23:19 - 00:00:37:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so before you try this for yourself, in this episode, I'm going to share with you my five favorite theme nights from my last 15 years in youth ministry. And the one mistake I learned from each of those, so that you don't have 00:00:37:02 - 00:00:39:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry to learn it the hard way for yourself. 00:00:39:12 - 00:00:54:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Welcome my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry show. Well, hey my friends, welcome back to the Hybrid Ministry Show. I am your host, Nick Claussen, and I have been in this recent playlist asking and answering different questions found in different youth ministry 00:00:54:00 - 00:00:55:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Facebook groups. And this 00:00:55:19 - 00:00:55:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry one 00:00:55:27 - 00:00:59:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry says, hey, what are some theme nights you've done with your group that your kids have really enjoyed? 00:00:59:20 - 00:01:03:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like Jersey night? Crazy hair. Looking forward to some ideas. 00:01:03:16 - 00:01:03:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And 00:01:03:22 - 00:01:03:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry so 00:01:03:28 - 00:01:23:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I figured, hey, I want to share some of my best theme nights. And I've discussed this before in some recent episodes. In fact, we did kind of like a fall playlist master class thing where I talked about my strategy for youth ministry. And oftentimes I'll make a theme night, a cultivate night, which is a bring your friends and invite style night. 00:01:23:22 - 00:01:36:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so one of the very first, invite style nights that I did as a youth pastor was one that I grew up as a teenager doing my youth pastor shout out to Pastor Tim Blow. He did an event 00:01:36:16 - 00:01:42:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry called Duct Tape Night. And, then I went several years later to intern for him, and he also did it. 00:01:42:06 - 00:02:02:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so then when it was my turn to be a youth pastor, it was time to do duct tape night. And so we do all kinds of different duct tape. We buy a bunch. We encourage students to, you know, bring like, bring something made out of duct tape that they made, will play, you know, games with duct tape or I even have a game I download youth ministry, called duct tape Trivia. 00:02:02:28 - 00:02:23:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's one of my very, very first vivid early on games. And then we'll even play, like, steal the bacon. But in the middle, we'll we'll play, like, steal the duct tape instead. But one probably like the star of the show. Like the thing that kids and students and even leaders look the most forward to is the duct tape a student to the wall challenge. 00:02:23:00 - 00:02:41:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, like, I was, like I said, within my first couple, months, even weeks of of taking this new job and got a couple kids and decided to duct tape them to the wall. And that's all well and good. No one got hurt. I mean, if you get enough duct tape, they literally can stick to the wall and they're not going to fall down. 00:02:41:20 - 00:02:42:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That wasn't the problem. 00:02:42:27 - 00:03:00:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What was the problem was as soon as, they started to fall off the wall, we started to take them down off the wall. It took the paint with them. Mind you, I'm in week, like, three and a half of this job. And so, you know, it's Wednesday night. The entire church is their kids ministry, youth ministry, adult ministry. 00:03:00:12 - 00:03:01:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so at the end of the night, 00:03:01:18 - 00:03:14:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry all the adults like how duct tape night go because, like, they knew about it, heard about it, but had never, like, seen an event like this before. And we're like, oh, good, good, good. And I was talking to my, my senior pastor, my boss. Right. And I was like, oh, it's awesome. 00:03:14:25 - 00:03:31:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We had this, we had this, we had this many new kids, whatever. Oh, also, I had, kid, pull some of the tape off the, some of the paint off the wall with the duct tape. So just, you know, tell me, like what color paint that was, and, I'll. I'll repaint it. No big deal. 00:03:31:29 - 00:03:53:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. And he goes that we had to have that, like, specially painted with it in a very special way with, like, a sponge and like a finish. And the person who did that doesn't even live here anymore. They live in Georgia. And like my eyes, I'm just, like, wide eyed. Like what have I done? So I have to somehow get this wall repainted. 00:03:53:26 - 00:04:14:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But reach out to this person who doesn't go to the church anymore. And so within my first couple weeks of ever having a job, I took paint off the precious youth room walls that had been done in a very special and particular way, and so I've learned when you do that duct tape thing, don't put it on paint. 00:04:14:05 - 00:04:34:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I did put it on a brick wall, but it was a painted brick wall. So then in future years, I, stopped putting it on paint because it definitely was always taking the paint in the finish and the drywall off, but it is still an amazing and great event that you can theme, around duct tape. And it's it's a little bit niche and it's a little bit off the beaten track. 00:04:34:06 - 00:04:51:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So it's not your typical style of night. This one right here is one that we just did three weeks ago, and we called it our Back to School night. But in front of the, night, we spelled it with a k parentheses with the K. Back to school night, and we went medieval 00:04:51:21 - 00:04:53:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry themed. And, if you're due, I am member. 00:04:53:27 - 00:04:57:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Back in January, they dropped a, game called 00:04:57:02 - 00:05:04:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Loot and Lunacy, and we were going to play Loot and Lunacy at some point in January. But I remember we were in 00:05:04:13 - 00:05:14:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry our run through in our Q to Q and the game. It's just like long, like there are ten sides, ten questions, and they're each like a minute and 30s or so long. 00:05:14:09 - 00:05:32:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you needed to carve out a good 15, maybe even 20 minutes to the whole game. And so that night, right on the moment, right on a dime, I actually decided to switch to another game. So I held loot and lunacy just in my back poc

Leaving a Youth Ministry Job is tough, in this video, we're going to explore some top Youth Pastor job switch questions, such as: Is it wrong to look for a new church job? When you start looking, when should you share that information with your current church? How can someone go about expressing concern about current job frustrations without burning bridges? 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But I've learned some things along the way, and I want to talk about some of the pros and the cons about when you choose to share this with your church leadership and what I recommend doing. 00:00:23:24 - 00:00:44:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show, everybody. Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. My name is Nick Klassen and in this episode we're going to be answering this question. What are some what is some advice for looking at other church jobs while you're still working at your current one? Specifically, according to this anonymous poster, they said they're currently in negotiations with their current church. 00:00:44:26 - 00:01:10:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They love the place. However, the workload is undoable. They're not willing to budge on adding staff to the student ministry instead of looking at other jobs to get an idea of what other church staffing ratios might look like. And in the midst, they may have found what seems to be better circumstances over and over again. Should they let their current church know that they're applying, or should they wait until they get a real response in interviews from the other churches? 00:01:10:15 - 00:01:34:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I know it's not, but it almost is. I can go on behind their back, but my main goal is to really see if I'm off on what I'm asking for. If you've been in this place before or have any advice, please help. Well, the first thing that I want to say is that I believe that there are four principles when it comes to looking for a new church job that you should just, you know, be aware of and like, have kind of on your horizon. 00:01:34:19 - 00:02:01:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Number one is it's not disloyal to look like there's nothing wrong with looking for I, I understand it like you say, saying here, like it feels like I'm doing something wrong. I'm going behind their back. I understand that feeling. I've had that feeling. But you got to understand that there is nothing inherently or morally wrong. Now, if you're doing something sneaky or you're lying, like if, of course, there's like a moral, you know, a moral obligation baked within to that. 00:02:01:12 - 00:02:20:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But like in the grand scheme of things like you haven't done anything wrong. The other thing is, like you don't you're not obligated when you're like looking for other jobs to tell your church. That's my personal opinion. And that's what I believe from like a moral, ethical like dilemma. Right. Hey, quick break. Let me ask you a question. 00:02:20:21 - 00:02:41:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Are you still waking up every day as a youth pastor, scrambling to figure out what you need to post on your social media? Blurry dodgeball. Pick a video that your leader sent you that's a little bit pixelated, because iPhone still hasn't updated fully to RCS yet. You see, you don't need that kind of stress this fall. That's why I created this, the fall seasonal social media pack for youth pastors. 00:02:41:02 - 00:03:01:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It is three months worth of done for you content done for you, paired with some customization so that you and your leaders and your students are the faces and the personalities on your student ministry. Instagram, TikTok and YouTube shorts. See, see? Here's the thing. You can grab my pack right now over on Patreon. And did you know that monthly hybrid? 00:03:01:28 - 00:03:19:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Here are Patreon members who only pay $4 per month and get a bonus podcast. They get this pack completely for free, so if you do the math for three months worth of social media content, it's only $12. Where the pack is 1799. Either way, it is a steal for you and it will take away the stress of posting. 00:03:19:22 - 00:03:42:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you can grab that pack right now and start becoming a master at social media and hybrid ministry. In your youth ministry context, rooting for you as you are crushing it this fall in your student ministry. The third one is like you should try to keep an open communication about your workload. And according to this question, it sounds like you are. 00:03:42:03 - 00:04:10:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or at least you're attempting to. And like I would. This is why I am such a strong, proponent and advocate for regular one on one check ins. So like, for example, at one church I worked at, my boss had like an open door policy and it was like, hey, come find me if you need me. And like for my personality type guy who, like, doesn't really like to be told what to do and doesn't really like, love taking advice from other people, wants to kind of figure it out for themselves. 00:04:10:24 - 00:04:30:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like I never needed him like. But there are times he's like, you never come to me. And like, he took that as like me being uncomfortable and teachable and just, like, wasn't like my vibe, right? But my very next job with my very next boss. Regular one on ones. Not my favorite thing, to be honest. Because again, same thing personality like do things on my own. 00:04:30:12 - 00:04:49:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry However, it helped me stay just like in the loop of like how he was feeling about me, how he was feeling about my job performance. Like what I could do better. And like when you when you in a regular one on one get feedback about like what you could be doing better, like what you're doing well like that's a natural normal thing when you're never having regular one on ones. 00:04:49:15 - 00:05:11:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like then when you do have like a talking to, so to speak, with, like your boss, like then you're getting in trouble. And so if you don't have regular one on ones, first of all, that's on your manager. But second of all, like an opportunity for you to lead up in this moment and ask like, hey, can we have the regular check in where we can evaluate and analyze like how this is going and like what we could do, you know, to make it better? 00:05:11:18 - 00:05:31:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And one thing I say to the staff that I lead is like, don't just bring problems but bring solutions. And so if you feel like the workload is unmanageable, it very well may be and you may be getting to a spot where like you do have to make a decision and you do have to choose to leave. However, what are some other solutions that you could bring to your manager, like perhaps some of this like workload? 00:05:31:11 - 00:05:47:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I can hand some of these things after some of my unpaid volunteers, and I can start to treat them as like quasi staff members, you know, certain things like that, like what would it look like to be able to do that? And I don't know your current context in all of your current situations, but if you truly did want to stay, what would it look like if you did something like that? 00:05:47:14 - 00:06:12:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Then my fourth and final option is until God calls you anywhere, like bloom, where you're planted, which means like as soon as like you start looking elsewhere and maybe even like get your heart set on somewhere else. It's really easy once that like Seed of potential is planted in your head that you just like want to chase it and you're ready to mentally check out where you are and start to check in somewhere else. 00:06:12:08 - 00:06:30:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And my encouragement is just continue to bloom where God has you planted for the time being, and God God in his timing. And I can. I can say this based on my own experience. God is always perfect in his timing and God. When it's clear that it's time to go, God will make it very clear when it's time for you to go. 00:06:30:16 - 00:06:47:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In the meanwhile, stay completely locked in and bloomed. Where

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Welcome to Nick Clason Theological Seminary—or as my new resident called it, NCTS. I’m not actually starting a seminary, but if you’re brand new to youth ministry and wondering, "What books should I read?" You’re in the right place. Today I’m breaking down 5 must-read youth ministry books and 3 video courses that will give you a solid foundation for preaching, programming, and discipling students in today’s world. 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Now, listen, I'm not actually starting to sing you, but if you are brand new to youth ministry and you're wondering, like this person and this youth pastor Facebook group who said, hey, I am new to youth ministry and I've been out of the youth ministry position for 11 years. 00:00:27:26 - 00:00:59:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So anyone have any new books or resources that will help me with today's youth, ages 9 to 18 at this new position? They've had trouble the last year with getting volunteers, kids showing up and committing to events. If anyone has any advice on these things that would help. Thank you and good luck with your ministry. If that's you, or if you're asking a question like that, well then today you're in the right place because what I'm actually going to be doing is I'm going to be breaking down five must-read youth ministry books paired with three video courses. 00:00:59:07 - 00:01:30:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And those two things paired together are going to give you a solid foundation for preaching, programing, and discipling students in today's world. Welcome, everyone to the hybrid ministry Show. What's up everyone? Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. For a quick bit of context. Just as a reminder, there are always chapters listed down below. In this episode, I'm breaking down what you should be reading and what you can be using as prep as a new or, building a foundation in youth ministry. 00:01:30:18 - 00:01:54:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And this really came to light in, recent days. My boss, Darren, who was, a and still is a 30 plus year youth ministry veteran, moved on to a different role, and I stepped into his seat and I inherited a team, with a combined less than one year of paid professional, full time youth ministry experience. 00:01:54:22 - 00:02:16:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry There are four of them, but every single one of them has less than a year, and in some cases, less than six months of paid professional, full time youth ministry experience. They're eager. They're awesome. I love our team. But they're all very young. And so I started kind of thinking through, like, what are some of the things that we should be, that they should know? 00:02:16:08 - 00:02:41:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And what are some of the things that have been foundational to me that I have known? And so, in previous, years when, you know, Dan was on the team and I was his right hand man, him and I kind of in tandem led these, lunch and learn kind of like workshops. And so I went back through and I looked at what we did last year, and then I looked ahead and, I started, like, thinking, like, what was some of the most core or, like, foundational things for me growing up. 00:02:41:24 - 00:03:02:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so this is essentially like my, like, must have go to like types of things, for youth pastors and frankly, for people in ministry because some of these things are not actually only like ministry specific. So, there are going to be links to every single one of these listed down below in the description. Make sure that you go check those out. 00:03:02:10 - 00:03:21:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry There may be a small affiliate commission. Won't change the price for you. Some might not have it. Like, I don't know exactly. Which ones are which, but you can go ahead and check those out. But the first thing and so like in our what I'll do is I'll share, here on screen, if you're watching on YouTube, I'll share are like brunch and learn schedule. 00:03:21:13 - 00:03:51:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we meet once a month, for discussion around some of these topics. And now, I'm, I'm building it and setting it up in this particular way, to try and space out some of the obligation and some of the reading that I'm requiring of them. However. So, like, you need to understand, like I'm putting, like, shorter books, after longer books, and then I'm doing a video class in between some books and stuff like that so that it's not only reading and there's like videos in there. 00:03:51:14 - 00:04:07:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so that's why I'm breaking it up, kind of the way that I'm breaking it up. But like, you can kind of go in any, any direction and like, depending on the appetite that you may or may not have for learning, that may or may not be better for you. So go ahead and try and kind of like take, take this with a grain of salt. 00:04:07:29 - 00:04:31:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm not saying you have to go in any particular order. I may recommend like a particular order, but you can go in, in whatever or you want. And I'll explain what each of the books kind of focus on. And so depending on your context, you can kind of, grab it, in that way. But for us, starting off, we're doing a 50 day devotional study from Sun Life called Knowing Him. 00:04:31:07 - 00:05:01:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And now what is awesome about this book is a it's a devotional, so you can, like, add it and make it a part of just like your daily morning, like quiet time reading. And what it is, is it's an exploration through the life of Christ in 50 days, in chronological order. My senior pastor and then also like the founder of Sun Life, Dan Spader, and many of the guys kind of in that arena have sort of found the value in looking at the harmony of the Gospels in the chronological order life of Jesus. 00:05:01:23 - 00:05:31:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And that's what this 50 day study is, kind of built around. And I kid you not like, I'm not saying this hyperbolically this is perhaps the most beneficial, like devotional study that I have ever been through in my life. It's so impactful. So several videos back linked right up here talked about my, event strategy, the, the spiritual CPR and that kind of came, from the roots in the foundation of like, a sun life kind of strategy. 00:05:31:23 - 00:05:49:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And this knowing him, is really like the core, kind of like foundation. Or like the, the chronological ness of, of it all. And so was really been cool is, my team right now they're working through this. And, one of the guys, he goes, you know, I just kind of assumed, like, I've been through a million Bible studies. 00:05:49:05 - 00:06:12:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I just kind of assumed the questions would be kind of lame and kind of basic. He's like, the study's fantastic. And the questions are really, really making me think so it's really, really good. And, we at a as our church, we try to position our church and thus our ministry after the chronological nature of Jesus and, and follow his blueprint and disciple making pathway for making leaders. 00:06:12:15 - 00:06:32:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, this devotional really helps, get our, our team into that headspace of, doing ministry like Jesus and exploring it t

In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Podcast, I share how our youth group doubled in just 3 years using simple hybrid ministry strategies that any youth pastor can apply. You’ll learn practical tips for increasing youth group attendance, retaining volunteers, engaging parents, and building a student ministry that makes more and better disciples of Jesus. Whether you’re leading a small church youth group or looking for big youth ministry ideas on a budget, these proven hybrid ministry strategies for youth pastors will help your ministry grow. SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/166 //STUDIO TOUR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVT1xvh9-5k INTERN BUDGET 📊 [FREE] HYBRID STRATEGY GUIDE https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book YOUTH PASTOR BUDGET 🍂 FALL SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-seasonal-137477671?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=postsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link *🦸 HYBRID HEROS GET THE PACK FOR FREE! * https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry SENIOR PASTOR BUDGET 📋 "PICK NICK'S BRAIN" Coaching Call https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching ✅ CHURCH COMMS DONE FOR YOU Hire me to run your church website, social media or communications! https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms //TRY OPUS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz -------------- 🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉 We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context! 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Some of the below links are affilate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products //VIDIQ https://vidiq.com/hybrid //BEST DYM RESOURCES https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym //OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 //YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100 https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit -------------- 🕰️TIMECODES 00:00 We Experienced 2x Growth using this! 02:01 How we got here - The Hybrid History 07:00 The Intern Budget Option 08:12 The Youth Pastor Budget Option 10:57 The Senior Pastor Budget Option -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:01:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I posted this way and 00:00:01:23 - 00:00:03:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry this often for the last 00:00:03:06 - 00:00:04:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry three years. And here's 00:00:04:13 - 00:00:34:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry what happened on YouTube alone. We've had over 6000 views, 4000 plus hours of watch time, and over 900 subscribers. That's awesome success online. However, it doesn't just stop there. We've experienced 100.6% growth in our youth ministry in that exact same amount of time while we've been posting like, okay, here's a good news I am real life boots on the ground youth pastor. 00:00:34:01 - 00:01:02:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I also have to do things just like you like write a message, recruit volunteers, meet with my senior pastor as well as dream up, create, and post on social media regularly. Now if you do this, I will say that you'll experience 100.6% growth. But there are many additional benefits to this strategy. Things like attendance obviously being one of them. 00:01:02:22 - 00:01:23:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But you'll also see an uptick in student ministry volunteers, an uptick in your parent ministry. It can increase your leader, retention, and you'll have the ability to lean into your true calling as a pastor, where you get the opportunity to equip the saints for the works and acts of service, which actually we talked about in my last video linked right here. 00:01:23:18 - 00:01:44:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And here's the thing. I can help you do it. I have three different tiers of help available. Like if you're on the intern budget, I can give you completely free rundown version. If you're on the youth pastor budget for less than $6 a month, I have an option for you there as well. Or if you have the Senior Pastor Cadillac option, I'll do it for you. 00:01:44:08 - 00:02:08:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is where the parent and the leader piece really comes into play in that final option. Don't forget there are some chapters listed down below so that you can jump ahead to the part of this episode that makes the most sense to you. Welcome my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry show. So I've been on staff here at this church exactly three years and in the exact same amount of time. 00:02:08:23 - 00:02:31:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Just like I said in the intro, we've been posting with this rhythm. In fact, when we started, we were posting all of our long form messages to YouTube and we were doing so with just a cell phone camera. In fact, as soon as I moved here, I bought the brand new Google Pixel nine Plus Pro so that I could use it for social media and for its its camera purposes. 00:02:31:15 - 00:02:59:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They were telling me at the time that it was the best phone on the market, and so we were using it. And that was our that was our primary avenue. Bought a couple of different like microphone options to pair with the camera. And that was it. That's all we had and that's all we used. And so we would post not only long form YouTube messages, but also all of our short form content, which, speaking of short form content, we were posting three times per day on social media. 00:02:59:03 - 00:03:34:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry My goal at the time was aggressive growth, and I had just moved here from Chicago. And I had just, you know, for the previous about six months or so, been kind of dabbling in the tick tock Instagram Reels realm and was learning that three times a day was aggressive. But it also, you had more bites at the apple for an opportunity to be seen, you know, at the time, the kind of go on on those platforms TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube shorts was get as many bites at the apple so that you have more chances to be discovered, to be seen, and then to go viral. 00:03:35:00 - 00:03:54:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This my strategy has since shifted a little bit. And, you know, of course we'll get into that. But then we were filming any of these pieces of content just in and around our space. So in offices or in like the lobby or like even just main on the street, like anywhere we found any of our other, like, staff. 00:03:54:21 - 00:04:18:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But eventually we built a full studio, which is actually the room I am sitting in right now. And over time, we've progressively spent more on gear and on set design and budget for it. But to start, it was a pretty basic studio build. We spent a little bit on paint and, you know, some wall treatment type options and some tchotchkes for shelves. 00:04:18:19 - 00:04:38:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And that was it. I will actually post full, tour studio link down below if you're interested in that, along with much of the gear that we use for that. But I would say one of the key shifts was once we had our studio built out, I had a resident shout out to my good friend Caleb Flywheel. 00:04:38:00 - 00:05:01:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Maita, who had this idea, because we were posting long form pieces of content, for all of our messages on YouTube. So that was myself and any, anyone else on staff that was, that was delivering a message that was being posted to YouTube. He wanted to see more students in long form on YouTube. So he created this idea this weekly social challenge. 00:05:01:23 - 00:05:22:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry He would film it on Wednesday night, in long form, in horizontal mode, and then he would edit all day Thursday and post a social challenge by the end of the day Thursday. It was a great idea. It's a great concept, but it was cooking his Thursdays like he never got anything else done except for just working on, you know, social challenge stuff. 00:05:22:20 - 00:05:41:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we eventually, adapted and shifted that strategy to be where we captured the majority and the lion's share of our student based short form content. We would do it in the studio any single time that we met on Wednesday nights. And I've detailed an outline that in previous episodes. So make sure that you subscribe and go back and listen to some of those. 00:05:41:12 - 00:05:59:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But here's the thing that you might be thinking as you hear this, you might be thinking, this sounds both overwhelming and hard, and I just want to let you know that I have, recently yesterday, a guy on my team came to me and he said, I am over budgeting my time. And as a what do you mean by that? 00:05:59:04 - 00:06:20:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry He said, I'm giving myself like two hour blocks of time and it's not taking quite that long. And right now he is owning the majority of our social media content. I've shifted into a little bit of a new role. I've given him a lot more to do with with editing and posting and what he is saying in his own words, and I would I would echo this to be true. 00:06:20:01 - 00:06:38:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What I've learned is once you learn how to use some of these platforms and some of these programs, it's not as time consuming as you might think it is. The learning curve on the front side might feel steep, but once you get up over that hump, the actual maintenance mode of some of these things isn't as difficult as you think. 00:06:38:17 - 00:06:58:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And as I as I outlined in my last episode, you can han

Struggling to keep up with your youth group’s social media? In this episode, I’ll show you how to build a student-led social media team for your youth ministry—from recruiting Gen Z content creators to assigning creative roles like studio recruiter, sermon recap editors, and “man on the street” interviewers. Plus, I’ll show you how my Fall Social Media Pack (available on Patreon) gives you 3 months of done-for-you content your students can run without you lifting a finger. //Social Team Checklist https://www.patreon.com/posts/social-media-138081327?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=postsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link 🍂 FALL SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-seasonal-137477671?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=postsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/165 *🦸 HYBRID HEROS GET THE PACK FOR FREE! * https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry FALL MASTERCLASS PLAYLIST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fsa_fgbYCE&list=PLngXlSr64YaLfP12NPWmpBzXoCcEsAyBF //Fully Built out Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVT1xvh9-5k //TRY OPUS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 //100 BONUS IDEAS & TEMPLATE https://share.hsforms.com/1JOHqd4XOTbC5ZgfXB85BCwnumis ✅ CHURCH COMMS DONE FOR YOU Hire me to run your church website, social media or communications! https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms 📊 [FREE] HYBRID STRATEGY GUIDE https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book 📋 "PICK NICK'S BRAIN" Coaching Call https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching 👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz -------------- 🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉 We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context! The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe! https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick -------------- 🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU! Some of the below links are affilate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products //VIDIQ https://vidiq.com/hybrid //BEST DYM RESOURCES https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym //OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 //YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100 https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit -------------- 🕰️TIMECODES 00:00 Student Social Team Framework 01:08 Why Students? 6:30 What we post 08:23 Studio Roles 11:43 On the Street Roles 13:46 The Power of the Social team 14:53 How I do no work 20:05 How you can do no work -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:01:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You're tired. Apparently, your 00:00:01:28 - 00:00:02:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry weekly 00:00:02:10 - 00:00:02:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry message 00:00:02:22 - 00:00:03:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry isn't writing itself. 00:00:03:29 - 00:00:04:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Senior 00:00:04:13 - 00:00:04:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry pastors, 00:00:04:23 - 00:00:08:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry who used to be youth pastors, continue to pitch you mid-tier 00:00:08:18 - 00:00:09:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry ideas, and 00:00:09:00 - 00:00:09:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry the finance 00:00:09:12 - 00:00:13:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry team, they just won't get off your back for that missing pizza receipt. 00:00:13:03 - 00:00:20:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What in the world would you possibly have time to draft and dream up a fully student led social media team? 00:00:20:13 - 00:00:26:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Because of all of that and because of all these commitments, that's why your feed looks like this. 00:00:26:08 - 00:00:28:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What if the answer isn't more of you? But what 00:00:28:26 - 00:00:38:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry if the answer is actually more then, because you, as a youth pastor are surrounded by the world's most capable content creator, they're called 00:00:38:09 - 00:00:49:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry teenagers. I have, in my context, built, student led, and student completely run social media teams. And in this episode, I'm going to share with you 00:00:49:07 - 00:00:53:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry how you can do that mistakes and means and all. 00:00:53:16 - 00:01:14:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And they're going to post things that are not only going to make your feed come to life, but also they'll never post something that's going to result in getting you fired, probably. Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. Well, hey everybody, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. If you and I haven't had a chance to meet you. My name is Nick Claussen. 00:01:14:13 - 00:01:39:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I am a 15 year youth ministry veteran who's been passionate about social media and digital and ushered into that an absolutely expedited pace in Covid and through Covid. And now, since Covid, I have built social media teams and social media, platforms that completely are self-sustainable. Now at this point, and in this episode, I am going to fully outline in detail for you all of that. 00:01:39:20 - 00:02:04:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Because here's the thing. In this, episode and on this podcast, I talk a lot about my hybrid ministry strategy. In fact, my entire hybrid strategy is linked down below. You can download it, you can use it, you can take it in that e-book. I recommend posting ten times per week. And I'm going to share with you the ten posts that I post per week in my current student ministry on social media. 00:02:04:17 - 00:02:31:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry However, if you download my student or my fast seasonal social media pack, which is over on Patreon, the getting started version of that, social media strategy is actually only posting three times per week because I get it. Like youth ministries and youth pastors, they're busy. And so in this episode, what I want to outline for you is how to do that completely through your student volunteers. 00:02:31:02 - 00:02:51:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we're going to explain, the reason behind why you should pick students as part of your social media team. Also, what are some roles that you can recruit them into as you are creating and building a social media team? We'll talk about some roles for, students. If you're shooting in like a studio, we can talk about roles for students. 00:02:51:28 - 00:03:14:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you are shooting some stuff on the street or like out and about in your space. Also, student ministry editors, which are honestly, in my opinion, the biggest life savers and time savers for me. And then finally, I'm going to give you, the opportunity to go grab a checklist of everything that you're going to need for these, for these roles and to build these teams. 00:03:14:29 - 00:03:31:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But first of all, let's take just a quick step back before we get into the nitty gritty. And then once again, there are chapters always listed down below in these episodes. So if you want to jump ahead, you can. But why students you got to understand their digital natives like this is their world. This is what they speak. 00:03:31:06 - 00:03:55:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I like this concept called hybrid, where we go from our in-person moment and we take our online presence and we find a way to blend the two. In fact, the entire playlist linked right here that we just went through for the fall kickoff event idea is all about leaning into your hybrid, from your event to the ongoing donut voting bracket, to the welcome guest, to creating and building a social team like the students. 00:03:55:04 - 00:04:15:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Blend that all the time. And while for adults, especially during Covid and us in ministry, we didn't love it, we were even maybe annoyed by it. But like, this is their world. This is their life. YouTube is huge right now. Students spend hours online on YouTube looking at and creating and consuming content. This is just a part of their world. 00:04:15:15 - 00:04:40:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, as we're trying to position ourselves as youth ministries and youth pastors to help spread the the news and message of Jesus, like we should use students to help give us that ability and help give us that chance to help spread and reach and make that message of Jesus known on the social media channels. Also, students are used to this like they're used to having an authentic social media voice. 00:04:40:17 - 00:05:07:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like this is this is just like I said, they're digital natives. This is who they are. They value authenticity. Like, this is them. This is what they do. Right? There's also on your social media teams, there's a deep well of opportunities. For example, we had a student join last year and, the person who is overseeing the team, just like from a scheduling aspect of it, he looked at me and he's like, Nick, I don't have anywhere to put this person. 00:05:07:03 - 00:05:35:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I was like, sure you do. And he goes, wait, what do you mean? I said, I don't know those like given those clapperboard, she's like, no, I was like, buy one and then have that person run the clapperboard. I was like, you can always invent opportunities to help make students feel like they're a doing something. But being that there is plenty of runway and avenue to enlist students for, and I'm going to share with you even how to build a team of editors so that you even have more above and beyond opportunities to, recruit people. 00:05:36:06 - 00:06:02:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then, you know, the bonus in all of this is that, like,

Struggling to keep up with youth ministry social media this fall? In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, Nick Clason unveils the Fall Social Media Pack—a done-for-you, but also fully customizable content calendar built to align with your fall kickoff event, guest strategy, YouTube channel, and in-person ministry, saving you hours every week. Learn how to post your way to better engagement on Instagram, TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts, while bridging the gap between digital discipleship and real-life impact in your church! 🍂 FALL SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-seasonal-137477671?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=postsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link 🍩 "FREE World's Greatest Donut Event Guide" GUIDE: https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/worlds-greatest-donut DYM: https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/world%27s-greatest-donut/games/food-8745.html SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/164 *🦸 HYBRID HEROS GET THE PACK FOR FREE! * https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry FALL MASTERCLASS PLAYLIST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fsa_fgbYCE&list=PLngXlSr64YaLfP12NPWmpBzXoCcEsAyBF COLEADER CURRICULUM (Use code HybridMinistry10 for 10% off) https://www.coleader.co ✅ CHURCH COMMS DONE FOR YOU Hire me to run your church website, social media or communications! https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms 📊 [FREE] HYBRID STRATEGY GUIDE https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book 📋 "PICK NICK'S BRAIN" Coaching Call https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching 👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz -------------- 🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉 We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context! The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe! https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick -------------- 🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU! Some of the below links are affilate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products //VIDIQ https://vidiq.com/hybrid //BEST DYM RESOURCES https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym //OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 //YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100 https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit -------------- 🕰️TIMECODES 00:00 Fall is here! 00:14 Time to Finish Strong 03:38 Unboxing the Fall Social Pack 08:58 How to Build your Social Media to Actually last! -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:05 - 00:00:34:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Fall is here. So stop scrambling to post every single Wednesday on your social media because I've already built your social media plan. Just copy paste it. Post it. Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. Welcome, everyone, to the Hybrid Ministry show. And today it's finally here. It is launch day this fall. Seasonal social media packs, similar to the summer one that I had running all summer long, is exactly what you need for your youth ministry social media. 00:00:34:03 - 00:01:00:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It is a blend of custom and done for you, content that you can pair together and best of all. If you've been following along in this fall, a masterclass for your kickoff event. If you did The World's Greatest Donut, if you did the bracket, then students are now locked into your social media. That entire playlist is linked right here at the top of the screen or in the show notes down below if you're listening on your podcast. 00:01:00:16 - 00:01:35:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so if your students are locked in to your social media now because they've been voting and discovering and determining what the world's greatest donut is in your context and in your student ministry, well, then, now you want to continue to to lean in to what's going on on your social media and like, don't forget that. Like if you also used our welcome box strategy and our magnetic calendar and like they open that box and they scan that QR code in there on your YouTube channel, like students are seeing your content on their algorithm. 00:01:35:01 - 00:01:55:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so therefore you need to keep feeding that algorithm. Unfortunately for social media, you have to continue to keep feeding it in order for it to like be successful. But fortunately for you, I have just created a seasonal three months worth of content so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. All you got to do is download this pack. 00:01:55:22 - 00:02:14:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's less than $20 or better yet, become a Patreon member for $4 a month, which, if you add that up for three months, is $12 and you get the pack for free as a part of your membership and bonus podcast every single Monday morning, you can use that to continue to add to your feed while you're doing that. 00:02:14:13 - 00:02:34:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the social media pack is taking care of it over here. You get to go over here and deal with all the things that you have to do for fall. You have to start locking in your curriculum, which I would recommend co-leader, by the way, and you can use hybrid ministry ten for 10% off that, or you have to like build your calendar, you have to build your budget, you have to recruit new volunteers. 00:02:34:08 - 00:02:58:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, you know, like, you got this thing over here that's gnawing at you. You know, you should do it. You know, it's important. Maybe you don't, but, like, trust me, it's important. And so my pack will help take care of that. It will give you content that you can continue to post and keep that thing active. And the best thing is that when you typically download a pack, it's not very custom to you and your ministry, right? 00:02:58:07 - 00:03:23:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry When you download a pack, more often than not it's a bunch of like static and stock graphics, and we have a few of the like done for you that like, isn't tied to your context or your ministry at all. But we also have a whole section where it will be you or your students or your volunteers, your faces that people know, love and will recognize and that will help make your social media feed feel custom and personal, which is the entire goal. 00:03:23:12 - 00:03:54:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So without any further ado, what I want to do is I want to unbox this a little bit. And so in the next section, let's look at what is included. If you choose to, jump into the full seasonal social media pack. So if you are watching here on YouTube, you are seeing my screen. And so if you download the, fall seasonal social media pack from Patreon, you are going to get a folder that looks like this. 00:03:54:23 - 00:04:16:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so it says start here Hybrid Strategy Guide and then custom for you and then done for you. So in the start here PDF, it just explains what's going on with the seasonal social media pack three months of custom fall related youth ministry, social media. Just as a reminder, Patreon members for four hours a month, you get this package included in your membership. 00:04:16:27 - 00:04:41:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So consider signing up that now up to $48 a year, and you'll get four seasonal social media packs along with a bonus podcast every single Monday morning. But like I said, it's completely either done for you. It's either a section of done for You, which is just download, plug and play or custom for you. It's got some recommendations here of like maybe some microphones that you might want to consider investing in. 00:04:41:12 - 00:04:59:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like this one right here, for example, I just want to point out like this one, I mean, like, oh, here we go. Opened up. This one is 789. So like, it really is very, very like affordable and very, very cheap. Obviously it's not going to be incredibly, you know, high quality, but it will still get the job done. 00:04:59:22 - 00:05:19:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then right here, is your recommended posts per week. Okay. And so you look here, it's like September 1st and you got like your spiritual practice posts, your emoji posts, your Bible trivia posts. Okay. Or if you want to build your own calendar, you can do it down here, in this blank section of the schedule. 00:05:19:29 - 00:05:45:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Furthermore, this right here explains kind of like the strategy that I'm attempting to get you to, to participate in. So, like, why social media? Why vertical video, and all these things. This actually is available as one of the member downloads from but a year ago over on Download Youth Ministry. But I'm just including it here so that you can kind of like see and understand like the strategy and like and what I'm saying here. 00:05:45:11 - 00:06:12:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then let's look at the Dunphy section first. There are five Bible verse real videos. So, here's, you know, a bunch of different, like, verses you can post those super quick, super easy. Here's some like emoji, back to school, kind of like guessing themed, ones that you can post super again, super quick, super easy. Here are some spiritual practice videos Bible memorization, study praise. 00:06:12:27 - 00:06:33:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You know, share. You know, pray for a friend. And then, take the next 60s to sit in silence. And then finally, these are like some curso based videos. So, like, what do you do if you're feeling lonely? What do you do if you're feeling sad? And what do you do if you're feeling insecure? So like, those are all very simple. 00:06:33:19 - 00:06:57:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like I said, download done for you. And then over here, t

In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, we’re unpacking a proven event evaluation strategy for youth ministry that will help you actually improve your events instead of just surviving them. Learn how to run a productive post-event debrief using a 3-question framework that works for digital and in-person debrief meetings alike. Plus, get access to a sample evaluation form, hear a big announcement, and upgrade your fall youth ministry strategy with intentional feedback tools. 🍩 "FREE World's Greatest Donut Event Guide" GUIDE: https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/worlds-greatest-donut DYM: https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/world%27s-greatest-donut/games/food-8745.html SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/163 ☀️ SUMMER SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry/shop/summer-seasonal-social-media-1540452?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=productsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link *🦸 HYBRID HEROS GET THE PACK FOR FREE! * https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry ✅ CHURCH COMMS DONE FOR YOU Hire me to run your church website, social media or communications! https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms 📊 [FREE] HYBRID STRATEGY GUIDE https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book 📋 "PICK NICK'S BRAIN" Coaching Call https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching 👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz -------------- 🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉 We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context! 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That's why I recommend this 00:00:06:12 - 00:00:19:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry proven three part strategy for evaluating and making sure that your events not only get the proper evaluation that they deserve, but are even better on into the future 00:00:19:29 - 00:00:26:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry for your next year's event. Welcome, my friends, to the Hybrid Minister show. 00:00:26:00 - 00:00:29:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, hey everybody, welcome to the Hybrid Minister Show. 00:00:29:07 - 00:00:57:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I am your host, Nicolas. And in this episode, episode 163. If you want to head to the show notes with transcripts. Hybrid Ministry dot xyzzy slash 163. That would be incredible. And a subscribe while you there would also just do us wonders. But if you have been following along here on YouTube, we are in a playlist for your complete fall like strategy guide and strategy session for, not only your upcoming fall outreach event. 00:00:57:12 - 00:01:22:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry How we run outreach events. And it's all kind of been centered around like some principles for like, fall outreach and fall launches. But if you're looking for one, and one of my favorite kind of strategies is a, month long, ongoing, like, bracket style event, and I'm giving one away or I'm giving away an event guide, to one of my products over on download this ministry called the World's Greatest Donut Bracket Event. 00:01:23:01 - 00:01:42:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We've been walking through what those nights look like, how to include and incorporate free time, how to welcome your new guests. But now that all the dust has settled, now that all of the donut madness is over, you're ready to evaluate your event. So whether you're evaluating this particular event or just any of your fall events, this is my proven three part strategy and framework. 00:01:42:05 - 00:02:06:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I mean, I'm just going to be honest, like you've maybe heard this before. It's not unique or original to me. I've I've used it in a couple of last churches that I've worked in. But there's a few kind of like tweaks and adaptations to it. And so you might have heard this, but the first, you know, the first question worth asking in an event evaluation debrief is what went right, like, let's celebrate the wins straight out of the gate. 00:02:06:12 - 00:02:26:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, what were the wins? What were the good things? And kind of go that route. The next question that I like to do and, you know, one of the church that I worked at, we call these questions the for hopefuls, but I like to combine these next two. And so that's why it's only three, three questions because I think these two, are cousins of one another. 00:02:26:05 - 00:02:46:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. And so, I like this one of, like the broken what was broken slash confusing. So, broken and confusing can kind of get, like I said, close to one another when you're kind of passing them out, you're like, oh, is this one broken? I'm not sure if that thing, that QR code was broken or if it was just confusing. 00:02:46:15 - 00:03:04:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. And and maybe the Q QR code was actually broken, or maybe students just don't know what they're doing, and it made it confusing. And that's kind of how I found that question to kind of land. And so just sticking those two together really like will help you in this question right here. Here's the thing I want to encourage you, don't make this personal. 00:03:04:09 - 00:03:35:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Don't take these things personal, but really like lean into these right here because this is how and this is where, and this is when and how and why you can make this event even better next year when you pull this thing together. Right. Like, this event becomes so much better when you take care of the broken and the confusing parts and you can really turn around, you can optimize, your next event or your next year's event or, some elements of this event that you're going to bring to, like the next Wednesday night, whatever the case might be like, but this is your chance to optimize it. 00:03:35:01 - 00:03:53:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Perfect. It really kind of like hone it in. And then finally, this last question, what was missing? And so it could be like, you know, while we were in the middle of the event, I thought it would have been great if we had this. We didn't think of it ahead of time. But let's next year, let's let's kind of plan to make this happen now a couple different ways that you can handle debriefs. 00:03:53:11 - 00:04:11:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I think probably the most common is just like an in person. Right. Like you get together, you talk about it with your team and you, you know, take notes and you go off to the next one. And for major events like big events like this ones you spend maybe a lot of budget money on, I would recommend doing some sort of like in-person debrief. 00:04:11:00 - 00:04:30:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry However, if you're debriefing every single event, you're never not debriefing because let's just be honest, like, if you meet once a week in youth ministry, there's always one time a week we got to get together and get a debrief. And then if you're meeting twice a week, say Wednesday night and Sunday morning, you're also getting together another time to kind of look back at Sunday morning. 00:04:30:28 - 00:04:54:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And what if you're meeting Sunday night then now you're meeting three different times for three different evaluations. And so it can become a lot and it can become a lot of meetings. And sometimes it's just like, man, we just got work to do. Right. And so, one of the things that my boss, has instituted is we use base camp, and he instituted this idea, and he just cause, our debriefs sometimes, we keep them all digital. 00:04:54:21 - 00:05:19:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So it's a digital debrief. We go into base camp, into the the message board there, and he'll ask three different questions. Sometimes he'll ask, right, right. Wrong, broken, confused. Like all that. But other times he'll throw in, like a curveball or, you know, like, and I think like this question, for example, is a good example of like, missing, you know, but he'll be like, what's one thing that we could have done to really take this event over the top? 00:05:19:19 - 00:05:35:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so it just get your brain thinking in a little bit of a different category, though, it is probably like an answer to the missing question. But it's framed really well. That makes you like, think in a different kind of way, you know what I'm saying? So but what we'll do then is everyone on the team has to complete that digital debrief comment done when they're done. 00:05:35:22 - 00:05:51:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then, he'll take those and he'll, he'll archive the, the plan. So it's out of our, like, base camp. But then next year, as we're getting ready to pull that back together, he'll, he'll go grab those archive notes. Because who in the world can remember what we did a year ago, let alone a month ago? 00:05:51:17 - 00:06:16:14 Nick

Looking for fun, easy, and totally free youth ministry ideas that actually engage students? In this episode of The Hybrid Ministry Show, Nick Clason shares 10 high-energy, low-prep free time station ideas—from donut decorating to Mario Kart tournaments, 9 Square, Gaga Ball, social challenges, and more—all designed to boost student engagement and connection. If you're a youth pastor craving creative youth group games, fall event strategy, or hybrid ministry tips that work, this episode is packed with stealable ideas and a bonus resource you don’t want to miss! 🍩 "FREE World's Greatest Donut Event Guide" GUIDE: https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/worlds-greatest-donut DYM: https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/world%27s-greatest-donut/games/food-8745.html SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/162 ☀️ SUMMER SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry/shop/summer-seasonal-social-media-1540452?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=productsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link *🦸 HYBRID HEROS GET THE PACK FOR FREE! * https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry USE CODE: “HYBRIDMINISTRY” FOR 10% OFF COLEADER.CO GAGA BALL vs 9 SQUARE RECOMMENDATIONS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZuiyBdjX6c SOCIAL CHALLENGE 4-PART FRAMEWORK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6Qeaa_hPA&list=PLngXlSr64YaKLwZqOkQe7NzOqSVR0-P1s ✅ CHURCH COMMS DONE FOR YOU Hire me to run your church website, social media or communications! https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms 📊 [FREE] HYBRID STRATEGY GUIDE https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book 📋 "PICK NICK'S BRAIN" Coaching Call https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching 👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz -------------- 🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉 We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context! The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe! https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick -------------- 🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU! 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In this episode, I'm going to break down my outreach event strategy, which when I shared it with my friend Eric with the kids, he had this to say about it. I love that thank you notes. That's something I'm gonna steal for future videos. 00:00:19:27 - 00:00:52:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In this episode, I'm going to hit you with ten ideas that you are definitely going to want to head over to my YouTube channel so that you can screenshot these and use them for your upcoming fall outreach event. Welcome, my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry Show! Well, hey everyone, welcome to episode 162 of the Hybrid Ministry Show. I am your host, Nick Claussen, and I'm going to be talking about one of the, strategies that we have for our outreach events that we've sort of stumbled into, and it's a little bit unique. 00:00:52:26 - 00:01:14:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You know, you heard what my friend Eric had to say about it, but essentially what it is, is it's creating moments of free time for your students. And so what I mean by that is we're not taking the full 90 minute block, or we're not taking the full 120 minute block of programing time that you have for your youth ministry and scheduling every single minute and making every single student do every single thing the entire time. 00:01:15:00 - 00:01:35:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But instead, what we're doing is we're opening up a window of time within our night, within our program to allow your students to kind of, like, choose their own adventure and do what they want to do. Now, if you're going to be using linked right here, the, download from the World's Greatest Donut Event Guide that we've been talking about, like, that's what, we've done before. 00:01:35:19 - 00:01:54:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I want, you know, if you're looking for something to do, I want you to consider maybe doing that event and you can incorporate these ideas, this strategy, into your upcoming fall outreach event. And so, go ahead and go grab that download. It's completely free. It's going to point you to a resource over On demand that you can use and implement. 00:01:54:07 - 00:02:22:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And these ideas are things that you can use, borrow, steal, and include in your upcoming fall outreach event. But the the philosophy behind it is, as we talked about a couple episodes ago, this is a cultivate in the spiritual CPR. This is a cultivate night. We're we're inviting friends were hanging out. We're just, kind of letting our hair down, kicking our feet up and hanging out with students and helping them see that church doesn't have to be confusing. 00:02:22:00 - 00:02:44:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Church doesn't have to be weird. But the other reason that this is advantageous is very simply, when you have a message included in your night, you don't have as much time to program. When you don't include your message, you have more time to program. And here's what we do. Oftentimes, we're still like plugging through our scope and sequence like we use Collider. 00:02:44:04 - 00:03:07:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In fact, if you use Code hybrid ministry, I'll give you 10% off Collider for a year. So go check that out. They just dropped roadmaps. The first part of roadmaps year three. Really excited about the the judges series included in that. But, we'll just kind of keep plugging along in what we, you know, for a message that we should have taught on the night our outreach event is Worcester, upload it to YouTube. 00:03:08:01 - 00:03:30:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then our Sunday morning curriculum is derived off of our Wednesday night curriculum. And so we'll still have that conversation on Sunday morning, even though we didn't have the message on Wednesday night. And it's just on YouTube. And so at the end of the night, a lot of times we'll just show a little teaser clip and say, hey, this is over on YouTube, go check it out, scan this QR code if you want to subscribe to our YouTube channel. 00:03:30:08 - 00:03:55:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And they're off to the races. And I mean the whole the whole good news right about these, this donut event is that it's getting students onto your social media, which at the end of this completely free fall masterclass playlist, I'm going to teach you how to build a social media team run completely by students that helps them create content not only for other students in your ministry, but create content with other students in your ministry. 00:03:55:28 - 00:04:15:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so having this free time event opens up all of these things, opens up more options. And, you know, one of the things that we'll do is we'll, offer anywhere from like four or 5 or 6 different, like, things, little stations. And they have anywhere from 30 to maybe 45 minutes on the longer end to do whatever them that they want. 00:04:15:18 - 00:04:36:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But one of the things that we've done to kind of encourage them or highlight what's available is we'll create a little passport or like a punch card, or if they go to a station and complete it, they'll get a little sticker for it. And what that does is it just helps them. First of all, give gives your students, and anyone who's new like a little map of your area, what's included where what's going on? 00:04:36:06 - 00:04:53:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What can we do right now? And then we'll say, hey, if you, complete if you go to all six stations, come and submit this card back in and we will give you a candy bar. And then we'll also put your, you know, name or your passport in, a drawing for the grand prize at the end of the night or something like that. 00:04:53:27 - 00:05:11:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, you know, if students are maybe not interested in all six of the things, and that's one of the reasons why we do it is because we know, like, not every single student is going to want to do every single type of game that you do. And so we'll include like some artsy and crafty type things. But then we'll also include some really, really active type things. 00:05:11:27 - 00:05:30:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so some students may be like, I'm more artsy. I don't want to do that active thing at all. And they're going to opt out of doing every single thing on the passport. But other kids, they might want to try to do all of it. And so they're going to try to run to every single station. So it just it it communicates what's available and it gives students an option to just win something. 00:05:30:13 - 00:05:47:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And that's just a fun way to kind of program it. I try to program the amount of time, like if we got 5 or 6 stations, I want to give them 30 to 35 minutes. I want there to be

Welcoming new students to your youth ministry shouldn’t feel like a firehose of information—this episode unpacks how to create an intentional, low-pressure first-time guest follow-up system. We’ll explore the psychology behind making guests feel valued, how to use a youth group welcome box, and why timing your church guest process matters. Plus, get a walkthrough of our youth ministry calendar, a peek at our welcome video strategy, and how to keep student connections alive on social media all fall long! 🗓️NEW CALENDAR + The Ultimate Guest Box https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry/shop/ultimate-first-time-guest-box-579557?source=storefront SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/161 ☀️ SUMMER SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry/shop/summer-seasonal-social-media-1540452?utmmedium=clipboardcopy&utmsource=copyLink&utmcampaign=productsharecreator&utmcontent=join_link *🦸 HYBRID HEROS GET THE PACK FOR FREE! * https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry WELCOME BOX VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzUQ-DwS32g&t=27s WELCOME VIDEO https://youtu.be/RRKGELKuJsc?si=Yb5RyayhDa-cQsQj ✅ CHURCH COMMS DONE FOR YOU Hire me to run your church website, social media or communications! https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms 📊 [FREE] HYBRID STRATEGY GUIDE https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book 📋 "PICK NICK'S BRAIN" Coaching Call https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching 👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz -------------- 🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉 We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context! 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In this episode, we are going to detail an outline my full guest Strategy Newcomers Welcome box. It is linked down below if you want to check it out. And of course, as always, there are chapters listed down below. 00:00:23:25 - 00:00:47:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Welcome my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry Show. Well, hey everybody, welcome to the Hybrid Minister Show. If you not haven't had a chance to meet yet. My name is Nick. In a 15 year youth ministry veteran, and in recent years I've stumbled into this idea of a welcome guest box. In fact, we detailed and outlined it in this episode, linked right here on screen or down below if you want to go check that out. 00:00:47:17 - 00:01:11:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the fact of the matter is that we have discovered that the psychology behind creating an intentional follow up box is threefold. First of all, you want the students who come to your youth ministry for the very first time. You want them to feel like a million bucks. You want to roll out the red carpet for them, and you want them to feel like you have thought about them and that you have, you know, you've planned to have them there. 00:01:11:01 - 00:01:30:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry However, like in recent years, we've discovered more and more with this generation that it's an overwhelming experience to walk into a youth ministry for the very first time. And so imagine walking into a place it's completely foreign, completely new, completely wild and completely crazy. And then you're like, here, here's this, and here's this, and here's this. And here's this. 00:01:30:18 - 00:01:52:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you're like, swag ING them out. And like, that's a great notion. However, in the moment they're just figuring out like, where's the bathroom? Meanwhile, they have to hold and track and keep all this stuff that you're just like loading them up with. And they're awkward because they're holding it, but like nobody else has it. And like, if you want them to truly get involved in your youth ministry, you want them like jumping into things like Gaga Ball and Nine square. 00:01:52:29 - 00:02:08:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But like, they have things that they have to keep track of and like they don't know where's a safe place to actually lay it down. And so therefore, that's why we've pivoted to recently in our student ministry, sending a guest welcome box. And so they come, we gather all their information. We say, hey, thank you so much. So glad you're here. 00:02:08:27 - 00:02:26:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We pair them up with someone new and then we treat them just like any other normal student. Meanwhile, a few days later, they'll get on their doorstep a welcome box branded all the things, helping welcome them to our student ministry. And in that moment, they're then able to be completely swagged out and have all of the things that they need. 00:02:26:22 - 00:02:57:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But they're able to do it in a less threatening environment. They're able to do it at home. And so we love this strategy. And again, as I said in the previous episode, I've given a full breakdown of it. You can go check that out. And I also include some artwork for it. But in this episode, I'm going to include the artwork for my 2025 FA calendars so that you can include and you can start using that to start laying out and dishing out your full 2025 calendar. 00:02:57:08 - 00:03:20:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Because again, if you're in this masterclass, which you are, this is video part two of the Fall Masterclass for Youth Ministry. Last week we talked about the world's Greatest Donut Kickoff event. And if you if that event did its job and new students came, then those students came to your youth ministry. And then now you're going to use today's episode, this welcome box to send out and welcome the new students to your ministry. 00:03:20:10 - 00:03:55:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, this first time or this, this calendar that's included in the welcome box, it is free for all members of my Patreon. If not, you can jump on and you can grab it for just a few bucks. I think it's like 3 or $4 over there on Patreon. But if you become a member, which is only $4 per month, not only do you get access to every single thing on my store, including like my seasonal social media packs, the welcome box from that past episode, and this fall calendar, but you also get a weekly bonus podcast where I go through what we do in our youth ministry and in our kickoff events, 00:03:55:12 - 00:04:16:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry and it's basically like your weekly debrief meeting. Even if you don't have a team around you, it's always helpful to have someone else's voice and to just hear those things, to kind of get those ideas going in your in your brain and like in your creative juices. And so that's the value of, again, $4 per month is the, bonus podcast. 00:04:16:25 - 00:04:35:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But here's the other reason that I love this welcome box idea is because as soon as you open it up, we have a gigantic QR code, right when they open it up and at the top it says Welcome video and they scan it and it takes him to our YouTube channel. And so it's a welcome video from me and other people on our team. 00:04:35:07 - 00:04:56:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, if you're following this fall playlist last week, you also got them on your social media. So they hopefully went and checked out your social media last week because voting for the donuts was on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whatever you have. And then this video also takes them to YouTube. So now it's the second social media touchpoint for them in as many days. 00:04:56:20 - 00:05:15:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if they're going to continue on, with this donut thing, if they're going to continue on to see this thing through, if they're going to keep coming back, they're going to interact with your social media more and more. And as we talked about in the previous video over the summer, the key to social media in youth ministry is not like a one time amazing viral video. 00:05:15:09 - 00:05:35:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The key is many micro connections over time so that they get used to and they get familiar with your brand and your social media, which is why it's so important to not only stay custom on social media, but also to stay, regular and consistent on social media, which is what my seasonal social media pack was meant to do over the summer. 00:05:35:18 - 00:05:58:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And big news in four episodes. The final episode of this fall, when we are launching our fall seasonal social media pack, we want to help you when creating not only custom content, but also creating serving opportunities for your students to to level up and lead these social media teams. And so now you might be thinking like, okay, so we got the world's greatest donut event, and now we got this welcome box. 00:05:58:20 - 00:06:21:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry How do I know if any of these things are actually hitting, if we're actually making any discernible difference in the life of

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