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.

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🕰️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

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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, a