Episode 170: How to Ask for a Raise: Expert Gives Tips & Tricks
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What if I told you that most youth pastors are only getting raises half the rate of inflation — if they’re getting them at all?
Today, I’m breaking down real data from the national Youth Pastor Compensation Survey with insights from experts like Dan Navarra — so you know exactly how much you should be getting paid.
And interestingly, the one thing you need to start right away, to ensure you’ll actually get one!
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 How to Ask for a Raise
00:42 What does the Data Say?
02:56 What about inflation?
04:05 What about curriculum usage?
06:42 What about Social Media?
08:41 What about Seminary?
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TRANSCRIPT
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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Youth ministry theme nights are some of the best ways to get your students
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inviting their friends to your group, as well as build momentum for the overall team. But here's
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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.
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And one time I
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even thought I might be getting fired.
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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
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to learn it the hard way for yourself.
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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
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Facebook groups. And this
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one
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says, hey, what are some theme nights you've done with your group that your kids have really enjoyed?
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Like Jersey night? Crazy hair. Looking forward to some ideas.
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And
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so
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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.
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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
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called Duct Tape Night. And, then I went several years later to intern for him, and he also did it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That wasn't the problem.
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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.
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And so at the end of the night,
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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.
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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.
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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
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