When should you promote elementary students—right after school ends or just before the fall kickoff? In this video, we’re breaking down the pros and cons of beginning-of-summer vs end-of-summer promotions to help you make the best move for your ministry. Whether you promote from 5th to 6th or 6th to 7th, or just want to avoid the chaos of unclear grade promotions—this one’s for you!

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🕰️TIMECODES

00:00 Grade Promotion like a Pro!

00:42 Pros: Beginning of Summer

02:14 Cons: Beginning of Summer

03:53 Pros: End of Summer

06:02 Cons: End of Summer

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TRANSCRIPT

00:00:00 :19 - 00:00:32 :01

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

When should you promote from elementary into your youth ministry? Whether you promote at the beginning of the summer or whether you wait until the end of summer and closer to the fall and start of your school year. Whether you're promoting from fifth to six or from 6 to 7. This video is for you. And make sure that you stick around to the very end of the video, because I'm going to then rattle off five tips to make your grade and event promotion fantastic, and ones that you can implement right now.

00:00:32 :03 - 00:01:00 :14

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

Don't forget, as always, there are chapters listed down below so that you can jump ahead to the part of the video that matters the most to you. Welcome everyone to the Hybrid Ministry show. Well everyone, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. When should you promote in your youth ministry from elementary into your student ministry? Let's talk about some pros and some cons from summer versus beginning of the school year, or summer versus end of summer.

00:01:00 :14 - 00:01:20 :10

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

And so two pros, two cons from each category. Pro number one from promoting at the beginning of the summer is it is just it is a clean and it is a fresh start for everyone. The school year is a immediately in the rearview mirror. And people, students especially, are ready to move on to what's next and what's ahead of them.

00:01:20 :10 - 00:01:44 :07

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

And so the beginning of summer provides an amazing opportunity, just mentally and from a vibes standpoint, of when it feels like the most natural time to promote from elementary and to youth ministry. If you also promote at the beginning of summer, you have the option. If it's something that you choose to take advantage of, to let your most recently incoming students be able to go with you to summer camp.

00:01:44 :08 - 00:02:06 :11

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

Now, historically, I have allowed and loved having our incoming sixth graders, our incoming seventh graders be able to go with us to summer camp. And while they're still very young, it's an amazing opportunity to kind of introduce them. And, you know, a little bit. Baptism by fire, to our student ministry, to our leaders, to me, as the youth pastor.

00:02:06 :13 - 00:02:28 :05

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

And but it does really help, in my mind, help solidify their involvement, and their excitement around student ministry. Now, what are the cons, however, of if you promote at the beginning of the summer, some of the cons I would say are that it is a weird programing time for a lot of youth ministries. Your school year, youth ministry programing is pretty down.

00:02:28 :05 - 00:02:51 :05

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

It's pretty locked in. Summer ends up being weird. You take a lot more breaks. You have a lot more. Maybe have a skeleton program. You maybe don't even meet, like, at all. And so to promote at the beginning of the summer and then introduce your sixth graders into, like, a little bit more of a weird and kind of nebulous time on the calendar, I think can be a little bit tricky, especially with solidifying their involvement and regularity.

00:02:51 :05 - 00:03:14 :01

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

And so maybe, yes, I did get to go to camp, but then they came back from camp. And what are you doing in your youth ministry that they can grab on to you and that they can attach on to in their first few weeks and first few months of being involved in youth ministry? And one of the reasons for that weird and kind of nebulous programing is this other common, is that it is a vacation time for a lot of families.

00:03:14 :01 - 00:03:31 :28

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

And so while it may be best and most advantageous for you to promote at the beginning of the summer, those students are promoted, but then they go on vacation with their families, and maybe they're not on vacation all summer. They're gone for a week, but they come back, and then their friend is also gone on vacation and, it's staggered.

00:03:31 :28 - 00:03:53 :12

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

And then that friend comes back, and then the third friend is on vacation, and then the first friend is that they're like, you know, horseback riding camp or whatever. And so students are all over the place in the summer. And so a kind of promoting in the summer is you lose the optionality for just regular kind of consistent attendance and regular and kind of consistent programing, you know, for your students.

00:03:53 :20 - 00:04:12 :13

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

So then on the flip side, if you're like, okay, yeah, you're right. Those are some disadvantages for sure. Maybe we should consider promoting at the end of summer. Let's talk a little bit about what the pros and the cons are about promoting at the end of summer. So a pro would be is that students do enter into your programing now.

00:04:12 :13 - 00:04:48 :00

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

And what I would say is peak programing time for most youth ministries in the world. And so the important thing that we need to understand is that most student ministries have a solid, like, you know, post Labor Day to Memorial Day calendar of student ministry. And so if you want to give them your like