Hybrid Ministry

Most youth pastors don’t fail on social media because they lack passion… They fail because they don’t have this one thing — and honestly, most can’t afford it. But for my 200th episode… I’m giving it away.... The strategy. The product. The membership. 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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.patreon.com/posts/9-amazing-dym-142425755 //OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 //HYBRID MINISTRY MEGA GUIDE Everything I've ever learned in one blog post [FOR FREE!] https://www.patreon.com/posts/hybrid-ministry-151264417?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link -------------- 🕰️TIMECODES 00:00 Most Youth Pastors Miss This… 01:52 The Calendar Conundrum 07:06 My Hybrid Strategy Explained 09:54 What this Typically would cost 13:38 What I'll do for you 16:45 It's FREE! -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00;00;00;02 - 00;00;34;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry After 200 episodes and working with youth pastors from really all over, I've noticed one thing and I've noticed it's the same missing piece that happens with every single youth pastor. Sure, everyone's context is a little bit different, and everyone's individual responsibilities vary by position. However, it's the same thing that tends to fail, and it's the fact that either they don't have a plan or they do have a plan, but they're still not executing the plan that's laid out for them. 00;00;34;08 - 00;01;12;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And part of the problem is we don't have a plan because it doesn't feel as urgent. If you don't post to social media. Yeah. What's going to happen? But if you don't plan your Wednesday night message, that's a bit of a bigger deal. Students are going to show up. They're not going to have anywhere to go. And so what I've seen and what I've noticed, and frankly, what I've also done and implemented in my own particular context is a full proof strategy that when life gets busy, in fact, I tested it right here, an episode linked right here where I was at a conference and I had no other time on my schedule, but I 00;01;12;07 - 00;01;33;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry committed ahead of time during that week that I was going to post whatever my social media pack told me to post. And in that week, in less than 20 minutes, I was able to post all eight styles of posts. And that was me going above and beyond. Because what I recommend for most of you starting out is only to post three times per week. 00;01;33;20 - 00;02;01;29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I estimate that if you take what I lay out, all you have to do is spend anywhere from 5 to 7 minutes per week posting on social media. And the best news of all? I'm going to tell you how so here. Here's what you need. You're busy. And the fact is, like, you know, you want to reach students and maybe even further more, you know that you want to reach students digitally. 00;02;02;00 - 00;02;22;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Let me just explain why I think digital is so important. Obviously you're listening to the Hybrid Minister show, but in the last three years since I started in the context, I mean, we've doubled our in-person growth as a result, I believe, of this hybrid digital strategy. Furthermore, we've grown a YouTube channel from zero to well over a thousand subscribers. 00;02;22;03 - 00;02;42;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you probably the most important thing is that we've set record numbers of baptisms in this moment and woven within our hybrid strategy is a baptism course where we help walk students through the meaning of it, why they should do it, and then how then to take a next step. So it's hybrid ministry is not just for vanity metrics and dancing on TikTok. 00;02;42;21 - 00;03;05;28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It really does help create and facilitate, moments of life change. And we've experienced, like I said, record in-person numerical growth as well as, record life changing markers such as baptism. And so this is why hybrid ministry is so important, and I can help walk you through it. And I believe that you as a youth pastor, you have what it takes. 00;03;05;28 - 00;03;27;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And more than having what it takes, I believe that you have the the requirement to do what it takes to figure this thing out. But here's the challenge, right? Like here's your schedule. Let's say this is your normal Monday Tuesday schedule. And of course, if I had space, you know, we'd extrapolate it out beyond that. And then let's say these are five kind of like core things that that you need to do. 00;03;27;17 - 00;03;58;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, I'll just show you what it looks like in, in my world. Right. So your Wednesday programing, which includes everything from like planning the worship set to team and scheduling for volunteers and your message and your game and your announcements and your graphics. Like everything for that Wednesday that takes if we're if we're just being, like, honest and generous, let's say it takes a four hour block of time. 00;03;58;03 - 00;04;22;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So here's your Wednesday programing and that's what you're doing and that. But let's say you maximize your lunch hour. And so for about an hour and a half you eat. But you also are hanging out with someone. So you're grabbing, let's say lunch with the volunteer. That's not nice for relational. Relational. You grab the lunch with the volunteer. 00;04;22;13 - 00;04;46;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Maybe a student. If it's like a spring break type week or whatever you have. Not yet. Once checked your emails, you have absolutely no time. You haven't done that yet. And so between travel time and all that, you get back and all your administrative work, we'll just call pink. We'll just call this admin. So you got to do emails, you got to do receipts. 00;04;46;06 - 00;05;06;19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You got to process your seat from the lunch or the coffee that you just had. Right. Well, now you're at 4 or 5 and maybe you know what you do. Maybe you go home. But then maybe to. Because, again, you're a good youth pastor, down here, maybe down there. So you went home for a little bit? Here. 00;05;06;19 - 00;05;31;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You picked up your family and stuff like that. But then after dinner, you went back out and, you decided to go visit a student and watch them in the wrestling meet or whatever on a Monday night. Okay. So. So that's your day. That's your Monday. Okay. But then, it's fine because Tuesday rolls around, but you, you're doing like a a citywide disciple now, and so you have a meeting at ten for that. 00;05;31;19 - 00;05;53;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you get together with the youth pastors and you hang out and you do your thing. And then you haven't yet checked your email, so you gotta check your email again. And the secretary is upset at you because you did your C yesterday. You did it wrong. So now you got to go fix that. You got to put some finishing touches. 00;05;53;05 - 00;06;19;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You got to send, maybe some reminders, some emails. You got to make your slides for your Wednesday night program. Right. Once again. Oh. Your senior pastor, your senior pastor wants to meet with you. So, that takes up some more time, and then, well, you know, you want to be a good youth pastor, so on your way home, you can have coffee with that student who texted you this morning, and said, hey, can we get coffee? 00;06;19;20 - 00;06;46;29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so there you are. You're now getting coffee with your student. This is the problem, right? This happens week after week, day after day. And if I were to add another category over here, and let's just say we were to call it social media, you're asking yourself where in the world am I putting social media? Am I putting it down here, which is now after five family time? 00;06;47;04 - 00;07;07;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Am I putting it up here? Which again? Now you're working greater than 40 hours per week? When in the world is this going to happen? And the problem, like I said, for most youth pastors is not vision, not excitement for the thing, but it's scheduling and it's figuring out where this goes. So I'm going to help you out. 00;07;07;03 - 00;07;27;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Okay. So what is it? What is my hybrid strategy? Well, link down below is a completely free e-book. Anyone at any time can grab that. So I would recommend and ask that you do that. However, let me just break it down for you here on the whiteboard in social media, you're asking what exactly is your hybrid strategy? 00;07;27;13 - 00;07;53;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, for starters, the the step one of it is to become more regular on social media. My pack is basically like your fiber. Think about it. You'll get it. But what is it? It's posting more often to social media okay. Which everyone's down for that. And this is here for the end goal, right? Yeah. We want our student ministry or church social media to be a little bit more robust. 00;07;53;01 - 00;08;22;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's the what. Well the win right. And if we look back at our calendaring segment just a minute ago, that's the real question. When is this happening? But just to answer it for you, for me, my answer is three times per week. Okay. So we're going the what is just basically more more social. How often the result is three times per week. 00;08;22;17 - 00;08;48;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then again you're asking where and when am I going to find the time in my calendar to create 3 to 3 times more? Don't worry, I'm going to help you out with that. And then the how. Right. And this really is how like when is this getting done? Is we're going to do this thing together, right? I have this YouTube channel, I have this podcast, this is the free version of it, but I have an entire Patreon where I walk you through how to do it. 00;08;48;10 - 00;09;08;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I give you the tools when, where to post, and I make it happen for you. And all you have to do is simply run the play and post when it tells you to do it. That way you get to be an amazing youth pastor, going to coffees and going to kids games and meeting with your senior pastor and planning your Wednesday night. 00;09;08;27 - 00;09;41;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I get to help build out your social media strategy and you get to simply follow the play. Now, you might be asking like, what if I have more creative bandwidth? And what if I have better ideas than you? I presume that you probably do. In that moment, instead of following my play, you simply post one of your ideas or one of your students ideas, or one of your volunteer's ideas, and you don't post one of mine because you do have creative energy, because you do have creative bandwidth, because you do have better ideas. 00;09;41;08 - 00;09;55;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But when you get busy, this is your fallback. It's here when you need it and because I'm giving it away, you don't even have to worry about the cost. Let's look in here to the next section. 00;09;55;27 - 00;10;21;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So here's why. This is expensive. You see, sometimes a system like this can cost hundreds. I mean, maybe honestly, even depending on who you end up going with, it could cost even thousands. And then on top of it, there's months of frustration as you enter into a brand new learning curve, trying to kind of figure all this out yourself and you realize, like, man, I'm a youth pastor, I'm not social media manager, content creator, or like graphic design or any of these things. 00;10;21;11 - 00;10;40;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right? So like, I broke some of this down for you because I believe that there's really like for costs. And if you're watching here on YouTube, you see them on screen. One of the costs is like if I want like a turnkey done for you social media pack in my personal opinion, one of the best on the market nucleus social done by Brady Shear himself a bet pro church tools. 00;10;40;12 - 00;11;05;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's amazing. It's $49 a month for unlimited stock footage as well as a monthly social posting calendar. One of the problems, though, and I've said this a million times over with even my own pack, is that if it can be done for you, it can also be done for many. And so it's not that custom. But Brady, in my opinion, does the best job of offering something done for you that's also still good and leans into what matters on social media cost. 00;11;05;25 - 00;11;27;24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is for like churches. This is $49 a month. Most youth ministry budgets can't sustain $49 a month, nearly $600 for the year. Or you could take a course. I found this video course here just by googling, and it turns out it's like $12 a month or $84 for the year. So now we're at, you know, at $684. 00;11;27;24 - 00;11;52;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now for your entire youth ministry budget, if you want to learn. And if you're like, well, I just figured out myself, well, then then comes in the time cost, right? And like, probably you putting in ten ish hours a week of of learning and trying something new and you're going to be doing and trying some new stuff. Of course, we're in a new era where students speak in this digital native tongue, and you're going to have to kind of learn to speak at least some of that. 00;11;52;15 - 00;12;14;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And just at least become fluent with it. But if you're going completely from scratch with no help, like you're looking at probably ten plus hours a week to start, and then, of course, like if we look back at our calendar, where in the world is this going to go? I mean, like your calendar is already insanely full and so, like, you don't have ten plus hours. 00;12;14;20 - 00;12;42;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so what again, always happens is a you're priced out from a cost standpoint and B, your time management isn't there anymore because you don't have the time to do it. This is where I believe I can provide value. So let's check this out okay. So let me prove to you how this works. So I'm going to give you a social media three month seasonal social media pack with a calendar and with the assets in order to create. 00;12;42;08 - 00;12;58;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now here's the problem with most social media packs if it's done for you, it can be done for many. And so I want to also add a custom edge to yours. And so you are going to have to get your phone out. You are going to have to get some microphones, and you are gonna have to do a little bit of filming of yourself. 00;12;58;01 - 00;13;20;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Your face, your voice, or your students faces, your students voices, your volunteers voices. But some customization to your social media feeds. So it's not just a bunch of graphics. You see. That's where I think most social media packs fall short. Some designers cooking up amazing designs off in the lab that are better than anything you and I could create, but what mine does is mine helps coach you into the customization. 00;13;20;27 - 00;13;54;00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you're going to post three times per week. And one of my favorite posts is a very simple we're going to call it man on the Street style post. I've created the graphics that will overlay on top of your video. So you get your phone out, you film, you chop it up, you edit it, and all you got to do is use something like an in-app editor like Capco or TikTok simply on your phone, hand it over to a student, ask them to do it, and then you take my graphic, which had the would you rather question, and you just lay it over top of it, right. 00;13;54;02 - 00;14;27;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I mapped this out back in November, and that particular post only took me five minutes and my Wi-Fi was lagging like absolute mad, crazy man. So in less than five minutes I had a edited, filmed and then posted custom video. Sometimes it's going to be custom, right? And so in this three times we have two styles. We have custom, but then other times it's just going to be done for you. 00;14;27;09 - 00;14;47;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's going to be plug and play. I got what to do. And you're feeling anxious. I got verse posts. I got I got other like spiritual practice type things. Those are the ones that are packs, right. That they can be done for anyone, anywhere in any context. But I also got some of these, and this is just an example of how this works. 00;14;47;11 - 00;15;08;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And link down below is my full proof episode where like I said, I posted all eight styles. I have eight different styles. I have four custom, I have four done for you posted all eight of them and I let you know exactly how they performed. Here are the results actually on screen from my results episode. So this can work for you. 00;15;08;11 - 00;15;24;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And what's it going to do? It's going to accomplish this goal when your calendars overrun and busy, it's still going to give you. If you can commit to less than ten minutes, I would say ten minutes per week, then this is going to do it. And how are we going to do it? We're going to walk through this together. 00;15;24;01 - 00;15;54;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Because if you become a member of my Patreon every single Monday, I'm going to drop a recap episode. So I'm going to be there with you every single step of the way, coaching you through it. So let's check that part out. And here's the good news. To celebrate my 200th podcast episode, which is this one that you're listening to or watching, I'm giving the first 20 people free access to everything that I offer over, on, and inside my Patreon. 00;15;54;03 - 00;16;12;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Here's what's included. There is a weekly bonus podcast episode where I recap detail in outline my programing. And I'm not saying that I'm some creative genius, but I am saying that that is an attempt and that's something that we try to do. And so I explain some of the things that we offer and what we do in our programing. 00;16;12;27 - 00;16;47;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Think of it as like your virtual assistant, someone just giving you ideas and then you filtering those through the lens of your ministry, your context and your programing. I will help level up your creative programing through that podcast. Additionally, I have a seasonal social media pack, so it's three months worth of posting content. Everything that we've been working through on this episode, and it is included as a part of the Patreon membership, as well as access to every post that I have and all of the shop items that are for sale over on my Patreon. 00;16;47;02 - 00;17;14;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if you're tired of trying to figure this out alone, then this is your moment. And here's how I'm going to do the first 20. You get this for free for the month of May. 2026. The rest of you, if you miss out on that first 20 moment, then I'm giving 50% off with this code. Same time frame h h standing for Hybrid Hero HH2 hundred 50% off to celebrate my 200th episode. 00;17;14;08 - 00;17;34;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like I said, this is open now for three weeks, so it's a strike while the iron is hot moment. You don't need a bigger budget to reach students, you just simply need the right system. And to celebrate my 200th episode, I'm giving you access to that. My friends cheering you on, rooting for you. And as always, don't forget stay hybrid.

I’ve given away every one of these prizes for youth group game winners over my last 15 years of youth ministry. I’m going to share 7 full-proof ideas. Then to round out the 25 claim, I’m going to live react on how to fill this bookshelf prize idea using ChatGPT. Which, in fairness, I’m 100% stealing the shelf idea from my friend over at DYM, Josh Boldman. 👇👇FREE FILES DOWNLOAD 👇👇 🏆 25 PRIZE IDEAS [Free Downloads] https://www.patreon.com/posts/25-easy-cheap-153825671 SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/199 [FREE] HYBRID STRATEGY GUIDE https://www.patreon.com/posts/complete-guide-142500019?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link 🌸 SPRING SEASONAL SOCIAL PACK https://www.patreon.com/posts/spring-seasonal-151263940?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link 👉 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.patreon.com/posts/9-amazing-dym-142425755 //OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 //HYBRID MINISTRY MEGA GUIDE Everything I've ever learned in one blog post [FOR FREE!] https://www.patreon.com/posts/hybrid-ministry-151264417?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link -------------- 🕰️TIMECODES 00:00 Youth Ministry Prize Game Ideas 00:38 Prize Idea #1 01:24 Prize Idea #2 02:04 Your Creative Programming Hacks 03:10 Prize Idea #3 04:55 Prize Idea #4 05:46 Prize Idea #5 06:59 Prize Idea #6 07:21 Prize Idea #7 07:39 Box of Prizes (#8-25) -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00;00;00;04 - 00;00;25;00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I've given away every single one of these prizes over my 15 years of youth ministry, during youth ministry and student ministry game time. And I'm going to share with you seven of my favorite and foolproof ideas. And then to round out the claim that the video, which says 25 youth Group Game Ideas. I am going to fill a bookshelf, which is, full disclosure 100%. 00;00;25;00 - 00;00;48;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry My friend Josh Bowman over at I Am His Idea. We're going to actually start doing this in our student ministry this fall. You get an opportunity to use the well, let me share how that works. All of this on this week's episode of the Hybrid Ministry show. And the first game idea that is foolproof is whichever team, whichever group, whichever table we set around tables in our context, whichever one of those wins, give them pizza. 00;00;48;12 - 00;01;09;14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The pro. It is always clutch, right? Nobody has ever said about winning pizza for the group of people that just that just won. The kind of pizza for the group is that it's expensive. And so over time, if you give away pizza every single week to every single game winner, it's not always the most sustainable strategy for your budget. 00;01;09;14 - 00;01;33;18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so while it's an amazing thing to win, nobody, as you pastors maybe have the margin in their budget to give away pizza every single week, but as a one off for an elevated game, for something kind of fun, different pizza is always clutch. People who win are always pumped for it. Number two, foolproof idea that you can give away is a signed photo of one of your staff members, or yourself as the youth pastor. 00;01;33;18 - 00;01;50;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The pro is free. It cost you nothing besides ink, which if you work in a church, you know printing things off the printer is basically the one perk of getting to work as a youth pastor with in office type perks. And so use that church ink, print it off, and then sign it and give it away. That's the pro. 00;01;50;25 - 00;02;15;19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's completely free. The con well, I literally had a student one time say, I wish I would have one pizza like they did last week instead of this picture that you just gave me. So you do definitely run that risk. Hey, don't go anywhere. This is actually the type of stuff that I talk about over on my bonus podcast that drops every single Monday, every single week on my Patreon. 00;02;15;19 - 00;02;33;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Because what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to make programing more fun and more creative. I'm trying to break it every single week in a way that's different, though. We don't run the exact same service order time after time, and sometimes you just need someone else giving you ideas that you can hear, listen, and filter through into your own context. 00;02;33;14 - 00;02;58;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so for only $4 a month, a month, literally less than the cost of this cup of coffee, you can become a member of my hybrid Hero Patreon tier, which also gives you access to my three months Done for You seasonal social media pack, which will help you show up on social media. Because 95% of our teenagers 13 to 17 years of age are on social media, and so you get the opportunity to show up. 00;02;58;12 - 00;03;19;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We're 1 in 3 of those teenagers say that they're on social media constantly to make an impact and make a difference in their lives. So head on over link in the description to my Patreon. Check it out today because that makes it the third full proof idea is a game winner card. So think like credit card. Like plastic credit card material. 00;03;19;05 - 00;03;43;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You print those out and so you pay for that through like a printing agency. And actually, I have designed five different designs. And then I've put a bat so they're either like completely white or I've put them on a background. And so link down below. I have an entire guide to this episode, and included in that guide for free is a download with these ten different card, options and ideas. 00;03;43;16 - 00;03;59;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Grab them, print them. And then here's what we did. Anytime someone won, they got one of these cards. And then we created a little, currency. And so we said, if you have five of these, you get a free item at your cafe. Now, if you have if you don't have a cafe, you may have to figure out what the exchange rate is for something like that. 00;03;59;29 - 00;04;18;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But they were a great motivator, right? Like they could hang onto those cards, they could collect them. They could save them. So the pro is it's like a one time costs. Right. But the other pro is that if you do use them, it's like a cafe redemption token sort of thing is that they're completely recyclable, like you'll get them back. 00;04;18;02 - 00;04;37;26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so once you get them back in the cafe, then you turn around, you give them to your next game winner, you know, and then there's also like a hidden cost moment. So like you pay for them once and then out of the cafe proceeds is where the true like money exchange happens, but you don't feel it quite as much if you're giving it away as a member of your cafe. 00;04;38;01 - 00;04;57;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The kind. Of course, if you spam this and you only ever do this, it can grow a little bit old. So, like, it might be something to keep in your back pocket as a go to when you don't have an idea. But then still, we've in some of these other, maybe more big ticket items like pizza for the entire group, or this fourth idea, which is the best seats in the house. 00;04;57;18 - 00;05;16;07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The pro this is it's incredibly easy and also pretty cheap. What you do is if you have normal rows, you create a couch and a VIP type section in your, ministry and you make more comfortable seats. And so the winning person gets to bring their friends, or the winning group gets to all go sit in best seats in the house. 00;05;16;10 - 00;05;35;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if you have a way to, like, get a mini fridge or stocked with some snacks, or even give them pizza in that that best seats in the house. It's a really great way to make those people feel like VIPs for winning the night. The only con really is, just requires like a weekly setup. And so we don't do this every week, but we do reserve it every once in a while, occasionally for winners. 00;05;35;12 - 00;05;51;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so that way if you have those, like cards, for example, you give those three weeks out of the month and then the fourth week out of the month, you do like, let's say like a best seat in the house or something like that. The fifth option I have is give some sort of like money currency. Okay. The pro is similar to the card thing. 00;05;51;15 - 00;06;08;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's easy and it's cheap for us. We use a thing called a platypus book. The reason being that was the mascot voted on by our students over three years ago when I started here at this church. And so we put it on a dollar bill and the. You know, it's funny, I actually went to Canva to try and find a dollar template, and they won't even let you do it. 00;06;08;21 - 00;06;26;04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's probably some, like, federal regulations. So I created a template. It looks like this. You can go get it over on my guide along with those cards as well. And then you can put whatever you want here in the middle for us, our mascot is a platypus. Maybe you, have like, a different mascot. Use whatever mascot you have. 00;06;26;09 - 00;06;42;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Maybe you want to put yourself in there. Go ahead, put yourself and you know, you could make it kind of like an office reference, like a Schrute book. And once again, you can figure out the currency. In our current context, a platypus book equals one free item from the cafe. So it's a worse exchange rate than those cards. 00;06;42;10 - 00;07;02;04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But again, it's just another like, another way, another idea. The con. Similar to the card game, it can grow tired. However, I will say students are motivated because they can win those and then they can redeem them instantly at the cafe that exact night or the exact time when they win the platypus book. The six idea is you can give away leftover merch or leftover swag that you have. 00;07;02;04 - 00;07;19;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Maybe from a camp, maybe from a retreat. The pro is. It's probably the most real prize if someone wins a genuine good t shirt. Like that's the best real prize that we've given away so far on this episode, the con is again, it might become a little bit expensive over time, and so you do have to make sure that you can kind of manage the budget. 00;07;19;23 - 00;07;39;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then the seventh foolproof idea that has never failed me is a crisp high five or the satisfaction of winning once again, the pro, it's free. It's actually so cheap it doesn't cost your budget any money. The cons is that students might, over time, if they know that that's all they're going to win, might lose their drive to. 00;07;39;08 - 00;08;04;16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, for those of you who are like incredible like payers of attention, you'll know that this episode said 25 prize ideas. And so what I want to do is I want to let you know that this idea came to me from my friend Josh Boardman, who got a cube storage sort of thing. And so I, I'm thinking maybe next fall to grab this one that you'll see linked here on screen. 00;08;04;16 - 00;08;23;22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Also, the link is available in my guide to this episode where you can get all these different freebies. And, he said that what they did was they filled this, 18 cube. Maybe he had less, but we're going to try 18 cubes. And so over the course of like a semester or whatever, there's a different number of prize. 00;08;23;22 - 00;08;42;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So the winner gets one of the items from this cube box. And he said they just got like shoes or whatever. They numbered it. They labeled it. So the kid wins. And then either they get to pick numbers, say one through 18, or they, get to spin the wheel and then whatever the wheel ends on, they win. 00;08;42;09 - 00;09;01;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You can either let it deplete over time so that by the end you only have one box left, or you can, replace it every single week. And so he said there were times where he'd forget and he'd throw something random that he found in the church to give away. And so it's a great way to add some mystique and some mystery, but also not blow your budget. 00;09;01;10 - 00;09;25;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, what I want to do is I want to react to this here in live time, because I'm going to say here in ChatGPT you can see the prompt if you're watching here on screen, help me come up with 18 hidden shoebox game price ideas that cost less than $5. Either it's laying around the church already or it's a cheap prize to put in a shoe box that goes in these 18 cube storage box shelves. 00;09;25;25 - 00;09;43;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, for example, here's a pro tip and this might be your 26th idea, Bollman said. Sometimes he would put a can of beans in there. So let's see what ChatGPT says. And then I'm going to literally these are spitting out right here in live time. I didn't rehearse this. I never put this in ChatGPT before. You're just gonna have to trust me. 00;09;43;09 - 00;10;05;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But here we go. They said in the actually worth it. Anker wins. Give a $5 Chick-Fil-A gift card. Of course. Who doesn't love Chick-Fil-A Christian chicken? You can give full size candy bar bundles. So I said make it less than $5 so that this cost you less than $5. So these are your $5 actually worth it. $5 Chick-Fil-A gift card, full sized candy bar, a cold soda plus candy combo. 00;10;05;25 - 00;10;23;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's a great idea. Takis hot Cheeto bags. Our kids go crazy for this stuff. Energy drink, if that's appropriate for your group, ChatGPT says it's appropriate for ours. We sell Celsius in our cafe or a mini snack pack box. Now keep in mind of the seven options I already said they could win a platypus book. They could win a game card. 00;10;23;20 - 00;10;44;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They could win a piece of paper that says best seats in the House, so you can recycle some of the seven ideas that we have in the shoe box. Ideas. Also, here's some like funny, right? Here's some trolls. According to I, one single mint, one ramen packet. A banana bonus is slightly brown. Now imagine we created these for 18 weeks of game winners. 00;10;44;19 - 00;11;03;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We put a banana in at the beginning and it was the last one taken 18 weeks later. Months into the semester that would be discussing and hilarious old same time, a single slice of bread in a bag, a rock labeled pet Rock or a church fire, or old Bulletin that's laying around as a prize. Once again, this is where it comes in clutch. 00;11;03;12 - 00;11;21;07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Sometimes they can be troll gifs, sometimes they can be actually good ones like Chick-Fil-A gift cards. We got mystery drink. So random soda flavor, weird dollar store toy off brand candy that no one recognizes, or a coupon that says trade this for a better prize. That's pretty funny. And then last 17 to 18. Skip the next game. 00;11;21;07 - 00;11;48;16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So they automatically win the next round or 18. They get to control the room for the next 60s they get to sing a song or make a rule that's actually pretty funny. So these are 18 AI ideas. And what you could do is you can put them in, right, print them off, or go buy them or go obtain them somehow one time at the beginning of like a semester or like a certain session of time, and then put them in this 18 boxing or go nine box or whatever you want to do. 00;11;48;18 - 00;12;12;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So once again, like I said, this entire list is going to be included down in the link on Patreon. There'll be a link to the 18 bookshelf. There'll be a link to the nine, bookshelf or recycle one that you have at home or laying around the office that you don't need anymore. Wrap these up, put numbers on them, and either choose for the student to pick them and replace it every week, or let them spin a wheel and let the wheel decide which item they get. 00;12;12;15 - 00;12;37;07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But these are 25 amazing, foolproof, youth ministry game winner ideas that don't break the bank and are actually good and actually fun. I hope you guys found this episode helpful. If you did, what would be amazing is actually if you go check out the guide over on my Patreon, that really helps more than you can imagine. Or if you don't want to leave YouTube, click the like and click the subscribe button so that you don't miss the next video. 00;12;37;07 - 00;12;46;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In the next episode, which is episode 200, it's going to be amazing. But until next time my friends. And as always, don't forget. Stay hybrid.

Steal this brilliant idea - kick your feet back this summer in your youth ministry. I’m giving you this calendar, plus ALL these graphics away in this episode. FREE! Welcome to the Summer Edition of the Hybrid Ministry Show! 👇👇FREE GRAPHICS & CALENDAR DOWNLOAD 👇👇 https://www.patreon.com/posts/6-summer-155909228?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/198 [FREE] HYBRID STRATEGY GUIDE https://www.patreon.com/posts/complete-guide-142500019?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link 🌸 SPRING SEASONAL SOCIAL PACK https://www.patreon.com/posts/spring-seasonal-151263940?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link 👉 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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You deserve it. 00:00:08:02 - 00:00:21:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm giving away this calendar, along with all of these graphics that you see right here on screen. For those of you watching on YouTube, welcome to the Summer calendar edition of the Hybrid Ministry Show. 00:00:21:11 - 00:00:25:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, hey everybody, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. If you and I haven't had chance to meet yet. 00:00:25:10 - 00:00:45:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry My name is Nick Klassen. I'm a youth pastor in DFW, Dallas-Fort worth area. And, you know, 15 or so years ago when I started in youth ministry, I wouldn't have dreamed about doing youth ministry in the summer. However, summer midweek has actually become a staple, and I remember the first year where I became a believer in doing youth ministry. 00:00:45:10 - 00:01:02:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Over the summer I was up. It was like a Sunday night for our youth ministry, and I was teaching, and I looked out in the crowd and I saw a girl who I hadn't seen all year long, but she was able to show up in the summer because her, competitive dance, you know, practice took a break for the summer. 00:01:02:10 - 00:01:22:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so ever since that point, I've been a huge believer in summer youth ministry. Not to mention, like, we go to camp right at the beginning of our summer, May 20th 9th to June 2nd. And then to not have anything throughout the entire course of the summer just feels like such a wasted opportunity to capitalize and continue on some of that summer momentum. 00:01:22:19 - 00:01:46:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So whether you have summer youth ministry or not, these are going to be some different theme ideas. And if you do have summer youth ministry in particular Wednesday nights, I've done the heavy lifting because over the last several years, in our particular context of our church, similar to other places, have been the rest of the the church shuts down so kids ministry shuts down, adult groups shut down. 00:01:46:15 - 00:02:04:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All happen on Wednesday night in a normal, cycle. On Wednesday night, like throughout the school year. But we we come back for 5 or 6 weeks from about mid-June once, like our, camp recap night is over until the end of July. Take a couple weeks off, the first few Wednesdays in August, and then we're back, 00:02:04:11 - 00:02:06:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry that third Wednesday in August. 00:02:06:10 - 00:02:22:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And it's like our back to school bash or whatever. So if you want to meet and do something over the summer, I have mapped out six amazing events. And what happened was a couple of years ago, we were kind of coming back and realizing that we needed to drum up some momentum because the rest of the church wasn't going to be meeting. 00:02:22:23 - 00:02:39:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we looked at the National day calendar, which, if you've never done that before, there's just wild amounts of national days. There's like 8 or 10 different options on some days of, of the month. And so since the dates change every single year, for the most part, we, can kind of do a different 00:02:39:05 - 00:02:41:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry like theme throughout the summer. 00:02:41:04 - 00:02:58:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we don't do themes throughout the regular year. But but during the summer will lean into different national days. And, and I've done the heavy lifting. I have found them for you. And so I'm giving away this calendar right here and and, you know, like on this calendar, right up here at the top is where we put like our summer camp. 00:02:58:07 - 00:03:17:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then right here is where we do like our, our fifth grade VBS spot. You can like right in on top of this and any sort of design thing, Canva or Photoshop or PowerPoint or keynote. And then I send a transparent version after sticker mule to get a magnet printed. So. So go grab this. It's free over on my Patreon. 00:03:18:01 - 00:03:33:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But in this section right here, these are the summer Wednesday nights. And if you don't meet on Wednesday nights or you're not going to be leaning into these, this is where you can put something different, that, you know, down here is where I have like our our back to school time and then our Sunday morning, right down here at the very bottom. 00:03:33:18 - 00:03:54:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But, this is where I would put and where I did put our Summer Wednesday themes. Now, if you do have ones and you want to just like, adopt what I have to to give literally, I'm giving this to you. Steal these for the summer and they are yours. And if you have Wednesday nights, we start on the 24th of June, and then we skip the first for the 4th of July. 00:03:54:08 - 00:04:10:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then we go through the rest of, of July, the eighth through the 29th. If you do want to meet on the first, I've added an option in there as well. And so, what's going to happen is I'm going to give you this episode now because some of you are planners and you need to get, you know, things printed and you need to get the ball rolling on some of this. 00:04:10:28 - 00:04:29:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Most so giving away every single graphic. And I'm going to rattle through what these different nights are. But on July or I'm sorry, on June 19th, I would encourage you to subscribe and turn the bell on on this YouTube channel because, you know, we drop an episode every single Thursday, whether it's, in your podcast catcher or on YouTube. 00:04:29:12 - 00:04:51:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So turn on notifications. I'm going to send you a reminder about the upcoming Wednesday night so that you can start getting working on, you can start planning, and then on the following Monday, over on my Patreon, my bonus show, I'm going to detail recap and outline how the entire night went. And I'm going to give you the service flow for the next upcoming night. 00:04:51:04 - 00:05:13:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So for example, you'll get the upcoming service flow over on Patreon, the Monday before the Wednesday night starts. So for the first one, world UFO day, I'm going to give you our entire service order. And what I always do on Patreon this summer, I'm going to, kind of like, lean harder into Patreon. So the Thursday shows are going to be quick hitters and just reminders about what's coming up. 00:05:13:23 - 00:05:17:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then on Monday, we're really going to take a deep dive where we're going to answer what we did, 00:05:17:18 - 00:05:24:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry what worked, what flopped, what I would change, and then give you the next week's assets. And here's my promise. I'm going to give 00:05:24:03 - 00:05:28:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry you the entire service flow, everything I have planned for the upcoming Wednesday. 00:05:28:23 - 00:05:35:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I'm going to give it to you with enough time for you to actually implement the ideas that we've already come up with in our youth ministry. 00:05:36:00 - 00:05:45:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All you got to do set the notifications, set the reminders, make sure you're subscribed, and you'll get these every single week. So I'll give you the service flow. I'll give you any 00:05:45:12 - 00:05:52:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry of our plus up programmatic elements. For example, on one of the days being, National White 00:05:53:03 - 00:05:56:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Elephant Day, actually, it's not National Elephant Day. It's actually National Give Something Away Day. 00:05:56:26 - 00:06:11:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And we kind of branded it around White Elephant. We're going to do like a white elephant gift exchange thing in the middle of July. But I'm going to tell you exactly what we did, how we did it, and what other elements kind of went along with it, along with the service flow and also any other kind of plus up ideas. 00:06:11:24 - 00:06:22:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then some are just going to be simple, like, yo order chicken wings on National chicken wing and National Lasagna Day. I'm also going to give you, any games, videos and elements. And here's my promise. Okay? I'm not 00:06:22:22 - 00:06:28:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry going to create a custom or brand new, game every single week. I might for some, I might not. 00:06:28:00 - 00:06:49:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry For others, it's pretty far out. I don't know exactly what I do. I'm not promising to make something custom and new for every single episode, but my promise is, if I created, a resource in any way, shape or form, I will link it in the podcast description for free for those in the Hybrid Hero Patreon tier. If it's newly created by me, I will give it to you. 00:06:49:17 - 00:07:03:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And whether it's released on dime or not, that's going to obviously be up to them as the gatekeepers. But I will give you early access. I'll just put drop box links and then if I am using something over on D, I am I will give you the link so that you can go grab it from them. I can't give that away. 00:07:03:26 - 00:07:07:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's theirs. Go give them the royalties. But I will link every single thing we 00:07:07:05 - 00:07:24:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry do. I'm planning my youth services and I'm putting them out one week ahead of time on Monday, so I'll lay out the entire service flow. On Monday you'll have, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to implement that and then, operate on the same National Day schedule that I'm going to be operating on. 00:07:24:05 - 00:07:42:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, like I said, the National Day calendar, if you so choose to participate, the 24th of June is World UFO day. I've got a graphic for it. You can use it. You can, use everything that we're going to do in our ministry. Then on the first is Canada Day. So hey, why not celebrate our neighbors up north, do some Canada themed stuff? 00:07:42:26 - 00:08:08:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Maple sirup. And, you know, was poutine and then do, like, a Canada themed game. It'd be super fun. National ice cream. Sunday is the eighth. The white Elephant day is, national give something away day. Pie approximation day is 22 divided by seven, which is, 3.14. That is, July 22nd. And then finally on the 29th is both National Chicken Wing and National Lasagna Day Stew. 00:08:08:20 - 00:08:32:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry These ideas have been incredibly successful for us. I'm literally handing them over to you. The best way for you to access that is my $4 per month Patreon tier, where I drop my bonus podcast. It also gives you access to all of our social media packs. It also gives you access to my carousel engine. $4 per month for all of that is $8 for the summer months of June and July. 00:08:32:14 - 00:08:53:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Worth having everything in your programing from games to service orders and all of the creative elements. Is it worth it? You have to decide. I think it is less than $10 over the course of two months. I think it's a radically insane idea. Who says radical? I don't think I've ever said radical on this podcast before, but hey, it's episode 199. 00:08:53:14 - 00:09:18:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I do wanna let you know I'm dropping this a little bit out of cycle and order. And so, next week and next episode is going to be the 200th episode, and then make sure that you set your notifications for the 19th of June, where we'll start rolling these out, and we'll start continuing to push all of these events and reminding you what's coming up on Wednesday and how you can grab the graphics and how you can lean in, and how you can celebrate these different national days on the Wednesdays. 00:09:18:20 - 00:09:30:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Of those of you doing youth ministry this summer, but until next time, my friends. And as always, I hope you found this episode helpful. If you did give it a like, give us a subscribe, share it with a friend, but don't forget to stay hybrid.

Social Media is like the beast that never sleeps. In this episode, I have two experts to argue both social media philosophies. Should you use a pack that's done for you, so you can set it and forget it? Or should you focus on more custom content for your church instagram feeds? Find out, listen to the debate, and you decide! 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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.patreon.com/posts/9-amazing-dym-142425755 //OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 //HYBRID MINISTRY MEGA GUIDE Everything I've ever learned in one blog post [FOR FREE!] https://www.patreon.com/posts/hybrid-ministry-151264417?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link -------------- 🕰️TIMECODES 00:00 Social Media for Youth Ministry 00:39 The Guest Today? 01:53 Custom Social Intro 02:52 Done For You Intro 03:52 Why Done For You Social Media? 05:54 Why Custom Social Media is most effective 07:55 How Long Do You Spend on Social Media? 10:26 Have You Raised up Volunteers? 12:07 Done For You Closing Remarks 13:07 Custom Social Media Closing Argument -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:000 - 00:00:02:065 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Youth ministry debates. Welcome to the 00:00:02:065 - 00:00:02:112 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry fourth 00:00:03:002 - 00:00:03:076 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry and 00:00:03:086 - 00:00:04:075 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry debate 00:00:04:085 - 00:00:05:008 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry episode. 00:00:05:033 - 00:00:05:050 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And 00:00:05:050 - 00:00:07:110 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry in this one we are talking all things 00:00:08:013 - 00:00:10:077 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry social media, and I'm debating none 00:00:10:096 - 00:00:11:103 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry other than 00:00:11:113 - 00:00:27:037 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry myself. And I'm going to be taking two different stances. Stance number one is going to be on social media. That is done for you. You download it out of a pack and you just set it and forget it versus social media. 00:00:27:037 - 00:00:39:053 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That is custom social media that has your own voice and your own face. And we're going to be going head to head. Myself versus myself. Welcome, everybody to the Hybrid Ministry show. 00:00:39:063 - 00:00:49:065 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, hey everybody, welcome to the Hybrid Minister's show. If you've not been following along, we are currently at the tail end of a playlist where we've been exploring big youth ministry 00:00:49:075 - 00:01:05:022 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry debates. And in this one, the debate is specifically centered around social media. And rather than trying to find another opposition or another person on the other side, I figured I would genuinely argue this position from each side of the social media aisle. 00:01:05:032 - 00:01:09:020 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Done for you versus custom for you. And so when I'm wearing a 00:01:09:033 - 00:01:10:111 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry black shirt, I'm going to be arguing 00:01:10:119 - 00:01:14:051 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry packs that are done for you, that are set it and forget it. Think 00:01:14:061 - 00:01:15:080 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Sunday social, think 00:01:15:080 - 00:01:19:015 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry nuclear social, think doing membership post. 00:01:19:025 - 00:01:22:111 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then when I'm wearing a white shirt. 00:01:23:000 - 00:01:38:028 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm going to be arguing social media. That's custom, social media that has your own flair, social media that has your own voice in your own face. And so, just like we've programed every single one of these other debate style episodes, that's how we are going to 00:01:38:028 - 00:01:40:080 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry do this with a minute introduction and 00:01:40:080 - 00:01:46:013 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry then two minutes of an argument, then a back and forth Q&A, followed by one minute of closing. 00:01:46:042 - 00:01:53:030 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And welcome to the podcast to argue social media myself. Nicholas. 00:01:53:040 - 00:02:09:105 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah. So minute on the clock. So I've been in youth ministry for 15.5 years. Started out small churches in Ohio. Always seen the value and need for social media, digital ministry. In fact, I read a book, or listen to a podcast about exiles in Babylon. 00:02:09:115 - 00:02:18:045 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It was a Barna book and talked about the value of YouTube and how the next generation is going to be asking some of the heaviest and most theologically based questions on YouTube. 00:02:18:055 - 00:02:40:084 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So to kind of get my gears turning around YouTube, I started a little like YouTube through my church podcast, moved to a church in Chicago the first day Covid hit. And while we were there, obviously we had to come up with a digital and an innovative and innovative digital solution. And while we were doing that, it really like sparked my love, my continued love for social media, YouTube, and just digital ministry. 00:02:40:084 - 00:02:54:060 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so kind of ever since then, I've seen the value of it. I've seen the power behind doing a good job on social media. And then then I moved to Texas. Which next guy can take it away? 00:02:54:069 - 00:03:13:053 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah. That's great. So I moved here to Texas in 2022. I came to be, one of my really good friends. His name is Darren. I came to be kind of like his right hand man and, learned a lot of stuff about digital and kind of poured into it and really, like, brought it to life here. 00:03:13:062 - 00:03:28:021 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In where the in the current setting that I'm serving in, last summer. So about eight months ago, at this point, he stepped away to another role, at another church, and I took over and assumed his role, which is a lot more management, and it's a lot more meetings 00:03:28:021 - 00:03:34:114 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry and a lot more oversight of people. And so my schedule looks like this on screen here. 00:03:34:117 - 00:03:51:098 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is a screenshot of my schedule. I actually sent it to him last week complaining. And I'm actually getting ready to hand social media over to a resident because I'm running out of time, no matter how well I'm mapping out and blocking my time. Social media is great, but there are other things that are also taking my attention. 00:03:51:098 - 00:03:56:060 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, excited to be with you today. 00:03:56:070 - 00:04:22:029 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah. Okay, so two minutes on the clock. So, I would say our goal as youth pastors is not to be content creators, not to be social media managers. But our goal as youth pastors and pastors in general, working in the church, our goal is to be disciple makers, and we should be implementing and facilitating, a system and a program that helps move students more meaningfully and significantly towards Jesus. 00:04:22:029 - 00:04:26:038 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I know and I believe that social media 00:04:26:053 - 00:05:00:036 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry obviously is still important, and I believe that it has a role within the life of the local church. But I also believe that we should be primarily focusing on making disciples. And my argument for why you should consider done for you. Pax is it just while it's important, while social media can be a mechanism for life change and for disseminating the hope and the message of the gospel, I also know that as my calendar gets more and more full, as my plate gets more and more stacked up, and as I have more and more of those proverbial plates spinning, so to speak, that social media 00:05:00:058 - 00:05:14:000 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry is one of the first things to kind of like fall off my radar and so, yeah, so I believe in social media, but I also believe in delegation. And so if you can delegate that either through a team or through a, 00:05:14:011 - 00:05:20:101 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry just downloading a pack of especially like if you're a member, you're already paying for it like it's included. 00:05:20:110 - 00:05:45:009 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You should go ahead and check something like that out because, while the while like, I believe that we're busy, I believe that social media is important. I also believe that our ultimate goal is to raise up leaders and to help point people towards Jesus. And so if social media is taking that away from me, I don't want to, become less effective as a disciple maker because of social media. 00:05:45:009 - 00:05:57:084 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so because of that, I would recommend that you grab something that's done for you, that's taken care of, and you don't even have to worry about it. And it frees up your time to be the best version. And pastor of you that you can be. 00:05:57:094 - 00:06:23:016 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah. So I would say two minutes on the clock. I would say my argument is that in social media, the goal is not to just get your announcements or your information pushed through. It's it's a very, very small part of it. In fact, the goal on social media is engagement, which my argument would be as youth pastors, as ministry leaders in churches, our goal should be engagement across the board. 00:06:23:038 - 00:06:47:118 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We would want people to engage not just with our church for the sake of engaging with our church. We would hope that they would engage with our church, and that's going to be helping to move and promote them towards and for life change. And so the same thing is true on social media. And just like every single time you're hanging out with a student at Starbucks, you're not only ever posting announcements in the same way that you're, or like you're hanging out at Starbucks. 00:06:47:118 - 00:07:03:107 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You're not only ever talking about spiritual, so if you're talking about life, you're talking about fun stuff, you're talking about interesting things. And you see, you know, the latest neighbor gets a stand up routine, like whatever that might be. And I think the same thing should be true on social media. And I think you should have a custom fingerprint of our own church. 00:07:03:107 - 00:07:26:012 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. And so because of that, I think that helps drive engagement and so people respond to people, people like some of our best performing posts on social media, our faces, not graphics that we cooked up in Canva. And so the more we can get faces, my face, my leaders faces, my senior pastor's face and other students faces, that's the goal on social media. 00:07:26:012 - 00:07:52:046 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so in the same way, like announcements are good, graphics are good, done for you. Stuff is good. But Dunphy can only take you so far because if it's done for you, it means it's also done for many. And if you're just posting something that someone else has already made, that can be done at any given church in any given context across America, only you have been called to be the youth pastor and the shepherd of your church and the students that God has entrusted to you. 00:07:52:057 - 00:07:59:032 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So lean into the customization of that and use it to spread the message of good news and hope of Jesus. 00:07:59:041 - 00:08:09:022 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah. Okay. So I have a question for you. Nick. White shirt. Nick, how much time do you spend on social media per week? 00:08:09:032 - 00:08:26:099 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah, so let's see. Good question. I used to spend a lot of time on social media when I was editing our teaching videos. Probably took me ten hours a week between that, and then our other social media content, like our short form content, we finally built up our budget in such a way to be able to pay an editor, which I get. 00:08:26:099 - 00:08:46:069 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's a luxury. Not everybody has that. I would also say, like, if you have the potential to just, like, film yourself in the back of the room with a camera. Cameras have come a long way even since I started at this church in Texas. And so you could probably get a decent camera, a decent lens, and a decent like, just, what am I looking for? 00:08:46:069 - 00:09:01:017 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry An adapter into your soundboard? You can probably get that for a thousand $2,000. And again, you might have to work your way up for it. You might find a donor for it. If there is some money for it. But you can put a camera in the back of the room and you can film your messages, and you can use those for clips and stuff like that. 00:09:01:017 - 00:09:14:094 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then I also come a long way. So to answer your question and spend a lot of time when I've done a lot of the work myself, but do things like opus clip link down below if you want to check that out. If you have some sort of long form version of your message without lower thirds is going to crop it out. 00:09:14:094 - 00:09:39:097 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Opus clip is an amazing solution that will give you clips and chunks of your teaching, and of your messages that you can sprinkle on all throughout social and listen. Maybe video is not even an option for you. Maybe just like record your sermons through soundboard and post to audio. Have an audio sermon like that's still a version of hybrid Ministry of Digital Ministry might not be the most effective just on social media, but there's even ways to do that where you have like the sound wave bar, right? 00:09:39:097 - 00:09:59:056 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And like you can do overlays and B-roll and, and you can do your slides and stuff like that as you clip up some of the things. So like, you don't have to be hamstrung by the equipment side of your, of your life. And then that being said, I built out a whole strategy. I owned it, but then as I've owned it, I've handed it off. 00:09:59:056 - 00:10:17:018 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So on the capturing and creation side, I have a whole team of students who are building that out every single Wednesday night. And then on the editing side, I have a whole team of students, and even some leaders and other staff members who are helping, do some of that. But I don't manage much of it anymore. 00:10:17:018 - 00:10:29:052 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I would say in an honest assessment, I spend less than an hour per week and have a fully customizable social media, YouTube channel, Instagram, all those things. 00:10:29:062 - 00:10:33:003 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah. I mean, my question to you, black shirted Nick would be like, 00:10:33:003 - 00:10:45:034 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I get that you were all about done for you, but have you considered raising up volunteers to give you a hand on some of these things as you've, you know, gotten busier and lost some of your time that you used to have? 00:10:45:044 - 00:11:21:066 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah, actually, yes. I have raised up volunteers in in my space. And that's one of the reasons why, the done for youth stuff. I mean, I'm not so far down the done for you path. It's because of my own prep of raising up volunteers. So I have a couple of students, who I've raised up in who have taught how to run and do social media for themselves, and how they, can, come in at edit off of our computers, our machines, our software that we spend the money for that we've invested in. 00:11:21:075 - 00:11:43:079 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And they have my help, my troubleshooting ability. But if I didn't have them at this current juncture, I'm not sure that I would have as much time to devote towards, you know, five, five, days a week, two posts per day, ten, ten different pieces of content. Like, I don't know that I would have that amount of time to get something like that off the ground. 00:11:43:079 - 00:12:10:093 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So something that's a little more done for you, something that's just a little bit more turnkey. In my current role, with the amount of direct reports I have, with the amount of people that and meetings that I've found myself in. Had I not raised up those volunteers to continue to keep doing what I'm doing as I've stepped into this new leadership role and I'm not I'm not 100% sure how well I would be at launching a brand new hybrid in social media, like kind of ministry and campaign, like right now. 00:12:10:102 - 00:12:21:095 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah. So final minute on the clock. My final closing argument is honestly my own social media pack. I don't mean for this to be like self-promotion and like a plug, but the fact of the matter is this is that I 00:12:21:111 - 00:12:32:100 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry have a pack that has a whole done for youth section. In fact, I was just on social media not ten minutes ago, and one of the members from my cohort, I follow their youth ministry. 00:12:32:109 - 00:12:55:086 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I ran across a takes 60s to pray post. I ran across one that I had made and I had created myself. And so I saw another youth ministry. I saw another youth pastor use my content for their own students. And that's why I would recommend this, because sometimes you have the bandwidth, sometimes you have the margin, and sometimes you have the creative energy, but other times you simply don't. 00:12:55:086 - 00:13:09:101 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you need something that's still good, that's still effective, and that's still going to push the mission of Jesus forward in your space, in your context, in your church. And you can do all that through social media and on your social channels. 00:13:09:111 - 00:13:30:062 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah, right. So my argument is that social media is best when it's custom. People respond best to faces. And you, if you're the youth pastor, you've been called to shepherd your people, which also includes putting your face on your Instagram, on your YouTube, on your TikTok, and, shameless plug my done for you and custom for you social media pack. 00:13:30:062 - 00:13:54:048 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I have four different seasons summer, fall, winter, spring, $17.99. Or you can become a Patreon member, which gives you access to our weekly bonus podcast. And then as a part of that $4 per month membership cost, the $17.99 social media pack will coach you through how to have a custom and hybrid social media ministry. It will give you scripts. 00:13:54:048 - 00:14:10:089 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It will tell you, it'll give you filming prompts. It will give you man on the street questions with the graphics and the overlays so that your social media can be custom, but it doesn't have to break the bank financially or from a time standpoint. Check it out. Link down below in the description. 00:14:10:099 - 00:14:33:044 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, hey, thanks everybody for hanging out on this episode. And I think, and I hope that you're able to tell that my genuine answer is that, yes, it should be custom social media and that yes, it should be done for you. Social media. And I have the perfect tech to blend those two things together. There is information and a link down below in the show notes. 00:14:33:044 - 00:14:53:059 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or if you just have questions, bro, reach out to me. Shoot me a DM. If you found this episode helpful, interesting, or at least just something comical to laugh at because I was literally debating myself just with a different outfit, then hey, go ahead and give us a like or subscribe. That would be the greatest form of payment, especially if you choose not to go check out the social media pack. 00:14:53:068 - 00:14:57:009 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But until next time my friends. 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Here I am this morning with Andrew and my new friend Ellen. Good morning everyone. How are we doing this morning? Ellen Partridge (00:10.995) Doing good. Nick Clason (00:12.802) Hey, are you guys, do you have coffee yet in your systems or is that long gone? All right, okay. They're doing pretty good, right, Michigan State? Andrew Jansen (00:12.964) Doing fantastic. Ellen Partridge (00:16.771) We're on the first cut. Go Spartans. Yeah, not as good as Michigan, which is a bummer, but... Andrew Jansen (00:23.46) They're doing good. Nick Clason (00:25.73) Mm, yeah. And this will drop after March Madness, so we'll all know. Comment down below, like how Michigan did. know, Michigan State, not Michigan. But I'm excited because today we are debating pro lock-in versus anti lock-in. And based on the two people that you see on your screen here, you can probably already tell who's pro lock-in. Andrew Jansen (00:33.591) it. Nick Clason (00:50.9) and who's anti-lock-in. And so I'm just so excited for you guys to get to, not only get to know these two amazing people, but also hear their positions on this. And so by random draw that happened off screen that you're gonna have to trust me because I'm a pastor and I get paid to tell the truth. Ellen, you get to go first. So one minute on the clock for you. Just introduce yourself, help the people understand your context, where you're at, how long you've been in ministry, all these types of things. Ellen, are you ready? Ellen Partridge (01:18.751) Absolutely. I'm ready. Nick Clason (01:21.58) Alright, take it away. Ellen Partridge (01:23.455) All right, everyone, my name is Ellen Partridge. I serve as the central pastor of students at Thornton Apple Valley Church. We are centralized out of Hastings at Michigan, southwest Michigan. And we are a multi-site church, but I've been in ministry for very close to two decades now. And we're in a rural context and a multi-site context. So things are a little bit different for us versus just the single site. And when I think about lock-ins, the thing that always comes to mind is the Halt analogy. If you're hungry, if you're angry, if you're tired, what are the things you shouldn't do, which is make decisions. And so we're gonna put students in a room where they are locked in together. You got the ones who, I have a kid in my youth ministry who at camp asked me if I could move our bedtime up to 9 p.m. I let him know that wasn't a thing, but you've got those kind of kids, and then you've got the kids who have snuck in. all their energy drinks and are going to be up till four in the morning. And those kids that are up are going to be picking on the kids that don't want to be up, that want to be sleeping. And then you've got a lot of that interpersonal conflict that is going on within that. And you're putting that all into a giant space where you're having to entertain them and or keep track of them as they are, you know, coming up with all of these grand ideas of how they're going to use their time. And I remember back to my youth group days, our youth ministry actually met in a old YMCA building, and for some reason, they did not lock the doors to the locker rooms, and then that locker room led to a empty pool. And I can't confirm or deny if there were children conceived in that pool, but there probably were. And it was coming from opportunities where we did lock-ins and they let us all throughout this building with lots of classrooms, lots of spaces that should have been locked that were not. And so from that perspective of hungry, angry, tired, lack of ability to, you know, keep an eye on all the students and all the places, I am very anti-lock-in. Nick Clason (03:43.896) Well, there you go. Andrew, she blew past introductions just straight into arguments. Brother, she's coming for you, right? Like she is coming in hot. So, Ellen, great argument. Man, I hope no students, babies were conceived in that pool. I don't ever want to swim there. Andrew. Andrew Jansen (03:49.24) yeah, just right past it. Yeah, she went right past it and that's okay. She's coming in hot, yeah, for sure. It's okay. Ellen Partridge (04:10.12) Me too. Andrew Jansen (04:12.365) Yeah, it's gross. Nick Clason (04:13.838) Tell us why Ellen's wrong and why lock-ins are a great idea. But first, give us a little bit of intro as you go. Are you ready, my friend? Let's go, take it away. Andrew Jansen (04:28.345) ready. Yeah, hit it. My name is Andrew Janssen. I am a middle school pastor in Manhattan, Kansas. Sorry, a couple years ago, we did play Michigan State and I know you probably knew that but we have nothing to talk about sports wise, hardly at all right now. So that's okay. But I love K State. I love serving in Manhattan. I am 36 years old. I've been a youth pastor for 10 years and I really love getting to be in Manhattan, getting to work with college students that invest in middle schoolers. That's kind of my passion. And man, I love lock-ins. just, it works within the context of our church is about 1900 people and we work with multi buildings on our campus, but not multi-site, but. It is just set up in a really easy way to execute and make lock-ins happen. And especially in our season right now where we have, and it changes, we have college students that graduate, but we have like 17, 18 youth coaches right now. And a lot of them enjoy staying up super late. And so it just really worked in this season to be able to have enough people there for a safe lock-in to happen. Middle schoolers are crazy and love staying up all night, love getting to be like, you can be at the church besides Sunday and Wednesday. And just, it was just really, really awesome. We did a New Year's Eve lock in and they just have so much fun. There's opportunities for fellowship, board games, long extended times that maybe you don't get that opportunity to play through an entire game of exploding kittens or taco cat. Mahomes cheese pizza, not taco cat goat cheese pizza. We all know Mahomes is the goat. But we play taco cat Mahomes cheese pizza and you get through two rounds and it's time for youth group to start. So we get to play through those games, have those conversations and invest in the students moving forward. Nick Clason (06:40.494) Great. All right, well there you have it. Like there's, each of you have laid down the gauntlet with your position, right? Andrews is based upon board games. Ellen's is based upon pools being present. And so with those two things in mind, plus everything else, do either of you have a question for the other that we can debate in a little bit more of an open forum? Andrew Jansen (06:55.097) You Ellen Partridge (07:10.974) All Andrea, I got one for you. So what do you do with the kids who are not your board game kids? What are your other activities that you're able to do? Because it sounds like you're pretty board game heavy. So how are you keeping the other kids occupied that are not interested in your board games? Andrew Jansen (07:27.929) Absolutely. I have, I try to make sure that every single second is accounted for at a lock-in. We have intentional time where it's like, they get to choose. We have our youth building has like carpet ball, foosball, ping pong. We have not a Nintendo switch too, but two Nintendo switches, which is kind of confusing, definitely. But so we have like Mario Kart and Smash Bros going. Nick Clason (07:49.902) That could be confusing, Andrew Jansen (07:56.882) I really try to get them away from screens as much as I can because we all know that battle. yeah, trying to have every single second with like some sort of activity, some sort of competition tournament. The last time I was on with Nick, we talked about the Assassin's like meta ongoing game that happens throughout the evening and having things like that where there isn't an opportunity to be bored. really, really is effective with middle schoolers. Because once you were right, once they're bored and exploring and they find a pool and we know what happens next, like there's just something about an empty pool. So, but with middle schoolers, that's not so much like the sneaking off and having that happen. I think that's more of a high school situation, but I just try to make sure every single second is accounted for. And that kind of helps with, you know, not having that boredom. board game time for the students that don't like board games. Ellen Partridge (08:57.362) And notice you keep saying middle school. You're not mentioning high school. So are you saying that lock-ins are only good for middle school or would you do one with high school? Nick Clason (09:06.072) Good question. Andrew Jansen (09:06.325) I would, that is a great question. I would do a, I would do a high school lock in for sure. I think that you do run that risk. They are a little bit more like, I can kind of put on the dad voice like the, Hey, what are you doing? And they'll just like freeze as a middle schooler. They still, you know, we'll listen to authority when it yells at them. So with high school, they're kind of a little bit more independent, a little bit more calloused and a little bit more. Like on their own I consider I always use this analogy of like middle schoolers are like dogs and high schoolers are like cats Like dogs are just happy that you're there and happy that you see them high schoolers. You kind of have to earn that relational like equity and I would say yes have a lock-in with high schoolers, but only do it if you have the resources and the adult volunteers and also if you're like this group is just like, this is a crazy group of high schoolers. It's not always a green light for that specific group of high schoolers if you just feel like that wouldn't be good. Does that make sense? Ellen Partridge (10:16.934) Yeah, it's good argument. Nick Clason (10:18.464) Andrew, you got a question for Ellen? Andrew Jansen (10:22.763) Yes, what do you feel is, like, I want you to tell me what is the, like, risk reward trade off where you feel like, hey, this is too risky to have a lock in for this type of reward. Ellen Partridge (10:35.422) Mmm. Ellen Partridge (10:45.35) Yeah, it's a great question. I would just say I'm a big fan of like doing late night activities, hanging out super late. The thing that gets me and where I feel like the risk comes in is once you hit that one, two, three, four a.m. that even, and you mentioned that you've got college leaders. I don't live in a college town and so I mostly have adult leaders. And so for me, I know my adult leaders are not gonna be on their A game coming into that situation. And so for me, the risk in my context is a lot higher that my leaders are gonna start maybe losing their minds or going stir crazy or sleep deprivation is gonna kick in. And it's gonna lead to students, because they're curious, ending up doing things that they don't need to do. And so for me, I would rather do a thing where it's like, hey, we're hanging out till midnight. Your parents are picking you up. and then maybe we do something again the next morning because then I know they're getting sleep, my leaders are getting sleep, and it also means that I'm not putting them at risk, I'm not putting my leaders at risk. And so for me, there doesn't seem to be necessarily, yes, there's the connection reward, but I wonder if that's always overshadowed by the sleep deprivation, the angry, hangry situations that can come up and also, I worry for my adult leaders that they're gonna say something out of their own sleep deprivation or frustration after telling the same kid eight times not to do something, that it may end up ultimately hurting a relationship that was good, and then they make a good relationship with someone that they had a bad relationship with, and so you're kind of at a net zero, is kind of how I look at Nick Clason (12:32.078) I just feel like the ultimate fact that like, I would rather sleep in my bed at two o'clock in the morning. Like that's my strongest argument for anti-lock-in. Just shooting straight. Plus I enjoy Saturdays and if I am doing a lock-in, I don't know. Also, Andrew, question for you. Do you ever notice that your Sunday morning attendance is affected post a lock-in weekend? Andrew Jansen (12:32.345) Definitely fair. Andrew Jansen (13:02.165) for sure. I mean, I tell my youth coaches, like, hey, you were just at church for 15 hours. It's OK for you to sleep in. I'll be there because I work there. And students, a lot of times parents will bring them and they might fall asleep or something during a message. Nick Clason (13:04.027) hahahaha Nick Clason (13:13.787) Yeah Yeah. Yeah. Nick Clason (13:28.622) Yeah. Andrew Jansen (13:29.079) Yeah, think it happens. There are definitely repercussions to having a lock-in, but I just think that there's just a lot of... I've seen so many good things and good conversations and relationships start at lock-ins, and it's just with a certain unchurched group of students, it's just an easy invite. It's just an easy win to get them there. Nick Clason (13:45.091) Yeah. Nick Clason (13:50.382) Yeah, which and I hear you like Sunday morning, it's like, okay, like, yeah, they didn't come on Sunday morning, which is like the senior pastor's goal. But like we had a lot more effective and fruitful time than like them sitting through a sermon or whatever, like through the lock-in and you know, the times I have done lock-ins, like it's almost always one of the number one most attended events from friends. Like we get, we would have some of our biggest. Ellen Partridge (14:12.242) Mm-hmm. Nick Clason (14:16.75) numbers and biggest reach, you know, as far as outreach is concerned. So I definitely do see like both sides for sure. So those of you listening, you're about to get your opportunity to vote. Ellen, you went first last time. Andrew, we're gonna put a minute on the clock now for you. Give us your final one minute strongest argument why Y lock-ins. Are you ready, my friend? Take it away. Ellen Partridge (14:30.173) All right. Andrew Jansen (14:42.008) I'm ready. Lock-ins are definitely the easiest first step in the door with a church. If you have the right resources, if you have the right volunteers, and you have a solid game plan going into it, you know your group of students. I think middle school or high school, it is an easy invite for the unchurched students. And that is kind of the lens in which I plan a lock-in. I don't have the whole bait and switch. Like we're going to talk to them about Jesus Christ, their Lord and savior first thing, and then just have the rest of the lock in. It is, hey, building connections, being intentional and teaching the students. That's why we're doing this. Like, Hey, we're doing this so you can bring that friend, start that relationship. And so that they associate church with fun, with safe, with They feel welcome and feel like they belong. There's something different happening here. And our hope is that continues on. Nick Clason (15:47.81) Great, almost a buzzer beater, but not quite. All right, Ellen, you get the final word, final say, anti-lock-in. Go ahead, take it away. Andrew Jansen (15:50.839) Almost. Ellen Partridge (16:00.572) All right, as fun as lock-ins can be in the memories that are made, the risk of students having bad memories, whether it's a leader who loses their cool, it's another student who says something they wouldn't have said because they're sleep deprived or because they're overtired, to me just doesn't equate to the reward. I am much more on the side of let's do a long. evening event where maybe we can start at six or seven and parents are picking up at midnight. So we're still getting that opportunity to connect with them, to have those great conversations, to have an opportunity for them to invite their friends. But at the same time, when it hits two, three in the morning, our leaders and our students are home in their beds, getting the sleep and the rest that they need. And hopefully, because they had a great time. We're gonna be able to see them on Sunday morning and they're able to stay plugged into that larger church community opposed from being just separate from the youth ministry. Nick Clason (17:05.023) Nice, nice. Another almost buzzer beater. Well, there you have it, my friends. You have your pro lock-in versus your anti lock-in debate. And so you guys get to be the decision makers. Those of you watching, let us know, comment down below. But without any further ado, we're gonna get out of here. For Andrew and for Ellen, I'm Nick. Thanks for watching everyone. See you next time.

Volunteer Leaders are so crucial to a healthy youth ministry. But as you recruit, should you focus more on older leaders? Or younger leaders? In this debate style episode we have two leaders make their case on both sides of the aisle! Let's dive in, together! 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Here we are. I am with Jacob and Tyler. Gentlemen, how we doing this morning? Jacob (00:07.712) Doing good. It's good. Tyler Johnson (00:08.579) Doing so good. Nick Clason (00:09.93) Have we both already had coffee or is that after this is over? Jacob (00:15.057) I just finished my cup, so I'm all set. Nick Clason (00:17.18) Okay. Tyler Johnson (00:17.454) I had tea because I'm a tea guy. Nick Clason (00:19.708) Hey, there you go. Who knew? The more you know. Comment down below your favorite brand of tea for Tyler. But we're going to let each of you have a moment. I don't want to get too far into this without you guys letting us know who you are. So by random draw that happened off camera and you're just going to have to trust me because I'm a pastor and I get paid to tell the truth. Jacob, you get to go first and introduce yourself one minute on the clock. Are you ready, sir? Jacob (00:19.826) Yeah. Jacob (00:48.273) Yeah, yeah, I can do a lot in a minute, let's do it. All right, yeah, my name is Jacob Hayes. I'm a student pastor for the chapel in Wisconsin. So I work with our three campuses in Wisconsin and our main campuses in Whitewater, which is UW College Town. So I get a lot of college students and it's fun to work with them. And yeah, it's just been great. See, I did it in under a minute. Nick Clason (00:50.218) All right, let's go. Tyler Johnson (01:08.02) you Nick Clason (01:11.85) 19 seconds what a right I don't think any youth pastor has ever come in that short on their time, but my friend Impressive stuff right there Tyler the bars been set bro Jacob (01:19.858) There you go. Nick Clason (01:27.56) Alright, are you ready Tyler? Let's go! Tyler Johnson (01:28.974) I'm so ready. I will take more than 19 seconds because I read that in debate it matters to take your full time. So my name is Tyler 2 Wall Johnson. The rest of that context doesn't need to be known because I don't think I can tell it in the remaining 40 seconds that I have. I am currently in Fort Wayne at Christ Hope Ministries and Church. I have only been here for about a year. was at my previous church for about eight years and I have had a fair balance of both young and old volunteers in the ministries. And so as I come today, ready to bear the fight and the voice of the older people, as there was another person in our retreat that the three of us had had recently who strives to be an older person. Jacob (01:54.899) Okay. Okay. Tyler Johnson (02:20.556) I cannot wait and so I am ready to defend the old today. Done. Nick Clason (02:27.41) Nice, great work. wait, I got distracted. There we go. I almost didn't give you credit for that because I laid the remote down. Tyler Johnson (02:37.101) Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let it be known that it was about 56 seconds. Nick Clason (02:40.714) Strong work, man, both of you strong work. All right, well, now that we thoroughly know everything and we know the bare minimum of Jacob's life, let's get this show on the road. So once again, by random draw, Jacob, since you went first on the last one, that means Tyler, your position that you're getting two minutes to argue is that older people are better youth ministry volunteers. Jacob (02:51.398) Okay. Okay. Nick Clason (03:10.282) and you're about to have two minutes on the clock. Are you ready? Jacob (03:11.346) Okay. Okay. Tyler Johnson (03:14.54) I will take one minute and 59 seconds. Nick Clason (03:16.99) Alright, well then my friend, take it away. Tyler Johnson (03:20.522) Yes, I am here to debate that for older volunteers, here's number one. They bring long-term faithfulness and not just energy. They model a future version of faith. They're often more emotionally stable. I do say that as a once young person, kind of middle-aged. What is 30? Am I young middle-aged or am I old young? I don't know. That's for later. I'm in my debate time. Jacob (03:42.345) . Thank Tyler Johnson (03:50.955) Here's one of the probably the biggest that I have seen more personally outside of just reading from my notes and it's this. There is more ownership with the maturity, not just ownership of the ministry, but there's ownership of the tasks that they have. Not only do they see the ministry as their own or maybe their small group as their own and the ability to without asking permission or even sometimes without asking how. Nick Clason (04:01.514) Hmm. Jacob (04:13.129) . Tyler Johnson (04:18.508) They're going to go in and say, like, you know, they're going to grab the lunches. They're going to grab the coffees. I don't have to hold their hand for some of that. At the same time in ministry, if they are teaching a lesson, if they are preparing small group questions, it is theirs. They want to own it. And they might want feedback over some of that, but they're going to have ownership of it. In the same way, finally, there's a lot of ownership of their faith. As a young adult, even a young Jacob (04:36.369) Okay. Tyler Johnson (04:47.052) volunteer. I do believe someone is supposed to have a Paul and a Timothy at all times, even into their older years. But there's a lot of times that that those 20 somethings, they are still looking very heavily towards their Paul. And so with the the 40s, I would say arguably older ministry volunteers is probably 50 up. They they have experienced that mentorship role and are more willing to be the Paul than needing to be the Timothy. Done. Nick Clason (05:18.782) Fantastic, strong work. Jacob, the bar has been set, my friend. He brought in the Bible and everything, so it's now time for you. Jacob (05:19.344) There you go. That was good. Jacob (05:25.413) Here we go. Tyler Johnson (05:28.446) shoot, I should have used the Bible. Nick Clason (05:33.5) It's that time for you to argue your side of the aisle, though you guys are friends. You once were friends. Will you still be friends after this, Jacob? Two minutes on the clock. Take it away. Jacob (05:35.44) Here we go. Jacob (05:45.85) Go for it. Yeah, so I want to clarify before I offend anybody that's 35 or older, that I'm 29, so 30 and above is still in the older mark for me. But I think there's something that younger volunteers provide that can't be replicated anywhere else. And that first thing mainly is just proximity. Proximity to culture, life stage, proximity to what students are actually experiencing right now. You know, they remember what it was like to sit in the cafeteria awkward wondering about what they're going to do with their lives. Not 25 years ago with a completely different generation, but just a couple years ago. I think the other thing that it provides is you get you get volunteers. Students look to those younger volunteers and they see a hope, not just a hope that's like, man, 45, 50 years from now, this is where I can be. But there's a hope of OK, faith can actually survive past high school like. faith can actually thrive in a college setting because I'm seeing college-age young adult students or young adult leaders actually engaging and figuring it out. And they don't have all of the answers completely. But I also think that that provides a comfortability of freedom to the students that go like, hey, it's okay if I'm not hitting college-age and I have all of the answers because they're still trying to figure out what they're gonna do. And that's okay, it's a process. And they can kind of have hope in that. And then the younger leaders can speak into that a little bit for them and give them a sense of, going be okay, you've got time to process some of these things and they can do that together. I think the other thing is that it builds a leadership pipeline. know, for all the pros that Tyler's talking about, for the older volunteers, you don't get there without some of the without starting at some point. And so you got to start as a young leader, use the skills that you have at the time and then work your way up to a place where you can be a a Paul instead of just a Timothy. But also remember that Tyler Johnson (07:31.562) you Jacob (07:34.745) Paul called Timothy when he was super young into a step of ministry. It wasn't that, let's get you to a certain age, but it was right there in that moment. Done. Nick Clason (07:45.086) Great. So each person, each member of the defense, I don't know, this isn't court, has presented their side. Does anyone have a clarifying question for the other person to try and understand their side of the argument maybe a little bit better? Tyler Johnson (07:56.747) you Jacob (08:10.063) Yeah, I'll go. Clarify a little bit on the emotional stability of older volunteers. I'm not saying I disagree. I just want to hear the specific strength that comes from as an older volunteer, because I think it's possible the younger volunteers can be in a place where they're emotionally stable. But maybe I'm missing the angle that you're coming from. Tyler Johnson (08:21.194) Yeah, I think that older volunteers can react less dramatically to maybe sometimes it's student behavior or something like that, as well as even when there are storms in their personal life, I think you'll see someone who's Jacob (08:40.374) Here you go. Jacob (08:46.447) Yeah, that's Tyler Johnson (08:50.249) keep a more calm sense in them more than when the storms of life are hitting a young person. Nick Clason (09:00.648) Tyler, you got one for Jacob? Tyler Johnson (09:02.845) I'm gonna come up with one, but I really liked Jacob's take. No, no, no, no, no, I didn't admit guilty, I'm just saying, it was a good point. Talk to me some about, obviously with the older crowd, took the stance of there's some high reliability. Nick Clason (09:05.608) Yeah. Jacob (09:10.84) Did he just admit on here that I won or we live over? Nick Clason (09:16.126) Ahem. Tyler Johnson (09:29.917) Talk to me about the lows of reliability in young people and if that has been an experience that you've experienced. Jacob (09:36.093) I mean 100 % although I would also argue that I've that I've worked with older volunteers who are sometimes just as as unreliable as as younger volunteers and so it's a little bit of a balance I think One of the things that all that I'll say and I'll push a little bit on the younger volunteers compared to older volunteers if I'm doing a and I'm hoping that all of us are in agreement that this is a horrible idea if I'm doing an overnight event right, I'm getting the young guys who can pound two red bulls and eat Taco Bell and go run with the kids then get the older volunteers to go, hey, I need you to go run around for a whole night and interact. And so there's a little bit of an energy there that they can provide. And I totally agree. think there's the emotional stability thing is super important. I do agree. think older volunteers are a lot more calm, especially in situations where like we need calmness and direction in terms of crisis, both in our lives and then also just in the craziness of Wednesday nights, we need a little bit of calm. Nick Clason (10:05.866) Yeah. Tyler Johnson (10:29.225) you Jacob (10:30.03) But I think at some point you're not going to be able to, they're not going to be able to learn that, the young leaders, unless they're in it first and see the older people do it. And so they have to experience that so that way they can also learn how to get there. Tyler Johnson (10:41.503) I do, so what's really fun is talking about the overnight, right? Because we've all been there. Sometimes it's not about just the evening, it's about the recovery. I've known some young people who pounded those two Red Bulls and then afterwards, like the next day, they are a frail Victorian child on their couch. Jacob (10:45.549) Yeah. Jacob (10:53.095) Yeah, that's right. Jacob (11:03.021) True. Tyler Johnson (11:03.857) And some older people who are like, I got my coffee and I'm going to work today. And I'm like, you're insane. Jacob (11:11.511) Fair enough. Nick Clason (11:12.522) Well, and younger people have like sometimes their life lends itself better for recovery. They're like, I will be sleeping all day Saturday and it doesn't matter. And older people are like, I have a family and we have an upward basketball game that we have to be at at 9 a.m. You know what I'm saying? And so there's definitely like there's some of the availability piece of maybe like a younger person, but there's maybe some of the wisdom piece of the older person. Tyler Johnson (11:30.407) Absolutely. Nick Clason (11:41.726) Which is probably why this is a terrible argument to have a either or stance on, right? Like that's probably why it's helpful and beneficial to have a good blend of both, right? And so that doesn't make for a strong YouTube title, but it does make probably for good youth ministry to have a good blend of older volunteers and younger volunteers because you can certainly see the pros of both sides. And let's be honest, you can also see the cons. Jacob (11:48.783) Yeah. Jacob (12:05.888) For sure. Nick Clason (12:11.89) of both stances of the argument. Tyler Johnson (12:14.44) Yeah, and to be honest, I figured that was the point anyway, right, is to have the balance. even for the older people, the idea is not they are not just mentoring the students, they're mentoring the younger leaders. There's so much wrapped up. Jacob said it, there's a pipeline. You don't get to be the older volunteer without at one point probably being also the younger volunteer. And realistically, as the younger volunteer, as I was a younger volunteer, Jacob (12:16.813) Yeah. Nick Clason (12:18.023) You Nick Clason (12:27.114) Hmm. Nick Clason (12:39.241) Yeah. Tyler Johnson (12:44.155) There were volunteers that I looked up to that said, man, I want to do discipleship that way. want to do, man, I want to have their presence when my life looks like their life. Jacob (12:44.301) Sounds like I'm I'm winning now this thing Nick Clason (12:54.652) I was gonna say objection to the pipeline because like what's the point of a pipeline? You don't actually want them past 30. So like just burn them out bro and then. Tyler Johnson (13:03.848) Are you? I'm sorry, Mr. Host, are you taking a stance? I don't feel good about this. Nick Clason (13:07.816) No, I was just, I was just. I was just playing a counterpoint. All right. Jacob (13:15.353) You Nick Clason (13:18.014) Final arguments, are we ready? So I believe since Jacob went first on the last one, Tyler, is that right? Jacob (13:24.204) That's right. Tyler Johnson (13:30.001) I went first on the last one. Nick Clason (13:31.484) since Tyler went first on the last one by random draw that you'll have to trust. Yeah, I'm pastor. Jacob, one minute on the clock to defend your younglings. Are you ready? All right, take it away. Tyler Johnson (13:37.148) You're a pastor. Jacob (13:45.366) Yeah, I'm ready. Yeah, think, yeah, close that out. I think it's also like you see the students that get to see the younger leaders engage, that gives them a hopeful passion and you can plug those guys in when they graduate into your middle school programming, right? And then that's where they can learn even more. And so it's not just you have these students from... It would be great. It would be a great world to live in if they if every single one of them came in in sixth grade and stayed until senior year, right? But we know that that some of them come in in their in their senior year or junior year or anywhere in that spectrum and you think well only have a certain amount of time right? Well these younger leaders can pour into these people and help them figure out their gifts. So maybe it's being called into ministry. Maybe it's being called into something else or jumping into serving in student ministry to see where they feel like where their spiritual gifts are right? And those can happen at a young age rather than going well I'll just figure it out when I'm 30 and go from there. Tyler Johnson (14:44.966) Thank you. Nick Clason (14:45.256) All right, well done. Let's round it out, Mr. Tyler. Older people are better than younger people as youth ministry volunteers because... Tyler Johnson (14:51.174) I'm ready. Tyler Johnson (14:57.201) The last point I want to make for older volunteers is the vision casting as well as the decisions they make are generational. There are times that think with younger people they planned sometimes as little as like they're ready for next summer, they're ready for the next summer conference, they're ready for the next big event. When a lot of the decisions in ministry that is done from some of the older volunteers is they are thinking the long term, they are thinking about the students when they're getting to their late 30s, 40s, 50s, and how they can pour into them. They have that vision of the five-year plan and not the one-year plan. And I have found that incredibly valuable, especially when establishing a ministry for even me to go to them and have those long-term vision casting conversations about the ministry. Done. Nick Clason (15:53.61) Well done, there you have it folks. Old volunteers versus young volunteers. Let us know down below who won and whose side you're on. We should probably put like an old person emoji for one person and a child emoji. Yeah, yeah, then you, yeah. Jacob (16:08.121) And then put me Tyler Johnson (16:09.657) I just assumed that there was a filter you're gonna do in post that like I'm 90 right now. Nick Clason (16:17.13) Oh, I'm good, but I might not be that good, I mean. Yeah. Tyler Johnson (16:21.336) Okay, I'm just like, well, one, I kind of wanted to see it. I wanted to see like the really greys, like my grandfather had a very good head of hair even in his 90s. So like, I'm hoping that sticks. Yeah. Jacob (16:24.142) You Jacob (16:32.978) That sounds nice, that sounds really nice, Nick Clason (16:34.154) Way to rub salt in the wounds there, Jacob (16:39.946) That's right.

Small Group Leaders are the life-blood of any good student ministry. But what is our most effective strategy to deploy them? Is it to saddle a great leader with students for their entire careeer? Or is it rather to introduce students to great leaders along their journey? In this first debate style episode we have two amazing youth pastors, on two different sides of the argument, and they're going head to head, and you get to be the voter! 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I mean, this is about to get really, really like real now because we have two amazing youth pastors with two completely different points of view on what's best for small group student leadership. And so again, by random draw that you'll have to trust because I'm a youth pastor, so I get paid to tell the truth. Isaac was randomly drawn to give his first two minute argument. So. Isaac (00:04.782) Hmm. Stephen Rose (00:12.276) You Nick Clason (00:29.009) We're about to put two minutes on the clock. are you ready? Isaac (00:33.026) Yeah, and just just clarifying because I want to make sure we are talking about leaders walking with students like. Are is it better? Is it better for them to go each year with them or every year? Let's recycle. That's the main question. Nick Clason (00:41.915) during Nick Clason (00:50.235) That's the question at hand. Yeah, I mean, we won't get into like the pizza lock-in, like social media debate. Those are, you know, those are meaningful ones in youth ministry as well, but this one in particular, yes, that's what I'd like you to argue. I hope that you came prepared for that and not like your pro lock-in debate, cause it might not fit. Real quick here at chat GPT, real quick, give me new notes. All right, are we ready? Isaac (00:52.526) Let's go. Isaac (00:58.254) Hmm. Stephen Rose (01:10.656) Thank Isaac (01:11.534) I have to change all my notes right now. Stephen Rose (01:17.876) Thank Isaac (01:18.178) Yeah, yeah, give me new notes. All right, yep, let's go. Nick Clason (01:21.776) Two minutes on the clock, take it away. Isaac (01:24.654) All right, two minutes, here we go. The key word that I'm looking at is discipleship and what does discipleship really look like? And so, and this is something that I've been kind of studying and learning about in my 17 years of youth ministry. And so I've changed and I've morphed, but I keep leaning more towards, man, let's really walk alongside these students. Here's some examples from the Bible. Jesus, he's come down, he's like, let me really pray over who I'm really going to invest in. because he had other people that were interested in following him, but he said, no, I'm really going to invest in these 12. And he did that for three years. And then you have Paul and his relationship with Timothy, and he's being able to say things like, hey, Timothy, your grandmother, and he's naming family members and stuff, which I just don't think that you can do that in a year's time of knowing someone that you really want to get into that. So discipleship really means relationship and knowing. How does someone come in and they're fully known and fully loved? So when you're with them longer, you know the students, you know their parents, you know the deaths that happened in their family, you know what sports they're involved in, you know the injury that set them back a few years prior. And so when they confess this thing, you go, I know the meaning behind that because I've had this relationship with you for a while. I guess my main question that I would ask is why don't we go in and hire a new youth pastor every one year? You want a youth pastor to be there and and longevity breeds just this this trust that's that parents now have and I feel like as a youth pastor I'm trying to equip other leaders to come in and essentially be youth pastors And so I don't want to hire new youth pastors every year because I want that trust and that relationship and that discipleship to happen. And that can only happen over a stretch of time and not hitting the reset button every single year. Nick Clason (03:27.12) Wow, did you rehearse that? Isaac (03:31.49) No. Nick Clason (03:32.39) Strong work, my man. Strong work. Alright, Steven. It's been laid down. Like, the challenge has been issued. Are you ready? Stephen Rose (03:32.788) Thank Stephen Rose (03:42.404) Yes, yes, I'm ready. Nick Clason (03:43.354) All right, and the microphone's working and the internet is streaming and yeah, yeah. All right, sweet. All right, bro, two minutes on the clock for you, Steven. Your side is you think that it's useful for students to have a variety of leaders year in, year out, or every so often. So, my friend, take it away. Stephen Rose (03:46.548) Internet's not crashing out right now. Stephen Rose (04:07.504) Awesome. Yeah, I love what you said about discipleship. Couldn't agree more. And for me, one of the things I think is so important and what we really focus on in my context is helping students own their faith by the time they graduate. And there's been like some studies done where the more, not like infinitely, but the more adults, specifically the number was around five. If you have five good relationships. with adults who are like spiritual mentors or people that you know on at least a relatively deeper level, then you're much more likely to stick with a faith post-graduation. And I would argue that the reason for that is because their faith is hopefully being more grounded in Jesus than a specific leader. And they're rooted in Jesus. He is their firm foundation, not like an awesome leader or the youth pastor or something like that. And so when you move, not necessarily every year, but every so often, you're just more likely to build relationships with more adults. And I view that as a huge win. And so what I like to see is them build relationships, be really intentional in the year or the two years span that they're with that leader, and then really focus on the transition so they can then build a new relationship. with new leaders and the students stay together. So they're able to keep building those long-term relationships where they can grow alongside of each other. But the leaders can shift as far as small group goes. But the long-term relationships still stay the same. Just like a small group leader that I had when I was in eighth grade, I still got to talk to them later in later years and they still knew me and they still could pour into me and disciple me. And so the process can keep happening even though we're still looking towards helping them meet more people and grow closer relationships with more people. Nick Clason (06:13.38) Right on time, my man, both of you. This might be the first time two youth pastors hit their time mark right when they're supposed to. That's crazy. All right, so what we'll do now, guess, I like this. I think we're gonna go to a more open forum, all right? So let's do two minutes, but here's the thing, just so you guys know. Stephen Rose (06:20.041) Hehehehehe Nick Clason (06:40.804) I don't need to include the clock. like if it's good and free flowing, like I'm just not going to interrupt it. Like don't, don't worry about it. I'm just trying to keep things moving and make it not be like a, you know, long and boring episode. so I'll put this on, but why don't you, why don't you guys ask some clarifying questions just like back and forth and just like answer, ask, answer, ask, answer. and then, when, when we feel satisfied with that, we'll, we'll move on to the like closing testimony or whatever, whatever they call it in the courtroom. Stephen Rose (06:51.316) Thank Nick Clason (07:10.758) I don't watch enough court TV. So, does anyone have like a question to start? Like to ask the other person? All right, great. You go first then. Stephen Rose (07:11.092) Sounds good. Isaac (07:12.627) Okay. Stephen Rose (07:19.216) Yeah, yeah I do. Perfect. So Isaac, wonder in your context, if a student doesn't get, like we'll just say student doesn't get along great with a certain leader. What does that look like? Like do you go about that? Isaac (07:40.396) Yeah, man, that's great. Context, I think, matters a lot. So I've worked in a small church, a medium church, and a large church. So let's just talk about the numbers that I have here. It's weird to talk about that in church culture, but that helps context so much. So I have about 160 leaders. And in that, have, for sixth grade boys, we have five sixth grade boy groups. Stephen Rose (07:45.246) I agree. Stephen Rose (07:55.732) for sure. Isaac (08:07.854) And then each one of those groups has four leaders. And so I think that that helps so much for the person watching right now. They're like, well, this might make sense because of this. And the dynamics can shift because for you saying, hey, does a sixth grade boy, if he's if he's not enjoying this, then what? Well, he he can move to another group. He can go to one of the other four options. And that's easy. Now, when I was at a church for six and a half years and it was like Stephen Rose (08:08.049) Mm-hmm. Stephen Rose (08:27.252) Uh-huh. Stephen Rose (08:30.675) Right. Isaac (08:37.59) You have middle school boys, high school boys, middle school girls, high school girls. That's your option. Then it's like, well, what do we do when they don't like that person? And so for us in our context, it makes sense of if there's not someone getting along, there is another option in another group that they can go to. Stephen Rose (08:44.444) Right. I'm Stephen Rose (08:58.772) Sure. and Nick Clason (09:00.39) How do you guys, either of you, discern this is not a good fit and we need to quote unquote rescue the student from the fit? Or this is an opportunity to lean in and disciple the student to push through something more difficult and maybe getting along with their leader is like what God has for them in this season of their spiritual growth. Like how do you discern between those two? Because I feel like Like a parent can come to you like they hate their leader and you want to like solve that so so that the kid doesn't get mad or the family doesn't leave the church or whatever. But I think sometimes it's like, dude, you need to stop being so entitled. You know what I mean? How do you how do know? Stephen Rose (09:43.219) Yeah, that's really good. For me, I tend toward having them stay either way because I don't want for students just to pick a leader based off of, I love this leader. I can't stand that leader, which by the way, my team is awesome. I have awesome leaders, all that. And so it's really a side point. But of course, if there was if it was like coming to an unhealthy place, then I would say I'd be more willing to like figure it out. Especially if it was like a newer student, you know, who maybe isn't even a follower of Jesus yet. And okay, I'm trying to help them get comfortable first, help them feel accepted and have a good experience. And so that'd be a little different if it's someone I've been walking with for a while. And then, hey, it's time for you to grow up and, you know, and be... be mature about this and grow in your maturity. I part of that is definitely not being in your favorite spot at all times. Isaac (10:46.552) Yeah, that's good. I think that, you know, scripture says if at all possible as far as it depends on you, live at peace with with everyone. And if there's some kind of disunity there, obviously that's what the enemy is trying to seek out and bring to light is some kind of disunity. So it's our jobs as the shepherds of that to say, well, what's causing this? And so it should start with a conversation with both student and leader and saying, Nick Clason (10:46.587) Good. Stephen Rose (10:56.372) Mm. Isaac (11:14.926) Why? Why is there a disunity and how can we go towards unity? What's the conversation? Maybe you just need to say some things. Let's get it out on the table. Truth is gonna be great. Let's get it out on the table. But if it becomes a thing where it's like, we're not coming here. My kid doesn't wanna show up. I'm even pro, well, there's also another church in town because... Stephen Rose (11:29.78) Yeah. Isaac (11:42.742) The gospel doesn't just happen at this address. It happens in lot of places in discipleship. And so hopefully I am then connecting with other youth pastors in the area where I can then give a trusted, hey, why don't you go over here to this church? Because this youth pastor is also going to teach the Bible. Discipleship is also happening. But I'm not nervous to, I don't want to say threatened. It's not threatened, but to give, go ahead. If you can't grow here. Ultimately, what we are concerned about for you as a student is your growth. Go grow anywhere. Stephen Rose (12:14.045) Yeah. Nick Clason (12:17.776) Good. Stephen Rose (12:18.238) That's good. Isaac (12:19.83) Steven, got a question for you if I'm allowed to ask. Yeah, because I love what you said about having five good relationships with adults. Yes, man, let's try to, as youth pastors, bring in as many adults and as many leaders as possible in their time of being there. What does it look like in your context for how many leaders do you have in each group? Yeah, what does that look like for you? Stephen Rose (12:21.982) Sure. Nick Clason (12:22.638) Yes, yes, go. Stephen Rose (12:39.718) . Stephen Rose (12:47.234) Yeah, we have two leaders in each group. so, over time, would naturally develop relationships with multiple, I mean, hopefully, in prayerfully, you would develop relationships with your small group leaders in that time. And for us, we're, I guess, the medium church size. And so, Like for high school, for example, we have two high school guys groups, underclassmen and upperclassmen currently. And so you would meet four of the people right then and there. And then hopefully, like even like myself and some other people, because certainly our youth ministry is not the only context which you can have a relationship with an adult. But as far as what we're trying to do, it fits that mold pretty well. Isaac (13:30.51) Sure, yeah. Isaac (13:38.978) Yeah, so when you say upperclassmen leader and, what is it called? Underclassmen? That just sounded weird. Underclassmen? That just sounds underwear. Anyhow, when you have both of the, so the upperclassmen, are you saying then that those two leaders are with them for two years? Stephen Rose (13:46.608) under underclassmen. Stephen Rose (13:58.579) Yes. Isaac (13:59.648) Okay, so it's kind of like a hybrid then of it's not, I'm not thinking every year it's I'm still kind of building this. I'm in this context. So it's still once because for me, I don't even know if I'm pro you should be with them for seven years. I do like the for me, three years of middle school, you get a new high school leader, because there's just a difference between high school and middle school. Stephen Rose (14:16.923) Mm-hmm, right. Nick Clason (14:16.966) Mm-hmm. Stephen Rose (14:22.587) Thank Stephen Rose (14:27.586) Right. Isaac (14:27.84) If there is someone that's committed for seven years, my hope is that they are bringing in dads, moms, and other people to it. Because I think that what you said is key. They need to have five adults in their life or more that where they can say, it's not just one person that believes this. It's not just their characteristics, but that in discipleship, they are inviting others to be a part of it as well. If you're going to do that seven year plan. Yeah. Stephen Rose (14:32.35) Thank you. Stephen Rose (14:37.765) So. Right. Stephen Rose (14:46.388) you Yes. Right. Nick Clason (14:57.05) Yeah, yeah. And I'll just say from a youth pastor logistical standpoint, you get someone to commit for seven years, that's amazing. Are they still committed to loop back down and start a sixth grade group? Going from being a 12th grade leader to a sixth grade leader is tough. And so I've been in situations where they're committed all the way through, but then I'm always having to recruit. Stephen Rose (15:17.416) Hey. Nick Clason (15:24.462) at the entry point because no one wants to loop back down. They feel like they've quote unquote done their time and they want to be involved in student ministry, but then they want to be involved in more of like a consulting role or a coaching role. And it's like, I love that for you, but I really could use a sixth grade leader, my friend. And so that's been, that's been my experience when they loop all the way through as we, we pool all the way down at the end of the quote unquote conveyor belt, if you will. And I got some really great leaders who aren't doing ministry anymore, but if you're doing Stephen Rose (15:30.42) That's how you do it. Okay. Stephen Rose (15:53.716) What am I? You just answered about the full seven years or if it's more of a middle school to high school, because I'm I agree. I'm a little less. Nick Clason (15:54.694) Like if you're like, yo, you're the underclassmen leader and you're just going to be an expert in ninth and 10th grade. Like, and then you'll see every kid's face, hopefully as they, as they loop through. Um, it's just, it's just the way I think about it. Isaac (16:08.684) Yeah, I love that. Steven, did you have any other questions? Stephen Rose (16:23.832) cause I can see there's definitely real positives in doing both ways. And, but the seven years is the one where I really, I don't want to say worry, but for lack of a better word, worry about like a students attaching to a certain leader and, that, is a good thing. but especially if they're, if they're not a part of the church at large, like the whole church body, and they're just attached to youth group and just attached to the leader. I just saw so many examples before I even got in youth ministry. And then those kids, the leader's gone, they're done with youth ministry and they're they're toast. know, they just kind of walk away. And so I guess it was really just on my heart to like, I don't want to see like that happen. And I know there's other intentional ways of working against that too. But that was just really like on my heart. Isaac (17:12.408) Yeah, yeah, I would. Here's I mean, Nick, you kind of set us up. You're like, haha, caught you. You're in a trap coming debate this. And so I'm going to I'm going to, you know, share. The perspective of everyone wins, I guess, because here's what I would rather see if this is a would you rather question of would you rather have one leader who intentionally disciples a student for one year or have a leader that walks alongside? Stephen Rose (17:20.83) But. Isaac (17:41.448) and invest in a student for seven years, I would say give me the one year intentionally disciple. Because so often we recruit leaders that they won't say, I'm just a babysitter. They're not going to say that. We're not going to say that. But if you're like, we're just hanging out, I'm going to their games and they're doing some good things, but they're not intentionally discipling, we're still missing out. And so I would say that the key thing for me is find the leader that's going to disciple. Stephen Rose (17:46.484) Yeah. Isaac (18:09.998) Which means that they are really getting in and saying do you know Jesus? What is he teaching you? Are you opening up the Word of God? Are you praying? Are you building a community around you? Where are you serving? How's your evangelism life? And they're really working out all of these disciplines And it's more than just let me show up to your play Let me high-five and we'll go get coffee together because you can just hang out But you're not just being friends. You're intentionally discipling so Nick Clason (18:25.51) . Stephen Rose (18:30.04) Right. Nick Clason (18:33.03) you Isaac (18:37.986) Give me the one year intentional disciple. Nick Clason (18:38.34) Yeah. Stephen Rose (18:39.572) Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Nick Clason (18:42.166) That's good. That's good for youth pastors. That's good for Like that's good for this whole conversation. Just like having like a well-rounded perspective of it. It's bad for Trying to elicit emotion and you guys like hating each other. So Way to be a Christian way to ruin YouTube, but no, I agree and Isaac (19:03.661) Yeah, yeah. And he's a Cavs fan. Yeah, this is great. We love each other. We're best friends now. Thank you, Nick. Stephen Rose (19:07.704) Hey, I know Nick Clason (19:09.51) Yeah, you're so welcome. Congratulations. Yeah. Well, let's do like your final statement, right? We'll just do a minute on the clock or less. Just give like your final word, kind of like put a bow on it. And then, yeah, then I guess we'll take it from there. So who went first last time? I think it was Isaac, right? So Steven, we'll have you minute on the clock, finalize your argument. You ready? All right, let's go. Stephen Rose (19:36.663) Yep. All right, so I believe that transitioning through different small groups is best for students because they get to build multiple relationships with adults, which helps them own their faith, not just the youth's faith or my faith or their leader's faith, but their faith in Jesus. And so I think it's best to move them through. And then I also, as a side note, I think it can create a spot for leaders to star in their roles where, hey, if I'm always with freshmen girls, then I'm gonna be able to really get good at welcoming them. Or if I'm always with the senior and junior guys, I'm gonna get really good at helping them through this transition as they get older, as their problems change. But they kinda are the same perpetually for new juniors, new seniors. And so they get to start starring in their roles as they get year after year of experience with them. Nick Clason (20:36.282) Nice, good job. All right, Isaac, one minute on the clock. Take it away. Isaac (20:43.66) Awesome. Quantity will produce quality. The more that you're hanging out with someone, the better the conversations. And so getting someone there for a length of time, it's just going to produce the quality that we're looking for. It avoids the six months, like, do I actually know this person? Can I make that inside joke? I accidentally said something about their parents or Stephen Rose (21:07.284) You you Isaac (21:12.498) Whatever all their life story the more opportunity that you have with their story the more that they can feel Fully known fully seen and fully loved which really I think just shows grace more discipleship more and and what Jesus was Really trying to aim for when he said this is what a disciple maker Nick Clason (21:38.15) Nice, strong work, both of you.

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If you and I have had a chance to meet you. My name is Nick Clason and in this podcast exists primarily to talk about digital ministry and making discipleship online a little bit easier. But in this episode, I want to talk about a major shift that's actually happened in my life. 00;00;43;19 - 00;01;10;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And this might actually be one of the more emotional or even like real episodes because, I moved here three years ago to work for a guy who one of my great friends, his name is Darren, and he was an amazing boss, best boss I ever had. Now, listen, let's be honest. There's always times where I felt like I could do something better or different, but I had really learned to love and kind of settle into my role, getting things done and being a worker, for him. 00;01;10;27 - 00;01;26;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, the one of the things I loved about Darren, too, is that he believed in me and he trusted me, and he gave me a lot of leash to make major student ministry decisions. And so I didn't feel like I was just his right. Him or his minion. But I really felt like I got a good opportunity at leadership. 00;01;26;27 - 00;01;51;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Fast forward to about six months ago. He chose to step away and move to a different church. And in that transition, church very like, honorably and lovingly came to me and said, you're our number one choice. You're our guy. You want his job. And it was like a no brainer. I was like, absolutely. And in the time, you know, you got to understand, he had been doing a second job at our church, as the pastor of staff development. 00;01;51;06 - 00;02;07;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so during that season, I assumed and took on quite a bit of leadership opportunities. And so I figured this wouldn't be that big a deal. All that was really going to happen was I was going to move to his old office. And then I was just going to keep kind of doing what I was doing. But man, oh man, was I wrong. 00;02;07;12 - 00;02;30;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Man was there. So, so many changes and so many differences. Assuming that new leadership hat and that new leadership seat. And in this episode, I want to talk through three things that I've learned. What I thought, what happened, what I did, and what the actual, learning is out of that. So let's dive in to the first leadership mistake. 00;02;30;05 - 00;02;53;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So mistake number one is that the time battle was lost. But in a lot of cases for me, the time battle was lost by someone else. Here's what I thought. I thought I'm the boss. I'm the supervisor. I'm the manager. Now I get to not only make the decisions, but I get to help oversee people and point them in the right direction and in some cases, in the ugliest parts of my heart, I get to tell them what to do. 00;02;53;29 - 00;03;14;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But here's what happened is that I was expecting to still do all of the same work that I was doing before, or all of the same work that was at least desired by me to do before. For example, continuing on this Side Hustle podcast that I don't get a lot of revenue or money from. But, you know, one way that you could really help hit that like or subscribe button down below that would really make a huge difference. 00;03;14;11 - 00;03;39;26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But well, then adding in anywhere from 5 to 8 new meetings per month. Let me just give you an example. Last week, I was expected to sit down with a future potential residency candidate. I had done that before. That wasn't that big a deal. Darren gave me a lot of opportunities to do stuff like that, and I was getting ready to leave town that day and so my day was mapped out. 00;03;39;26 - 00;04;01;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I was doing some podcast stuff. I was doing some, social media stuff for our, our ministry. And I had a couple meetings to kind of in my day at like one, 1 to 2 and then 2 to 3. And then, someone said, hey, we have to have a recap meeting for this big winter retreat event that you just had. 00;04;01;28 - 00;04;18;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We had already had a meeting. Me and the person in the meeting had already discussed it, but like, well, no, we have to have it in this way with these people. And so I was like, well, if we want to have it before I leave town, we got to do it now. So another meeting gets stacked on to the end of my day. 00;04;18;02 - 00;04;38;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I'm not a big meeting guy like I don't, I don't mind them, but they don't bring me a lot of energy. I would rather do the work decided in the meeting, then have a meeting where we sit down and think and talk about work. And so what I've learned is that the promotion often just means that more people have certain demands on my time. 00;04;38;17 - 00;05;03;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so the advice I would give if you've never checked it out, check out Time boss. It was created by a guy named Andrew, and Andrew actually used to be on staff over at Download Youth Ministry, but now he stepped away from do. I am to go work on time boss full time? And I'm not joking when I tell you that when I implement and institute the principles that I've learned from time boss, I am an absolute master of my time. 00;05;03;03 - 00;05;30;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Especially when you're in a situation like I'm in now, where other people are dictating my calendar and other people are telling me meetings that I have to go to, that I don't get to say to, avoid or not be part of. And so if you choose to manage your time, then when other people step in and give you, give you required meetings, you can either let them manage your time or you can manage your time before they come to you. 00;05;30;02 - 00;05;55;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The choice is yours. But that's one of the things I've had to become a master and a boss of my time. Mistake number two is that you can't communicate without communicating. I feel like my wife right in this new season of life, because what I thought was that when I communicated something, people understood the full picture of what I was saying. 00;05;55;15 - 00;06;20;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But what I've learned is that people can't actually read my mind. I can communicate, but just because I've said words doesn't mean that they're understanding it. The exact same way that I'm thinking that they're understanding it. And so people did, in fact, not read my mind. Like, let me give you an example. I delegated a task where I required us to get three clips out of opus AI, which is an amazing tool for your social media. 00;06;20;05 - 00;06;45;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You can check out the link down below if you're interested in that. It literally saves me and our team hundreds of hours a week, but, I would save three opus clips per week out of each of our messages. Well, when I ask someone to do opus clips, they started saving two instead of three. Small miscommunication, but one that I then had a decision to make when I went and I noticed that there weren't enough. 00;06;45;11 - 00;07;04;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Do I say something or do I let it go right? Or hey, this is the what the expected, word count needs to be when you get in front of a camera and when they come in and there's more words than what were expected, I had to say, well, here's why the word count matters from time standpoint on YouTube and all these types of things. 00;07;04;06 - 00;07;24;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or when I said, hey, I like all of these events to be planned during the day and I come back. And my team had made one event planned to be happening at night in the evening. Again, not a big deal, but we just had to come around and I had said something and they didn't think it was that big of a deal, or they didn't listen to it, or they chose to override it or whatever the reason might be. 00;07;24;15 - 00;07;42;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or when I said, hey, let's get some hot chocolate for this event. And I go to the back and I see, my resident, my intern making hot chocolate, using the hot water from a small tea kettle, trying to fill up in a five gallon, water jug, bucket. Like, that's just not going to cut it. It's not fast enough. 00;07;42;10 - 00;08;07;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And there's a million other ways to get to it. But so when I said make hot chocolate, I thought this was the assumed path to make hot chocolate in our youth ministry, at our church, in our space, they heard make hot chocolate. And to their credit, they were resourceful to figure out a way to do it. But to their disadvantage, they were using some of those incredibly slow and the event had already started and they were stuck in the back, still making hot chocolate because the tea kettle wasn't keeping up. 00;08;07;21 - 00;08;28;07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What I've learned is that I have to over communicate, and when I think I've communicated 100% of it, I've maybe only effectively communicated 60% of it. I was talking to a friend of mine. He's, youth volunteer for me. He owns his own business. And I was talking to him about this, and he said, this happens to me all the time. 00;08;28;07 - 00;08;44;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so it made me really frustrated, to be completely honest, because I would say things, I would communicate things. I'd write them down and put them in tasks. And only a certain percentage of the task was getting completed or adhered to or listened to. And he just said, this is a very normal thing with people who are working for you. 00;08;44;01 - 00;09;06;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So my advice, especially to myself and to you, I'm a perfectionist. I'm an Enneagram one. Don't expect perfection. Be able to roll with the punches and continue to circle back and Overcommunicate and overcommunicate. Mistake number three and this one might be the toughest one, honestly, is that I feel like I lost some of my passion for youth ministry. 00;09;06;09 - 00;09;21;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And here's what I thought. I thought, I'm going to step into this new role, and I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. And while I'm doing what I'm doing, and now I get to be in charge, how great is that? What happened was I shifted from more of a doer of the ministry to more of a manager. 00;09;21;13 - 00;09;44;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So last fall, for example, I had fully handed off programing to one of my associates who's in charge of all programing, like service orders, all that type of stuff. And then another, couple people on our team were in charge of a Friendsgiving for, the community like, outreach event drive, like a canned food drive kind of thing that we're, pulling together in our student ministry. 00;09;44;05 - 00;10;11;04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then one person was in charge of the Friendsgiving event that we had, and they had two of them collaborate and work together. And then two other people were in charge of our costume party. And so I remember stepping back and thinking to myself, the only thing I'm doing here is managing these people. They're the ones that are like fully running, planning, executing and making these events all have traction getting off the ground. 00;10;11;07 - 00;10;31;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you know, everything that needed to happen in these event spaces. And I found myself like a little bit sitting around kind of like twiddling my thumbs, like, what am I supposed to do? Well, I learned is I and I already knew this about myself, but what I learned was I found myself in my working frustration. As Patrick Clancy only talks about it. 00;10;31;06 - 00;11;06;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry He has a working widget with six different wheels, and I determined and discovered that my strength was invention and tenacity, and I knew that my frustration was enablement and galvanizing. So kind of rah rah and cheerleading. The team and helping make them, like, get excited around an idea. And so I had shifted out of my strength invention one like creating something out of wonder and tenacity, bringing that invention across the finish line, and then handing that over to my team and trying to encourage them to bring it across the finish line. 00;11;06;26 - 00;11;28;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And when they're having a tough time getting across the finish line, they're having a tough time articulating their ideas. I was also having an equally tough time because I couldn't. I was feeling like I wasn't successfully getting those things accomplished and across the finish line. So the advice I took something back that I loved. I took back programing. 00;11;28;08 - 00;11;46;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I was like, I need to do something in this job where I get to invent and I get to take it across the finish line, because if not, I'm just going to sit here and I'm just going to watch all of you guys do it. Part of my job is development, and I don't mind it, but it does shift me away from a passion point into something that I don't get to do as much. 00;11;46;15 - 00;12;02;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I felt really bad and I felt really guilty for doing it. But, I mean, here's the thing. Like, I love programing and I love creating something. In fact, I love it so much. I have a podcast dedicated to creative programing. It's a weekly bonus podcast, and I just walk you through what our youth ministry does every single week. 00;12;02;21 - 00;12;22;18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'd love for you to take a look at it. There's a seven day free trial link down below. It's called Hybrid Heroes. It's part of Patreon membership tier and you get a weekly bonus podcast every single Monday morning that details, recaps, and outlines our last week of social media and our last week of creative programing. In addition to that, everything I put on my store, that costs money. 00;12;22;20 - 00;12;40;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It costs money to other people, but it's free to hybrid here. So $4 a month is less than the cost of a cup of coffee. It's $48 per year. If you have like a professional, or personal development budget line. Like you can charge to that if you don't feel comfortable doing that. I don't have enough money for that. 00;12;40;19 - 00;13;00;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Get one cup of coffee from your office, from home, and then skip Starbucks for just one time, and it will cover the cost of that. But that's what I did. And I'm just going to be completely honest for you. This last season has been a really hard season for me. I was confused by it because I thought I knew what I was doing. 00;13;00;11 - 00;13;20;18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I've been in youth ministry for a long time already. But growth doesn't happen when you're coasting, right? And no matter what you're doing and no matter what area you're growing in and learning in, whether it's growing in management skills like I am or whether it's trying to grow in areas like social media, when you put yourself in uncomfortable situations, it can feel difficult, right? 00;13;20;18 - 00;13;32;04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But the only way to get to the other side, the only way to truly experience growth, is to go through it. So stick with it. Rooting you on, encouraging you. Don't forget my friends and as always, stay hybrid.

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And sometimes you need 00:00:13:14 - 00:00:15:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry to be a social media strategist. 00:00:15:25 - 00:00:16:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Listen, 00:00:16:10 - 00:00:17:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry you know this. 00:00:17:07 - 00:00:20:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Not everyone can be good at everything. 00:00:20:05 - 00:00:21:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry just recently, 00:00:21:04 - 00:00:22:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry someone in the DYM 00:00:22:16 - 00:00:27:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Facebook group asked like social media gurus, where are you at? I want to start up ticking my engagement 00:00:27:27 - 00:00:30:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I probably see that question 00:00:30:03 - 00:00:31:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry once a month 00:00:31:00 - 00:00:33:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry just like you get curriculum to help you teach, just like you get 00:00:33:29 - 00:00:36:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry calendar apps to help you stay organized, and you have 00:00:36:19 - 00:00:38:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry books to help you learn. 00:00:38:05 - 00:00:43:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry With so many different tools on the market, how do you know what you can actually trust? You know, 00:00:43:08 - 00:00:52:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I've been leading a youth ministry leader cohort, specifically down a deep dive topic of hybrid ministry, and at the beginning 00:00:52:29 - 00:01:04:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry of the cohort, it's an eight week experience at the beginning. I have people map out the next month of social media content, and every week when we circle back, we evaluate how did the last week go? 00:01:05:00 - 00:01:11:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And without fail, they say I had my plans or the plans laid out, but I didn't do it because 00:01:11:25 - 00:01:27:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry a meeting came up. Because this thing happened, because I got busy, because the weather canceled our services and I was focused and forced to do other things responsibility wise. You see, whatever the reason is why social media falls by the wayside, 00:01:27:11 - 00:01:28:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry it's not a priority. 00:01:28:08 - 00:01:39:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Leadership doesn't see the value of it. You're not creative enough. You need something to help. You need a strategy. And that's what this episode is. This is the mega episode. I've done you a favor, 00:01:39:21 - 00:01:43:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry in the next several sections of this video, I'm going to share with you 00:01:43:07 - 00:01:53:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry the analytics behind my hybrid ministry strategy and my seasonal social Media pack, which is now available and active for the spring season over on Patreon. 00:01:53:04 - 00:01:56:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So make sure that you go take a look at that. If there's something that you're interested in. 00:01:56:13 - 00:02:07:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then in act number three, we're going to share with you the hybrid ministry framework. And act number four, I'm going to share with you the execution layer. How do you actually pull this thing together? 00:02:07:18 - 00:02:22:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What gear what software do you need. Act number five is going to be the vision layer. Where can this go if you really choose to double down on it. And then act number six, I'm just going to share with you different ways that I can help along the way. And here's the good news. I've actually shared all of this before. 00:02:22:11 - 00:02:44:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you're new here, or if you don't want to go through all the various episodes I have, this is almost going to be like a clip show. I have done the hard work of combing through nearly 200 hybrid Ministry episodes to share with you each of these different sections. So we're going to dive in. Let's look first here at the analytics and what's going on behind the scenes. 00:02:44:13 - 00:03:00:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You know, when I released my winter season on Social Media pack, I did a vlog style video where I was at a conference that my my church was hosting. I was hosting it. I was like a stage host for the week, and I wanted to prove that I could post my pack in less than 16 minutes of total time. 00:03:00:29 - 00:03:22:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Over the course of the week, though, in my pack, I propose you post three times a week. I posted eight times during that week. Every single piece of content that I include in my seasonal social media pack. Spoiler I didn't meet the challenge, but I did learn something valuable and it's that my pack can actually stand up to some of the stressors of everyday life. 00:03:22:08 - 00:03:38:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry My pack was the schedule, and all I had to do was look at the schedule. It told me exactly what I was most post. I posted it and not less than 16 minutes, but however, I was able to do it in less than 20 minutes. And this right here is the analytic and the deep dive from that week of posting. 00:03:38:28 - 00:03:48:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now I have all different seasons and I just released spring, which means now we're also able to offer a full year of custom and DIY seasonal social media. 00:03:48:29 - 00:03:59:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if you want to look at the four season bundle pack for the entire year of social media, go check it out. But what I'm trying to do in my pack is I'm trying to make you and your church the hero. 00:03:59:02 - 00:04:19:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Not just a bunch of standard graphics that every church, any church can post, but graphics that. Yeah, we'll have some of that, but also videos with you and your people, and I'll train you and give you scripts and, and give you video and graphic overlays that you can put on top of videos that you record. Because 90% of the internet's traffic is short form, vertical based video. 00:04:19:22 - 00:04:37:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I took that concept, the one that I sell to you and sell to all you pastors, church communications, people all around the world that I stand behind. And I put it to the test, and here were my results from the week. And and it's nothing crazy. We didn't go viral. We didn't get famous off of it. 00:04:37:01 - 00:04:54:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In some cases. We had some really low views. In other cases we had some really high views. So I want to share with you the highest view from the week. I want to share with you the lowest view from the week. I want to share with you a comment from a post that happened during that week, as well as the one the post that got the most amount of likes. 00:04:54:27 - 00:05:14:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I'm going to do that across three different platforms of TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. So if you're watching here on YouTube right now, you'll see this graph up here on screen. But the video with the highest views on TikTok was only 235 on our verse Bible verse video 235 views on TikTok. Our lowest one was our transition style video. 00:05:14:27 - 00:05:34:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It only had 38 views over there on TikTok. A comment we got zero comments during the week on TikTok when I did this. And see, that's the that's the the truth. That's the hard and crass reality. Sometimes that's what happens. We also did get 37 likes on our first video. So that video did did do the best on TikTok. 00:05:34:19 - 00:05:54:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now let's switch over to Instagram. I got 471 devotional views on our Devo video, the one that I, the script, I wrote the script, then I copied the script verbatim and I hadn't looked at it in like three months. So I was basically going in code, which is very similar to what you would also be doing if you were to grab my pack and implement it in your own context. 00:05:54:28 - 00:06:16:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We had, 243 views. I was the lowest on our verse post on Instagram. So interestingly, it was our lowest on Instagram was higher than our highest on TikTok. Comments on the Devo we had two different people that left a comment on our on my devotional thing, and I asked for some sort of, hey, leave a leave this emoji in the comments if you need this. 00:06:16:00 - 00:06:35:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And two people did that and then the highest likes was 17 on that same devotional video. And then over on YouTube, check this one out. We had 1081 views on the transition video. We had a comment, I'm sorry, we had 23, our lowest on the verse post on YouTube and then, on the Bible trivia post on YouTube. 00:06:35:05 - 00:06:47:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Someone said, I didn't know that, that I didn't know the answer to that last one. Not a chance. That was fun though. Good job. And then we had 28 likes on said Bible trivia. And here's just a couple of things I find interesting. 00:06:47:03 - 00:06:59:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The verse post did amazing on TikTok and it struggled on the other two, right? Each platform had a different, higher performer, the verse followed by the diva on Instagram, followed by the transition video on YouTube. 00:07:00:02 - 00:07:20:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. A couple of things. At one point I actually had to reedit and repost some of these because I had made mistakes. But somehow my posted man on the street video, I did it without even sound. The first time around, my Wi-Fi was lagging. It's slowed me down. And right when I was getting ready to hit record at one point, I had to run across the creek to grab my SD card. 00:07:20:06 - 00:07:40:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry See, even I, the creator of the seasonal social media pack, I ran into the same potential obstacles that you might, and my summary and all that is that that week was far from perfect. But what I did do is I showed up regularly, and when I got busy and I didn't have what I needed to do, I could look back at my calendar and my seasonal social media pack told me exactly what I should do. 00:07:40:14 - 00:07:41:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so that's the purpose 00:07:41:26 - 00:08:06:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry of this thing. It is a seasonal social media pack that's more than just static graphics. That helps you develop a team, a volunteer social media, team students, whatever to hand something off to. And it's for the less than the cost of a couple cups of coffee for the month. So now let's move into act three, and this is where we're going to share some best of clips from the Hybrid Ministry show. 00:08:06:09 - 00:08:09:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm going to share with you the Hybrid Ministry Framework. 00:08:09:21 - 00:08:39:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry There are kind of three core statistics. There's Gen Z, Gen Alpha. They use their mobile device more than they use any other device combined. Furthermore, 69% of students own a smartphone. But I get this the age of 12, 90%. According to Pew Research use YouTube. But there's a verse in Jeremiah chapter 29 Nov nine 2911. But right before that verse, Jeremiah is having a conversation with God. 00:08:39:04 - 00:09:08:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And here's what God says to Jeremiah. He says you should build homes, planned to stay, plant gardens, eat the foods that they produce, marry and have children, then find spouses for them so that you may have many grandchildren. Multiply. Do not dwindle away, but you gotta understand the context here, which we don't do for Jeremiah 2011 very often, is that the Israelites are stuck as captives in Babylon, and what God is telling Jeremiah to do is he's saying, stop complaining. 00:09:08:22 - 00:09:35:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Stop trying to find a way out. Stop trying to leave. Instead, invest in where you live and digital ministry is not going anywhere. You may not like it. You may not even think it's the most effective. But the majority of millennials, Gen Z, and we can assume Generation Alpha, say that a digital version of church is valuable to them and one that they would lean into, and it doesn't mean that their in-person attendance is going to go away. 00:09:35:13 - 00:09:54:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's a lot of the fears of us in church leadership is that if we offer a digital component, I'm just going to choose that instead of, coming to church in person, but far from it. We're also seeing in this generation, more than even older generations, that community is so much more important to them. So they don't want to forsake the in-person moments. 00:09:54:00 - 00:10:20:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so when we take the in-person moments and the best that it has to offer, when we take the digital things and the best it has to offer, and we find that sweet spot right in the middle, we find what I call hybrid ministry. A great example of it is honestly, Home Depot. And think about it like you throw on your new balances and you throw on your cargo shorts on on a Saturday morning, you got a project, and then you go on Home Depot and you don't really have like a agenda, right? 00:10:20:07 - 00:10:40:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You're just walking around and you're just kind of like you're taking in the smell of lumber and you're just you're just kind of exploring what the hallways and the aisles of Home Depot have to offer. Other times. And then, like, you don't have time, right? You go online, you make an order so that it's delivered to your doorstep because you don't have time to just live out your full dad mode experience. 00:10:40:07 - 00:11:11:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But my favorite honestly version to experience Home Depot is while I'm in the store on their app because their app. If you haven't seen it yet, their app shows you where every single thing in their entire store is located. And so that's what I think we should be doing as youth pastors. Finding a way to intersect where teenagers already admitted they're spending their time, not forsaking the good elements of gathering together and community and accountability and all those things, but also leaning into this hybrid sort of moment. 00:11:12:00 - 00:11:35:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so what I want to do is I want to give you one of the easiest ways to kind of to kind of step foot into this hybrid space. And it's by up picking your social media engagement. Now, here's the thing. A lot of youth pastors, and if you've been following me along on this channel for a while, posts announcements on their feed, just assuming that social media is another announcement platform. 00:11:35:19 - 00:11:57:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But the reality is that that's not what social media is best made for it. But what it does mean, and what we should be doing, is that we should be intersecting and invading the lives of students on the places that they spend their time, including TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. Remember, 90% teenagers say that they use YouTube in the way that they're consuming it. 00:11:57:12 - 00:12:19:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry for you and for me and for all of us. Like, my, like, general strategy is simply, walking down a funnel of posting short form content, silly content, as well as spiritual content, and hopefully gathering an audience with that and then pushing them to, like a long form version of some more serious content, which is what we do in our youth ministry. 00:12:19:24 - 00:12:48:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We pre film our messages and we adapt them and make them specific for YouTube. You know, we do that versus like a live stream type of thing. As Carrie New study said. This said the challenge is the future is to diversify what you offer online and distinguish it from what you offer in person. So not only is that going to create true options, new love continues on to say, but it will deepen engagement as your in-person and online ministries lean towards what each does best. 00:12:48:13 - 00:13:05:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then, beyond. Just like your message content, beyond your weekly sermon, so to speak, that are also going to live online, whether that's live stream, which I would argue is not as good as a pre filmed version, but it's still better than than nothing. You can also lean into things like courses and those types of things. 00:13:06:01 - 00:13:19:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Exactly. Should you be posting? I'm glad you guys have three steps for everyone and their social media is is, three steps. Social media checklist. Step number one is make sure that your website is up to date. 00:13:19:18 - 00:13:51:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry When you take away social as an avenue for announcements, or when you reduce your amount of stage announcements. There still has to be a full bodied, one stop, robust shop for your church people to fall to. And that also makes what I'm going to recommend here on social, which is the second step here. The second step is you kind of want to become enamored with short reels, TikTok style videos, because when your website is good, you don't have to worry about the information. 00:13:51:27 - 00:14:24:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So now you can leave that behind and you can now move ahead towards the era that social is really made for and meant for. And according to video, 90% of the internet's traffic is found on short form vertical based video because every other platform then was trying to catch up and keep up with this brand new one called TikTok shorts, reels, Facebook has them, Instagram has, YouTube has them and even other like places like, Twitter. 00:14:24:11 - 00:14:50:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you're even on there, it'll it'll be on a video, you'll be watching it again. It'll auto scroll to the next one. First of all, it's video based and it's short and it's quippy and it's fun. But secondly, like I said earlier, it's the discovery era. If you jump on Reels on Instagram, if you jump on your TikTok for you page more than I think 90% of the I believe that's the stat of the videos that you're served are from people that you've never actually even met. 00:14:50:22 - 00:15:17:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so that's good news for you and I. As churches and youth ministries, we can get on to other people's for you pages without buying their attention or without having them have to follow or subscribe or or know about our channel. The key is producing good content. And so step one website. Step two start focusing on good shorts, which is why I've created down below my hybrid strategy guide. 00:15:17:21 - 00:15:29:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It will not only lay out my plan and what I do in my student ministry, but it will also give you different ideas and types of content that you can use for your social media. 00:15:29:15 - 00:15:55:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Hey, real fast. Don't click away. Listen, a couple of months ago, I was running a conference at my church, and I decided that I wanted to see if, while I was in the throes of the busiest week on my calendar to date in the year of 2025, if my seasonal social media pack could have what it takes to actually carry me through and not make it more labor intensive for me to actually keep social media running, but to make it easier on me. 00:15:55:14 - 00:16:26:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And here, here's what I found out. Imagine it's six minutes per week. Have your entire social media strategy done for you. I mean, think about it like three months of youth ministry content for just $0.23 a minute. Some weeks it takes me seven, other weeks it takes me five. But the point is, and especially at the end of this, as I was sitting in my youth ministry leader cohort, everyone said time management and scheduling was the issue with staying consistent on social. 00:16:26:20 - 00:16:43:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So my recommendation would be take my pack, let it be the the basics of what you do. And if you do get busy, if something else comes up, you have something to fall back. And then when you do have the creative energy to create something more custom and more elaborate, scrap one of mine and put one of your own in there. 00:16:43:22 - 00:16:47:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But mine will at least keep you moving in the right direction. 00:16:47:27 - 00:17:12:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So that's the big picture. That's the strategy. That's the philosophy. Now let's move in here to act four. This is how to do it. It's going to be gear guides and microphone guides and links. And this is going to get a little bit a little bit down in the weeds if you already know those things, softwares and gear and phones and what you need, I'll encourage you to skip past that over to act number five, which is where hybrid ministry can actually take you in the vision layer. 00:17:12:19 - 00:17:45:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you take my seasonal summer social media pack, which is less than $20, and you download it, you'll realize that as I'm hoping to help youth pastors create custom content that it's going to require at some points in time, a microphone. And what I want to do in this video is I want to show you all of the different array of options that you can use all the way from like budget microphones to the most expensive Cadillac style microphones to these mid tier podcast, but really cool and vibey looking microphones that your students are going to love. 00:17:45:16 - 00:18:08:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Because in this episode, we're going to answer the question which mics you use for the content that you're creating in your youth ministry? Welcome, my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry Show. What's up everybody? Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. You and I haven't had a chance to meet yet. My name is Nick Klassen, and we're gonna explore microphones and they're really important because actually, right now, this exact audio is coming. 00:18:08:27 - 00:18:37:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Me talking directly to my camera on the other side of the room. You can see that so far, of all the audios you heard is the worst style of audio. And we're going to go through budget options as well as all the way up to the most expensive style of options. And you'll notice if you follow my hybrid ministry social media recommendations, that it's going to require you filming some of your own custom content, and that's going to require you to want to have a microphone, because this audio right here is just not doing it. 00:18:37:16 - 00:19:06:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So first we're going to look at budget audio. This is my budget audio recommendation. It's one of these Bluetooth style microphones. They are really cheap. They clip on. They are wireless which is nice. And they plug directly in to your phone. You can get these for less than $10. And at a minimum, what this does is the requirement for decent microphone audio is you just want to isolate the audio source away from the video source. 00:19:06:10 - 00:19:33:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now this one records directly into the actual video files. So you you like your video and your audio will be immediately linked up, which is good news. But I would say this one here, we're going to call this like the student ministry volunteer microphones. So this one right here is actually one of my newest recommendations. It's the Rode Wireless go to not because I've been against it, but because it's just brand new. 00:19:33:24 - 00:19:59:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I just got it and so right now I'm actually talking direct into my cell phone camera. And right now I'm talking direct into my Sony ZV one camera, which that, camera is actually also linked down below in the link included in the description. I will call this one like the church intern of microphones, but it's a church intern that actually reads commentaries. 00:20:00:00 - 00:20:24:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This pro level microphone is the Sennheiser lavalier system. It is the senior pastor of microphones. It's buttoned up, it's expensive, it's intimidating, and it's very, very serious about what the job needs to be. It is wireless. So you see, I have a pack that I have right here in my pocket. And this wire that's just like clipped on. 00:20:24:12 - 00:20:48:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Then here through my shirt. And then I have a receiver over there on my focus. Right. So this one does require an audio interface and it's not recording directly onto any of the video. So you need to record this separately. You can use something like GarageBand or we use like Adobe Audition. But then you have to link this audio up with the audio from the camera. 00:20:48:07 - 00:21:13:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This microphone right here is the Sennheiser M-k 600. I would call this one if the last one was the senior pastor of microphones. This one is the executive pastor of microphones. It you know, it knows where to aim. And it's going to hit every single time. But you also better know what you're doing. So the pros and cons of this are you do not need pro as you don't need a wireless interface. 00:21:13:25 - 00:21:35:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I am plugged directly into my Sony camera. A can of course, is you will probably need some sort of adapter as this goes through an audio like one eighth cable inch headphone jack. And so you're going to need some sort of adapter, probably a microphone to usb-C or to lightning to go directly into your phone. The other con, of course, is it's wired okay. 00:21:35:18 - 00:21:53:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so like you're going to need, to have like an XLR cable. It's like what you would use for your worship, music or worship department. But you can see some of the pros of it. We'll use this a lot. We've used this almost exclusively, on our man on the Street videos. And so we've bought this, like, microphone flag with, like, our church branded logo in it. 00:21:53:22 - 00:22:14:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's also battery powered with just double A batteries. And so that's easier than trying to remember to plug in something that's like, usb-C or like rechargeable in that way. And here we are back where we started. And these right here are the, podcast style microphones. There's once again, a link down below in the show notes. You can check these out. 00:22:14:29 - 00:22:39:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry These microphones are kind of like the youth pastor of microphones. They are professional. They're paid. They're full time. Hopefully you're full time and they're cool looking or like try hard, cool looking. Maybe you're giving it too much. But the fact of the matter is, these much, much to the opposite of the shotgun microphones before I catch almost zero sound bleed. 00:22:39:02 - 00:22:58:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so for most of our like, we do drafts and we do seven questions here in this room for most of these videos, these microphones do a fantastic job of picking up the audio of the students that are talking directly into it. Not to mention it cuts out some of the exterior wall noise that we were talking about in the last section and in the last clip. 00:22:58:17 - 00:23:17:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The cons of these, however, are they once again, they're XLR, so you are going to need like a music microphone. And oftentimes we use two of these. So you're going to need at least a two channel audio interface. We use the focus rate. Scarlett. I et you can check that out once again. Link down below for that in the show notes. 00:23:17:16 - 00:23:34:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The con of that of course, is that is going to be an upgraded and an additional cost. And so you'll just have to figure out between this one or the Bluetooth wireless or the Rode Go Wireless two, or the condenser microphone or the lavalier microphone. What microphone is best for you? 00:23:35:00 - 00:23:54:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right. What about software? If everything that we're promoting you to do is short form, vertical based video, then, you know you're going to have to use and utilize some software. So this isn't a best of clip. This is actually brand new. And, as you're looking here on screen, you might be wondering where these came from. 00:23:54:21 - 00:24:28:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is from my youth ministry leader cohort, that I'm leading deep dive. These are my, suggestions. So the top tier of suggestions are the Adobe Creative Suite, which includes Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci resolve. And those are listed in order of probably, power as well as price. I will put all three of these on the same plane, though, like, you can pretty much do everything in Final Cut or Da Vinci that you would also do in the Adobe Creative Cloud. 00:24:28:21 - 00:24:51:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so depending on where you're at budget wise, these are the ones that I would recommend. If you have an appetite to learn something that's a little bit more professional and a little bit more powerful, but moving on to the next tier are three different options. I have cap cut, I have in-app editors, and then I have just, the run of the mill iMovie or Windows Movie Maker. 00:24:51:06 - 00:25:09:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So cap cut, of course, there's a web app and there's also an app for your phone. You can use either of them. And there is a pro version, so you can upgrade a little bit to pay if I'm doing something just quick and short. My favorite editor is either the Instagram Reels, but my real favorite editor is the TikTok editor and then TikTok. 00:25:09:15 - 00:25:28:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry When you save it, it auto saves a copy of it to your camera roll unless you turn that off in the settings. And so if you're posting to, say, Instagram or YouTube, you go to TikTok first, you edit whatever you want to edit, put whatever captions on you want to put on, and then you post it. And then if you go to the other apps after that, it'll be sitting there in your camera roll. 00:25:29:01 - 00:25:47:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then, iMovie or Windows Movie Maker is probably the bottom of the barrel, but it's also probably free for whatever machine you have, whether you're a mac or windows user. Let me also say another thing. If you have some sort of long form version of your clip, a live stream, or you sit down ahead of time, film, direct camera, opus clip. 00:25:47:20 - 00:26:10:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you look here, you'll see on my feed all of these ones that are circle, this is my student ministries feed. All of these ones that are circled were all edited by opus clip. I post three of them per week. And so in the seasonal social media pack I recommend a devotional clip. But if you have some sort of long form version of your message that you can upload into a service like opus clip, and if you just scan this QR code that you see here on screen, you can go check out Opus Clip. 00:26:10:20 - 00:26:25:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's free for a while, and then you have a certain number of credits, and when it runs out, then it's an upgrade for about 100 and something dollars per year. And, I've never run out of credits in opus clip and we even share it with another ministry in our church, and we still have enough credits for opus clip. 00:26:25:29 - 00:26:38:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, that's something that really can help. If you have a long form version of something. If not, then I just recommend you doing a devotional, on your phone, editing it in something like Cap Cut or TikTok and then posting it everywhere. 00:26:38:16 - 00:26:56:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry man, on the street transition style videos, drafts, seven questions. Any given night you come into our youth ministry, we're doing one of those four things. Let me just tell you, like once we started walking around with the camera, especially for like man on the street or like transition style videos, the kids came out of the woodwork in their interest level for it. 00:26:56:23 - 00:27:21:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We have seven, I want to say different like serving teams for students. We have welcome team. We have cafe, we have tech team. We have social team, we have photography. We have worship. Maybe that's it. Oh, no. And then we have our table leaders. That's probably like our highest, spiritual bar of of role. The team that people want to be on the most is the social team. 00:27:21:10 - 00:27:44:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we have, like, increased our engagement around student serving because the social team exists. But the real, in my opinion, this role right here, this next role, this is really like the role that has changed everything for me. It's the student editor. So I post ten pieces of content per week. And this is a genuine, real, true, authentic statement. 00:27:44:27 - 00:28:09:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I don't edit any of it. I'm going to include a checklist for you of roles, of things to do, of what to film all of that. That's over on my Patreon. Once again, that will come with a nominal fee because Patreon doesn't let me give it away for free. However, if you are a hybrid hero, you get that checklist that cost you $0 included in your $4 per month membership Hybrid Heroes tier. 00:28:09:22 - 00:28:30:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right. Now we're going to jump into the vision layer. So you start kind of dialing in social media. Where can this go. Maybe it's pre-recording your messages and creating a library of content on YouTube. Maybe it's creating YouTube playlist courses, maybe it's a weekly podcast and you're using things like Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube. What could this take you? 00:28:30:23 - 00:28:38:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What vision do you have for some of this? Let's dive in and check out some of this vision piece. Content. 00:28:38:07 - 00:29:14:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry From the most conservative parents in your church who would never even imagine letting their kids enter the World Wide Web to all the way to the least restrictive parents who gave their kids a phone and let them have wild access to the internet. YouTube is a great strategy and a great platform for students and school ministry. But if you're anything like me and you work at a church, you look around your youth and you compare it to the auditorium or the main church home that the rest of us or the rest of your, you know, big church is using where your pastor's preaching on Sunday morning and you probably look and think, man, I don't 00:29:14:02 - 00:29:55:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry have the gear to capture my services and post them on YouTube. And the answer to that is probably unequivocally, 100% accurate. You'll plan your curriculum and then you'll write out your teaching, and then you'll sit down and you'll deliver the message direct to camera, all because you told your time what was going to happen to it. And I'm not saying that you shouldn't counsel students and meet with the senior pastor and plan for your Wednesday night, but if pre filming your messages, if getting the message of Jesus and the message of hope out on the internet, on YouTube is important to you, then you need to determine when you're going to place that, that 00:29:55:19 - 00:30:20:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry thing on your calendar to do. Does teaching is it required in mandated to be in person? So anything that you might be tempted to turn into a class or a meeting or a workshop or a meet up or an after church, like pizza with the pastor sort of thing. Any one of those that isn't like, relationally charged, I believe. 00:30:20:13 - 00:30:34:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And even if they are relationally church, we can pivot and reposition the way that we're doing it so that it can be included in a YouTube playlist. However, playlists are basically like free courses on YouTube's platform. 00:30:35:01 - 00:30:55:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Listen, are you overwhelmed yet? Because it can be overwhelming. It's deep. And just like you have to be, organizational person and administrator, an executive pastor, a shepherd. Now, you're also being asked to be a social media manager. And that's the thing. That's why I have four different tiers of ways that I can help you. Number one, just grab my free e-book. 00:30:55:05 - 00:31:21:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You can also check out the seasonal social media pack, for the the three months. Or you can do for the whole year or coaching where I help walk you through it and how to implement some of these things. Or you can just reach out to me directly for coaching and communications done for you. But without any further ado, let's check out the last little bit here of the final, what this could look like and where this could take you in your church and in your ministry. 00:31:21:19 - 00:31:40:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Can grab my free e-book, but if you get in there and you're like, I don't know what's best for us, and we'll let you know about some custom coaching that I have to offer. My custom coaching is four sessions long. $50 per session will be $200 out of your overall budget, which is absolutely pennies in the in the drop in the bucket in an overall church size budget. 00:31:41:00 - 00:32:02:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But if you know, even that is too much, reach out. We can make something work. But the reason that custom coaching is important is because every context is different. I can tell you what I'm doing here in DFW, Dallas-Fort worth area, to reach, in my context, Gen Z or young, you know, basically almost done with Gen Z to Gen Alpha. 00:32:02:07 - 00:32:29:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But and that might be helpful because if you're managing church social media for an overall church, like, well, we're doing is very going to be very cutting edge for, you know, like older Gen Z and even like millennials. But every church and every context and every geographical area is a little bit different. I was recently, coaching another guy and, my typical like strategy, I changed it and tweaked it a little bit for him because he was doing things just a little bit differently. 00:32:29:04 - 00:32:46:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry His context was a little bit different, and his role was a little bit unique compared to what I typically would tell people to do. And so even I was, you know, thinking through and adjusting my model. And so it's important because everyone in every place is different. And then the final piece is this is like, as I say, all of this. 00:32:46:12 - 00:33:01:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And there's, you know, maybe a minute ago you gave me that sub because you were like, dude, there's just too much to do. And even with some custom coaching, there's still going to be a lot on your plate. You're 100% right. There is are still a lot of work to do, which is what I want to offer to, to some of you. 00:33:01:22 - 00:33:25:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Might be worth it. Budget wise, communications done for you. It's a service that I offer, and I will run your website. Or I will do graphics and video, or I will run your YouTube and social media. Each of those different buckets and categories is a different price point. Or you can bundle them all together for a different price point link down below to inquire about that. 00:33:25:09 - 00:33:45:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But let me just tell you that it is a 10th of the cost of a full time staff person. If you were to hire me and contract me to do communications for you and for your church and for your ministry, because there's so much on your plate and you just you, you want it, but you don't have the time or bandwidth or desire maybe even to learn it. 00:33:45:19 - 00:34:01:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I understand that. And at some point it's just worth it, you know, to just get it off of your plate. And if that you're in that zone and you don't want the coaching, you don't want to learn via the e-book, then great. Then check out what I have to offer communications for you. I will do things like inspect your website. 00:34:01:10 - 00:34:41:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I will optimize your search engine optimization. I will make your website as visitor friendly as possible. If you want to go in the graphics route, I can do graphic design for you. I can do series and events and pre screen and print graphics and all those types of things. Get those pesky jobs off of your plate. And if you want to optimize your church social media, live stream or YouTube prefilled messages, we can, do thumbnails, we can title the video, we can optimize the tags for search engine optimization, create chapters so that people can jump around in your videos, create playlists and online courses, and also create post shorts for your social media. 00:34:41:27 - 00:35:02:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Whatever works best and whatever you want done for you. All of it is linked down below in the description or in the show notes. I'd love to have you check those things out, but again, I appreciate you being here. And listen. It is the future of the church is online. It's not only online, but are you. A wide portion of it is. 00:35:02:22 - 00:35:26:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the fact is, the more capacity and bandwidth that you have to take it there, the more effective I believe you will be to maximize your reach and your influence to continue to pursue reaching people for Jesus, continue to pursue the call and the assignment in which God has placed you, particularly right now in this season. And don't forget, and as always, stay hybrid.

In this 4th and Final Episode of my Creative Programming Playlist we’re continuing on with the 3 challenges, from home this week because of this insane (?) winter storm! CHALLENGE #1 No Repeat Order And while last week we had no speaker, what if this week we have NO GAME?! CHALLENGE #2 I’m creating a DYM Game from Scratch, and this one idea be the best one I’ve made so far CHALLENGE #3 And as always, we’ll be telling you how it went and giving it all away! 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(Or Resource) 16:10 Time to Evaluate -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00;00;01;25 - 00;00;02;24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, in this fourth 00;00;03;00 - 00;00;03;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry and 00;00;03;06 - 00;00;03;16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry final 00;00;03;18 - 00;00;11;29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry episode of my Creative Programing playlist, we're continuing on with the three challenges that we've been working on 00;00;11;29 - 00;00;28;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry this week, from my home office or guest bedroom, or normal side of the recording of the hybrid ministry show. Because of this insane question mark winter storm that Texas has experienced. I haven't been in the office all week and Sunday services were canceled. 00;00;28;06 - 00;00;34;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's crazy, but we're doing these three challenges with no repeat order. And while last week we had no speaker, 00;00;34;29 - 00;00;39;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry this week I want to show you what it might be like if we have no traditional game. 00;00;39;29 - 00;00;53;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Again, question mark. And I'm going to somehow create a game from scratch and submit it to dym, I have an idea of what I think I might want to do, but you can be the judge if this actually counts. 00;00;53;08 - 00;01;01;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if I actually succeed in the challenge. And as always, we're going to recap and then let you know how it went. What went bad, what you need to do differently. All of 00;01;01;24 - 00;01;11;04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry that coming up on this week's episode of the fourth and final installment of the Programing Playlist Challenge. Welcome, everyone, to the Hybrid Ministry show. 00;01;11;06 - 00;01;16;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we are here on the Hybrid Ministry show, attempting to round out the challenges. 00;01;16;09 - 00;01;23;24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The first three videos, I was able to successfully complete each week's challenge, and today we're going to try and do the same thing. 00;01;23;27 - 00;01;41;16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You know, challenge number one, of course, is avoiding doing the same order. And so far we've done in week one, we did our kind of standard order of two songs. The first part of the message, a table talk, the announcements, then the game bumper video message, part two response song and a small message wrap. 00;01;41;19 - 00;01;56;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Week two. We completely did the order wrong. And so we started with the message. A table talk did two songs in the middle, followed by announcements and games, followed by a bumper, followed by, the second part of the message kind of sandwiched in the night. And then week 00;01;56;07 - 00;02;13;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry three, no speaker because we pre filmed our message. So we did announcements followed by song, followed by the first part of the message, followed by a table talk followed by game, followed by the second part of the message in table talk, followed by two more songs, third part of the message table talk, a response song and a message wrap, and dismiss. 00;02;13;10 - 00;02;13;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so 00;02;13;26 - 00;02;30;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry this week I'm going to give you a little bit of context, but I'm going to try and do a fourth order and a completely different element than what we've done so far. It's going to it's going to like I ended the last video, so we're going to throw this one into a tizz, And that's exactly what we're going to do. 00;02;30;03 - 00;02;48;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So for a bit of context, every single year around spring break we do a thing called spring break hangs. And what that is, is it's all of our office days. So we don't work on Fridays, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday we do some sort of hangout for students. So it could be something simple like meet up at a coffee shop, meet up at an ice cream shop. 00;02;48;13 - 00;02;50;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Sometimes we pay, sometimes they 00;02;50;12 - 00;03;15;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry pay. And so yesterday, our Wednesday night programing for the week during this Texas snowstorm got canceled. So we threw together an emergency meeting with, myself and our students team. And as we were hopping off the call, one of my guys goes, hey, do we have plans yet for spring break? hangs well, I have a group of students who helped plan an outreach event and they want to do a tournament deal in the middle of the week. 00;03;15;17 - 00;03;32;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so that's sort of like the anchor and then a round I said around it, let's go ahead and let's make a plan. And one of the plans that they came up with was they wanted to do a movie night. And so what we're going to do is in addition to doing spring break hangs every year, 00;03;32;06 - 00;03;38;26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry we also do a march bracket every year to kind of come alongside March Madness and all that type of stuff. 00;03;38;26 - 00;03;48;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I've talked about it before and, you know, I'm going to give this resource that I'm about to create away. Over on the DYM site, I have the epic 00;03;48;13 - 00;03;58;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry student ministry bracket of epic things, which is very dated. It's it's 7 or 8 years old now, the number one seed, Chip and Joanna Gaines. So I will tell you how dated that feels. 00;03;58;08 - 00;04;13;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Then I've also, over on the site, have The World's Greatest Donut, which actually have an episode link right here at top screen. You can go see, that event that we did, how we launched that event, and then how you can, have that event kind of going on in the background. And we've also done a Christmas movie bracket. 00;04;13;15 - 00;04;32;23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so for this one, we're going to do a movie bracket. And then that's going to determine the movie that we watch on the night of spring break hangs. And so one of the things that, I'm going to do is I'm going to actually, I think I want to create four different regions. So almost like four different categories. 00;04;32;25 - 00;04;36;24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We'll do a 16 team bracket, even though in regular March Madness, I do a 00;04;36;27 - 00;04;49;26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry 64 team bracket with four regions, 16 teams in each region. We'll do a 16 team bracket 4 regions. Four movies in each bracket. And so I'll kind of categorize it. And what I actually did was I told my team, I said, 00;04;49;29 - 00;04;53;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry hey, 10:00, this was the last night. 00;04;53;05 - 00;05;14;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I said, by 10:00 tomorrow I want to start working on this send me 16 movies doesn't have to matter. The order sent to me by 10:00. So I'll let you know who responded by ten. And then I'm going to take their movies. We're going to compile it into ChatGPT, and we're going to ask them to spit out like the ones that you know, which are commonly commonly included and stuff like that, and maybe even help us categorize it a little bit. 00;05;14;03 - 00;05;21;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I'll let you know how my team does here if they meet the deadline by 10:00 or not. 00;05;21;18 - 00;05;29;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Four out of six, which I'm one of the four. So I guess three out of five of my team members, follow the instructions. If Ben and Kaleigh 00;05;29;17 - 00;05;39;29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry ever see this, they might be mortified. Or they might just giggle and think it's funny. But we compiled their lists and came up with seeds and came up with some regions. 00;05;39;29 - 00;05;56;28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so for the night, what I want to do is I want to treat our night a little bit like a selection show. So I'm going to hop in & I'm going to start creating some of that programing on Planning Center. And I'll catch you on the other side. 00;05;57;00 - 00;05;57;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry There's 00;05;57;10 - 00;06;06;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry no traditional game in the sense, but we are going to play kind of a quasi sort of like hybrid game in the middle of it. So we're 00;06;06;13 - 00;06;19;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry going to start with a hype song. And then as soon as that's done, we're going to fire the selection show, bumper video. So again, I'm trying to kind of emulate like the selection Sunday night selection show of March Madness. 00;06;19;10 - 00;06;38;26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so as you can see, this Movie Madness logo here looks very much like, March Madness logo. And then myself and one of my coworkers, Allie, we're going to get up on stage and we're going to kind of have on like, jackets or like blazers, like people who are, you know, who are revealing stuff like on ESPN or whatever. 00;06;38;28 - 00;07;05;16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And we are going to welcome the room. And we're not like, we're not going to break character. We're going to be, you know, in character, doing the thing the whole time. Welcome the room live on stage. And then we're also going to, reveal that we are launching a brand new, spring bracket. We're not revealing that the choice of movie is what's going to be played on movie night, but we're going to reveal that we are, in fact, having a bracket, and then we're going to cut to a field reporter. 00;07;05;16 - 00;07;34;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And this we're going to video ahead of time. I haven't done this yet, but just right now, I came up with the idea, we're going to video ahead of time. Another one of our staff people, Kaleigh and she's going to, announce the Pixar region. And so for us, we're going with, inside out as the number one seed versus Wall-E, and then Toy Story versus monsters, Inc. she's going to give a little bit of breakdown analysis on it, and then she's going to predict winners of each of those matchups, and then she's going to predict a winner of the winners. 00;07;34;21 - 00;07;52;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So she says, like inside out, it's going to be Wall-E. And Toy Story is going to beat Monsters Inc and then Inside Out versus Toy Story. She believes Inside Out is going to win, hypothetically, right? She'll say something like, that's just my opinion, but you guys get an opportunity to vote right now on Instagram or YouTube. Login right now, a scan QR code on the screen. 00;07;52;12 - 00;08;08;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we'll edit all of that and put that all together. And then that will cut back to me and Allie and we'll kind of like talk about that a little bit, announce the next region, which is going to be the hero region. And we're going to be announcing this one over with a little bit of a game. 00;08;08;10 - 00;08;29;07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we're going to cut to Eli and Cody, and then they're going to, play like an emoji. Guess game, which I'm actually going to include inside the pack of this. I'm going to include an emoji guess game as a part of like the launch. So Spider-Man across Spider-Verse versus Big Hero six and Avengers Endgame versus The Lego Movie. 00;08;29;07 - 00;08;49;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then, the winner of that, they'll what we'll do then is we'll have them, go like head to head, and we'll have them, like, thinking, so, like, who's going to who's going to win, who's going to get it right, Eli or Cody or neither. And then we'll like pause the video and let them vote on sidekick. 00;08;50;01 - 00;09;10;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then we'll come back and play the results. So that'll kind of be they'll kind of satisfy as like our game. Right. But it's all a part of this greater like selection show. And then that will that end into our brand new series. Are you turn bumper and then Ben, one of our associates who did not send in a list, by the way, is going to preach first half of his message 00;09;10;23 - 00;09;12;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry in with a table talk. 00;09;12;03 - 00;09;32;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then we're going to come back out of that into a commercial. And Ben is going to do the commercial, and he's going to do the comedy region. And this one I'm kind of doing like dad jokes or like, I don't know, like really cliche thing. So he and this is also going to sort of satisfy as like the announcement section of our night. 00;09;32;02 - 00;09;51;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So like, we're doing, they won't of spring break anxiety. We're doing ice cream. Day two, we're doing a thing called activate. It's like live, immersive, like games. Day three is our tournament thing. And then day four is the movie night. And so he's going to say like day one, we're doing ice cream, which is soft and squishy. 00;09;51;05 - 00;10;16;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Speaking of soft and squishy, the first in our comedy region, Shrek day two had to activate where you're going to have to activate your Megamind, which is the second movie in our comedy night. Day three, we're hosting an invite style tournament where you're going to have to unlock your athletic inner prowess and kung fu skills, just like, seed number three, which is Kung Fu Panda in the comedy region. 00;10;16;06 - 00;10;36;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And finally, day four is our movie night. Will we be watching this fourth movie here? Despicable me voting is now live on YouTube and Instagram. Head on over. So we'll kind of like build that up, play that up. And so it's going to be three different prerecorded video segments Kaylie's Field Report Eli and Cody's game. And then Ben's kind of like announcement thing. 00;10;36;15 - 00;10;55;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And that's going to put every single one of our staff people on screen or on stage for the night. And then back to me and Ali. Remember like, man, spring break hanging sound like fun. And that leads us to our final region, the legend region, which is How to Train Your Dragon versus The Princess Bride and Rogue One versus The Sandlot. 00;10;55;10 - 00;11;14;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Cast your vote online now you know, blah blah blah, yada yada yada. And then we will, and then we will go into Ben's message and actually right here as I'm explaining this, I'm going to move the bumper because Ben's going to earlier. He's going to come in after an emoji, video. So he can come in with that. 00;11;14;19 - 00;11;31;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That'll already be a video. And then this will allow that to allow them to fire the bumper. He'll come in, he'll do the rest of his message table talk, and then we'll have two response songs at the end. And then me and Ali back on. The selection show will essentially serve as the messenger app. And the dismissal, for the night. 00;11;31;13 - 00;11;47;14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So that's kind of how we're going to launch this thing and let it go. Know that, like part of our reasoning strategy behind this is a it's going this is why I like the idea of hybrid, right? This is taking an in-person moment or movie night and pairing it with online online voting on YouTube and so and and Instagram. 00;11;47;16 - 00;12;08;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And this pushes people to our social channels and to our social pages. And so we get followers, we push our people to our online presence. If they're interacting with it, then the algorithm is going to feed them more of what we have, and it's going to, create like the in-person moment. So every week we get an opportunity then to be like, here's how you guys voted and all that stuff. 00;12;08;29 - 00;12;26;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And as always, we have printed paper versions that students without phones can print. And by the way, I'm giving you this entire resource for free. The movie emoji Guesses, as well as the entire bracket like assets that you'll need for, launching and doing this in 00;12;26;25 - 00;12;35;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry your own ministry. You can grab it now. You can do it for an in-person movie night, or you can just do it because it's fun to have something else going on in the background. 00;12;36;00 - 00;12;52;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, you can make this a part of your youth ministry. And so I have tons of these. I'm going to submit this to you. I by the end of the day, it'll be hopefully on there. But you can save money if you just hop on over and become a $4 per tier, $4 per month hybrid hero member to you. 00;12;52;03 - 00;13;12;28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's like if this resource ends up on you, I am for like seven bucks, let's say, like your hybrid hero is going to get you this this resource, along with the previous four resources, all for free. You're going to save money going over there. And I'm going to give you the different ideas and times when we lean into something creative like this. 00;13;12;28 - 00;13;35;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right? No game. Right? No traditional game. We're doing a whole selection style show, but we're still like doing an entire youth ministry 80 minutes long. We got worship, teaching and like fun elements all woven throughout, launching this brand new thing and announcing an event coming up like this is an example of the creative programing that we're trying to lean into in our context and want to help encourage you to. 00;13;35;02 - 00;13;47;19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And that is the whole purpose of my, thing. So I'm going to hop in the lab. 00;13;47;22 - 00;14;10;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right. Welcome to Movie Madness. This is kind of meant to mirror March Madness, but whether you do this in March or not, this is just a great thing to run in the background of your youth ministry and also promote your social media, so you don't need to do anything with it aside from just launch it on your social media and let students vote, or you can let it drive towards something bigger. 00;14;10;10 - 00;14;33;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like for us, we're going to let this drive toward a spring break hangout movie night in our context. And so the way that is kind of set up is that we have curated, at our on our team, amongst our staff, 16 different movies. And then they're in four different regions. So we have the, the Pixar region, the hero region, we have the comedy region, and then we have the legend region. 00;14;33;27 - 00;14;53;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then each of those, they will face off against each other in a head to head voting style event. Students will vote. We typically, staff at where it's like one night we launch a big thing and we make a whole ordeal out of it. And then the voting happens on social media. So we typically let them vote on like, Instagram stories. 00;14;53;02 - 00;15;14;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And we also, push towards like a thing like YouTube. And so, you can take some of these graphics that I have created and then you can post them onto your stories. And then each week you as you meet back together with your students, you reveal who won voting wise from last week and who's moving on to the next week until you crown an ultimate champion. 00;15;14;09 - 00;15;33;28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like I said, you can allow this to be a part of your programing each and every single week and make a big deal out of it. Or you can just have fun on your social media. There are widescreen videos and graphics and fonts and templates, so that you can advance it custom in your context. You can print out some some papers. 00;15;34;05 - 00;15;52;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Students can vote on paper, you can have them vote on social media or you can use something like the voting feature inside Kick and vote just in the room and have students go one by one. We will do a combination kind of of all three in our context. And then at the end, we'll crown one champion from each of these four regions. 00;15;52;05 - 00;16;12;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And that will be how we decide which movie we're going to be watching in our spring break hangout movie night. So, thank you for checking this resource out. I hope it's helpful to you, and I hope you have fun as you crown a movie champions through this movie madness resource. Well, that is the video, the one you just saw. 00;16;12;10 - 00;16;24;19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's the video that I'm going to include in the how to play, resource on download youth miss you. You let me know. Comment down below. Did I complete the challenge? Is this bracket resource? Is this 00;16;24;22 - 00;16;32;26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry enough? Is this considered a game or not? From scratch? I think it is, but you can decide. And so I'm going 00;16;32;26 - 00;16;35;00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry to go ahead and give myself a check mark for this. 00;16;35;00 - 00;16;53;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yes. And then we've also went ahead and we have, we have recap the night and I let you know how it went over on my Patreon link down below if you want to subscribe to that for hours per month, you'll get this resource completely for free. Or you can head over to the museum and see if it's available on the site yet. 00;16;53;05 - 00;17;09;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If not, I got the free early release version of it. And that's linked in the podcast episode that dropped on Monday over on my Patreon. Guys, thanks so much for being here for this. For part, how I program my youth ministry has been a super fun ride. I've had a blast doing it. But until next time. 00;17;09;10 - 00;17;11;16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And as always, my friends, don't forget stay happy.

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Hello. 00;00;01;59 - 00;00;02;48 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And good morning. 00;00;02;48 - 00;00;05;52 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Today we are programing our Wednesday night with 00;00;05;52 - 00;00;06;26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry no 00;00;06;26 - 00;00;07;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry speaker. 00;00;07;06 - 00;00;08;30 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah, you heard that right. 00;00;08;30 - 00;00;13;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We're also still in this playlist completing these three challenges, 00;00;13;06 - 00;00;23;42 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry which are no repeated order. We're going to create a game from scratch on win. And finally I'm going to recap the entire night, let you know how it went. And not only am I going to 00;00;23;42 - 00;00;24;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry recap 00;00;24;12 - 00;00;24;43 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry the night 00;00;24;43 - 00;00;28;57 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry and the game that I created, but I'm also going to give you the game for free. 00;00;28;58 - 00;00;31;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So stick around to the end of the video so that you can see 00;00;31;08 - 00;00;36;52 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry how you can get access that. Welcome everybody to the Hybrid Ministry Show. 00;00;36;57 - 00;00;48;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Welcome, everybody, to the hybrid ministry show. And, first order of business is we have to map out service order and we can't let the order repeat. So if 00;00;48;19 - 00;00;58;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry you look in here on screen, you'll see that on the left here, this is, week one service order. And if you look here on the right, this is week two's service order. 00;00;58;17 - 00;01;03;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we're going to go ahead and we're going to make a completely different service order. But 00;01;03;11 - 00;01;36;49 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry yes you heard it right because for the entire teaching topic we discussed in last week's video links right here that I will not actually be present. I won a or I don't even know, like I guess I won or was given, a free trip with my wife to get away kid free, for like, pastor and wives retreat and so the week that I'm programing is the week that I will be absent and we're going to be during and in the middle of our sex and dating and relationships 00;01;36;56 - 00;01;37;19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry series. 00;01;37;19 - 00;01;51;41 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, we talked about a little bit last week, but this was the original order. But because of my trip, this is how we reshuffled things a little bit. And so we're going to be playing the already prerecorded video 00;01;51;46 - 00;01;58;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry from this week in the room. And here's the thing. Like some of you, you may not know this, but 00;01;58;01 - 00;01;58;38 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry we 00;01;58;38 - 00;02;00;44 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry already have recorded 00;02;00;51 - 00;02;01;52 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry these teaching topics. 00;02;02;06 - 00;02;04;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry sat down, went into our studio, 00;02;04;02 - 00;02;05;51 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry and this is a big part of our 00;02;05;51 - 00;02;06;18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry hybrid 00;02;06;28 - 00;02;11;43 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry ministry strategy. And and what I recommend, like if you download my seasonal social media 00;02;11;43 - 00;02;18;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry pack, which is free for Patreon members, by the way, and Patreon is only $4 a month, $48 for the year. 00;02;18;08 - 00;02;23;14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you download my pack, I recommend that you get active on social media and that you post like three 00;02;23;19 - 00;02;24;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry times per week. 00;02;24;29 - 00;02;36;33 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But then, in the towards the end of the book, I challenge you, to consider a stretch goal. And a great stretch goal is to record and post all of 00;02;36;38 - 00;02;42;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry your messages to YouTube or to, some sort of long form platform. 00;02;42;15 - 00;02;50;38 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I guess I say some other long form platform is if YouTube isn't the option like it is, the option is the number one social media for for students. 00;02;50;43 - 00;02;57;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But that what that does, is it gives you a multiplicity of options. 00;02;57;01 - 00;02;57;26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Number one. 00;02;57;31 - 00;03;03;42 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It creates a long, long form library of content like a long tail library of content. So, 00;03;03;50 - 00;03;04;45 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry messages from 00;03;04;50 - 00;03;09;43 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry multiple years back are still relevant, because hopefully we're teaching the truth of God's word. 00;03;09;49 - 00;03;18;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry someone can go back in and and get an answer to something or to to study a topic on something that we've already done in the past. We've done the work we put the work in. 00;03;18;11 - 00;03;19;38 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Secondarily, 00;03;19;43 - 00;03;26;38 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry our leaders, like many of our leaders, lead the discussion based off of the message. But they don't come on Wednesday night when we preach it live. 00;03;26;38 - 00;03;31;58 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so therefore, having the video allows them to still hear the content, even if they're not able to make it in the room. 00;03;32;07 - 00;03;44;36 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's also a tool for parents. We're going to be using it during this series. I'm going to be sending it out ahead of time to parents being like, hey, listen, here we go. Like, this is all we're talking about in case you want to know, in case you want to get in front of it, in case you want to have conversations with the students. 00;03;44;40 - 00;03;51;57 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so it gives us tons of great options. But the other option that you're seeing today is that it's going to give us the option 00;03;52;09 - 00;03;57;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry like, I don't have to get a guest speaker. I don't to get a pinch hitter. Like, I can still speak and I can still, 00;03;57;26 - 00;03;59;16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry messaging for youth group, and, 00;03;59;21 - 00;04;03;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry we can be off to the races without needing to do anything like crazy on that. 00;04;03;05 - 00;04;03;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And 00;04;03;21 - 00;04;03;37 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry so 00;04;03;47 - 00;04;06;38 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry it's really helpful to us. It's really beneficial. And so 00;04;06;38 - 00;04;18;22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry that might be something that you would consider down the road. That might be something that you might even consider. Now I got some coaching options down below my link tree. Go ahead and take a look at that. See if there's something you want. I can I can walk you through how we do that. 00;04;18;27 - 00;04;19;58 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry today specifically, 00;04;20;02 - 00;04;27;26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry you know, week one we went two songs opening announcements, games receive message response song 00;04;27;30 - 00;04;36;35 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry we two we went message songs, games rest of message and then songs. So we need a now third 00;04;36;40 - 00;04;36;58 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry order. 00;04;37;05 - 00;04;39;33 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry this is the just preset order. 00;04;39;33 - 00;04;40;40 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we're going to 00;04;40;45 - 00;04;46;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry we're going to mess with it and we're going to put in a new order. And as a reminder, I'm going to open here with 00;04;46;22 - 00;04;59;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry welcome announcements game. The game is going to be the custom game that I'm going to create. And today, we'll see in a minute because I got to hop in the lab and I'll let you know how that spits out 00;04;59;13 - 00;05;00;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry on the other side of things. 00;05;00;24 - 00;05;00;45 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But 00;05;00;53 - 00;05;01;43 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry today 00;05;01;47 - 00;05;04;41 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm thinking about doing some sort of 00;05;04;51 - 00;05;11;48 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Winter Olympic themed game. We will be in the middle or towards the very end of the Winter Olympics by February 18th. 00;05;11;54 - 00;05;20;45 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I think that that would be, a fun kind of like way to to celebrate that and, to lean into that just a little bit. So, 00;05;20;50 - 00;05;26;56 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry so anyway, that's one thing about, and then here I'm programing, I'm gonna do a song, and then I'm going to do, 00;05;27;10 - 00;05;31;22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry first part of the message, and I think I'm going to try and break my message up into three parts. 00;05;31;22 - 00;05;32;47 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So part one 00;05;32;57 - 00;05;37;51 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry but typically I'm at like 12 minutes. So we're going to do like four minute, four minute chunks. 00;05;37;56 - 00;05;42;58 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we'll do a four minute chunk and then a four minute table talk. 00;05;43;03 - 00;05;43;35 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Another. 00;05;43;43 - 00;05;47;53 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Some actually actually okay. So I'm changing my order already. So I'm going to do the opening song. 00;05;48;01 - 00;05;51;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry no I like I like opening with a game for this on 00;05;51;08 - 00;06;01;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry it gets like a live element of the room. So we'll do part one, table two. I'm just trying to keep like I want to honestly kind of do the band a bunch. 00;06;01;07 - 00;06;02;39 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But so I kind of wanted to 00;06;02;46 - 00;06;03;50 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry not get, 00;06;03;55 - 00;06;06;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry stuck into this rut of it, be like 00;06;06;25 - 00;06;07;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry song 00;06;07;08 - 00;06;08;44 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry message, song message. 00;06;08;48 - 00;06;11;58 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah, I'm going to move the game down here. That's what I'll do. 00;06;12;07 - 00;06;16;55 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry yeah, then we'll be able to. It won't be so choppy. I don't think anymore. 00;06;17;00 - 00;06;36;59 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right, so here we go. Here's what I ended up coming up with. So instead of doing just games at the beginning, we do welcome announcements. And then that's going to lead into a worship song. And then after the song they're going to move into part one of the message, which will then, go for a minute and then end with, table talk there for a couple minutes. 00;06;36;59 - 00;06;59;32 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry After the table talk, Ali and Kayla, you're going to get up. They're going to play the game that I made from scratch. Then after that, they're going to lead it into part two of the message with another table talk. And then out of that the band is going to come up and do two songs. And then after that last part, I'm going to do the final part of the message, and then there's going to be a message wrap and dismissal from, my, my number two associate. 00;06;59;32 - 00;07;22;32 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So the only other thing here that is worth considering is, you know, there's only 52 minutes of total service time. That in part is because a video message goes a lot quicker than a live spoken message. So I am considering and I think I'm going to do it. I am actually just considering here, adding one last response song. 00;07;22;37 - 00;07;37;35 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Our band typically does three songs in this particular week. I'm going to, see if they can go ahead and do two, four songs. And so it'll go part three of The Message, which also there will be a table talk in there. I didn't add. So let's go and see what that does. A table. 00;07;37;40 - 00;07;39;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So now we're at like 61 minutes. 00;07;39;20 - 00;07;42;59 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry that's not bad. And even if we did happen to kill this response song, 00;07;43;03 - 00;07;53;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry we're at 56 again. Not bad, but I think I'm going to leave it there. And so we're going to go with we're going to go with four songs this night instead of five or instead of three. 00;07;53;10 - 00;08;00;47 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And yeah. And now look boom. Challenge number one completed completely different order. Now, 00;08;00;47 - 00;08;07;24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry about to hop in the lab and I'm going to go and create a custom game. We'll see you on the other side. 00;08;07;29 - 00;08;13;23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Another. 00;08;13;28 - 00;08;21;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Welcome, everybody to the extreme. Go for gold trivia. I invited one of my buddies, Ben, 00;08;21;32 - 00;08;38;44 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry in here. Wearing a Timberwolves shirt. Not Timberwolves fan. Mavs. We're going to see how this game works. So in the like how to play instructions there. There are two ways to play. Traditional question. Answer. Nice question answer. Question answer. It's just simple. 00;08;38;46 - 00;08;59;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You guys got this. I'm not going to tell you how to play that, but I want to show you how we might play the Extreme Edition. I like it. I like going for gold extreme. So the instructions go like this. Read the question. I think they'll be the first to buzz in. Choose either answer or challenge. All right. 00;08;59;21 - 00;09;20;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So whoever buzzes in first, it's like truth or dare. Yeah. Answer a challenge. And then step four you can win for your side of the room. So let's say you're playing for the right side of the room. And I'm playing for the left side of the room. And then you guys figure out whatever prize you want pizza for the that side or Nintendo Switch two points or AirPods for everyone, right? 00;09;20;25 - 00;09;46;51 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That'd be crazy. So one of my favorite ways to do this is to take a water bottle, right? If you don't have like, an amazing formalized buzzer. Have a water bottle in the middle. And, what will happen is whoever grabs what about first, then that's then. It's like the Cup game. Yeah. Yeah. And then they choose, you know, either, they choose either answer or challenge. 00;09;46;51 - 00;09;50;55 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah. Okay, so first question. 00;09;51;00 - 00;10;14;30 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we're up here, contestants. Which sport made debut at the 2026 Winter Olympics? I buzzed in. Yeah. And on this one, I know. Because I'm just a massive Olympics fan. So I'm going to say the answer is B ski mo. Am I right? What do you think? No. Well I made the game so I guess I'm right. 00;10;14;35 - 00;10;35;41 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Okay. Now that's I would get a point. All right however. Wait how do you. What is mountaineering. Sorry. I don't know. That was that. That's unreal. That's. Yeah. I'll let you watch the Olympics on NBC starting in February and February 12th. Yeah. Eskimo mountaineering is. But now then. All right, so I got a point. So one point for the left side of the room. 00;10;35;41 - 00;10;42;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Okay, now let's go back to this year. Okay, here we go. Next question. 00;10;42;18 - 00;11;05;44 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Which country has participated in every Winter games since they began in 1924? Canada, France, United States then grabs the buzzer. But this time around, Ben is going to choose. Choose Canada. No, you're going to say, oh, you got shoes? Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's right, that's right. You're going to choose. Oh, I'm gonna choose challenge. All right. So what you haven't seen yet is I've created two spoons. 00;11;05;45 - 00;11;29;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, I saw one was sugar. You can use anything. You can do worse. You sour sauce and Worcestershire, however you say. Sure, sure, sure. And Coca-Cola, you can do vinegar and water. Yeah. You could do caramel onion, caramel apple. Like, whatever you boil oil. There you go. Yeah. Canola oil. Yeah. Get all the oils, kill someone or help them live. 00;11;29;15 - 00;11;53;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So how this would work then is so since he buzzed in as you can smell it, I didn't know if since he buzzed in as the challenger or he his go is to, stomp the room. Okay. So if if he like if he successfully stomps the room based off his reaction, he gets two points to my one just for answering straight up. 00;11;53;26 - 00;12;07;55 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Okay, if he's unsuccessful in that, then, you know. So here we go. The game host would then say, all right, ready? Three. Two. One. 00;12;08;00 - 00;12;35;44 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Okay, so based off of our reaction, one of us have so one of us has sugar. And so how we're going to play in our room then, we're big sidekicks fans. Oh, yeah. So who got so the double vote? Whoever you think. Got it. And then if Ben was able to, like. So if he was able to successfully stumped the room, why don't you tell the people what you had at sugar? 00;12;35;49 - 00;12;53;53 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah, I had, so, yeah, that was like you. Really? Yeah. Did I see it in your app? Yeah. Just try not to cry. That was horrific. So let's say he did something, and let's say everyone voted that that he had the salt, even though I had the salt. So as blind for the your contestants to. Yeah. As mine for your contestants too. 00;12;53;53 - 00;13;10;47 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So it's really just all about your reaction. Yeah. And then you'd move on to question three. Easy. Go on. So forth. So that's how you play the Extreme Edition. That's how we're going to play this on February 18th. Hope you guys enjoyed. Bless up. See you next time. See ya. 00;13;10;52 - 00;13;34;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So there you have it. That's actually the game that I'm going to include in the submission. It's usually like on the do I am game page, the actual like resource page taken of how to play. So that's how we're going to play it. Go either way. So New order unlocked. New game from scratch. And as a reminder, the Hybrid Heroes Patreon tier $4 per month, 00;13;34;21 - 00;13;43;40 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry $48 per year is where I will be debriefing this and every other week in this, playlists series and giving away the game. 00;13;43;41 - 00;14;00;48 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, if you listen to the podcast, the Dropbox link to this game is included for free. Or if it's over on D, I am of course, you can go grab it over there for a couple of bucks. So all three challenges completed. Next week is the final week and we are going to throw it absolutely into a tiers. 00;14;00;48 - 00;14;07;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That video is going to be linked right here on screen. But until next time. And as always my friends don't forget to stay hybrid.

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Rule number one is that the order does not repeat, and today I'm intentionally giving a wrong order. We're also going to be making a different DIY and game from scratch every single week. And I'm going to tell you how you can get this game for free and get it early before it releases on the site. 00;00;27;36 - 00;01;05;37 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And step three, I'm going to evaluate and reflect how it went. Welcome, everybody to part two of the Hybrid Minstrel Show Programing challenge. Well hello everybody, and welcome back to, this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show. You know, in this episode, we are going to be programing a service. Wrong. And here's why. It's wrong, so to speak, is that there's kind of like a standard assumed order for, for instance, if I pull open, the February 11th service plan, which I'm filming this on January 15th, so still a full month out. 00;01;05;42 - 00;01;25;34 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry There's already like a basic service order kind of mapped out. And like this is very similar to what we did in that last week's video is going to be linked up right here at the top screen. If you've not seen that one, there's a free game and that one as well. That's kind of like our standard order. And and actually after that video, we had to shift our order a little bit because I'm going to be out of town. 00;01;25;39 - 00;01;41;52 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I don't want to be out of town on, the week of this message, the text message. And so, I'm going to teach this one in the room, and then, we'll do something different for when I'm out of town. Stay tuned for next week's video, but I'm going to do something, we're going to do it completely wrong. 00;01;41;52 - 00;02;02;00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, I'm going to go ahead and instead of opening with worship, which is kind of like the assumed beginning of everything, we're going to actually open with the introduction of the message, I'm going to come up here and I'm going to do the first couple minutes of the message, let's say. 00;02;02;05 - 00;02;27;28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm over here with my Google doc and a split screen we're going to open and we're going straight for it. We're going straight for the message right off the top rope. And like I said, we're talking about sex. So it's going to be a little bit of a heavy topic, which also makes my table talk a little bit tricky because, I got to trust tables and students to handle that discussion with proper amount of care. 00;02;27;33 - 00;02;49;45 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But then we are going to, after the table talk. We're going to do worship, right? Jammed right there in the middle. And so we'll do the opener followed by a couple of songs. Then we're going to put the game in the announcements after worship last night. Date of recording in January. We have a January Wednesday workshop. 00;02;49;53 - 00;03;03;51 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So that means worship has to be at the very top. And then we just miss everybody and they can go to different places in the building. So everyone worships and then they're split up as part this month. We're not going to be doing that. And so I have a little bit more flexibility with where and when we put worship. 00;03;03;51 - 00;03;26;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we'll go ahead and do the welcome and announcements here. And this is going to be the game. We're going to do a Four Corners trivia game. You know last night yesterday was actually I was in my car, on my way driving to work, and I was thinking about this video and, you know, last week I created the the game that if you go back to last week's video, you can grab a free copy of it. 00;03;26;14 - 00;03;44;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry There are Patreon, $24 a month for eight hours for the year. Not only is it going to give you all these games and these, you know, bonus podcasts, but it's also going to give you, unlocking the free seasonal social media package. Whenever I leave cohorts, the number one culprit of people not being able to do social media, consistently is just timing and scheduling. 00;03;44;17 - 00;04;00;48 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so therefore, my pack will be the timing, the consistency in scheduling for you. And then you can infuse your own creative juices. Like, I have a resident right now who's, doing a disc golf shot over the roof of our building one every day until he makes it like there's incredible creativity. Sometimes you don't have time for that. 00;04;00;48 - 00;04;19;57 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So have my pack. Let it run kind of on autopilot in the background. And then when you have an idea like that or volunteer resident, then hop on in and use it and scrap the stuff that I have. But my mind helps keep you regular. It's kind of like fiber. Anyway, so I had a student come on to me yesterday because I've been thinking all day, was my game going to be what's my game going to be? 00;04;19;57 - 00;04;35;36 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And she said, can we play one of those four corners games where you go to a different corner and if you're wrong, you're out. And I'm thinking like loot and lunacy. I'm thinking like dead cat style. We've I even have some on the site already. They're just like basic trivia games. And so that's actually the game that I'm going to do. 00;04;35;36 - 00;04;55;46 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We're going to, create a custom, for February. So maybe, maybe football and super Bowl themed, maybe like love or like pink or heart themed. But something kind of like themed for February. Around this four corner trivia style game. Like I said, I have a few on the store already. I'll link those down below, but this one for free for my Patreon members. 00;04;55;46 - 00;05;18;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you want to hear that, hop on over and you can get a free trial. And then you can get this week's, game complete for free. Dropbox link will just be in the podcast episode that did go ahead and drop on Monday. So for Chronos, trivia is going to be Ali and Cody. And then coming out of that, we're going to go ahead and do the bumper video, pull the students back together just a little bit, and then we'll do the rest of the message here. 00;05;18;08 - 00;05;37;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm not going to include a table talk. I will probably have some sort of interactive pieces and elements. Table talks in all in throughout my message, just like we talked about last week. And my message here, and pray. And then the band is going to end with a response song. So we essentially sandwiched the teaching. 00;05;37;12 - 00;05;56;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And part of as it is, is a heavy topic. I want to hit it right off the rev the top rev top rope, and then kind of like kind of like let them come up for air for a minute, worship and game and fun and then bring it back home to kind of round out the night. And so this is going to be our service order for this week. 00;05;56;17 - 00;06;15;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's wrong. You don't normally just open with the message. But but we're going to and we'll let you know how it goes. And so, I need to hop into the lab. I need to cook up this game. But different order than last week. So that challenge is done. But to do the game and evaluation is complete. 00;06;15;24 - 00;06;27;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It happened on Monday over on my Patreon. So let me do this game and then I'll I'll give you a little preview of it. Here in just a minute. 00;06;27;18 - 00;06;48;48 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You know, sometimes just like that, it is, 441 I would like to go home. It's Thursday. I was at a retreat all week, but I want to show you what we came up with here. Came up with a game called Dynamic Duos. So it's all things, like, paired well together, like peanut butter and jelly, macaroni and cheese, Batman and Robin, or different like duos are found throughout the Bible. 00;06;48;48 - 00;07;17;07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's trivia based game, all kind of like a red and pink themed for Valentine's Day and love. And then, the students will go to the corner that they believe the correct answer is they're incorrect. They're out. If they're correct, they remain in and then they get to play the next round. Super simple trivia game, but get students up and moving four corners, and then we're going to probably go ahead and award the winner and their table some sort of prize or food package or best seats in the house like we had talked a little bit about last week. 00;07;17;07 - 00;07;35;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So that's the video. And challenge two is now complete. Don't forget, level three challenge link down below in my Patreon if you want to hear how it went. This is Thursday. It happened yesterday. This is how we programed it. And the link down below will take you to the recap episode. So all three challenges met for this week. 00;07;35;24 - 00;07;39;47 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So thanks for being here my friends. But until next time. And as always, don't forget to stay high.

Can I design a compelling youth night from scratch each week with a different order - while also creating a brand-new DYM game from scratch? Oh - And stick around to the end of the video, because I’m going to tell you how you can get this game that’s not even public yet in the pipeline, FOR FREE! Let’s find out! 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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.patreon.com/posts/9-amazing-dym-142425755 //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 The Programming Challenges 01:49 Why we break our messages into 2 parts 03:11 Determining Service Order for Feb 4th 03:36 How we account for phones 03:48 Adapting a YouTube transcript for an in-room talk 04:30 Using Sidekick to create interaction 05:34 Did we just stumble into a game? 05:58 Programming the Rest of the Night 06:35 Pro-Tip #1: Bumper Videos 07:12 Pro-Tip #2: Message Wraps 07:28 I know what you’re thinking… 08:14 Evaluations & Recap 09:51 Creating a Game from Scratch 11:22 Become a Hybrid Hero - Get the Game for FREE! -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00;00;01;06 - 00;00;29;52 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, good morning and welcome to my office. Today I'm going to show you how I create a creative youth ministry program for our mid-week services. You know, I was helping lead a youth ministry leader cohort, which was started by my friend Dairy Prince. They're free, by the way. Check them out if you want. Link down below. But ten out of ten youth pastors believe that creative programing is essential for a good youth ministry. 00;00;29;54 - 00;00;47;49 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I try and challenge myself to create something like that. And so I want to take you into the lab this morning. I'm going to turn this camera around and show you my screen, and just give you an opportunity to kind of get inside my brain. Not that my brain is anything special, but it wouldn't really be that interesting. 00;00;47;49 - 00;01;13;30 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we're going to spice this up a little bit. This is my real youth ministry programing that I'm going to be experimenting and messing with over the next four weeks, and I have created for myself three. I almost had four, but three different challenges over these next four weeks. Challenge number one is the order must not repeat. I'm going to do a different service flow and different service order every single week. 00;01;13;34 - 00;01;32;18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The challenge number two in that is I'm going to create a custom from scratch submitted to download Youth Ministry. Game number three is that then I am going to hop on and I'm going to tell you exactly how it went. So this is the front side creation. And then challenge and run through is I have to evaluate it. 00;01;32;18 - 00;01;54;51 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And we're going to do that in my bonus podcast. And if you listen to my bonus podcast I will include the custom game for free before it's ever even on the store at diam. You can go get that over on my Patreon. It's time to dive in! Welcome everybody to the Hybrid Ministry show! The February 4th is going to be the first week of Our God guys and girls. 00;01;54;51 - 00;02;15;35 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Basically like the sex series in Planning Center. You'll see over here is, just like our basic template. We got song bumper welcome announcements game. Now, you know, one of the things I said, challenge number one was I want to do different order. Like I try to keep our students, like, on their toes. A little bit. One of the things that I challenge myself to do is to not preach my entire message. 00;02;15;35 - 00;02;35;22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, and this trickles down to the rest of our entire team to not preach their entire message in one shot. Like, if I preach 30 minutes to students, I don't think that that's effective. They're losing it at the end of 30 minutes. You know what I mean? However, a it is incumbent upon me to make it actually interactive and interesting, but maybe I can buy more time. 00;02;35;22 - 00;02;54;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I can buy more speaking time if I don't keep it all together. And so because of that, we kind of you are talking to like two parts, an opening and a closing. And sometimes I can just be like an opening illustration, but other times it could be like two thirds of the talk and then we just close with like the final third or final, you know, a little snippet there at the end. 00;02;54;15 - 00;03;12;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we keep on hold our service order very loosely, like we don't want to ever really get stuck in a rut. And so I'm going to show you like kind of a basic service order today. But in the coming weeks, like we're going to be really like messing things up. So, we'll start with a couple songs. 00;03;12;11 - 00;03;29;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Our kids love worship. And so, the countdown video will end and the band of band stage, and they're going to, they're going to get it and we're going to, we're going to even put in here like hype song. Then we have a bumper video. I've created it from God, guys and girls. It's very short, but we're going to make it happen. 00;03;29;12 - 00;03;48;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then we're going to do the intro. And again, I'm going to say ten minutes or so, I'll do an opening, and then we sit around tables and there's like a little placard in the middle that we actually link, like a YouVersion live events to that they can follow along with on their phones. That's one of the ways that we try to redeem phones in our room rather than villainize them. 00;03;48;14 - 00;04;11;00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we film all of our messages ahead of time on a teleprompter. I'm actually doing that a little bit later this afternoon. But this right here is my this was from this was the original that Jerry wrote. This is my adaptation to it for YouTube. And then this is going to be my in room version. So I made a copy of it and my say in room message oh one relationships. 00;04;11;01 - 00;04;37;00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And now this like some of this stuff is like very YouTube like focus, right? I'm going to talk about roller coasters and maybe that will actually give me a little bit of an idea for a game later. I'll see. And we're going to use our handy dandy sidekick. So this was last night's presentation on June 17th. 00;04;37;09 - 00;04;55;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now this is going to we're going to build, I don't know, I'm making this top five roller coaster ranking thing. I don't actually know what it is. We're going to make it up. So that's going to be kind of like how I program it to be interactive. Right? So this is going to be a voting thing. 00;04;55;08 - 00;05;18;49 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then I'm going to do my top five roller coaster ranking. Think like my number one is Guardians. Tron might be my number to my threes are I called vortex which no longer exists Kings Island, Diamondback, Top Thrill Dragster, Cedar Point, and then that transitions me into this statement. I think we can all agree our least favorite roller coaster is a teenage dating scene. 00;05;18;49 - 00;05;34;28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I need to find in here a good spot for a table talk. Good. So we're going to turn this section into a table talk. Table talk. 00;05;34;33 - 00;05;51;47 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm thinking maybe a roller coaster game. I don't know, like, I mean, we could do like, a real or fake roller coaster. That's pretty basic. Like a basketball game where someone does like this with, like, the roller coaster thing, and you all kind of, like, follow, like, I'm trying to think if there's a way to, like, maybe make something like that, I don't know, I got I got to start kind of like noodling on it. 00;05;51;47 - 00;06;12;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I don't, I don't have anything yet. We're going to come back and that's just a placeholder though. So we're going to do, intro to the message table talk announcements. It's the Wednesday before our winter weekend. So Wednesday, two days later, our winter weekend starts. So this is the final push for signups for that. And then roller coaster game maybe. 00;06;12;25 - 00;06;29;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But we're going to link the announcements and the game after the table talk. So instead of the message table talk and then, Cody and Kelly, they're going to come up and they're going to interrupt the table talk and they're going to give our announcements, move on into the roller coaster game. And then and then that's going to be that. 00;06;29;08 - 00;06;50;34 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So you'll notice so far. Well, actually I have the bumper video up here. I'm going to move it. So I like coming in after worship. I think it's pretty easy to come in after worship. I think it's hard to come in after a game when they're like, riled up a little bit more. So I like a bumper video to give us that, like that moment. 00;06;50;34 - 00;07;12;35 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right, to buy us some of that space. And so I'm actually going to, come in after the song into the opening message table talk announcements, roller coaster game, and then do the bumper video here. And then this is where I'm going to do the rest of my message. We're going to delete this table talk, and we're just going to do a woven all through in here table talks. 00;07;12;39 - 00;07;33;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then one final piece that I sometimes like to add is after a song is like a bit of a message rap. So I got a girl. My name Ali. She'll do a good job with that. She can give a little bit of, like, a final bow and dismissal. Now you're like, this isn't creative programing, Nick. 00;07;33;08 - 00;07;54;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, like, I get it, right. Like, the elements that you might not know, is, are digital notes, the QR code where they can scan, as well as our interaction here with sidekick, and then really the game that you're going to see me create here in, you know, maybe a couple of hours. And so, I'll bring you back when I'm ready to create this game. 00;07;54;26 - 00;08;15;43 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The other piece is like, I will go through here and, try to find moments of interactive ness, make sure that I have good illustrations. Make sure that I'm using sidekick if I'm able to, bring students up on stage, if I can, and find different, like, things with that. And so, the final kind of product of that. 00;08;15;43 - 00;08;41;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. We're going to review that, in our our recap pod, which is member of my paid tier, Hybrid heroes, Patreon membership. It's only $4 a month, and that $4 per month, what it gets you is a weekly bonus recap podcast, right? Like in just a minute, I'm going to sit down and then we'll talk about January 7th and it's going to release on the this following Monday. 00;08;41;15 - 00;08;59;57 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Talking about what we did in our program, we played a game called, New Year's New Year in Review Rumble. It was part of the download Youth Ministry membership. And it was like an okay game, but I would give it I'll give it like a B. And I'm going to tell you what worked in our context and what we failed at that. 00;08;59;57 - 00;09;17;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That made it a B, and how we maybe could have punched it up a little bit better. And we do that every single week over on Patreon. Only $4 a month. And you can use, like, your, you can use your, like, professional development budget money for that because it only nets out to like $48 a year. 00;09;17;19 - 00;09;35;41 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or if you don't have that as a youth ministry, again, it's only $4 a month. So maybe even out of your own personal pocket, a cup of coffee in your office instead of getting it from Starbucks one time per month. And there is that cost savings. And in addition to that, like for this playlist alone, you're going to get all the games I make. 00;09;35;41 - 00;09;56;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You're going to get them completely for free. I'm going to give you a Dropbox link in the podcast description and my monthly social media pack, which usually costs $17.99. It's free for Hybrid Hero members, so let's figure out where I go in this direction with this game thing. Well, all right, welcome back. As you can see, it's now daytime. 00;09;56;09 - 00;10;13;57 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I think I got a game concept idea. Challenge number one was accomplished by creating a new order. It's the first order. So because it's first order, it's a new order. And I have been racking my brain all day on games. And I think I finally came up with a game. Got it from Big Brother. Shout out to Big Brother. 00;10;13;57 - 00;10;31;49 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's going to be like kind of like trivia based, but musical chairs where like one less or like spoons where like one less option is still like available every single time. So you have to run, get the correct answer and then bring it back to the front of the room. I'm going to go in the lab. I'm going to create this. 00;10;31;49 - 00;10;40;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We're going to time lapse this thing and and we'll let you know how goes. 00;10;40;06 - 00;11;00;22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we ended up going with a game called No Way or No Seat. So it's like musical chairs. Meet octave from Big Brother plus Bible trivia. So well you're going to end up having is like at least ten contestants. We have 16 tables in our room, so we'll spin the wheel and we'll do table numbers, and then they'll send a contestant from their table. 00;11;00;34 - 00;11;15;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then the winning person will win something like snacks or something like that for their table. It's always an easy, huge win. Or we sometimes take out a couple of tables and put in some couches and call it the best seats in the house and give them pizza or drinks or snacks or whatever. And so that's what we're going to end up doing. 00;11;15;12 - 00;11;38;53 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I just made this game and, I'll let you know exactly how it goes. In fact, I've already let you know how it goes. It's going to be linked on my Patreon right here. That dropped last Monday. And so if you want $4 per month, not only will you get my seasonal social media pack my weekly recaps of how my creative programing is going, but you'll also get access to this game that I just created. 00;11;38;58 - 00;11;55;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It is going into the Divine Pipeline as we speak, but it is probably not there yet unless something crazy happens. So, if you want this game for free, or not for weeks, you can do this $4 a month. But you know what I mean. Like, you get a lot of other stuff, and this is included as a perk to it, so go check that out. 00;11;55;05 - 00;12;16;40 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So challenge two is now complete. Challenge three is actually already complete on my Patreon. In the next episode, we are going to talk about what happens if I break programing whole new deal. I am game challenge, whole new flow in order as well as a whole new recap. Be sure to check that out my friends. But until next time, and as always, don't forget to stay hydrated.

Most youth camp games fail for one simple reason… and almost nobody realizes it. Leaders spend hours planning activities, but kids lose interest in minutes — and it’s not because they’re distracted or bored. Today, I’m sitting down with the creator of Camp Clue — a game that’s been used in camps around the world to keep kids fully engaged. He’s breaking down exactly why it works — and how you can design games that actually hold attention all week long. And how you can get it for yourself! 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So I almost wore that chapel students t-shirt, but I just don't have it yet. One day. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. That'd have been funny. That'd have been funny. Anthony is the, um, the mad scientist behind camp clue. Um, or something. Anthony Taylor (00:05.94) Hey! Anthony Taylor (00:09.502) Wow. Anthony Taylor (00:14.868) I have some old Parkview t-shirts from your last church. I should have wore Parkview t-shirt. That would have been awesome. Nick Clason (00:31.104) And so he's gonna just, so we've been in this little playlist, you're actually the end cap of it, Anthony, where we've been talking about different games that you could implement at a winter retreat or a D-Now or a summer camp that lasts the whole weekend and in some cases exists in the background. And Camp Clue, I remember it from even a couple years ago, seeing you talk about it or... running across it on the DYM store. So why don't you just give us a quick overview. Where did it come from? What's the concept behind it? And how did it go? Anthony Taylor (01:02.249) Yeah. Anthony Taylor (01:07.08) Yeah, yeah, we have, we do a middle school and high school camp, probably like everybody else does, at a place that's not ours. And, and we have kids that don't want to do the rec games, the earth ball, the throw the football, chase the thing. And so we were sitting down talking as a team and said, what, can we create that non-athletic creatives might want to do? Nick Clason (01:32.621) Mm. Anthony Taylor (01:33.62) And what we started with was we ordered the farting unicorn coloring books. Do remember those? Yeah. And so we ordered every coloring book that was silly. And then we just made a table with colored pencils and stuff. And honestly, we still do that. And so when the camp game is going on out in the field, we have a table close by with a little tent over it. And if a creative and a non-sporty person just wants to do that, they color with their friends and Nick Clason (01:39.584) yeah. Yeah. Nick Clason (01:45.634) Yeah. Anthony Taylor (02:01.47) do that stuff and we bought the bead bracelets and stuff. And then we realized that it was like 90 % girls in that tent. And we're like, we want something that everybody, every gender, every creative, every, a sport kid that hurt his leg, can't do the thing, to do. So we decided to brainstorm some games. And now every year we do something different. And if we get time and I blow through the Camp Clue stuff, Nick Clason (02:08.429) Mmm. Nick Clason (02:20.058) yeah. Anthony Taylor (02:30.952) I'll tell you some of the other fun stuff. just, we have our winter conference coming up next weekend. These are all my escape room posters. We made escape rooms for kids to just play, which is kind of fun. Yeah, so one of our residents, her name was Makena. We sat down and it was like her first project. I was like, let's create something that's awesome that everybody can play. And so we thought about Clue and then we're like, well, let's call it Camp Clue. Nick Clason (02:32.331) Yeah, that'd be great. Nick Clason (02:40.289) nice. Yeah. Anthony Taylor (03:00.324) And what it is, in a nutshell, real quickly, is kids get a card, and just like Clue, you're trying to figure out who is in what room with what item, and as you do that, you're eliminating people because they're clearly in that room, and the lead pipe is clearly over there, and so it couldn't be this, that. So as you eliminate people, you will find out who the person is, where they're at, and with what weapon they would do the thing. Nick Clason (03:05.646) Mm. Nick Clason (03:18.264) Right. Nick Clason (03:27.564) Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, are people getting murdered at your camp or are you like trying to stay away from the whole word? Anthony Taylor (03:34.866) Yeah, no, actually that's funny. I can't remember. We played this three or four, yeah. I forget what the answer is, but I do think someone gets hit with a weapon. I don't know if they get murdered. No, no, no, no, no. I do remember this. Someone was worried about murder and they said they've been eliminated. They've been eliminated. So if you're more progressive, you can say murder. Nick Clason (03:38.926) It's been a minute right? Nick Clason (03:49.038) Yeah. Nick Clason (03:55.669) Right? Yeah, there you go. There you go. Nice. That's funny. yeah. So is this a, that's funny. So is this a like, wow, earth balls going on alternative or is this happening kind of all week long? Anthony Taylor (04:12.412) No, Anthony Taylor (04:16.52) both. So while earth ball is going on and they're like, I would never want to do that. Then we have a rule of three at camp. can't be alone right where the kid. So if, if teenager one and teenager two are like, I don't want to do that leader one can grab those people and like, Hey, we're going to walk around and go do camp clue. But also when the lake is open midday and you're like, I'm not swimming. You know, they can go play camp clue. So it's all the time. Nick Clason (04:17.336) Okay. Nick Clason (04:21.686) Yeah. Nick Clason (04:27.34) Right, right. Yeah. Nick Clason (04:45.111) Okay. Anthony Taylor (04:46.258) It's sitting out there and it takes a bit of time on the front end as the youth pastor, because what you're gonna do is you're gonna, these are quadrants, but you're gonna cut these like this and you're gonna go tape these camp clues all over the place. And if you're not watching this as a podcast, I'm just, it's a piece of paper that says camp glow on one end and the other one just says like lead pipe. the reality is, is you take these to the buildings wherever your camp is and you hide them. Nick Clason (04:51.298) Right? Nick Clason (05:06.979) Yeah. Anthony Taylor (05:15.078) And I liked, like if you're going to take it to the gym, right? Every camp has a gym or most camps or the dining hall. You just say the dining hall, but then you take a nice piece of gaff tape or duct tape that's not going to, and you go hide this and you tape it to the wall somewhere. But I like to, I'd much rather like hide it up under the soffit and it's just barely, do you know mean? So they go to the dining hall and they're like, Nick Clason (05:15.404) Okay. Nick Clason (05:22.54) Yeah, sure. Nick Clason (05:34.04) Yeah. Nick Clason (05:39.022) yeah. huh. Anthony Taylor (05:43.376) I gotta find the clue at the dining hall and they're like where and they're like There it is, you know Nick Clason (05:48.664) So do you give them like a giant list of like locations that they have to like go to find the, or how are they knowing that they gotta go to the dining hall? Anthony Taylor (05:56.85) Yeah, yeah, so the campers have this cute little camp clue card and the camp clue card is specific to that kid. Any kid that wants to play has a card and they have to have their own card and the camp clue card is like this and it has all of the suspects, all of the weapons and all of the rooms and then the mystery solved and it says blank use the blank in the blank and then there's a time indicator they have to write. Nick Clason (06:13.581) Okay. Nick Clason (06:22.456) Yeah. Anthony Taylor (06:24.66) It has to say Sunday at 2.30 PM, they turn this in, which means they solved it. And sometimes we get them at 2.35 and you're like, oh, you were first, you know. But this is the cool thing about the way that we develop the game is they don't get a list. They come up and they say, they say, hey, I need a clue. And you say, have you solved some clues? And they're like, yeah, I solved some clues. And they start linear. There's Nick Clason (06:28.672) is when they solved it. Nick Clason (06:35.82) Yeah, okay. Anthony Taylor (06:53.876) 15 clues and then you say, I've solved up to clue five. You're like, really? You want clue six? And then the leader has a leader sheet that is a editable. How do you say that word? Yeah. Editable PDF that no matter what your camp looks like, you would fill in these things. So if your camp doesn't have a gym, you would say who was in the, and you would fill it out and put who was in the dining hall, who was in the boys, Nick Clason (07:04.684) Yeah. No, you said it right the second time. Nick Clason (07:21.825) Yeah. Anthony Taylor (07:23.9) shower room. That's probably not a good one. But yeah, not a good, yeah. And so they would, you would say, you're on six? Well, what you would say, hey kid, what weapon was in the boathouse? And they're like, the boathouse. And then they run to the boathouse and then they scour the boathouse until they find the boathouse clue. And then they say, what weapon? It was the revolver. And they get rid of it. Nick Clason (07:25.804) That's probably not a great place to put the clue, but you get it. Nick Clason (07:42.498) Gotcha. Nick Clason (07:49.58) Hmm. So do you give that that sheet right there that you just showed the the 15 different locations basically where they would go find the clue to every leader or to just like a singular clue point person? Anthony Taylor (08:04.262) It's up to you and how you want to do it. We've done, yeah. I liked that we had, we're a multi-site church, so at our camp we have eight staff people, student pastors. I liked it that kids had to go to find a student pastor. One year, doesn't have to be theirs. We gave it to every leader and Camp Clu gets solved like this. Nick Clason (08:06.83) What's the best what you've done it? Yeah, what's the what did you find? Nick Clason (08:19.331) Yeah. Nick Clason (08:23.38) Any student, doesn't have to be theirs? Okay, great. Nick Clason (08:32.917) Yeah. Anthony Taylor (08:33.876) because they go to their leader and then they say, it's in the boathouse. And they're literally, their leader walks with them to the boathouse and they're like, well, what's the next one? What's the next one? And you can solve it really quickly. That didn't work well. So I would say, yeah, if you could make it less is better, but still having a relationship. Because I want kids having a relationship. like, man, who is at the boathouse? Mrs. P. Kier, that's cool. You got it right. You want the next one? Hey, how's it going? How's your day? And it's a relational tool. Nick Clason (08:43.694) Yeah, it goes pretty quick, yeah. Nick Clason (09:02.03) I like that. Yeah, I like that. No, that's cool. Anthony Taylor (09:03.774) But you could have a camp master. It would be cool if you had, you know, we have a couple leaders that have some disabilities that are, not running around. They're not doing all the things. Like what if they were the camp clue person and they were the king leader because they had all the information, like they would feel good. Nick Clason (09:12.141) Right. Nick Clason (09:19.886) Yeah, yeah, I know it'd be cool. I do like that and I think, be honest, like I remember when this came out, I watched your guys video on DYM. I think I even bought it, which we'll link down below so people can go get it you can get your 30 cents of royalties from it. Yeah, yeah, but I'm realizing now, because my kids were very little back then when I got the game, I'm realizing now I didn't know how to play Anthony Taylor (09:32.083) Yeah. I need my three cents, yeah. Nick Clason (09:49.934) regular clue. And so I didn't, I didn't understand the concept mostly because I'm an idiot. But now that you're explaining it to me, now that my kids are older and I've since played the board game clue, I'm like, this makes complete sense. But you, kind of had to have a basic understanding of how the actual game works or not be the dumbest person ever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I like, I do like these types of games are my favorite or or activities. Like, well, maybe this isn't like you call it a game because this Anthony Taylor (10:06.824) Yeah, you have to have children or teenagers who have played Clue. Nick Clason (10:19.754) It's not earth ball and kids aren't leaving like sweaty or hospitalized, but I, yes, that's exactly what I'm looking for. And it's, and it's optional, right? Like it's not required. but you know, sometimes those like day three of free time, that's like several hours long and kids are like, I don't know what to do. I'm tired of the lake and I'm tired of the things that are available. And I'm just kind of bored. Like this stuff like this that exists is like, well, can you Anthony Taylor (10:20.008) Yeah. Yeah. We want an ongoing activity, right? Yeah. Nick Clason (10:48.566) Have you figured out Camp Clu yet? Like it's a great way to just keep them going, you know? And it's, like you said, a little bit of work on the front end, but like once you've done that, like it sits there and kind of like runs itself in the background, you know? Anthony Taylor (11:01.268) Yeah. You know, I look around my desk, see if I have it. The predecessor of this was a giant, giant rubber chicken we spray painted gold. And the idea was there is a rubber chicken at this camp. Go find it. And so on a day and you didn't want any, you didn't have anything to do, you just go look for a rubber chicken. And then if it didn't happen day one, Nick Clason (11:09.144) Yeah. Nick Clason (11:14.242) Okay. Nick Clason (11:20.226) Somewhere. Yeah. Anthony Taylor (11:30.504) you would say, just so you know, rubber chicken is higher than your eyesight on day two. And you're like, yeah, and that was the camp clue. so, if you don't wanna buy this, I don't know, it's three bucks, five bucks, I don't know what it is. Yeah, but if you can't afford, yeah, that's right, I think it is, yeah. But if not, just grab something and say, hey, we're hiding this, and. Nick Clason (11:35.229) Okay, give little clues. Nice. Nick Clason (11:44.534) Yeah, it's very affordable. And if you remember, it's like basically free. Like just just go get it, people. Nick Clason (11:56.856) Yeah. Anthony Taylor (11:57.746) And when you find it, that's the other cool thing is when you find it, now you and your leader, you get to go re-hide it. And we'll give you a cheesy bread at the canteen. Nick Clason (12:04.544) okay, nice. Nick Clason (12:09.782) Yeah, yeah, yeah, nice. what are some of the other, you said you got some other stuff, like what are some other stuff you guys have come up with? Anthony Taylor (12:18.071) yeah. Yeah, we're in Chicago land area and just north of us in Wisconsin is a camp called Lake Geneva Youth Camp Lake Geneva Youth Camp. And honestly, if if anybody listening, this was like all of those ideas are terrible. Just call them. They're they're really creative. They do this really well. I went up and sat with them and just said, like, tell me all the things that you do. So. Nick Clason (12:45.09) Yeah. Anthony Taylor (12:46.356) So we've gone from this, which is kind of in depth, it takes a little bit of time and that stuff, to these guys, the Baby Jesus things, So I don't know, we bought a thousand of these. And when we went to camp and we hid them, and they're hidden everywhere. They're like ridiculous places and fun places and right above door frames where everybody sees them. Nick Clason (12:58.011) yeah, yeah. Nick Clason (13:13.582) Sure. Anthony Taylor (13:15.214) and you collect them and you can turn in your Jesus's for tickets. so this is crazy because, know, the kid, his name was Dom. Dom had 55 baby Jesus's in his pockets, know, cargo pants full and he got 55 tickets, but we didn't tell them what the tickets are for. And at the end of the weekend, it was, we did an extreme game show and we gave away Nick Clason (13:20.226) Okay. Nick Clason (13:31.342) That's hilarious, yeah. Nick Clason (13:42.39) Okay. Anthony Taylor (13:43.924) Nintendo Switch and TV and Mittens and a Lululemon bag. You know, we had, I don't know, we had a hundred prizes. Twenty were awesome. Well, you could put your ticket in to potentially get the thing. Dom had. Yeah. And everyone got three tickets, but Dom had 55 plus three tickets. And Dom's like, I got a Lululemon bag and Mountain Dew and a TV and, know, and so. Nick Clason (13:50.028) Yeah. Nick Clason (13:57.336) like a raffle kind of thing. Yeah. Okay. Nick Clason (14:09.582) Yeah, that's awesome. Anthony Taylor (14:12.116) So that hiding baby Jesuses. A lot of times with our theme of whatever our retreat is or our camp is, we try to tie something to it. last year was move and it was all like car kind of stuff. And like, you are the driver of your faith. So I went on eBay and for $150, I ordered, I think it was like 300 keys, driver ignition keys. I hid them everywhere. Nick Clason (14:26.912) Mmm. Yeah. Nick Clason (14:38.456) Yeah. Okay. Anthony Taylor (14:41.934) And it was kind of the same concept. Like you get a driver ignition key, except that one, you got to keep the key, which was kind of fun. And so you had a, it was fun. There was like a Maserati key with a key fob. You're like, you, you ever find that Maserati it's yours, Nick Clason (14:48.832) yeah. Nick Clason (14:54.038) Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's cool. How do you, okay, let me ask you like a logistical question. How do you hide a thousand baby Jesuses while camp, like do you send someone up early or like what's your actual flow so that while you're hiding them, kids aren't seeing you hide them? Anthony Taylor (15:14.706) Yeah, yep, beforehand our team disperse us. Sometimes we'll bring student leaders in and be like, listen, if you choose to help us, you don't get to play the game. Yeah, and they're like, cool, what? That's awesome. They're like, I'm 18 anyways. I don't really wanna play the baby. Yeah, I don't care, it's not that cool. But can I have one baby Jesus? I'm like, yeah, you can. So yeah, we hide them. But the funny thing is, is with the keys, Nick Clason (15:20.567) Okay. Nick Clason (15:24.492) Yeah, you're eliminated from, yeah. Nick Clason (15:29.356) Yeah, yeah. I don't care. Yeah. That's funny. Anthony Taylor (15:43.796) If you found the key and turned in five keys, I would give you a button. So it was a trade rate, five keys to a button, 10 keys to a, there was something a little bigger, I forget. And so you would get this thing, we would get the keys back. This was for a winter conference. Everyone would go home at night and then I'd stay a little late and I'd rehide those same keys. And so it didn't cost me anything. I didn't have to like, Nick Clason (15:54.829) Yeah. Nick Clason (16:09.362) Nice, Right. That's funny. Anthony Taylor (16:12.34) keep buying more keys, I just re-hit the same keys, yeah. And one person put, taped a key inside of our vending machine so you could see it, but you couldn't get it, and the can would come down and hit the key on the window, and so kids were buying pops to see if they could knock the key, and I was like, that was, I don't know who did it, it was one of our staff did it. That was funny, we sold a ton of Dr. Pepper. It's right there. Nick Clason (16:20.343) Nick Clason (16:32.333) Yeah. Nick Clason (16:35.808) Yeah, that's genius. Yeah, because it's right in line with the key. So yeah, dude, no, I love it. And it's super smart and also like really just very simple. So and are there any like any other like best practices or like things that you've learned over the years with these kind of like in the background games that that are potential pitfalls for youth pastors? Or is it just like don't it's simple. Just go do it. Anthony Taylor (17:06.788) one, one year, it was Jesus or the keys. I forget. It was either baby Jesus or the keys. It became too central of a thing. And people were like, it was Jesus. I can't find any more Jesuses because they were hoarding them and like Dom had 50, you know? And, yeah. And, that was disappointing. Nick Clason (17:24.776) Mm. Mm. Yeah, Dom. Nick Clason (17:34.541) Yeah. Anthony Taylor (17:35.348) So what I did was I overnight Amazoned another 500 Jesus's. They showed up, I think at like six in the morning. It was like that prime thing, six in the morning. And then I just went and hid them all. And I realized that this thing was driving my life. And I didn't want the baby Jesus thing driving my life. So to think about like, is it scalable? Can enough people have fun, but not too many? Are you gonna run out of stuff? Nick Clason (17:45.122) Yeah. Nick Clason (17:51.863) Yeah. Nick Clason (18:04.364) Yeah, that's good. Anthony Taylor (18:05.304) and can you recycle it? So if Camp Clue is done in day one of a five day camp, go rip all those things down, switch everything up, play Camp Clue version two. And so just think in the background of that. Nick Clason (18:11.619) Right. Nick Clason (18:19.427) Yeah. No, that's good. Cause I think like you, you don't ever want the main thing of camp to stop being the main thing of camp, right? Like you want it to be a hundred, but not, but not the little Jesus is the real Jesus. Yeah. But like when, cause sometimes those things and that's all like, have, I have a really young staff and they have amazing ideas, but sometimes they don't think through all of those little like nuances of like, if we do this thing, some kids going to cheat. Anthony Taylor (18:29.65) which is Jesus in the sessions and the relationship. No, that's good, yeah. Nick Clason (18:52.31) what's our counter attack to that cheating kid or how do we make sure that we have a level playing field and we're not giving favor to just people who really good at this or whatever that might be. And that word right there is a pro youth worker move for sure. Because you can't let that stuff take you down, but it can because kids can get so ingrained with it. Anthony Taylor (19:15.442) Yeah, well, and honestly, these side games for the kid who's not athletic and wants to feel awesome can take over their lives on accident and they miss all of camp, you know? And so the key really is making sure leaders have a pulse on who their kids are, what they're doing. And if Dom doesn't show up to anything because he's looking for baby Jesuses, his leader needs to navigate him differently. Nick Clason (19:24.309) Mm-hmm. Yeah. Nick Clason (19:37.974) Yeah, he missed all the worship sessions, but he got 55 baby. Yeah, exactly. So no, that's a really good word. Sweet. Anthony Taylor (19:44.808) Yeah, yeah. One day, got two more thoughts. One day we got a giant toolbox, a toolbox, and put chains all over it, and then we put locks on them, and it was a giant escape room to get in. And all throughout the building there were clues, and you had to find the clues, and those clues got you to unlock three different locks, three number locks. Nick Clason (19:50.946) Go for it. Nick Clason (20:00.054) Mmm. Okay. Nick Clason (20:13.367) Yeah, yeah. Anthony Taylor (20:14.688) And that was really fun because there was a thing you could do, but you couldn't unlock until you had all three. And so you're like, I got one. And then, know, by day three or four, you could get in the lock. That was really fun. And then when you opened it up, the scalable thing was we would we would put stanchions around it and the crowd had to get behind and someone would be like, escape. And that meant that they were going to open the thing and it would open up so that the crowd couldn't see into it. Nick Clason (20:44.599) Okay, yeah. Anthony Taylor (20:45.164) And I would lean in and I like, look down in there and I need you to come out with like, shut up. my goodness. Like what? And then we're going to close it, lock it back up for the next person. And I would just change the prize out. was just a piece of paper. And the piece of paper said, I'll order Starbucks for you and your whole, your friend group. then you close it and the next one's Dunkin Donuts for you and your friend group. The next one's a Taco Bell Party Pack for you. And so that was scalable because a different prize. Nick Clason (21:04.323) Yeah. Nick Clason (21:11.917) Yeah. Anthony Taylor (21:14.27) but no one saw, so there was still the allure of. Nick Clason (21:17.218) Yeah, you're not giving it away. Yeah, no, that's good. That's good. I like that. That's a fun one. Anthony Taylor (21:20.552) Yeah. Yeah. And then the, the, yeah, I think that was pretty cool. The other one we just did, it's going to happen next weekend. our, our winter conference next weekend is, do you know what Marine or, ammo, ammo shell casing things are? They have a little latch. They're supposed to put ammo in it. Like for guns, usually they're green ammo boxes. They sell them on Amazon. Nick Clason (21:42.51) maybe. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. Anthony Taylor (21:48.036) orange for marine so that they're watertight and they have a little latch clasp and we put a different locks on them and there are nine escape boxes and the box in some way directs you to something in the place that helps you get the code and then when they open that up inside is a playing card and I just took a deck of 52 grab playing cards and threw a playing card in there and dumb-dumbs because you wanna you need a dumb-dumb in Nick Clason (21:50.814) gotcha. Nick Clason (21:58.797) Okay. Nick Clason (22:14.69) Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anthony Taylor (22:16.596) They get the card out, they go turn it in and that card gets them tickets. So an ace gets them 11, a king gets them 10, a three gets them three. And then all we do is randomly pick another card, throw it in, lock it back up. And so there's going to be eight escape rooms kind of out and about. What's that thing? I'm excited about that. Nick Clason (22:22.453) Okay. Nick Clason (22:31.852) Yeah, that's cool. How do they, how do they like solve it or, get into it? Anthony Taylor (22:38.708) Yeah, each one's different. like one says, one says, there's a fire sweeping in from the north heading south. Don't be alarmed. And that's it. And then if you go at the north side of our building and find a fire alarm, it has a dot on it. It says six. And then the, from north to south, you find all the fire alarms and it's six, seven, six, seven. Nick Clason (22:52.654) Okay. Nick Clason (23:02.414) Right. Nick Clason (23:07.406) Nice. I know. next weekend, no, you're safe. It'll be in the past. It'll be in the past. Yeah. That's cool. I like it. That's cool. That's a lot of work, but no, it's not a lot of work, but it's just really creative. It's really creative. And you're kind of the master. You should have a podcast or something about it at some time. There's lost episodes. It still exists, right? We can go. Anthony Taylor (23:08.424) Yeah, if this is released before then and teenagers are watching, they're gonna get it. Perfect, perfect, So, know, dorky stuff like that. Anthony Taylor (23:25.48) Yeah. Yeah. Anthony Taylor (23:30.58) You Anthony Taylor (23:35.365) My old podcast deal? Nick Clason (23:36.372) Yeah, the YM Lab. we pull those up? Yeah. We'll see if we can find them and link them down below. See if we can revive the legend of Anthony. So, all right, man. Dude, that was like an absolute gold mine. We came in talking Camp Clue and came out with like six other ideas. So you are the man. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. Well, without anything else, we'll talk next time. See you guys. Anthony Taylor (23:38.43) Yeah. Yeah, probably. I don't even know. Anthony Taylor (23:44.894) That's great. Anthony Taylor (23:57.908) Thanks dude. Yeah. Yeah, thanks for having me. Anthony Taylor (24:05.46) See ya!

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Here I am with the world's biggest Mavericks fan, Ben Hurlburt, willing to lose bets no matter how bad they are. Ben Hurlburt (00:05.998) That's right, you know it. Google it, it, and you'll than your favorite player. Ben Hurlburt (00:14.03) Yeah, unfortunately. Yeah. Nick Clason (00:15.775) That's also true. But me and Ben actually worked together at Cross Creek Church, which is great. And I didn't know that Ben was a genius at artificial intelligence. So before we dive into all that, why don't you just tell me where you first started playing the original inception of these sniper games and... Ben Hurlburt (00:23.746) Have a Nick Clason (00:41.601) how like what the rules are and like all that type of stuff in case, know, someone wants to use or utilize this in their like own ministry context. Ben Hurlburt (00:51.468) Yeah, so I started this. I didn't start this, but I started playing the game of sniper at Texas A when I was in college. honestly, it wasn't even a game. was it was just a bunch of friends in a group chat. who thought it was really funny whenever we would see each other in person as a, like not in our normal context. So like we all went to church together, but A has a huge campus. So we thought it was really funny whenever we see each other on campus. So we just like take a picture of each other from like really far away and then not say anything like to them in person. We just sent the picture of them and it was kind of like, yo, they were there and where'd they go? And it started off just kind of, you know, like, ha ha, I saw you in person. And then it got a lot. more competitive as it went on. People didn't want to be sniped, if you will. We had certain buildings where it was like, no, don't snipe me in there. I could be doing something with, I could be on something job related, because you've got all these job fairs and stuff like that all the time. So people didn't want to be distracted. So it kind of morphed from this just kind of funny, ha ha, I saw you in person to getting really really competitive and while it never became like a fully fledged game it always the sport management major in me always saw like the untapped potential for like some crazy stupid like game that people could play on their phones and actually like you know you're still kind of behind the screen but it's all about what's actually happening in front of you so yeah Nick Clason (02:28.375) Yeah. All right. So the basic premise though, is you have a group of people, a pool of players, so to speak, and your goal is to capture them via a picture of using your cell phone. Like basic, simple, right? Yeah, so easy. And then like enter fall 2025, where we work. Because we're the youth ministry and we're the only fun ones, it's our job to run Ben Hurlburt (02:33.326) Yeah. Ben Hurlburt (02:40.0) Right. Yeah. So easy. Ben Hurlburt (02:50.093) Thank you. Nick Clason (02:57.227) fantasy football for the whole staff. we have like, for context, we have, it's not just like a Yahoo league of like eight people. There's like 30 people in three different leagues. And it's like a big thing, which reminds me that I still need to send a recap email about the end of the season. But I've really fallen off here at the end of the year. But we're playing, what'd say? Ben Hurlburt (02:59.424) Right, of course. Ben Hurlburt (03:07.662) Yeah. Ben Hurlburt (03:18.798) It wasn't close. Yeah, sorry. I was like, it just wasn't close. Like, you just ran away with it. Nick Clason (03:23.753) Yeah. And we got to figure out, and we tried this year even, right? We threw a wrinkle in it to try to make, because what we're describing is there's three different leagues and the leagues compete against each other. And every year one league jumps out into like first place of like the points and that's it. They stay. And we don't know how to like make it closer, make the race like actually interesting, which this sniper game was our attempt to make it interesting. So like, Ben Hurlburt (03:41.218) And they stay. Yeah. Ben Hurlburt (03:48.471) Okay. Nick Clason (03:54.823) Essentially, we created, what did we call, do we call them assassins in the league? There were two dormant players in every league that, yeah, they drafted players and then they held them hostage, because it's all points-based, so it's not like wins and loss-based. If I drafted someone in Ben's league, for example, that player's points didn't count toward the league total overall. However, Ben Hurlburt (04:19.566) Thank Nick Clason (04:21.951) we have this big conference that happens in the middle of the fall, like the first week of November. We invite a bunch of other pastors and church planters to our campus and the entire staff is sort of pulling it off together. And so we were like, what if we created a sniper game to release these held hostage players into the overall player pool? Because like, for example, and again, the Colts fell off too, just like I fell off in fantasy football. Like Jonathan Taylor at this point was the MVP of the league. And then, yeah, but since then has done nothing, just like the actual team. so anyway, we're like, well, what if we give Jonathan Taylor's points, Saquon Barkley's points, whoever was on these, these hostage, you know, players back into the pool and the way that you release them is by playing this sniper game. And we were like, talking it out, right? And I was like, it'd be really cool if I didn't have to like manually score this because I do have to manually score the fantasy football. Like I have to go in, have to write everyone's score into a spreadsheet and let Excel do its thing. And you were like, what if we built our own custom app using AI? And I like laughed at you. I was like, we're not gonna be able to do that. Like, what do you think this is? Like the year 3000? Like, no. Ben Hurlburt (05:45.186) Yeah. Nick Clason (05:47.959) And I think one night you abandoned all of your husband duties and you just went, yeah, you're like, I'm gonna prove that this can happen. So tell us that story. Ben Hurlburt (06:02.424) So I think we were just sitting there watching, my wife, Makayla and I were sitting there watching some movie and I just, don't know, I just, the entire day I was sitting there thinking like, I swear I can pull this off. Like, this isn't going to be that hard. And the movie didn't really, and the movie didn't really have me locked in. So I was like, yo, you cool if I just like look at this for like five minutes or something, Makayla? She was like, yeah, as long as it's only five minutes. And then it- Nick Clason (06:14.074) It's gotta be a way, yeah. Nick Clason (06:26.611) And five minutes turned into what? Ben Hurlburt (06:28.93) Five hours. yeah, so I just basically started doing some research online, trying to like find a way because like, I'll be so honest, like I can't like generate code. Like I wouldn't know the first thing about any of that. Like I'm a sport management major for God sakes. But yeah. Nick Clason (06:48.221) and a worship leader and a youth pastor. Like, we don't know what we're doing, yeah. Ben Hurlburt (06:52.398) Expertise is not in that field. you know, so I was like, you know, I know what I need though. Like I can see the app in my head, like digital native. Like I know what this thing needs. So I was like, let's just see if one of these like AI app like things work. AI app generator things works. And it did. Base 44, dude. It was insane. I just started cooking like just. Nick Clason (07:11.884) Yeah. Ben Hurlburt (07:20.832) like create like four different tabs like make sure that like each one has this specific function. I even you even get a like color designer I was like yo this is great for the graphic design I'm part of my part of my brain I scratched that itch so yeah I mean Nick Clason (07:37.143) Now, bass, bass 44, is it free or is there a free version of it or how like, yeah, so talk about that a little bit. Ben Hurlburt (07:42.016) No. Ben Hurlburt (07:45.902) I think there is a free version of it. The only problem is, and there were a couple of important things, is once you create the app, it's not like something you can download on the App Store. It's weird what the definition of app is, at least in my head, considering I'm thinking of the App Store. But it's everything is like, it's more so of a website than it is actually like an app as we would think it. So part of the reason that like, Nick Clason (07:57.569) Right. Nick Clason (08:10.987) Yeah, yeah. Ben Hurlburt (08:15.948) I felt the need to have to pay for it is that the URL might not remain in your possession. And it could be in the middle of the game, right? Like somebody else that is on base 44 with the subscription could come up with the URL or just anybody who creates a URL in general. could be taken. So I was like, nah, we have to pay for that. That alone is worth it. And the other one is you could give it more prompts. It opens to more statistics things. Nick Clason (08:54.347) Mm-hmm. Ben Hurlburt (08:57.644) like being able to analyze like actually how the app is performing as opposed to just like typing in what I would like for it to do. Nick Clason (09:04.617) Yeah, and I think too, if I remember right, you were able to build it and you were able to see it, but then in order to allow others in it or something like that, like we needed to unlock it behind some sort of paywall, which I think, mean, like for example, I think the cost was in the realm of like 20 something dollars, right? So like. Ben Hurlburt (09:27.921) right yeah Nick Clason (09:30.389) And we use this for three days, like the same length of like a winter retreat or like a D-NOW or like a summer camp. So if this was something that A, you you allowed your students to have phones and most of them did have phones, but then B, you had that same amount of time, like you could unlock it for just a couple of dollars, right? 20 bucks, whatever. And then use Ben's prompt, which I've included link in the description. Go check it out if you want to go grab it, to build something. you with your, you and you tweak it for yourself with your own context and whatever in mind, but like, build something for $20 that's custom that can be used exclusively by your people. Like Ben said, it wasn't like an app store app, but it was like a web app. Right. And so you just, yeah. you sit in it, like there was some, glitched a little, but bro, I mean, people used it. Like some people were absolutely like spamming this game, like the entire conference. Like every time I checked it, there was activity. It was. Ben Hurlburt (10:11.404) It works really well. Nick Clason (10:26.775) And it was a really fun way to infuse a little bit of life, right? Because not everyone at the conference used it. I think that's the other thing was like, if you wanted to do something like this, could maybe let students sign up for it and only the ones signed up are playing it. And it just happens in the background. You do the rest of your programming for your Dean hour, your winter retreat, and whoever has the phone or whoever is able to or. Ben Hurlburt (10:33.346) Yeah. Nick Clason (10:52.053) your student leadership team or your staff or like there's all kinds of different adaptations because that's we had church planters and other pastors and we didn't invite them or even let them know that it was happening unless they saw us like take our phone out and like sneak behind a wall to try and take a picture. So it's a great way to build camaraderie with a smaller subset of people you know if that's something you want to do and that's that's exactly what happened like in our context. Ben Hurlburt (11:17.388) Yeah, no, it was honestly a lot of fun. I think some of the glitches came from stuff that you could probably take care of in person, like Nick was talking about. one of the worst things was that in my head I was like, yo, I don't know if somebody fully gets that. participating in this app means that somebody could take a picture of you at any point in time. And I was like, I don't want to get any invasion of privacy. Like that wouldn't be great. so I had this, like, you had to opt in button and whenever like, Nick Clason (11:45.909) Right. Ben Hurlburt (11:52.782) Sometimes it wouldn't, like it couldn't click. One of our friends, Miranda's phone, it just wouldn't scroll down to be able to click opt-in because of the version of her iPhone was a little bit older. something like that though, that I did on the app could have totally been something that in person, if your students are playing it, you can just have them be like, yo, I'm like. by agreeing to play this game like I'm just gonna happen. Another thing too is, and this was probably the best thing about this app, and I know I was thinking of just for adults, but for students could also be a thing. You can program the app to shut down. at certain times of day. And I didn't really test it out a lot, I mean, just given what it was capable of, might even be, you might even be able to like geo locate where the app is functioning. At a minimum, you have control over when the app is up, when the app is down, you can just shut it off. And you know, you have like, just like a kill switch at all points in time, which is like housed through like your base 44, like, like home site. So like if you don't want your kids playing that once they've left the church, like they won't if you make that call. So yeah. Nick Clason (13:08.288) Mm-hmm. Nick Clason (13:18.359) Yeah. And like, and then just for, for everyone else's sake, like here's how we put the rules in, right? Like here are the rules that we tried to operate by. So it was a three day conference, then put like a start, a start and stop time on those three days. Uh, so that people weren't like getting tagged at home, which I don't know that anyone in our staff would have done that, but you never know. People get crazy. Um, we said, Ben Hurlburt (13:26.382) you Ben Hurlburt (13:43.266) Yeah. Yeah. Nick Clason (13:46.071) We said you were not allowed to play the game during main sessions or breakouts, so main content times. And the other thing that was cool was you could report a photo. if I took a picture of you while you're leading worship, for example, someone can report that and negate the points that it would have given to that team because... Ben Hurlburt (13:54.051) Yeah. Ben Hurlburt (14:01.512) Okay, I can do that, Nick Clason (14:12.683) they were doing it outside of the boundaries. And so that was another thing was there was like a self regular, or not like a self, but like a team regulation, right? Kind of woven into the app. And again, Ben wrote all that into the code or into the prompt there. And so, and then we also said like bathrooms and offices were off limits. So you had like your safe zone, which remember like our team, like our students team, like all, how many are there? Six of us? We were all playing and we were all just like, Ben Hurlburt (14:38.893) Thanks a lot. Nick Clason (14:41.895) hold up in our own offices because we were all killing each other. And so we all just like went to our office to like gain safety. And then like I'd like be walking to the bathroom, like holding my phone like at people so that like they wouldn't like take pictures of me. And like one time I came out of the bathroom and like our resident and intern, they like used it against me. Like the resident was like, Hey, can you come here and look at this for a second? And so like I walked towards him and then the intern was like behind me and like Ben Hurlburt (14:46.167) I'm Nick Clason (15:11.905) got me taking a picture or got a picture of me. Like those two turds, totally got me. And then I think was the last one was you couldn't be looking at the camera. Ben Hurlburt (15:17.57) Yes. Yeah. Ben Hurlburt (15:23.498) you can't be like, you can't be looking at either the person taking the photo or I mean, they're right there or the camera. Nick Clason (15:29.289) Yeah, so you can basically have a shield if you look at if someone's trying to take a picture of you you catch them with your eyeballs like that doesn't count. Ben Hurlburt (15:38.018) Yeah, it wouldn't be any fun if like you and I were just like sitting here like talking and just like taking a picture of the whole time. Yeah, but I will say like one thing that like I know that assassin is like really really popular. One thing I do like about sniper apparent like opposed to assassin is that once you're out an assassin like Nick Clason (15:42.436) Spamming each other with pictures. Yeah, exactly Ben Hurlburt (15:59.968) unless like someone like brings you back to life or some weird like immunity thing happens like you're out. And like I remember playing Assassin in college twice and one time I made it pretty far but the first time like I had like a friend that get let into my house like on the first day and I was just like well I was so excited to play this and now like like Nick Clason (16:06.251) Yeah. Nick Clason (16:21.537) Yeah. Ben Hurlburt (16:22.892) dead like there's nothing I can do so like I would say that sniper gives you the opportunity like kids keep playing like and I get it I'm telling you it got competitive at work like the younger people on staff were going crazy over this thing so yeah Nick Clason (16:31.446) Yeah. Nick Clason (16:41.471) Yeah. Yeah. It was super fun. agree. Anything else that you learned that you would maybe do differently or any words of wisdom if anyone were to try to take your prompt and put in base 44, either on the creating of the app side of things or just the gameplay side of things that maybe we discovered throughout the game. We'll make an adjustment on this next year if we did it or something like that. Ben Hurlburt (17:09.098) well, the first thing is that prompt that like you're going to get is like the initial starting prompt. likely if you're going to want to go a certain direction with it, you, you might need to add some tweaks. I can't remember everything that's in it right now. but like, There's a lot that that is in it, but you will inevitably need to make some changes make some tweaks In order to like get this thing up and running so in some way it's definitely like it's it's yours like you created it but one thing I would say is like put yourself and Like the best Jesse Eisenberg social network Nick Clason (17:37.078) Yeah. Ben Hurlburt (17:53.71) programming mindset that you can for two hours and then just never flip back into it and whatever you come up with will be a really great game, really great product. So, yeah. Nick Clason (18:04.043) Yeah, I will say one thing that was helpful for us, I felt like on all sides, gameplay sides and administratively keeping score was we forced people, remember we forced people to use their actual name as their handle rather than like Dragonslayer17 because if you're Dragonslayer17, but I have no clue that that's your name, I can't know to tag you. And so you don't have to do that, but that was something that I... Ben Hurlburt (18:14.465) You Ben Hurlburt (18:20.278) That's right. Thank Nick Clason (18:33.463) I required them, I was like, if you don't use your actual name as your handle, I won't give you points because I'm not gonna be able to chase down everyone's hair, brain, screen name that they come up with, you know, from their AOL instant messenger days. Ben Hurlburt (18:46.917) Yeah, I just remembered like a whole side of this whenever like we had it so that When you took the picture of somebody, can't just like take a picture and upload it. You have to be able to tag them. Like there's a drop down. You can type into it and pull up somebody's like, like account name. But the fun thing to it that I felt like we could have dived into more. And I don't know if other people did was I had a whole social media function to it. as opposed to like the picture just going in and just registering as a point. Nick Clason (18:59.797) Right. Nick Clason (19:20.726) Right. Ben Hurlburt (19:21.644) kind of went into this Instagram-esque feed where other people, that was where you could report the post, where we like talked about that. But you could also like comment on them if they were funny, you could like them, react to them. And I thought that was a cool way to like keep people ingrained, especially given how much people on social media anyway, so. Nick Clason (19:28.289) Mm-hmm. Nick Clason (19:42.815) Yeah, no doubt. And that, yeah, you're right. I would, that's where I'd log in and I'd be like, Holy smokes. Like Eli and Miranda have been like doing nothing but playing this game. So. Ben Hurlburt (19:50.392) Right. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Nick Clason (19:55.553) But shout out to them. So all right, anything else? Anything else that we're missing before we cut people loose to go make this game for themselves? Ben Hurlburt (19:57.688) Yeah. Ben Hurlburt (20:04.312) I'm sure there are, if it feels intimidating, don't. Just, mean, honestly, Base 44, it was so easy. Like I, and if it didn't do what I wanted it to do, I'd be like, you didn't do what I wanted you to do. Try it again. like it, 95 % of the time that fixed the problem. So it was, it was so user friendly. It's chat GPT, but it makes an app for you. So it, mean, we're not paid, this isn't a sponsor, but I would totally use base 44. It was so simple. Nick Clason (20:35.637) Yeah, and Bass44, if you're listening, sponsor us. Ben Hurlburt (20:39.214) That would be great. Nick Clason (20:40.439) All right, everyone. Well, until next time, and as always, Ben, thanks for being here. See you guys soon. Ben Hurlburt (20:46.702) See you guys!

I stumbled into this camp idea, and I'm going to give it to you today! How I discovered it, what I've done that's worked, and how you can adapt it for your context. This is a great Winter Retreat, Summer Camp or D-Now game concept that runs in the background of your student ministry event! 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And halfway through the shift, I realized that this would be a perfect camp, winter retreat or D now game option and make sure that you stick around to the end of this video, because I'm going to share with you a cheat sheet so that you can win at this in your context. 00;00;25;50 - 00;00;46;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Welcome, everybody, to the Hybrid Ministership. So like I said there, I was at Disney and they had this like niche like almost like hard to figure out. Like the orange bird. Like, you know, I'm talking about you'll see here on screen if you're watching here on YouTube, they had this thing hidden just like a printed out like cutout of this of this bird. 00;00;46;07 - 00;01;04;34 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you had to find it every day, and then you'd return to, like, the activity center. And all you would do is you tell them where you found them. And the first day they gave you, like a little prize for finding it. But they redid it every single day. And about halfway through the trip, I was sitting there thinking to myself, you know what? 00;01;04;39 - 00;01;31;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This would make an amazing camp game. And I actually put that application to the test. But here's what made this idea work in student ministry, right? The anticipation, obviously, like, where am I going to find it the next day? Plus, it's an easy, low hanging opportunity to engage kids who might be bored during free time. So let me explain this game to all right. 00;01;31;01 - 00;01;50;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we'll do a side by side comparison. So at Disney you needed to find some sort of object. Obviously as I said it was the orange bird for them. But in our ministry context we actually have like a a designed platypus. His name is Pugsley the platypus. And this was designed just by an illustrator that we found on Fiverr. 00;01;50;21 - 00;02;09;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'll link his details down below if you want to check out his work. But he designed this for us. And so we get these little custom pins with the different like design adaptation printed for all of our different like events throughout the year. So he'd make us like a custom one for for camping. But you know, you're able to lean in pretty hard with different platypus stuff. 00;02;09;09 - 00;02;29;56 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like here's some some cards that we have made in the artwork, and you can just get random like platypus designs of stuffed animals. Of course, there's there's Perry the Platypus and they got all sorts of like Perry the Platypus merch and mugs. And so we've leaned in really hard with the platypus being our mascot, which linked right here at the top of the video, I explained these bracket style ideas talk about in that video. 00;02;29;57 - 00;02;51;19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Donuts have done Christmas brackets. We did a bracket on voting on the best mascot, and so it landed on on a platypus. And we've leaned in and over all the years. And so for us, we hid just a card like a cutout of our platypus Pugsley. All throughout camp, we've even done it in different moments, like, all throughout, like our midweek as well. 00;02;51;24 - 00;03;11;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The rule, though, for this game is that it's very simple. One new spot once per day. So in Disney, they'd hide it somewhere along the property near the resort like clubhouse area, and we'd have to go find it like the day we found it. I think the picture you see here on screen, it was in the laundry room like we had we we were looking for hours for this thing at camp. 00;03;11;15 - 00;03;25;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Same concept. We just hide it. New spot every single day. And you can lean into this as much as you want. You can make it a big deal and send all the kids out to find it. First one to find it wins, or you can just have it kind of playing in the background, which is what I like to do. 00;03;25;17 - 00;03;47;00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Just have it rotating through your announcement slides, reminding them that it's an option. As well as giving them like reminders, maybe in like their little notebooks or something, and then just giving them a few extra, incentives or bonus points or prizes to find it. So what happens if you do find it if you win, right. So at Disney they gave us like a button, you know, imagine like a politician running for office. 00;03;47;15 - 00;04;03;48 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then every day you could put a new sticker on your button indicating that you found it the next day until you got all the stickers filled up on your button. Assuming that you stayed at Disney for those amount of days at camp, we gave like a little stamp in the camp book, so it was like the Monday. 00;04;03;53 - 00;04;25;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Did you find this, this thing on Monday? Did you find this thing on Tuesday? Did you find this thing on on, you know, Wednesday. And here's the hack. Okay. The hack is if you have some sort of like, merch table, first aid station or Lost and Found that's manned by a volunteer. So like, we have an entire, like, team of rec people, that run all of our rec and then also help us, like sell t shirts and merch at our merch table. 00;04;25;31 - 00;04;46;50 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we just say, bring, a picture or explain where you found the the platypus at the merch table, and we'll give you some sort of reward for it. Here's why this scales and works well, not just at Disney like it did for us, right? It it's an easy thing to do if you're not at a park that day for whatever reason, and you're just having an extra resort day. 00;04;46;50 - 00;05;05;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But here's why this works at camps, dinos retreats, summer camps. Because you know that if you give your your kids a big bucket of free time, you might have different things like Gaga ball nine square in there, basketball tournaments and all those types of things. But you might also have kids who just aren't really interested in participating in those things. 00;05;05;27 - 00;05;27;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And this will give you an opportunity to help, give them something else to do. It's not athletic, it's not active. But it still is. At least like it brings about the anticipation. And it gives them a task to do with their friends to work together, and still stay engaged in some of the stuff that you're offering at your youth retreat, summer camp denial or winter retreat. 00;05;27;20 - 00;05;43;43 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And this works whether you're at your church, whether you're at a camp, or even like a rented retreat space. And I'm actually going to give you a cheat sheet, it's going to be linked down below. As I said at the beginning, and I'm going to give you a variety of gameplay options, as well as a list and a slew of prize options as well. 00;05;43;43 - 00;06;01;37 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But first, here's the thing. You know, you come together. You found this YouTube video. You're on track to create an amazing winter retreat, an amazing camp, an amazing dinner. But you're still busy because you show up Monday morning. And once you've already posted your recap, slideshow, or video of the event, you're still scrambling to try to figure out what you're going to do on social media. 00;06;01;37 - 00;06;27;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, here the Hybrid ministry show we have a solution for the busy youth pastor. In fact, a couple months ago I was as busy as I've ever been, and I put my seasonal social media pack to the test. Here's what I found out. Imagine it's six minutes per week. Have your entire social media strategy done for you. I mean, think about it like three months of youth ministry content for just $0.23 a man. 00;06;27;31 - 00;06;48;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Some weeks it takes me seven, other weeks it takes me five. But the point is, and especially at the end of this, as I was sitting in my youth ministry leader cohort, everyone said time management and scheduling was the issue with staying consistent on social. So my recommendation would be take my pack, let it be the the basics of what you do. 00;06;48;06 - 00;07;09;31 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if you do get busy, if something else comes up, you have something to fall back. And then when you do have the creative energy to create something more custom and more elaborate, scrap one of mine and put one of your own in there. But mine will at least keep you moving in the right direction. So as I said, you can get a lot of these in the description down below, with the cheat sheet. 00;07;09;31 - 00;07;27;38 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But like if you were to play this at a summer camp, my recommendation would be create a new daily hiding spot for your thing every single day. But if you are like a winter retreat, say it's only like three days long. Then maybe especially on your middle day. Like, say it's a Saturday, maybe at noon. Have a break and create a new hiding spot for it. 00;07;27;38 - 00;07;46;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So there's four opportunities to find your hidden object. And, you know, here's the thing. Like maybe consider adding that as a note in your schedule. Like object will be hidden in a new location starting after lunch on this day. And you can put a little note or little sticker on the on the lanyard schedule or on your notebook schedule. 00;07;46;10 - 00;08;06;37 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you're in a dinner type situation, I would, make it similar to that as well. Like ask them or let them know, like when you're going to be hiding it and maybe putting it in in different locations at different times so that you can have them find it in more, more moments than just 1 or 2 spots per day, like a camp, you can do one per day, but maybe the deny you need to live in it up a bit. 00;08;06;37 - 00;08;21;41 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, you know, here's the fact you can actually even include an idea like this, like your weekly youth group gathering. So every single Sunday or every single Wednesday when students show up, your, object is hidden in a new place and you need to create a little bit of infrastructure, like, what do you do if you find it, what do you get if you find it? 00;08;21;41 - 00;08;38;24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And what can you create that's sustainable in the long run? That would actually keep people interested in something like that. I have all sorts of different price ideas, as well as links in art linked down below in the description in the show notes. Check that out and hopefully it's helpful to you. Maybe something. I'm not just here to sell things. 00;08;38;24 - 00;08;55;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I actually want to help. If you want your ministry to feel alive. Between the big events, between the dinners in the winter, retreats, in the summer camps like this, hybrid stuff matters, which quick personal plug. I'm not over here trying to get rich off of any of this. In fact, if that were my goal, I would be failing miserably. 00;08;55;15 - 00;09;19;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I'm a real life boots on the ground youth pastor who who runs a youth ministry on a day to day basis. In my own context. And like I said, I have created resources that would be helpful and beneficial to me that I've used, and I just want to give them back to you. And so if you're interested in figuring out how to continue to to stay alive and post on a regular basis in your youth ministry, then check out, this channel, subscribe, like, share it with a friend. 00;09;19;34 - 00;09;24;29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But until next time, my friends. And as always, I just want to remind you to not forget to stay hybrid.

In this episode I sit down and share the entire inspiration for this D-Now, Winter Retreat & Summer Camp on-going games with my friend, Andrew Jansen. Andrew is a 10+ year youth worker, and his assassin game sparked this entire podcast mini-series. He expains his creative (and super CHEAP) adaptation to this game. Plus! Andrew shared his lock-in survival guide for FREE! 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It's a good morning. Getting into my emails and excited to talk about the game thing that you want to talk to me about. Nick Clason (00:17.39) Yeah. I'm glad, like, I hope that talking about the game thing is more exciting than your emails. That's, that's, that's my hope for all of this. Um, but yeah. So I, you know, I, you and I, we've known each other for a couple of years now, mostly through zoom, but we've hung out two times in person. And one of the times that we hung out in person, I was at your church. Um, Andrew Jansen (00:26.057) I hope so too. Yeah. Definitely. Nick Clason (00:44.974) Helping you out with like a like a retreat conference. What would you call that thing? It's a conference, right? Andrew Jansen (00:51.297) Yeah, it's like a student conference between like 250, 500 people give or take which year you're at the conference. Yeah. Nick Clason (00:58.21) Yeah, that's a big, that's a big range. But one of the things that you guys did that I loved was you had this game happening in the background of the conference, I guess. It wasn't like a stage game, though you had stage games. It wasn't like a big thing that in the main general session that took a lot of time, if any time. Like aside from maybe just like explaining the rules. it was like, it was this like assassin type game. tell me, like just explain to the people. Cause what I loved about it was that it was an activity to do in the margins and ongoingly throughout the weekend that kind of kept you, kept students engaged and having something, you know, to kind of like focus on and do like above and beyond just like all the normal conference attend attending like stuff. So. Andrew Jansen (01:33.39) Yes. Nick Clason (01:55.478) Where did this idea come from? How did it go? Like, let's talk about it. Andrew Jansen (01:56.152) Yes. Andrew Jansen (02:00.139) Yes, so like all great ideas, I stole it from, I believe we played this game in my youth ministry growing up. So my youth pastor, question mark, shout out Jake Lindhart. He's a great youth pastor. But I'm sure he stole that from somebody as well before him, but it's the original game was played with rubber bands and you would like, you would like snap a rubber band on. So I grew up in the nineties. Nick Clason (02:18.446) Yeah Nick Clason (02:24.568) Okay. Andrew Jansen (02:29.701) early 2000s youth group era where we did all kinds of things that would get you fired nowadays, but where you would literally snap people with rubber bands and if you snapped them while they weren't looking, then they were assassinated and they would give you their name that they had been given at the start of the game. Nick Clason (02:34.67) Okay. Nick Clason (02:43.04) Yeah. Nick Clason (02:50.432) Was their name like their name or a name of like another person? Andrew Jansen (02:54.145) It's the name. So let me let's explain the game real quick. And then we can kind of go into the like a little bit more of like what we change rules, that kind of stuff. So the game is essentially everybody signs up and then you take everybody and write their name down and then you assign their name to somebody besides them. It's easier to make a list and kind of just go like numbered. Nick Clason (02:57.805) Yeah. Nick Clason (03:05.272) Yeah. Nick Clason (03:20.024) Okay. Andrew Jansen (03:23.693) And like, so number one would have name number two. And then if you have 50 students, number 50 would have number one. And the goal is to assassinate that person and a bit like you win if you get your own name. So that's the, like if you get handed your own name and you've been playing it for a while and it's not like the first person you kill and something that just means your youth pastor messed up and that's okay. Nick Clason (03:27.181) Yeah. Nick Clason (03:31.694) Okay. Nick Clason (03:39.426) Okay. Andrew Jansen (03:49.137) give grace. But if you get your own name at the end, then you are the assassin champion. And that's kind of the concept behind the game. Nick Clason (03:56.461) Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Gotcha. And so like I was saying, like I was watching kids at your conference, like running around, like, you know, hiding from each other. Like one kid came up to me and was like, can you go get that girl over there? Cause she like knows like I'm coming for her, you know? So was like sort of all sort of like strategy and like gamesmanship. So how did you adapt it then for, for this one? Andrew Jansen (04:25.688) for sure. Right. So I believe we did this a few years ago at the same conference with Nerf guns, but I had a whole bunch of like clothes pins at our church that we use for various things. feel like every time we need clothes pins, we just went and bought them until we had thousands of clothes pins. And I was like, we got to do something with these clothes pins. But it's funny when you act, when you're like, Hey, we talked about this assassin's game. Nick Clason (04:35.671) Okay. Nick Clason (04:47.822) hehe Andrew Jansen (04:58.366) It did not go the way that I was like hoping it would go or the way that I was planning it to go. I think they had fun. They had a blast. Like kids were running around like crazy, screaming, like getting really into it. We had to tell a couple of kids to calm down, which that's, I'd rather tell kids calm down than be like, Hey, come on, like get into it. Nick Clason (05:00.046) I'm Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nick Clason (05:16.386) Right, you should, yeah, you should care about this more, yeah. Andrew Jansen (05:20.33) Right. They were very into it. I kind of talked about it with some of the volunteer board members and kind of figured out what is something that can happen. I think of it as like a meta event. It's always just constantly in motion. Obviously, you don't want to have it happening during praise and worship time or while you're in small groups or the speaker is speaking. all that in between transition, walking around time. Nick Clason (05:29.358) me. Nick Clason (05:38.647) Yeah. Nick Clason (05:42.167) Right. Andrew Jansen (05:49.625) we gave students clothes pins and those clothes pins had the name of their that they wrote their name on the clothes pin and then we handed them their target clothes pin and that was the person that they were trying to go get so you had to clip on the clothes pin Nick Clason (06:03.63) Okay, so in theory, if every kid comes in, signs up, writes their name on a clothespin, then that's your pool of contestants. because one of the things you guys did was you didn't make this required for everyone. You're like, if you want to play, swing by the table and sign up. Andrew Jansen (06:09.666) Mm-hmm. Andrew Jansen (06:22.978) For sure. Cause I mean, if you have, if you make everybody do it, you're going to have like 10 people that are just like, I'm just going to throw away this clothes pin and then they're, they're out. They're not, you're like, Hey, I got you. Where's your clothes pin? And like, I threw it away. Cause I don't care about this at all. Cause I'm a punk eighth grade student or whatever. And like, so, so it's, we wanted to make it be just, if you're, if you're interested in playing this type of game, you know, go, go sign up. We, Nick Clason (06:37.438) Mm. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Andrew Jansen (06:53.572) started with them writing their own names. And then I think it turned into kids can't write at all. And like, we were like, who, what is this? What is your name? Like, it was like, my name's Steve. And I was like, that does not say Steve at all. And that is not cursive or that I don't know what font that is, but you need to practice writing. But we ended up making that list and then writing their names down. Nick Clason (06:56.832) Okay. Nick Clason (07:00.972) Yeah. What fart? geez. Andrew Jansen (07:21.472) And then we handed them out at lunch, I think. We made the order and we're like, OK, this student is getting this kid's name so that the list was in a circle, so to speak. Nick Clason (07:23.872) Okay, yeah. Nick Clason (07:34.038) Now, you need to like, there any, are there any like hacks that youth pastors need to think about with like assigning it or is it just like, just do it randomly and it's fine? Andrew Jansen (07:44.993) Yeah, I had it so that was the part that I think went that was the craziest because originally we were just write your name and on the pin and then take the neck though like the last person that wrote their name down take their clothes pin so they just were in order as they went but that got Completely they just started chucking them into a bucket and they were like I signed up and then ran away Nick Clason (08:02.498) Gotcha. Andrew Jansen (08:11.928) So I would say have that like it would be easiest to do. All right get in line Go to a sign-up station get signed up and do either alphabetical order or do the order in which you signed up is the order in which you You know like are trying to get the next person Nick Clason (08:31.981) Yeah. So is that, I mean, that's a pretty like administratively heavy task, right? So like if you're a youth pastor, you're running an event, you're running a retreat or a D now, like would you recommend having a really organized person facilitate some of that off to the side so that you're not having to get sucked down into the weeds on that? Andrew Jansen (08:51.21) Absolutely. Yeah. If you have an intern, definitely that's a great intern task is just sit there, get all the students signed up and write their names down on a clothes pin or how whatever assassin's weapon you're using. But we use like a Nerf gun, I think a few years ago, probably can't get away with rubber band anymore, but yeah. Nick Clason (09:06.936) Yeah. Okay. How did the Nerf gun work? Like how did that, like was it successful would you say? Or was clothespin like a better idea? what, cause I let one of the things, like in a couple of episodes I'm actually gonna talk to another guy and he created an AI like app for taking pictures, like an assassin picture game. So if like, if you can be confidently sure that everyone has a cell phone, that's a great opportunity, like a great way to do it. But. Andrew Jansen (09:34.754) Nice. Andrew Jansen (09:38.434) Yep. Yeah. Nick Clason (09:40.302) Like I like this one being analog, right? In some way, because if kids don't have phones or like whatever, they're able to still do it. How'd the Nerf gun thing like work? Like, was it confusing? Was it like, cause I would imagine if you're on the other side of the room, you get like hit by a Nerf dart. Like, do you know for sure who shot it? Like what if multiple people shot it? Like, you know what mean? Like that type of stuff. was it, was it, did it, yeah, how'd it go? Andrew Jansen (10:06.882) I think it went well. was, they did popsicle sticks and you had a popsicle stick with a person's name on it and you were collecting popsicle sticks. I thought it went well because if you're shooting the Nerf gun and you hit your target, you're gonna immediately go up and be like, hey, I hit you. Like that was my dart that hit you. If it's like crossfire or something like that, I mean, middle schoolers are gonna cheat for sure. Freshman boys. Nick Clason (10:10.721) Okay. Nick Clason (10:17.271) Yeah. Nick Clason (10:24.835) Yeah. Nick Clason (10:31.853) Yeah. Andrew Jansen (10:35.96) typically will be like, I've killed everybody in this room already. I'm like, no, you haven't. We haven't even started yet. that like, like, I'm like, nice try. But the, the, the nerf, I think it worked well because it, the first of all, the nerf gun was very low power. So you had to be, I think you had about five feet to, to like be able to like shoot it and, and hit them. And then, and it was also fun because Nick Clason (10:36.738) That's, yeah. Ha! Nick Clason (10:51.459) Yeah. There you go. Nick Clason (10:59.938) Right. Andrew Jansen (11:03.192) There was one this will haunt my dreams forever because I think it was like a junior high school girl was like carving numbers in her little plastic nerve gun with how many kids that she was like assassinating and she I think yeah, I was like Yeah, I was like Let me know when you're not in the same town that I'm in so that I can sleep well Yeah, it was terrifying but they they got into it which is they this seems to be some Nick Clason (11:08.514) Yeah. Nick Clason (11:15.55) my gosh. That is like what horror movies are made of, bro. Andrew Jansen (11:32.832) a type of game that it's a meta happening all throughout the conference, all throughout the event. And they really, really love trying to assassinate their friends. Nick Clason (11:38.925) Yeah. Nick Clason (11:44.77) Yeah, and if you don't have a budget for a prize for the winner, these types of events are a great way to pit churches or youth groups or small groups or color groups or however you want to break it up against each other. And you can just give 1,000 points to the winner, and 1,000 points is free for youth pastors. And then, yes. Yeah, dude. Andrew Jansen (12:03.565) Yes. Yep, I love points. have unlimited points in my budget. It's great. have trillions and trillions of points. Nick Clason (12:12.288) It's truly the only unlimited thing we as youth pastors have access to, you know, aside from maybe Bibles that were discarded or old couches. But other than that, points are for sure unlimited. So, all right. So is there anything else, any other like pro tips that you would have if someone's like, all right, this sounds like a cool idea. You know, just something to kind of like run on in the background of my D now or my summer camp, my retreat, like. Andrew Jansen (12:17.016) for sure. Nick Clason (12:40.556) You have any pro tips that you'd give a youth pastor so that doesn't flop and fail or like to maybe help them avoid middle schoolers trying to cheat or is that just an inevitability? Andrew Jansen (12:49.56) Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they will cheat for sure. But I would say that have your like sign up sheet, your sign up, like the starting of the Assassin's Game, have that organized and fleshed out before you start, because that's the hardest part of getting that train to leave the station is just getting every student signed up and then assigning who their target is in a way that allows it to go like. Nick Clason (12:53.666) Yeah. Nick Clason (13:09.902) Mm. Andrew Jansen (13:17.068) Number one has number two and then all the way through like number 50 has number one. Because if you get off in that process, then you're going to get like someone's going to go, I won because I got my own name. And then you're like, no, how do I fix this? got switched? What got swapped? What happened? Nick Clason (13:20.588) Yeah. Yeah. Nick Clason (13:35.358) Is there, so is there no mathematical way for them to get their own name until they win? Like is that how it should work? I'm like, I'm not a statistician, so I'm not over here able to like think of this on the fly. So, okay, so there's no possible way for them, like if they get their own name and they didn't win, it's messed up somehow, yeah. Yeah, cause I did remember seeing the guy behind the desk, cause it wasn't you. Andrew Jansen (13:42.508) That's how it should work. If you number them... Andrew Jansen (13:53.997) Something, yeah, something messed up. Yep. So I would say do that either. Nick Clason (14:02.434) But the guy behind the desk, he was like, way to just throw him under the bus. I was trying not to do that. But he was like, like I just saw him like an internal like moment of panic when like some people were like giving him things. He's like, that's, that might not be right. Like that right there was like, this game seems amazing and intricate, but like that moment, like every youth pastor has been there where they have an amazing game. And then there's that moment of panic where they're like thinking, crap, I, something isn't working right. Andrew Jansen (14:02.614) Yeah, it was Dawson. Yeah, he's a great guy. Andrew Jansen (14:15.735) Yes. Andrew Jansen (14:31.998) Mm-hmm. for sure. No, loved Dawson was a youth leader of mine and he you know He's a youth pastor at the church that I was at. So no, I love Dawson. He did a great job It's my fault. I didn't lead him well in executing those things. So it's all it's all on me No, it was it definitely there's a moment of panic when a group of students are like, hey I got like my friend like my friend and I got each other's names and we're not Nick Clason (14:46.798) There you go. Andrew Jansen (15:00.396) the first and last person. And that was all the, that was all the clothes pins were jumbled up in a bin and we did not have a good like start and then like sign up the way, like the best, not, not that it wasn't good. We just didn't have the best version of that that we could have, could have rolled out. And then I would say that one of the reasons why it didn't go exactly the way we had hoped was we had flag football. Nick Clason (15:02.349) Yeah. Nick Clason (15:12.556) Right. Nick Clason (15:16.93) Right, Yeah. Andrew Jansen (15:29.944) and open gym at another location during that free time where they could play assassins. So a quarter of the conference was over at the gyms and everybody that was playing assassins that didn't want to go play flag football or open gym was at our church. And they, if you got a name of somebody that was over there, you couldn't like, was like, well, it was raining. Nick Clason (15:33.41) Mm. Yeah. Nick Clason (15:56.558) Mmm. Andrew Jansen (15:58.999) They, if you weren't over there, yeah, it was a little bit too far to walk, especially in the rain. So it, that, was one of the things of making sure you have an extended free time where you're not like off on different locations or different parts of town or anything like that, where you have like, if you're at a camp where everybody's on campgrounds, it's a good game to play throughout the week or like we're doing a lock-in for New Year's Eve. Nick Clason (16:00.104) It was like too far to walk. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nick Clason (16:16.408) Yeah. Nick Clason (16:22.112) Yeah. Andrew Jansen (16:27.03) And we're doing this, we're actually doing, I'm doing the Assassin's Game with the students at the lock-in when we're gonna try to revamp and correct some of the things that we noticed that did not quite go as planned. Nick Clason (16:33.902) There you go. Nick Clason (16:39.926) Okay, so that's a great, that's a great, so like the things you're talking about is like making sure you have it like the sign up and the assignments of who gets who a little more fleshed out, right? Like that was one of the things you talked about. Are you doing it with clothes pins or like how are you playing at your lock-in? Andrew Jansen (16:48.641) Mm-hmm. Andrew Jansen (16:58.616) Yeah, I still have, we have 900 clothes pins instead of a thousand. we're still looking to get rid of some of those clothes pins. But I think it'll work out well because it's gonna be a smaller group. We're not gonna have 250 students that are running around like crazy. So we're gonna have them sign up. I have a list of all of- Nick Clason (17:18.456) Yeah. Andrew Jansen (17:27.008) I know these students because they're my students. So I'm going to have like some options and a set chunk of time where they can really, you know, get after it and assassinate their friends with clothespins. Nick Clason (17:30.402) That helps, yeah. Nick Clason (17:35.884) Yeah. Yeah. Now, is this a game that you could envision happening? Like if someone wanted to do this over like the course of like a week long summer camp, let's say like a three, four, five day summer camp. Can it last that long? Do you think or does it need to be like a quicker spur? Andrew Jansen (17:51.33) Mm-hmm. Andrew Jansen (17:59.001) I think the more time you have, the better it can go because then you can be a little bit more methodical. People can get into it. I've seen people army crawl through like cafeteria chairs to like get there like is here's another hack for the game. Make sure you let them know what parts of the body are allowed to get assassinated or not because obviously we don't want Nick Clason (18:02.008) Okay. Nick Clason (18:10.13) Hehe. Nick Clason (18:14.059) Mm-hmm. Nick Clason (18:28.238) Probably good, yeah. Andrew Jansen (18:29.036) to, yeah, we don't want to have a horrible situation with some clothes pins or whatever you're using. Definitely the rubber band game needed that. I saw kids like army crawling through cafeteria chairs to like slowly go get their friends like shirt sleeve because it was throughout the week instead of just that like five or six hours over the weekend of the conference where they could play. So I think it lasts for sure. At least two days. Nick Clason (18:36.895) Yeah. Nick Clason (18:47.032) Yeah. Nick Clason (18:51.629) Yeah. Nick Clason (18:55.894) Yeah. So then on like a game, so then on like a gameplay side, like if you, like if you assassinate someone, you get their clothes pin. So you're only at any given moment. You're only carrying around one, right? Like you don't, you don't walk around with like a big handful of clothes pins at any moment. So that way, cause you, bring it back to like home base or whatever to let someone know like this person's out. Andrew Jansen (19:15.734) No. Yep. Andrew Jansen (19:22.978) Yeah, and that lets the person that's doing the sign up and has that list allows them to kind of see like, okay, this person's making their way through all of these people. And you kind of can tell like, okay, and you know, if somebody loses a pin, you have a better chance of going, that was this person. They lost their pin at this point and you can just write the next person's name and give them that pin. Nick Clason (19:32.226) Yeah. Nick Clason (19:47.052) Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, nice. All right, anything else that someone who's trying to do this needs to think through or that you learned seeing it be done? Andrew Jansen (20:01.362) For sure. I would say the two quick things that we didn't really touch on is clear boundaries, like out of bounds, when they can and cannot assassinate somebody is really important. Obviously, hearing about Jesus and praising Jesus through worship music takes precedent over the praising Jesus through fun. I mean, it's still praising Jesus. It's just a different Nick Clason (20:09.132) Mm. Nick Clason (20:23.266) The game, yeah. Yeah. Andrew Jansen (20:28.268) way that we're doing that and we want to have Jesus be the main thing. So making sure that they're not assassinating each other during small group time, praise and worship time, or any of the main session type times is important. So let them know like, hey, we're only doing this during free time, lunchtime, game time, whatever. And have like, I would say have like lights out if you're at a camp for a week. Like, hey, once it's lights out, would. Nick Clason (20:38.231) Yeah. Andrew Jansen (20:56.972) That's just, you're asking for trouble. Like, Hey, why were you in the girls dorm? I was trying to get her like, no, like that's we're not playing at night time. So I would say that would be one. And then making sure like the, out of bounds, like, Hey, we're not, you're not going to be off camp property. You're not going to be off church property. No, you cannot get on the roof. No, you cannot crawl through the drainage pipes and like all of those usual things. Like what can I like, Nick Clason (20:57.09) Yeah. Nick Clason (21:02.917) Yeah Andrew Jansen (21:24.16) latch on underneath the church van and then crawl onto the windshield and like I'm like no what you're gonna die that thing that's don't do that. They get really into it so making sure that you you kind of have those you know outlines of like what the boundaries are for both like physical where they can play the game and then also the times in which they play the game. Nick Clason (21:29.102) Yeah. Nick Clason (21:44.364) Right. Yeah, that's good. It's Nice. And you mentioned that you're going to play this at your lock-in, most any now, how many years have you been youth ministry again, Andrew? So most youth pastors who have at least hit the 10 year mark in youth ministry are team anti lock-in, but for some incredibly weird reason, your team pro lock-in. Andrew Jansen (21:52.769) Yes. Andrew Jansen (21:59.513) Ten years. Andrew Jansen (22:13.342) I am pro. Pro lock-in. Yes. Nick Clason (22:13.492) And so, yeah. So as I said at the beginning, you have a completely free lock-in guide planning sheet down below. If any one of you is insane enough to do a lock-in like Andrew, this can help you. I will not be a customer of this sheet, but I will let other people know that it exists. Andrew Jansen (22:23.17) Yes. Andrew Jansen (22:38.434) For sure. Yeah. And it, it's just everything that I've learned over the years. I love lock-ins. we did lock-ins at, in our youth group growing up, think almost every year are I'm from Wichita, Kansas. And we had a big like Wichita area citywide lock-in with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of students that would, sign up for all of this crazy stuff. So, this is just all the stuff that I've learned kind of, some hacks, both attending a lock-in, putting on a lock-in. Nick Clason (22:57.901) Yeah. Andrew Jansen (23:08.188) And I've added some things to it over the years. So yeah, if anybody has any questions, they can email me or reach out to you and you can give them my info or whatever. But it's really helpful. Nick Clason (23:11.948) Yeah. Nick Clason (23:22.156) Yeah. Yeah, for sure. All right, man. Well, yeah, dude, go for it. Give a give a little bit. Give a give like a sneak peek. Andrew Jansen (23:26.232) Do you want me to talk about it or is that good? For sure. A sneak peek. one of the... Nick Clason (23:35.47) But don't give it all away, because we still want them to go get it, you know what I mean? So like, make it a big old teaser, like cliffhanger, of ultimate proportions. Andrew Jansen (23:39.764) Absolutely. For sure. So first of all, shout out to my wife for making it look super amazing and incredible because honestly, yeah, she's amazing. I wish that I would hire her tomorrow if that were possible. Nick Clason (23:49.112) Dude, your wife is, this shirt right here, your wife designed. Yeah. Yeah, she... Yeah, but she works for you for free, so why would you do that? Andrew Jansen (24:02.082) That's true. It's not for free. do. I have to like rubber feet and like get her food and take, make sure she's locked in on all that stuff. speaking of lock-ins, the, the number one hack from my lock-in survival guide, and this is an exhaustive or, perfect in any way, there's definitely stuff that can be added to it. But I would say that at the end of the night, I always start with, or end with a movie after cleanup. Nick Clason (24:06.286) there you go. Yeah. Nick Clason (24:30.582) Yeah. Yeah. Andrew Jansen (24:31.692) Because once you clean up, you get through all of the things, you're exhausted, you're tired. Hey everybody, it's time to clean up. And then by 5 a.m., 6 a.m., whenever you're winding down the final hours of a lock-in where your body is running on Monster Energy Drink and Tylenol mostly, then you can really let them say they're gonna watch the whole movie and they will probably fall asleep. So you cut out quite a bit of lock in time where it's still like you give your leaders a break. You can get breakfast stuff ready to go if you want to do breakfast, but always do clean up, everybody clean up. And then we're going to go watch a movie. And that really helps. It's still fun. There's still those crazy kids that are like, I just drink four Mountain Dew Code Reds. How am going to sit still during this movie? And they're still like able to have something engaging, but most of the kids will nap and parents will show up and it's just a win. Nick Clason (25:01.728) Yeah. Nick Clason (25:28.75) Bro, a code red doesn't even touch like your level of tiredness at 5 a.m. if you haven't slept. Like I don't care how wired up on sugar you are. And then there's always those kids, right, that it's over. like, I watched the whole thing. It's like, no you didn't, bro. You were snoring logs over there. Yeah, yeah. Andrew Jansen (25:37.095) yeah. Andrew Jansen (25:44.886) Yep, yeah. How did you watch the whole thing where you were completely submerged under chairs and blanket and pillow? yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Nick Clason (25:51.03) What's that drool next to your face? What's that from? Is that from your code red? Yeah, no, I've done that before. I have done lock-ins, to be clear. I always end with the movie as well. It's the best way to just calm everybody down and just get to the finish line. That's what that's called. It's called survive and advance onto the finish line. Nice, dude. Well, hey. Andrew Jansen (26:04.682) Mm-hmm. yeah. Andrew Jansen (26:12.514) survive in advance. I love it. Nick Clason (26:16.726) I appreciate you hopping on. If you're listening, like go grab Andrew's Locket Guide, play Assassin, let us know, let him know if you did it and what other hacks you might have down below in the comments. until next time, my friends, thanks for being here. See ya.

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Jay Reynolds (00:07.379) Man, I'm good, I'm good. It's almost, it's looking like it might want to snow outside. So I might figure out some, hanging in some snow later. Nick Clason (00:15.672) Doesn't snow a lot in Raleigh? Like is that a thing that you deal with very often? Jay Reynolds (00:20.085) No, really never. it basically I'm from the north and I've lived down here if you spill a cup of ice They shut the schools down. It's so it's yeah. It's a big deal around here Nick Clason (00:22.424) Ha Nick Clason (00:28.62) Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, mean, certainly that's how it goes in Texas as well. But I'm with you. I'm also from the North. So I know what it was like, but the more years I'm here, like the more I'm forgetting, you know what I mean? Like, I'm like, man, it's cold, you know? And I was back home Thanksgiving, during, you know, in Minnesota in November. It was cold. It was a cold experience. And they're like, you're from here. And I'm like, not anymore. So. Jay Reynolds (00:56.969) Yeah, yeah. My in-laws live in Buffalo, and so I just recently spent Thanksgiving in Buffalo. yeah, 20, know, 24 degrees and a wind blowing feels like, you know, seven, you know? And yeah, so. Nick Clason (00:58.149) Ha ha! Nick Clason (01:02.652) yeah. Nick Clason (01:07.808) Yeah, dude. Well, I appreciate you hopping on. I posted a thing in the DIY and Facebook group asking for like retreat games and things that kind of like you could go back to. And you responded with a comment about like you tried to emulate a game show called The Floor. that what it's called? All right. So for people like me who who don't know what you're talking about, like explain this game show to me like I'm a five year old. Jay Reynolds (01:29.119) yeah, yeah, yeah. Jay Reynolds (01:36.501) Yeah. Okay. Wonderful. So, um, it's a game show. I watch it on Hulu. I don't know which network technically has it. Um, but on Hulu it's, uh, Rob Lowe is the host and it's called the floor. And it's basically, I mean, it's, it's a nice floor setup. It's like all led, whatever. And basically the floors is made up of a hundred boxes. And for the game show, every box, so a hundred people have like their specialty category. Maybe it's like, Star Wars characters, you know, or maybe it's like cereal brands or maybe it's like college football teams in the SEC. I don't know. Like it's just everybody comes with their specialty and what you need to do is you basically challenge somebody, you know, it's like it's randomized, you know, it's one to a hundred and it's like, say it lands on, you know, 49 and say their category is cats, you know, and they get to choose who do they want to challenge. and their box 49 is connected to a bunch of other boxes. And so they basically challenge somebody and let's say they challenge somebody it's bridges. I don't know. I'm just making stuff up here, right? But it's just all random categories and then they go up to the front and they challenge. And what the challenge looks like is there's basically a picture on the screen and they just have to guess what it is. So it's pretty simple kind of trivia. Nick Clason (02:46.264) K-E-A-A. Nick Clason (02:58.071) Hmm. Jay Reynolds (03:00.885) And now in the game show they have like each contestant, know when they're battling they have 45 seconds And so if they're like thinking a lot of time like, you know, what is that? Like their own 45 seconds is kind of like going down on the clock think of like when you play chess There's like that like your own time clock So that's how it's played in the game You know on the game show And when I saw that I was like, man, I think I could play that Nick Clason (03:19.51) Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nick Clason (03:24.791) Okay. Jay Reynolds (03:28.985) in like a retreat weekend, you know? And so now I have asked multiple times, Nick, with my leadership, can I get an LED floor so that I could really play this game? And of course, what do you think my answer I got is? Nick Clason (03:31.105) Yeah. Nick Clason (03:41.623) Yeah. They probably were like if we had the budget yes, but right now You know the Lord hasn't blessed our our church with the funds to do an LED floor. That'd be my guess Jay Reynolds (03:52.234) Yeah. That's you are 100 % correct. You're 100 % correct. So, so thinking so since I was not, you know, recipient of a blessing of an LED floor, but I still had this, this gumption to want to play this game. So I figured it out. I was like, okay, I can't do a hundred. Like, you know, in programming, you know, there's programming, you're like, man, that game would be a banger, but it might be like three hours long. And it's just like, do I have that amount of time? No, but Nick Clason (04:04.811) Right. Nick Clason (04:20.247) Yeah. Jay Reynolds (04:24.181) What I decided to do is how can I make it manageable and reproducible in my context? And so when we go off to retreat with middle schoolers, we take over a whole campground and we basically use a gym. We convert the gym to like our main auditorium. And so what I did is just use some painter's tape and I created boxes on the ground, basically built a frame and then did 16 boxes. Nick Clason (04:29.645) Yeah. Nick Clason (04:37.006) Mm-hmm. Nick Clason (04:46.445) Okay. Jay Reynolds (04:51.393) And so basically I narrowed down 16 categories. And in that, what I did was I just chose simple categories, just like I mentioned before, simple ones that middle schoolers would want to get into, know, thinking through food, snacks, know, common pop culture type stuff, things that the whole crowd will get into. And so basically what I did was like, okay, 16 boxes, I can do about four, five questions per round and kind of see how it goes. Nick Clason (04:54.604) Yeah. Nick Clason (05:04.758) Right, right, right. Nick Clason (05:19.085) Yeah. Jay Reynolds (05:20.987) Originally when I played it, I was like, okay, I'm just going to pick 16 kids. It's going to be the same 16 kids. You know, when I start the game, what I mentioned is once you win against somebody else, then you take over their box. Right. So in 16 boxes, if you're number 16 and you play against someone who's 15, now you take over their category, right? And, and there's one less person they get kicked out. and then your goal is to take over the whole floor. Nick Clason (05:34.673) gotcha, okay. Nick Clason (05:44.877) Yeah. Nick Clason (05:50.922) Right, gotcha, okay, interesting, that's fun. Totally, yeah. So, you take over the cat, I've been looking it up here while you've been talking, like the setup on the game show looks amazing. So, I can imagine how you can set up 16, how do you, in a retreat type setting, how do you determine your 16 contestants? Jay Reynolds (05:53.097) Yeah. Does that make sense? Yeah. Jay Reynolds (06:13.577) Yeah, so completely random, you know? And what I really did was I just randomized and just picked 16 kids. I mean, some ways that you could do that. And so I would suggest 16 because it's an easy multiple, right? You can do four questions each time and you can carry it through, say, a typical retreat. Maybe there's four main sessions. You know, you could play around with that. If you only have three sessions that maybe you do nine or do some type of multiple of that. Nick Clason (06:16.824) Yeah. Nick Clason (06:26.732) Right. Nick Clason (06:41.346) Right, right, right. Jay Reynolds (06:42.005) But I would say in a typical four sessions, four questions is pretty good and you get the crowd all into it. But how to pick kids. Here's what I originally thought. I would just pick 16 kids and the same kids that were in their box on Friday night would be the same kids playing throughout. But as I thought about it, in my retreat, we had a couple hundred kids and I was like, how should I do this? So. Nick Clason (06:58.862) Mmm. Nick Clason (07:04.503) Right, right, right. Jay Reynolds (07:07.475) I just completely randomized it. It was kind of like a game day decision. And the only people that stayed was if they won out. So Friday night, whoever won, you know, now they had like the large and basically what does it mean to win on like the first session for question? There's 16 boxes. They didn't take over the whole floor, but whoever has the largest section, right? So it's four questions. So it's just like, if they have three, you know, they own like three other boxes, you know, Nick Clason (07:10.935) Yeah. Nick Clason (07:15.63) Mmm. Jay Reynolds (07:37.481) then they have the largest section, they win. And so I would give some type of prize for the night. And the way that the show works is they would do like eight or nine boxes, you know, and you win. And whoever has the most boxes like connected, you know, the largest area on the floor, they would win like a high dollar prize. Right. So I just mimic that. And I was like, here's like tons of candy to like go back in your cabin, that type of thing. And so there was intrigued to win for that night. Nick Clason (07:41.558) Ahem. Nick Clason (07:55.98) Right, right. Jay Reynolds (08:06.557) or that session, even if you don't win the overall. Does that make sense? Yeah. Nick Clason (08:06.657) Right. Nick Clason (08:10.412) Yeah, yeah. So, okay, so and then you're randomizing, you're calling up a couple contestants to go head to head and then are you just asking like trivia questions to them back and forth or like where are you sourcing your questions from? Jay Reynolds (08:26.709) Yeah, great question. So what I did is out of 16, I built like basically in Pro Presenter, I built 16 categories and it's all picture related. And so behind them, there's a big old screen, you know, and let's just say it was a serials, you know, like cereal, like, and so they just have to guess, oh, that's Reese Puffs, that's Honey Nut Cheerios. And what I did instead of like, playing like chess, how the game show is like each has your own 45 seconds. It's a whole lot to manage. Nick Clason (08:38.829) Yeah. Nick Clason (08:43.095) Right. Nick Clason (08:56.385) Yeah. Jay Reynolds (08:56.629) I just put one timer up and so I flipped a little bit of the game show and I made it whoever has the most correct in 45 seconds. And I encourage high crowd participation, right? And so like the kids up there and you know sometimes a kid would get a little bit of stage fright and they're like, oh, I know what that is. That is definitely, you know, Lucky Charms, but I can't, I just can't think of what the name is, but the whole crowd's yelling Lucky Charms, you know? Nick Clason (09:01.912) Gotcha. Nick Clason (09:06.229) Okay. Nick Clason (09:10.37) There you go. Nick Clason (09:14.733) Right? Nick Clason (09:25.599) Right. Jay Reynolds (09:26.365) And so it keeps the whole crowd engaged while at the same time, know, so, you know, a good game, I believe it's just like, it's not just for the contestants on stage, but it gets the whole crowd also into it. Nick Clason (09:29.41) Yeah. Nick Clason (09:37.87) Yeah, and I love that, that you encourage crowd participation rather than try to stifle it because then that makes, that means everyone in the room is able to join in and participate. And yeah, it's not just for the people up there. It's beautiful. Jay Reynolds (09:42.441) Yeah. Yeah. Jay Reynolds (09:48.944) Yeah. Yep. Yeah. And that's where a lot of the prizes, I tried to make them like, maybe there was like, actually, I think that's the year I gave away like some panda hats and like, so I may have like made like a panda shirt or something. That was kind of our little subtle branding. And so that just kind of went with it. It was like, oh, this was for you, but it's also paired with like five bags of candy to share with your cabin. You know what I mean? And so. Nick Clason (09:59.468) Okay. Nick Clason (10:05.015) Right. Nick Clason (10:12.192) Nice, yeah. So there's more incentive for the people in the crowd. Like if their buddy's up there, they might get to, yeah, that's awesome. Jay Reynolds (10:16.915) Yep. Exactly. Yeah. You know, and so that just cries a call a lot of crowd participation. Here's what I didn't expect, but something awesome that happened. So in 45 seconds, you know, you sometimes go into it thinking like, this game is going to be great. This kid's going to get like eight. This kid may get seven, like clear winner. That didn't always happen. Like this kid got eight. This other kid got eight. Time ended. Now I'm like in the moment, like, well, what do I do? Right. Nick Clason (10:26.519) Yeah. Nick Clason (10:36.173) Yeah. Nick Clason (10:41.165) Mmm. Nick Clason (10:44.801) Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jay Reynolds (10:45.649) And so, so here's what I did. Like I'll just give a little secret sauce so you don't have to think through it if you play this. And so I just like, okay, you guys tie. How do we end this? And so I basically just put my hand out and you know, and then for the contestants hand behind the back, you know, go to the next one, the first one, you know, high five and answer correctly. Then they got to choose and that was created in the whole, like the whole room, like this anticipation who's going to get it, you know? Nick Clason (10:51.308) Yeah. Nick Clason (11:07.362) Yeah they win. Nick Clason (11:13.527) Yeah. Jay Reynolds (11:14.173) And then it's like the one kid that happened to and they guessed they were so confident and they got it wrong, you know? But then the other kid got it, right? And it just creates like kind of like this little bit of storybook kind of ending whenever they tie. And so it just works, you know, pretty well. Nick Clason (11:20.758) Yeah, dude Nick Clason (11:27.297) Yeah. Nick Clason (11:30.7) Yeah dude, that's awesome. Okay so, a kid wins the majority of the board Friday night. So Saturday morning let's say, you come back to play it again. You're getting random contestants. Now if someone was on the board but they weren't selected or they weren't eliminated, did you swap them out with new contestants? So you just had the people who like, so like one carryover from Friday night and then everyone else was new? Jay Reynolds (11:37.78) Yes. Jay Reynolds (11:52.467) Yep. Nick Clason (12:00.672) on the board on Saturday? Is that how you handled it? Okay, great. Jay Reynolds (12:03.285) That's how I handled it, right? And so some of that, you know, sometimes when you play a game, it's like, oh yeah, that kid, you know, gets participated, but somebody wins before they get there, right? And it's just like, it's kind of that concept. And you know, what, what I had a little bit of the workflow is that every kid who had a box, I gave them basically like piece of paper. I'm number one, two, you know, whatever their number was that went with the box. And so that also helped for, you know, like in the moment there's all these kids around. It's like, oh, it, Nick Clason (12:23.18) Right, right, right, yeah. Right. Jay Reynolds (12:32.445) chose number 12, you know, to be able to cue the folks in the back and be able to set up Prober Center, everything correctly. It was like, we got number 12, you know, coming on up, you know? And, and so it's like while they're traveling, it's able to kind of like cue some of the tech team. So they're able to get the next things all set up. But with that, it was all new kids. Like if you want now when it come to Saturday night and Sunday morning, Nick Clason (12:44.834) Yeah, yeah. Nick Clason (12:49.656) Right. Jay Reynolds (12:58.471) If you won Friday night, you were still on the board, you know, unless you lost, you know? And so, so it is basically kind of like you win, you get to stay in the game and earn the right to keep going. Nick Clason (13:01.186) Right. Right, right, right. Nick Clason (13:08.04) Yeah. Yeah, I think that part's really cool. So did you have a kid make it all the way through or did like a winner from Friday end up getting eliminated on Saturday and you kind of kept daisy chaining it all the way to the end? Jay Reynolds (13:20.529) I think it was... We may have had, at least a Saturday night, we have Friday winter and Saturday morning winter into it. I can't remember Sunday morning. May have had a couple. Because we didn't play it this year, we played it last year. And so I'm a little bit of a year plus removed from like into it. But it just created a cool environment. But also like some of the dynamics, let's say like it was number 15, they beat 16, they beat, you know... Nick Clason (13:29.966) Okay, that's cool. That's cool. Nick Clason (13:35.134) Yeah, yeah. Right. Jay Reynolds (13:49.253) 14, you know, and they had like their pocket, like all the way on the end. Well, the next day we showed up, it was, um, Hey, do you want to like play or do you want to kind of go back and just like sit in your leg little area? And so that's kind of where like, we'll just sit in our area. Okay. Let's throw up a randomizer. What do we get next? Number two, right? They're almost the other side of the floor. And so, you know, it may have been like, Oh, you didn't win, you know, or you didn't play that day or that, that session. Nick Clason (13:52.631) Right. Nick Clason (14:01.506) Right. Nick Clason (14:11.555) Right? Nick Clason (14:18.454) Yeah, to win, but you survived because you weren't on that part of the floor. I get it. Jay Reynolds (14:20.989) Exactly. So some of that, and if you watch the game show, that's how like people will play. Like, I won like three rounds. I have a small little section, but I'm like in an aisle. I'm like all the way in the corner. Maybe it's better. go back and then, know, but it's also like, I'm playing for the category, right? Now let me talk a little bit about categories, you know, cause I, I chose all that myself, the game show, like you, you go in saying, this is my category. And it's like, you're almost like, Nick Clason (14:33.986) Yeah. Nick Clason (14:41.399) Okay, yeah. Jay Reynolds (14:49.393) You're bringing category to the game show. Nick Clason (14:52.01) Yeah, like that's you're an expert in that category is how it works on the game show you're saying Jay Reynolds (14:54.835) Yeah. Yes. But in my context, I don't know. And I'm like, to keep things to be able to be randomized, I was basically like, here's your category. You are now an expert. You know, like you are now an expert on dogs, you know, or you are now an expert on fruit, you know, you are now in and it was all common stuff that's in their world. And so so instead of it being as eclectic as what you might experience, like watching the game show, as I just made it more actually slide on the side of common. Nick Clason (15:01.859) Mm-hmm. Gotcha, okay, cool, cool, cool. Right. Nick Clason (15:14.296) Right. Nick Clason (15:20.429) Sure. Jay Reynolds (15:23.477) and that most people are going to know what it is, right? Because when you think through audience engagement, actually, the more eclectic it gets, the more you minimize participation, right? And so in this context, it's like playing other games, like if you play um or pie in the face type games, it's like you actually want some of those topics that people are going to know. Nick Clason (15:28.417) Right. Mm-hmm. Nick Clason (15:36.302) 100%, yeah. Jay Reynolds (15:49.353) you know, car brands, type of thing, know, shoe brands, you know, like some of those things. And it just creates a higher engagement, which ends up being a better experience for the entire audience. Nick Clason (15:51.586) Yeah. Nick Clason (15:59.982) Yeah, okay, so one like just last little point of clarification I have is when you get two contestants, do you have them bounce back and forth like you say a carb brand, I say a carb brand until the one person can't remember or do you give them each 45 seconds and they have to list as many as they can and then the other person goes. Jay Reynolds (16:18.355) Yeah, no, great question. in using the slides, you know, and for us, we had a screen right behind us. So it's easy for them to see, easy for the whole crowd to see that type of thing. And it was basically like a, you know, person A is person B. So A, know, it's just like, that's let's say it's animals like, that's a panda, you know, next person, person B. that's a, that's an eagle person A. that's a dolphin. You know, that's a shark, you know. Nick Clason (16:30.843) yeah, that's right. Nick Clason (16:41.366) Okay. Gotcha. So it's not like a speed thing against him. It's like, person A, this slide is yours and you either get it or you don't. Got it. Okay. Cool, cool, Jay Reynolds (16:50.517) Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, if it takes you a second, know, like animals is pretty easy, you know, but, know, when you get into like, and I think like for, was it like cereals? I may have had a picture of the cereal. I may have had the box and kind of canvad out the name of it or something like that, but make it so it's recognizable. But you're like, it takes you a minute or not a minute, but it takes you a few moments to think about it. You know, the overall timer was 45 seconds. Nick Clason (17:06.71) Right, right. Jay Reynolds (17:17.053) and was just whoever got the most correct, but it was just back and forth, back and forth, that type of thing. Yeah. Nick Clason (17:19.286) Yeah. That's awesome. I love it. Okay. Now you told me when we were texting back and forth, like, do you still have the purpose under file? Like, is that something that, that, you could get and we could give to people who are listening? Yeah, that'd be amazing. Jay Reynolds (17:34.581) Dude, I'd love to, you know? And so, yeah, and I use ProPresenter and so, you know, it's all built in ProPresenter, but I, man, I think it's all built in folders. So if you don't use, you know, if somebody's listening and they wanna try it out, I think I have folders that are all like the images. And I built, I built the floor off 16, but I built like two other categories. So if like something happened, like they, or something glitches, you know, things like that. So I think I technically built like. Nick Clason (17:51.714) Yeah. Nick Clason (18:01.27) Right, you gotta fall back, yeah. Okay. Jay Reynolds (18:03.317) 18 categories. But man, I would gladly share it, you know. Nick Clason (18:07.818) Yeah, that'd be super cool. Yeah, so we'll get that from you and we'll link it down below. I think the thing I like the most about this is that you can make this the game for your D now, your winter retreat, your fall retreat, whatever, and you can just go back to it. And as opposed to every session, let's say you got four sessions over the course of a weekend, you don't have to come up with four things. This thing carries you all weekend long. the more they know it or get to understand the rules of it, by the end of it, the hype level is probably gonna be raising every single time they do it. So maybe Friday night, it's basic understanding and basic learning, but by the end of it, people get the rules, they're locked into it, and they're trying to carry home the ultimate floor champion moniker, if they get to take home that final prize or whatever. I think those are some of my favorite styles of games, things that can just, that well that you can kind of keep going back to. And so that's what I love about it. And I did not understand it at all when we were texting. So as you've described it more, I'm more more into it. And even my wheels now are turning. I'm like, all right, we got a winter retreat coming up. Do we incorporate this? Or do we bring this with us to summer camp or something like that? Because this sounds super fun, super amazing. And just a great way to like, build the competition and build the camaraderie. Jay Reynolds (19:37.181) Yeah. And I think, you know, that's exactly it, man. You know, and if you think through like and how we set it up, like I think we just set up like two or three, you know, or maybe it's like two blocks and just like right as a center aisle. But let's just talk a little bit about that. Like I use painter's tape so that way it's not messing with the floor at all. Super cheap. But then what I did to make it easier is like think through if you were playing like that, that kids like dock game, you have to build boxes. Nick Clason (19:49.485) Yeah. Nick Clason (19:55.319) Right, and cheap. Nick Clason (20:05.709) Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jay Reynolds (20:06.451) Yeah. So think of it in that a whole frame on the outside was just solid lines to be able to build it. But on the inside, it was all like, you know, just think through each box by itself, because then when you have some volunteers like, box eight takes over seven, you know, and now you pull that one strip between the two. Now, you know, it's all box eight, right? You know? And so that just makes it easier logistically, because if you run long strips, Nick Clason (20:11.607) Right. Nick Clason (20:16.91) Mm-hmm. Nick Clason (20:26.163) Mmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nick Clason (20:32.558) Totally. Jay Reynolds (20:34.451) like across multiple boxes on the interior, then like, now I have to like weirdly pick up like. Yeah, and that will be logistically, you know, that's like something like, I didn't think of it until I was in the in the in the situation. Now it's an issue is that think through like small like so the boxes say, you know, two or three feet wide, you know, just the interior pieces are all single pieces. Nick Clason (20:40.788) Yeah, cut it and yeah. Nick Clason (20:50.124) Right, yeah. Nick Clason (20:59.852) Yeah. Jay Reynolds (21:00.393) So it's a little bit longer to set up, not much, but a little bit longer to set up, but much easier for flow by game flow. Nick Clason (21:08.046) Yeah, I got you. Okay, so then, you know, seven overtakes eight. On Saturday morning, do you redraw, like, the seven box, or has seven still overtaken eight on Saturday morning for that morning's board? Does that make sense? Jay Reynolds (21:24.713) Yeah. Say seven takes over eight. And so now, yeah. And so basically your goal is to win the whole floor, you know? And so, ultimately, you know, and so now you get down to it is like, let's just say you winner keeps winning and they keep staying, they keep playing all this kind of stuff. And now you get down to it. They have 15 boxes, you know? And so let's just say it's one against number now, like let's say nine that won everything. One didn't. Nick Clason (21:31.458) The whole thing, yeah. Nick Clason (21:40.097) Mm-hmm. Nick Clason (21:51.063) Yeah. Jay Reynolds (21:52.319) play at all. And it's just the kid who just got in that day and they just sat and watched nine keep winning, keep winning. And they get up there and then one who's had no action the entire time. They beat this person who's won everything. It's like a David and glide style matchup. And then they win that round. They win it all, you know? And so that's the other thing. What's intriguing about it. It's like, you know, some games it's like, if you're, could have the sheer advantage. Nick Clason (21:56.278) Yeah. Yeah. Nick Clason (22:09.918) moment yeah yeah that's cool that's cool Jay Reynolds (22:21.885) or you keep winning and then now it like builds all this momentum. It's nice because it's almost, it's like there's neutralizers built into this game all the way throughout, you know? And it could just be like, just luck of the draw. Like, I don't know, I don't eat cereal. I only eat toast. Like I don't even know. And then that kid who's like, man, just sat, I randomly got chosen. You know, the kid who's like, man, I don't know it. I just eat cereal every day. I don't even know why I'm here, but I know this. And then I ended up winning everything, you know? Nick Clason (22:29.238) Yeah. Yeah. Nick Clason (22:37.857) you Nick Clason (22:47.351) Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Jay Reynolds (22:50.813) And so that's the cool thing that makes it so easy and fun and all that kind of stuff. Nick Clason (22:57.43) Yeah, that's amazing. Nice. All right, bro. That really does sound super fun, super cool. So any last final parting words about retreats or games or this game in particular before we hit stop and close out the recording? Jay Reynolds (23:15.219) Yeah, dude, I think the last thing I'd say as far as for playing this game, because it builds on itself, you know, think through, I think how I played it was Friday night. I think I only did three questions, you know, because of Friday night, you have the rules, you have all this kind of stuff and not just the rules for this game, but, know, just think through your retreat overall. What is all of it, you know, entail? And so, you know, we did maybe three questions and then that allowed us to choose which other session do we want to do five, you know? Nick Clason (23:25.954) Okay. Nick Clason (23:33.197) Right. Jay Reynolds (23:43.517) And so just think through some of that from a momentum standpoint on how you want to play it. The other thing from a momentum is let your, you know, your session prizes build. So Friday night, maybe it is like a, you know, hat in like two bags of candy, you know, but then Saturday morning, you know, I think we did prizes that like relate. We were going to do like some, some, I don't know, pool games and things like that. So we gave away like beach towels, you know, Nick Clason (23:43.725) Mm. Nick Clason (23:47.447) Mm-hmm. Nick Clason (23:54.669) Mmm. Nick Clason (24:12.436) Okay. Yeah. Jay Reynolds (24:12.871) and candy, right? And so it just kind of built and it just seemed that, you know, as the game builds, because it's over multiple sessions, that if you have budget and that's how you kind of ministry works, I would encourage you to think through, let your prizes build also, you know, and because that is just going to intuitively kind of go in with the whole game, you know, that type of thing. And so for me, my style is I always get other leaders involved, you know, small group leaders, things like that. I'm like, Hey, pick two kids to play, pick two kids to play. Nick Clason (24:26.935) Yeah. Nick Clason (24:32.673) yeah that makes sense Nick Clason (24:40.8) huh. Jay Reynolds (24:42.687) You know, and so, you know, that's how I help in the randomization, you know, but I'm getting other leaders involved in that process. That also helps like in a ministry. it's not like, Jay just picked his favorite kids to play to try to win, you know, well, no, I picked this leader and that lead, you know, and so it's like, I try to, so depending on how the structure is set up, getting other voices involved, help to take away like what could be speculation. Does that make sense? Yeah. Nick Clason (25:04.513) Mm-hmm. Nick Clason (25:09.408) Yeah, yeah, totally, totally. Yeah, I love it, man. Well, I, again, I appreciate your time. I thought this was a great conversation, great game. Like, and that one of the things I think is so, like interesting in the world of youth pastors, cause I did this too once where I was like watching a game show, you know, just at home with my wife and I was like, I can make that into a game. You know what mean? And that's just the way our brain, we never turn off, we never stop thinking, we never stop ideating. And so I've never heard of this concept before, I've never even heard of this game show, but you're so right. It's a perfect youth ministry game and I love the fact that it can span the whole thing. And that's exactly what I was looking for, for all these different conversations, all these different ideas. And so again, really appreciate you hopping on and we'll throw the link to your. Jay Reynolds (25:33.036) yeah. Never. Never. Jay Reynolds (25:48.627) Yeah. Yeah. Nick Clason (25:57.634) your files and stuff like that down below. really appreciate you giving that away and that'll be super helpful for anyone who wants to take it and run with it. Jay Reynolds (26:05.683) Yeah, feel free. And hey, if one of your listeners wants to try it out and they get a little confused or want to kind of process through a little bit more, dude, feel free. You know, they can reach out and connect me with them. I'd love to kind of just help walk alongside someone who's trying to, you know, trying something new in their context, trying something to see what it would work. And I hope for folks who try it. Nick Clason (26:14.851) Yeah. Jay Reynolds (26:25.683) Man, hope you end of the day, if you're gonna play game like this, it's just as much as you having fun with your kids, with your students having fun, because that's kind of the momentum that really builds and getting them all into it. Nick Clason (26:36.364) Yeah, perfect. All right, Jay. Well, I appreciate it, And everyone else, thanks for listening. And we'll talk again soon. See you. Jay Reynolds (26:43.455) Cool, great chat man, take care.

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I'm going to be evaluating based on these personalization reels and shorts and cost. And we're going to see who goes and takes the cake. So I have seven different social media packs. 00:00:26:28 - 00:00:49:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I want you to stick around to the end because I do believe I have uncovered and I've found the best social media pack for youth ministries in the world. Let's go. Okay, so this first one here that I found again, just remember a quick, simple Google search. I found a life church, which is, their open platform. 00:00:49:07 - 00:01:12:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It is free, which is amazing. But one of the things I noticed when I actually clicked in on it was that it just very simply was a, a standard quick graphic pack. So this isn't even really a social media pack as much as it is some social media images to post to your social media. So is it's a ten like it's free and you can grab it. 00:01:12:20 - 00:01:34:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But if you want to edit it, like if you want to put your actual student ministry like students and pictures on there, like it's maybe like a one because it's just JPEGs. Like there's not even a Photoshop file or a Canva graphic that you can swap out their pictures with your own pictures. So, let's if you want to just post what they have, we'll give it a ten. 00:01:34:13 - 00:01:52:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But like, let's just put it out of five and then, the personalization touch because you can't edit it. It's, it's a one like you can't it's not your youth ministry at all. Unless maybe you put your like youth ministry logo just in the corner somewhere. So we're just going to stick that one. Reels and shorts. It's a zero. 00:01:52:08 - 00:02:16:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's there's no reels and shorts. Here is, it's, graphic. It's, picture. And then finally cost, we're going to give it a ten on cost, which means it's cheap. So, high on the cost meter, which means that it was free. So the total score for Life Church is 15 out of 40. The next one is the dim monthly pack. 00:02:16:15 - 00:02:37:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so kind of the story of how I found this is I've been a dim member now for probably going on ten years. And dim, like, I actually just yesterday was on a video called Four Different People, who all essentially said something along the lines of the DIY membership is the best thing that you the best youth ministry, value that exists on the internet. 00:02:37:15 - 00:03:02:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you know what? There. Right? Gold. Gold plus and platinum. They are all incredible deals. I myself am a platinum member and a part of the do I am monthly pack is, a social media pack that they give out every single month. And so from an EAS standpoint, I'm going to give it like an eight. It gives you, a post for every single day of, of the month and it gives you a monthly posting calendar. 00:03:02:16 - 00:03:21:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if you just follow their posting calendar, it's easy to go. Now you do have to schedule it yourself or post it yourself. So that's why it's not a ten on ease, because you do have to have at least a little bit of infrastructure and tools to be able to post it. Personalization. I'm going to give it a three and here's why. 00:03:21:21 - 00:03:42:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Any of the just like kind of like standard graphics, like they there's not really personalized. However, they do include some story graphics where you can post like stickers with, polls or questions or comments or multiple choice. And so therefore you are at least able to do a little bit of interaction and engagement. So there is a personalization. 00:03:43:02 - 00:04:09:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It did go to zero though on reels and shorts because it's it's not a reels and shorts base package. It is a graphics based package. And this this is really important. And out of the four this might be one of the most important ones from a social media standpoint, not from a youth pastor standpoint. Maybe ease or maybe cost is the most important, but reels and shorts videos, that is really, really important on social media in 2026 and then also cost. 00:04:09:05 - 00:04:32:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm going to give it like a six. And and it's a complicated one because you can't actually get this pack standalone. You have to be a member. So the membership is expensive and I wouldn't get the membership. If you're only goal is to get this social media like, but I would get the membership because there's a million other amazing opportunities and a million other amazing resources found in there. 00:04:32:06 - 00:04:56:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So it's behind the gold, gold plus or platinum paywall. So to be completely fair, that is, like I said, the best deal in the history of youth ministry. It's 24, 70 for a month. If you pay on the annualized version of gold or it's 2999 if you pay monthly, platinum is 8325 a month, or $1,000 a year, and again thousand dollars a year for this social media pack. 00:04:56:08 - 00:05:17:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Not the best deal in youth ministry, but when you throw in national day events, youth ministry training, free ticket to doing 100 roundtables, a whole year of co-leader and their annual curriculum like bro. Yes, games, store credit, mystery items, parent resources. Now we're talking. It really is the best year in the history of youth ministry. So total score for the youth ministry doing, monthly social pack. 00:05:17:26 - 00:05:37:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm going to give it like a 17 out of 40, the youth ministry job. This is a new one. And shout out to the youth ministry drop. You're CEO is cooking. Your email like I'm getting emails from you. Like, that is amazing. Here's what I noticed, though. This is, this this is behind a paywall. 00:05:37:00 - 00:05:54:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right. So, I'm going to give it the cost. I'm going to give it an eight. It's $15 a month. You get more than just a social media pack. The ease I'm going to give it an eight as well. It's got ready to go graphics and videos. The personalization, is like a two. 00:05:54:15 - 00:06:11:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You can probably add some, like, stickers and stuff like that, just like the DUI impact to, like, stories. But I am this is the first one now that I am going to give a five. So more than zero on reels and shorts, because if you look in the description here, it offers not just graphics but also videos. 00:06:11:07 - 00:06:30:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And this is the first pack that does include some videos so far that we've looked at. And so $15 a month is a great deal. Also you get more, like I said in this than just the social media pack. And so I didn't pay for it because I don't have any money for these videos. And so you can subscribe to this video for me. 00:06:30:25 - 00:06:51:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And that will actually help a lot or give it a like, or, show some love down in the comments. Or better yet, head on over to my Patreon where I give a, weekly bonus podcast episode recapping my night in youth ministry. So I can't be like Ryan Trahan and pay for all the bits in my video, but hopefully soon I can. 00:06:51:16 - 00:07:10:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, go ahead, do those things. Subscribe, head over to Patreon. That'd be amazing. Total score for this. I'm going to give it a 23 out of 40. Moving on to the fourth one, we have the Sunday Social. Now here's how I found it. Because when I Google Search Sunday Social didn't come up. This is a church wide platform. 00:07:10:00 - 00:07:27:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's not just built for student ministry. The last ones were all just kind of built for student ministry. But this one, this one is a little bit different. This is made kind of for the rest of the church. And so therefore, I knew about it and I went and I found it, it didn't find me on my search. 00:07:27:05 - 00:07:43:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But here's what I notice. Like ease. I'm going to give it a nine. It looks like it has more powerful tools than the other ones that we've used so far. The other ones, like here is a graphic. And then this has like a scheduler and like an editable, template and like it's all kind of like web based. 00:07:43:25 - 00:08:01:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so this looks like it's got like some real, some real meat, some real, effort behind some of these tools. The personalization I'm going to give it like a three. If you look here like there are three different kind of tiers. So there's just the standard pack. Then there's the editable, add on. And so that's going to be a little bit more expensive. 00:08:01:25 - 00:08:18:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So it exists but it's not in at the base package. And then same thing with the reels and shorts. I'm going to go ahead and give it a five. It does have an option there to add in the reels and shorts add on. But again now with the personalization plus the reels and shorts. Now, we've added on quite a bit. 00:08:18:24 - 00:08:42:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That ends up getting it to be I'm going to give it a six on cost because it's about $50 a month. And so if you are a church, church wide, social media manager, $50 a month might be within your wheelhouse in a youth ministry context where it's just social media and it's just these graphics and still the personalization doesn't necessarily mean your face, your voice, your people and your pictures. 00:08:42:11 - 00:09:00:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It only if you're able to do that in an editable software like Canva or Photoshop. But it's not your actual like, pastor, you know, coming on and doing devotionals and stuff like that. So we're going to go ahead and give this a 23 out of 40. The next one I noticed were some videos here, which, oh, hey, look at that one. 00:09:00:29 - 00:09:25:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I know that guy. But Brady Shear and, Alexander Mills on their Pro Church Tools podcast and also nucleus, which is their, their brand for like websites and media. They have, social media and, options. And then we're going to get into that in just a minute. But I found Brady back in 2016, back when the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the, Warriors in the NBA finals. 00:09:25:08 - 00:09:47:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I just remember that year because my son was born, and apparently when I found Brady. But what I notice is that Brady is he's goaded on this stuff like he is the man, and I trust everything he says. And to be completely fair, I really started this podcast because I believe so much in what Brady said, and I wanted to make that clear and available for youth ministries, who he talks about youth ministries. 00:09:47:10 - 00:10:06:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In fact, this video right here that I discovered, is a video that he talks about how to do social media for youth ministry, but he does it like once a year, and I talk about it every single week. And so the I've listened to this podcast before and there's a bunch of different chapters, and he had a few, a couple philosophies behind what to do. 00:10:06:02 - 00:10:27:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So the first thing is he wants it to be student driven, which, by the way, I actually have an entire checklist and episode link down below about how you can have a student driven and student run social media where you don't actually have to lift much of a finger. And the second is, show, don't tell. Right. So, like, get on there and actually show them what it's like to be in your youth ministry. 00:10:27:18 - 00:11:00:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Don't just tell them what it's like to be a part of your youth ministry. And then these were all ideas that he had. So, make up a kid, which, by the way, he gave this idea and I went ahead and stole it. And so you can see the video of we when we mocked up a kid in our youth ministry, talked about, using disposable cameras and kind of that vintage look, creating broadcast channels for communication and just community and conversation, doing like a live performance, using like, the live feature, natively woven into some of these social media platforms and then finally Bible trivia, which sneak peek my winter season social 00:11:00:00 - 00:11:24:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry media pack has a Bible Trivia one, but then you got to know that he has. Like I said, he has a a platform, called Nucleus Social. So this is what I'm going to be though. That was just his video. Like here's some ideas how to run it. But his actual social media pack, once again similar to Sunday Social made for big church, like social media is not just youth ministry, social medias ease. 00:11:24:15 - 00:11:41:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm going to give it a nine. It has some more powerful tools and some of the other ones that we've looked at. Personalization. I'm going to go ahead and give it a five. There's some edited, edited ability. And some of these is especially if you know how to use things like, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Reels and Shorts. 00:11:41:11 - 00:12:01:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm going to give this a seven. This is the highest, this is a higher score than the Sunday social one because it's baked into the cost, not just an add on. However, you'll notice that it's about the same cost as Sunday socials. So this is Brady's like, base package. It's just it is 49. Where Sunday social. It's like it jumps up on you as you add it on. 00:12:01:08 - 00:12:20:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we're gonna go ahead and give the cost factor about a six which brings his out to 2740 which is this is probably and this one is Sunday social are probably the most beautiful like of all the packs. Like they just have professional designers on their team and they just do an amazing, amazing job with their stuff. 00:12:20:29 - 00:12:49:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This one's a new one that I just came across. I got an email from Download Youth Ministry as a part of my platinum membership that a service called The Seer. The sermon multiplier, is giving platinum members a free trial for three months, some different credits to use their platform. And so this is got a lot of some social media, components woven into it, but it's also got some other, things like AI devotionals that it can, it can create and develop for us. 00:12:49:08 - 00:13:10:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so this is the most personalized option so far. What you do is you upload a video of yourself teaching, and then it creates and spits out for you devotionals, graphics and real. So is I'm going to give it a six on these like the actual platforms. Easy. You click upload, it uploads. But here's why I didn't make it a ten. 00:13:10:22 - 00:13:30:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry On ease is because you must have a video of yourself, and not every youth pastor has a video of themselves teaching. And so I happen to that's part of our strategy. We we post all of our long form videos, to YouTube. So I had one that I could use as a test that was clean and didn't have any lower thirds that were going to get chopped off on the sides if I uploaded it. 00:13:30:22 - 00:13:45:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I also it needed to be under five megabytes, which one of my videos is like 5.8. And so that was kind of a bummer because I was like, well, I have to compress this in order to get it. And like, that's a whole nother like step. And there was no option to to do that. Woven into the dashboard, there. 00:13:45:25 - 00:14:11:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The personalization factor, I'm giving this one a ten. Like my face, my voice, my sermon clipped into social media, my quotes, that it spits out for you. Like you can't get more personalized in that reusing shorts. They do it. They give you four custom ones based off and clipped up from that video and then finally cost, I'm going to give it a seven because, if you're a platinum member, it's like a one. 00:14:11:00 - 00:14:38:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if it's just a little random added perk to it, like you weren't getting the platinum membership for this. Fantastic. But if not, it's it is a little bit expensive because it's sitting there behind the platinum membership. Now, you realize this is another feature from Download Youth Ministry. So you can pair this with the graphics pack. And now now we might be talking melding kind of these two scores together because it's a couple of different angles of social media. 00:14:38:01 - 00:15:00:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So just something to consider there. That ends up being 33 out of 40. And then the final one is the winter seasonal social media pack. Here's how I found it I actually made this one. But I do need a better SEO engineer. It. Listen, it's me. I'm the SEO engineer, which means it's not that good, but I actually got this text yesterday from a friend who said that I showed up in a ChatGPT search, so maybe something I'm doing is working. 00:15:01:04 - 00:15:20:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But here's what I noticed. Mine did pretty well versus some of these professionals. Reminder I'm not a professional. I'm a professional and paid youth pastor. But that's it. Like this whole social media thing, this is a side gig. This is my guest bedroom, before a dentist appointment that I have on a Friday on my day off. So, like, that's, you know, this is the back of my phone I'm talking into. 00:15:20:25 - 00:15:40:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But here's the thing. Here's my score. I'm going to give it a nine for ease. And I'm not just saying that because it's mine. Like I give you everything. I give you the videos and you take them and you post them, okay? However, I'm going to give it a nine because you still have to get your camera out and film yourself at some points, because I care about the personalization side of it. 00:15:40:09 - 00:15:58:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I can't just give you the graphics. If I were doing just a graphics pack, I would make it as easy as all the other ones, but I I'm asking you and your your voice as a youth pastor or your students or your volunteers to become some of the faces and some of the personalities on your social media. But that's what makes it a ten, personalization. 00:15:58:19 - 00:16:19:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like you look at my pack across my grid and my feed here, like it's not just a bunch of, like, unfazed and unnamed graphics like it is my self, my people, our student ministry. The reels and shorts. It's a ten. It is based on reels and shorts. There are more reels and static graphics. There's only one post type that is a graphic or a carousel post type. 00:16:19:17 - 00:16:50:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The rest are all based on short form vertical video, TikTok reels, YouTube shorts, and then finally the cost. I'm going to say a nine, bro. It's only $4 per month. Like we had $15. We had completely free. But all it was is like one like set of graphics, but with $4 per month, for three months of social media or you get this pack, if you don't want to become a hybrid hero member at $4 per month, this pack standalone is 1799 and $18 for three months once again. 00:16:50:17 - 00:17:11:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So my total score is 38 out of 40. And so this is how I rank the social media packs for student ministries. These are the four things that matter to me. And the ease and personalization reels and shorts and cost. And these are the four things that I tried to lean in on my pack and so if you found this video helpful, a like a subscribe, a comment, a share would be amazing. 00:17:11:24 - 00:17:25:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if you think that the Winter season social media pack would help be a game changer for you and your social media and your church's student ministry, encourage you to go check it out and grab it right now. But until next time my friends. And as always, don't forget stay hybrid.

A Christmas miracle for youth pastors everywhere! A few months ago I went to the DYM 100 Roundtables, and without lifting a finger, or distracting my entire experience, this is how I regularly posted on my church's social media, while in attendance for the conference! 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I barely had to work and I want to show you how, which is an incredible gift to give you on this Christmas morning. Merry Christmas everyone, and welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. Merry Christmas Eve. Pastors. My name is Nicholas. And if you and I have not had a chance to meet, 00:00:23:17 - 00:00:45:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or if you're not listening to this on the day it drops, which is Christmas, I drop every single Thursday. I haven't missed a Thursday in over three years. And it just so happens to be Christmas morning when this one drops, I want to give you one of the best gifts that I think I can give youth pastors. Most youth pastors know and see and understand the need for a strong social media and digital presence. 00:00:45:18 - 00:01:08:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If not, you should check out my completely free e-book, which is link down below and that will hopefully convince you about why you need a strong social media presence. But the gift that I can give you pastors. And then I want to give you pastors, is a plan and a framework for consistency. I was over at the DUI 100 conference and social media basically ran itself. 00:01:08:25 - 00:01:28:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, full disclosure I still grab my phone, I still download it out of our Google Drive, and I still uploaded it to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. However, those things were sitting there for me, ready to post. I didn't need anything new. I didn't need to do any extra work. When I was out there. They got the job done for me. 00:01:28:26 - 00:01:56:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the baseline and the basis for all of that is my winter seasonal social media pack, which I want you to have now. I'll be honest, it does come with a little bit of a cost because frankly, it's a lot of work to put together. But here's how I've set the pricing structure. The pack costs $17.99, but if you become a $4 per month hybrid Hero Patreon member, you get that pack included. 00:01:56:13 - 00:02:22:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if the pack is meant to last a run of three months, $4 per month for you for three months is $12, and you get a $5 off on that pack as well. As we are trying to hit a goal this month only where we make by next week's episode. As this drops that we make 25 new members in the Hybrid Heroes Patreon tier, and if we hit that to everyone involved in the community. 00:02:22:26 - 00:02:44:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if you help, or if you know someone and you share a link we will offer, I will offer a free coaching call on social media to everyone who is a part of my Hybrid Heroes paid tier member. I will help map out your strategy for you. But here's the truth I've been leading a youth ministry leader cohort. 00:02:44:14 - 00:03:05:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Hybrid heroes. Deep dive kind of on why hybrid ministry, why it's important, how to keep it going. And what I realize is that this is all about behavior modification. It's not about tips and tactics. Like, you guys know what you need to know, right? And there may be some areas and some tools that I can tell you about that will help you. 00:03:05:05 - 00:03:26:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But at the end of the day, it comes down to time management and prioritization. And those are boring. Those aren't as sexy as viral reels and viral memes. I mean, the fact is, like one of the girls in our hybrid hero deep dive cohort, she had a real that had 21.2 thousand views not too long ago. Like she clearly knows what she's doing. 00:03:26:29 - 00:03:56:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry She doesn't need me. What we all realize we need is that when life gets busy, when the calendar gets overwhelming, social media is the first thing to drop. And so my pack will help you not drop it. If you have something that is done for you or mapped out for you. And as I displayed in my Winter Seasonal Social Media Pack Vlog Style Challenge eight post challenge video that is linked right here. 00:03:56:15 - 00:04:17:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Top screen. You can get it done in less than 20 minutes per week if you post all eight types. And I'm only asking you to post 3 to 5 times. So actually you can get it done in anywhere from 5 to 7 minutes per week done for you. It's also custom. It's got everything that you need and it's got a calendar that will last you December, January and February. 00:04:17:20 - 00:04:43:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then if you're a $4 a month member in March, that when that, spring pack will drop and boom, you got three more months of seasonal social media and you're just following my hybrid strategy, which also link down. Below is my episode on how following this strategy helped us to x our growth. In addition to that, you'll get all of the freebies and all the things over on my Patreon and my Patreon store. 00:04:43:09 - 00:05:06:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry My exclusive interview where I sat down with Jim, and Collider's Josh Bullman talking about the value of allowing students to disagree. That dropped a couple of weeks ago. So, you know you're going to get access to that, as well as, checklists and parent, communication guides and all sorts of things. Like I went in to doing 100, hoping to just vlog it out and map it out. 00:05:06:03 - 00:05:35:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And what I realized was I got sucked into the vortex and we all get sucked into where things get busy. And I saw old friends and I didn't have time to create content. But my pack back home from my youth ministry, my pack helped carry through the types of posts and gave me something to continue to post while I was able to soak in all of the info and all of the goodies from the do I am 100 conference, and I also got this shirt out of it. 00:05:35:24 - 00:06:03:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Actually, this one didn't come from the conference. This one came from Gold Member week. Hey, speaking of that, vlog style video, check this out. Here's what I learned. During that week. Imagine it's six minutes per week. Have your entire social media strategy done for you. I mean, think about it like three months of youth ministry content for just $0.23 a then some weeks it takes me seven, other weeks it takes me five. 00:06:04:03 - 00:06:25:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But the point is, and especially at the end of this, as I was sitting in my youth ministry leader cohort, everyone said time management and scheduling was the issue with staying consistent on social. So my recommendation would be take my pack, let it be the the basics of what you do. And if you do get busy, if something else comes up, you have something to fall back on. 00:06:26:01 - 00:06:45:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then when you do have the creative energy to create something more custom and more elaborate, scrap one of mine and put one of your own in there. But mine will at least keep you moving in. So if you want to let your weeks be like that, where when it gets busy, you still have something that's running on autopilot for you. 00:06:45:07 - 00:07:07:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry For social media, my winter seasonal social media pack is the key to that, and it's a great gift for you on Christmas morning. And if you consider joining, you can help get us to the finish line. Progress bar is here on screen so that you can see how many paid Hybrid Hero members we've gotten over this last month as we push towards January to that 25 goal. 00:07:07:23 - 00:07:23:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So that you can unlock that free coaching opportunity. But hey my friends, hope you've had a great episode. I thank you for being here with us. And until next time. And as always, don't forget stay hybrid. Merry Christmas and we'll see you in 2026.

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That line alone, plus this llama t shirt was worth the cost of the entire trip. Welcome, everybody to the Hybrid Ministry show. What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the Hybrid Ministry shown in this episode, I'm detailing and outlining the three takeaways that I had from the do I am 100 conference in the last episode linked right here, we talked about programing and adding sounds and sound effects and just making our introduction a little bit more lively. 00:00:40:10 - 00:01:07:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And what I saw and learned and took away from the D and 100 conference. And in this one, I'm gonna talk about a surprise breakout session that I did not expect. Now, here's the thing. Full disclosure, right? Like when I choose breakouts at a conference, more often than not, I'm choosing it based on the person. And so me and my friend Josh Bowman, like, I saw he was on the thing on the docket to lead a breakout. 00:01:07:14 - 00:01:30:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I just thought to myself, I just like this guy. I know what he's going to do is going to be good. I'm going to go support him. I would not say that the topic listed on the breakout was what interested me. What interested me was the author of the breakout, not the actual content of the breakout. Now, to be clear, I didn't disagree with the content of the breakout. 00:01:30:13 - 00:02:00:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It was essentially like how to make space for students to be able to disagree in your youth ministry. And I was like, okay, great. Like I love that. Like I'm here for that. And I think that that's a great topic. But his breakout was absolutely game changing. And like, I was shocked at not only how much I did agree, but some of the stuff he did that made me really think and wrestle with, oh man, like I'm not doing some of these things. 00:02:00:02 - 00:02:22:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I came back from the conference and I was debriefing, and I was downloading, and I thought to myself, like, that might be my biggest takeaway from the entire conference is how to do a better job of creating space for students to disagree. And now, as this episode drops middle of December, most of us have wrapped up our our fall semester of programing. 00:02:22:23 - 00:02:48:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We got Christmas services on the horizon and, then maybe a week off after Christmas and then we're back for the New year. And this is the perfect time to break something and to add something in. And so I actually got the chance to sit down and have an exclusive conversation with Josh, who, gave the premise for his breakout of why students need to be able to have the space to disagree. 00:02:48:14 - 00:03:07:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then I ask some of the how questions, like, how do you go about instituting this change? How do you handle senior pastors? How do you handle leaders? Go ahead, take a listen in this clip. At first they were really skeptical. And we we, you know, we started like, preparing them like weeks out that this was this was coming. 00:03:07:26 - 00:03:35:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And always, you know, the small group leader is the one that has the questions. So like, really worst case scenario, they can skip it. It was kind of like, you know, like, so that's always like, how did it go? It was great. How did I because we didn't we didn't but we would always like we we started I mean, even in like some, some leader meetings or stuff, doing some kind of, some role playing type stuff where it was like, okay, hey, last week, you know, you all, we're here for last week's teaching. 00:03:35:02 - 00:04:13:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Let's imagine this was the question and somebody throw me, you throw out a couple things that maybe you think a student might have said. And it was really funny because, at first, even they were like, skittish with because they were in that moment, they were like, you want you want me to point out something you think a student would disagree with that you said, so we're going to try and figure out how to institute this better in our space to help give leaders, the comfort and the confidence to lean in and start asking some of these questions about what students might disagree with and hopefully stop trying to give students the quote, right 00:04:13:21 - 00:04:44:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry answer and start giving students the space to genuinely question and think and maybe even in some cases, disagree. You know, a couple weeks before I went to the do I am 100 conference, my church hosted a thing called the Cross Creek Collective, and I was actually on stage for it. And during that week, while I was in the middle of the busiest week of probably my year on staff, I decided I wanted to put my seasonal social media pack to the test. 00:04:44:28 - 00:05:17:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And at the end of the week, this is what I discovered. Imagine it's six minutes per week. Have your entire social media strategy done for you. I mean, think about it like three months of youth ministry content for just $0.23 a minute. Some weeks it takes me seven, other weeks it takes me five. But the point is, and especially at the end of this, as I was sitting in my youth ministry leader cohort, everyone said time management and scheduling was the issue with staying consistent on social. 00:05:17:18 - 00:05:34:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So my recommendation would be take my pack, let it be the the basics of what you do. And if you do get busy, if something else comes up, you have something to fall back on. And then when you do have the creative energy to create something more custom and more elaborate, scrap one of mine and put one of your own in there. 00:05:34:21 - 00:05:59:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But mine will at least keep you moving in the right direction. So the entire conversation with Josh Pullman is now over on my Patreon, as well as my winter seasonal social media pack. You can jump in for a week free trial to listen to the Boardman episode and to maybe, explore what the winter seasonal social media pack, how it could serve you in your ministry. 00:05:59:11 - 00:06:38:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But here's the fact you can't ignore social media any longer, and you need something that you can rely on when you get busy. And that's exactly what my pack is going to do. And we are moving towards trying to add 25 new free hybrid Hero members progress bars right here on the screen as of the editing date. And if we hit 25 members by the end of December, the beginning of January, then every single person who has a $4 per month Hybrid Hero member, they're going to get an exclusive free coaching call from me, included as a part of their $4 per month. 00:06:38:16 - 00:07:02:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It is such a great deal. $4 per month gets you a bonus episode, gets you all the freebies on my store, gives you all the paid things on my store, and now gets you a free coaching call $4 a month. That's all it is. It's less genuinely than a cup of coffee. And next week this episode is going to drop on Christmas Day. 00:07:02:02 - 00:07:13:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if you're listening live, you'll see it in your feed on Christmas Day. If not, it's going to be linked right here on screen so you can watch that one. But until next time, and as always my friends, don't forget stay hybrid.

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Plus, stick around to the end of the episode because I am giving away a free Christmas party run sheet, complete with the resources and everything you need so you can grab that down bel 00:00:26:29 - 00:00:33:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Link in the description, which will go into detail and explain at the end of this episode. Welcome everybody to the Hybrid Ministry show. 00:00:33:19 - 00:00:44:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I went to the do I am 100 conference where I got this notebook and of course this llama t shirt, which, you know what? When else are you going to need to get a llama t shirt? 00:00:44:10 - 00:01:16:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You're wearing it after the Darwin 100 conference, with the goal of coming away with three takeaways, and I was going to vlog it and take videos and explain my process. But man, if you've ever been to one of these events like you know that like you just get sucked into the vortex of friendship and community and conversations. And so I only took like 20 videos and like half of them are like receipt uploads or like videos of the van rental to make sure that they weren't going to scam me afterwards. 00:01:16:26 - 00:01:40:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But in these next three episodes, I'm going to talk about not only things that you can use and learn and take away for, like your December Christmas parties, but also things that I and our youth ministry team are going to be thinking about on into the future of 2026 and how we do youth ministry. I also have some freebies and some stuff, going along and that I'm going to be giving away. 00:01:40:18 - 00:02:02:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So pay attention to the link down in the description for all of these next couple episodes. But in this episode we're going to be looking at, and the thing that I took away was programing. Okay. And like in the room, if you've ever been to a do I am 100 event, it is hosted by Doug Fields and Josh Griffin, who are both the masters at programing. 00:02:02:09 - 00:02:21:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like to the point that like I think we had we had one session with worship and it was like a special kind of like unplug, more like chapel and like spiritually charged, focused, kind of like session, but otherwise every other kind of like element within the room was done without any sort of worship or without any sort of band. 00:02:21:16 - 00:02:46:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But you never felt like something was missing. Like it was an amazingly programed event. And like, I have taken pride in my own programing to the point that I have my own Patreon show every single week detailing our youth ministry programing, detailing the creativity that we're trying to do. And in a lot of ways, my 9 to 10 different damn conferences that I've been to over the years have helped shape this. 00:02:46:06 - 00:03:05:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, I've taken a lot of my programing strategy and like things that matter to me from my experience at and under a do, I am conference. But in this event, I brought the rest of my team and one of my guys, his name is Ben. Ben is in charge of programing at our church and he took things that I have. 00:03:05:06 - 00:03:38:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Seen and noticed at conferences before in the past. But he's like, we need to implement that to the point he's like, we're going to make that happen. And those things were like the sound effects included and the music that were both happening simultaneous while any event was happening. Well, announcements. Well, funny bits. While different games like all these things all happening, all with different sound effects or different, music tracks being done in the background, like the sound effects, the booth and the, the stage, the, the, the energy that was happening between the two. 00:03:38:25 - 00:03:55:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry He was like, we need to find a way to do that. And that's that's the takeaway that surprised me because I've seen this before and I thought, there's no way our booth can pull it off or it's going to be too distracting. Or maybe we're trying too hard, but Ben, Ben's like, no, we can do this and we're going to pull this off. 00:03:55:19 - 00:04:13:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if you didn't know, I found a link down below, from Crowd Control Games. They have a free, like, audio interface. So all you got to do is load in sound effects or sound bites. You can get them off of, like, YouTube or like a website, like Motion Array, and you can upload those different sound effects. 00:04:13:13 - 00:04:31:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we're going to try those things. And if you head down below, link down below is a completely free Christmas guide. It's actually from an episode linked right here, the top screen, with my friend Eric with the K, who also fun fact was a roommate and a table member at my table that I was leading the, church foyer. 00:04:31:22 - 00:04:51:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Carpet stains. But we did this episode years ago, and, I, I'm putting a little bit of a 2025 spin and refresh on it. And so there's a brand new, completely new game. That should be on the game either now or in the near future. But that's completely for free for you. Those of you that are either free or paid members over on my Patreon. 00:04:51:25 - 00:05:17:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So you can, become a free paid member and get that complete Christmas run sheet. If you haven't already had your Christmas party yet, but you can now include. And I'm going to challenge myself in our ministry to include more sound effects and really like part of what made the conference so engaging and so entertaining was the synchronicity between the upfront people, Griffin and Doug Fields, and the booth. 00:05:17:21 - 00:05:38:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. And so shout out to to them. And so my friend, my coworker Ben was back there and he was asking all the questions and stuff like that. And then sitting in the the Airbnb with my friend Eric later, he's like, look, you can use this thing from crowd control games, with sound effects. And so we're going to download these and we're going to start using them. 00:05:38:08 - 00:06:05:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I think it can just bring about another layer of liveliness and fun and creativity, which is already something that we're trying to do over on our Patreon. So that free Christmas party is linked down below in the show. Imagine it's six minutes per week. Have your entire social media strategy done for you. I mean, think about it like three months of youth ministry content for just $0.23 a minute. 00:06:05:26 - 00:06:26:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Some weeks it takes me seven, other weeks it takes me five. But the point is, and especially at the end of this, as I was sitting in my youth ministry leader cohort, everyone said time management and scheduling was the issue with staying consistent on social. So my recommendation would be take my pack, let it be the the basics of what you do. 00:06:26:14 - 00:06:44:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if you do get busy, if something else comes up, you have something to fall back on. And then when you do have the creative energy to create something more custom and more elaborate, scrap one of mine and put one of your own in there. But mine will at least keep you moving in. And hey, we're trying to welcome 25 00:06:44:12 - 00:06:49:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry new paid hybrid heroes before January begins. 00:06:49:15 - 00:07:15:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so if we hit that goal, if you help me accomplish that goal. So right now we are, like a handful of of those away, where you want to get 25 by the time January starts. If we hit that, I will offer free 30 minute social media audit and coaching session for every single person who has jumped in at the $4 per month membership tier. 00:07:15:11 - 00:07:41:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Listen, if you put that on your church's like professional or continuing development expense account, it's $48 for the year. It will help you with creativity and programing and all the freebies that I offer through my Patreon at any given time. Or if you don't have the church budget for it, it is, less than the cost of a Starbucks latte only one time a month if it comes out of your own personal budget. 00:07:41:10 - 00:08:11:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Either way is incredibly accessible. And the good news is my seasonal social media pack, which is available for everybody at the cost of $17.99, is available for those of you who are $4 a month, Hybrid Hero members is available to you included in the cost. And if we hit this 25, member benchmark, by the time January hits, I will extend a free coaching call to every single person who is in the Hybrid Heroes coaching level tier. 00:08:11:17 - 00:08:28:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so hopefully that is something that is, helpful to you. And so we're going to try and infuse some of our programing now with some of these things I learned from from the denim conference, just observing the programing and some of the games that they put together and some of the chaos and some of the fun. 00:08:28:25 - 00:08:52:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But all of it was was changed with the audio and the sound effects and the playlists and the music choices. It was it was amazing. It was crazy. It was fun. And I want to try your hand at it and, hand the keys over to some of our students in the booth doing that. But in the next episode, I'm actually going to talk about a small group shift that I learned that, I'm passionate about. 00:08:52:03 - 00:09:12:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But the way that Josh Bulman in a workshop presented it absolutely changed the game. And I am sitting down with him for an exclusive interview that you are not going to want to miss. That episode is linked right here on screen. So my friends, go ahead and check that out. But until next time. And as always, don't forget stay hybrid.

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?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=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 screen here. Pole I like pairing like a big font with like a handwritten like script D type font. Cat. And then the captions on TikTok are actually amazing because, you might have seen the ad. 00;07;47;18 - 00;08;10;33 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They'll give you this style option here. And you can add some like, emojis and stuff like that, which are pretty good. And then I'm just going to add some sound instrumental and then I gotta turn this sucker down or it'll be way too loud. All right. So I am right now I'm at 252, so sadly I'm not going to get under three minutes. 00;08;10;37 - 00;08;37;47 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I'm just now finally at the, posting phase. So 345 we're behind and, it's it's not looking good, people. It's not looking good. It's looking like we're we're not going to hit our challenge. But nonetheless, I did the entire thing in three minutes and 45 seconds, an entire devotional from start to finish. It's 837. I got time to now hop over to the rest of the conference. 00;08;37;47 - 00;08;57;39 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I might even go to the bathroom. First I was in the challenge was man on the street. I chose Wednesday night because we invited all of our students to join us at this conference, and so I figured I would be able to find students. And so, full disclosure, I forgot the connection to put these microphones on my camera phone. 00;08;57;44 - 00;09;17;53 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I used this camera, which I have been recording all the other videos all week, instead, which was no big deal. So now I just have a student, creating and caption is B-roll on my phone for this one. Found a couple students. I also forgot my SD card all the way across the creek on the other side. 00;09;17;53 - 00;09;38;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So here's a video of me running back to the other side of the building to grab my SD card to capture it, because I was doing a little bit of editing first, I did accomplish and capture two students in this moment, and I did it quick, and, it was like 38 or something seconds between the two of them. 00;09;38;19 - 00;10;00;55 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I totally could have done that video, but I chose to add a couple other students into the video. And so that, of course, took a while. And then backstage mean the Wi-Fi was taking forever. And so I gave myself a break because it took five minutes and 34 second total from capture, edit and post, and the majority of that time was on post on the Wi-Fi going bad. 00;10;00;55 - 00;10;26;56 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I said, okay, you know what? I did it. I'm going to give myself doing it in four. But sadly, that moment was when I had passed the 16 minute mark, and probably worse than passing the 16 minute mark was the fact that somehow I had successfully uploaded this video to YouTube and TikTok and gotten a fair amount of views, but it posted to Instagram with no sound question mark. 00;10;26;56 - 00;10;49;41 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And one of my students roasted me for that. Thursday was the last day of the conference, and it only went until noon. I have been hosting also on Thursday afternoons, a youth ministry leader cohort in cooperation with my friend Dairy Prescot. When I originally planned the time, I planned it to hopefully avoid issue with the collective. 00;10;49;41 - 00;11;09;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So the first challenge was the post before you get out of your car challenge, which was not a problem. We're in the done for you section, rounding out the last couple of posts here on our challenge. And even though we're past the 16 minute mark, I still want to see what our total amount will end up being when it's all said and done. 00;11;09;01 - 00;11;30;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I did post this before I got out of the car. A very simple Bible verse. No big deal. Super easy. However, run through started seven minutes ago so I'm already late. Well, it's not a big deal to post for. I get out of my car normally I was holding up run through because I was late, but I'm committed to this video and I'm committed to you guys. 00;11;30;20 - 00;11;47;26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then the conference happened and it ended and we said our goodbyes to all of our friends. And then I ran over back across the creek, and I had to jump onto my youth ministry leader cohort at 1230, at which point I did reveal to them that they were a part of a challenge. But only after I did it. 00;11;47;26 - 00;12;06;54 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I tried to secretly post the Spiritual practice video on while I was sitting on my cohort without anybody noticing. And I do think I was successful in that. I was able to get both of those posted, the morning one a minute. So I did complete that challenge in a minute, one of the only few I did in my time allotment. 00;12;06;54 - 00;12;38;51 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then the cohort was a minute and 19. And so in total, we ended with 19 minutes and 16 seconds. And so if you look at the financial breakdown, where you get basically 40 posts for an entire three months, you're looking at less than $0.50 per post, not to mention included in here in bonus ideas are the 100 plus draft and seven questions content, which is even more ideas, so it's even a better deal than $0.46 per post. 00;12;38;51 - 00;13;05;32 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm asking you not to do eight posts per week, but to do three posts per week. Sometimes you do two dozen for you one custom, other times you do two custom one done for you. So it's either 5 minutes or 7 minutes. Imagine it's six minutes per week. Have your entire social media strategy done for you. I mean, think about it like three months of youth ministry content for just $0.23 a minute. 00;13;05;32 - 00;13;26;07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Some weeks it takes me seven, other weeks it takes me five. But the point is, and especially at the end of this, as I was sitting in my youth ministry leader cohort, everyone said time management and scheduling was the issue with staying consistent on social. So my recommendation would be take my pack, let it be the the basics of what you do. 00;13;26;07 - 00;13;45;14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if you do get busy, if something else comes up, you have something to fall back on. And then when you do have the creative energy to create something more custom and more elaborate, scrap one of mine and put one of your own in there. But mine will at least keep you moving in the right direction. Hey everyone, I hope you found this episode helpful. 00;13;45;14 - 00;14;11;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Don't forget the winter pack is now live! Head over to Patreon 1799 to grab it. Or better yet, become a member for just $4 per month. And the 1799 actually. Then converts down to $12. For the three months of being a Patreon member and having access to the winter seasonal social media pack, I just proved that it can be done in less than 20 minutes for all eight post types. 00;14;11;10 - 00;14;16;32 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I hope that you found this episode helpful. But until next time my friends. And as always, don't forget. Stay hybrid.

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?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link FREE E-Book https://www.patreon.com/posts/complete-guide-142500019?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=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?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link CALENDAR https://www.patreon.com/posts/winter-spring-141564188?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=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. This is our, upcoming spring calendar shape and template and colors. And so you can take this, and then you can just add your own icons in your own text on top of it. And then you can get it printed on like a magnet, which is what I do, over on, place like sticker mule. 00:07:08:08 - 00:07:25:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or you can just get it printed out on like cardstock or something big. Using something like Vistaprint or your own, you know, church's printer or whatever, you, whatever you choose to use. But all you gotta do is just put some text on top of this, some icons, maybe a QR code, and you are off to the races and it's fully customized to your context. 00:07:25:23 - 00:07:56:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I've given you the backbone for it and the template, and hopefully you find it helpful. The last secret mystery dish that is included in all of this, right? This is my two X strategy. Youth ministry in three years, because we leaned in, we adopted this strategy. We've seen two x growth. Now, there are other factors I would imagine, beyond just this strategy, but baked into everything that we do, we are always trying to lean in and ask the question, like how can our youth ministry be more hybrid? 00:07:56:05 - 00:08:28:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so this is my hybrid hero's $4 per month membership to you. Here's the truth. If you buy this out of your personal money, it is less than the cost of a Starbucks cup of coffee per month. $4 per month. Included in is all the freebies that I just gave. Like, those are for everyone. Those are all included over on my Patreon as well as it will unlock the seasonal social media pack, which is the exact strategy if you download that, you don't even have to try and create that strategy from scratch. 00:08:28:12 - 00:08:47:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You can just plug and play what I've provided. Now half of them are done for you, right? Which means like plug and play. Off you go. Those are the easy ones, but those aren't the as well performing ones. Those just keep your social media feed afloat. And they they, create a little bit of proof of life, like there's something going on here. 00:08:47:16 - 00:09:13:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The real key to this is the custom part of it, where your faces, your leaders, your students are filmed. And then you can edit them on any sort of editor, any sort of phone editor, and then you can get them posted to your social media. And in all of that, also over on my shop, as a bonus, is my social media checklist for creating a student ministry social media team. 00:09:13:08 - 00:09:44:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you can, send students or adult volunteer leaders or recruit another staff person to take this over so that it's not on your plate. You're the brains behind it. You create the strategy, and then you deploy and enlist your volunteers. And if you put this $4 per month membership to your on your church card and call it, continuing development, it's only $48 over 12 months, and it gives you access to all of my social media packs, as well as a weekly bonus podcast where I. 00:09:44:07 - 00:10:02:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In just a minute, I'm going to click, stop on this video, and I'm going to go over and I'm going to record my weekly recap of what we did in our youth ministry and in our student ministry, how our hybrid ministry strategy is going, what we tried in our program, what went well, what we would scrap. And you can use that as your weekly debrief sounding board. 00:10:02:15 - 00:10:23:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's only $4, per month, and it ends up being $48 for the year. And it would be incredibly helpful, for me if you jumped in on it. But I think it could also be incredibly helpful for you, because it will take care. It will literally pick up social media and take it completely off of your Thanksgiving plate, which in most cases is a bummer. 00:10:23:12 - 00:10:50:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But in this case, as it pertains to workload, it frees you up to do more teaching, to do more counseling, to have more meetings, to have more coffee with people in your church. And you can still look like a pro running social media in your student ministry, rooting for you as you're doing that. And guess what? Next episode linked right here on screen is where I unbox and unlock our Winter social pack that is going to release exactly a week from Thanksgiving. 00:10:50:10 - 00:11:03:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if you're watching this on replay, it's already linked right here. For the rest of you, next Thursday is when the, Winter social pack drops. So can't wait for you to take advantage of that. But until next time. And as always, my friends, don't forget stay hybrid.

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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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 last thing we have here is just, a stack of cards so that if any of our leaders need to write cards to any of their students, they can go about doing that right here. 00:06:26:19 - 00:06:43:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then finally, this is new. Someone added this, in a little bit, unbeknownst to us. We kind of like it. So it says prayers and then, you can we can put some, like, individual, prayer requests right there, there on the screen. And so that's been something that we just added, which is pretty cool. 00:06:43:28 - 00:07:08:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, just one more time as a, take a big someone's prayer and something right now zoom out. This is our leader workroom, and, no students are that. Well, everyone, thank you so much for hanging here for this entire episode. As a reminder, link down below in the description, there are different, links for different things and resources and stuff that we have, linking to different episodes describing our volunteer process. 00:07:08:04 - 00:07:25:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry A free episode like this, hopefully is incredibly helpful to you, but a payment in the form of a like or a subscribe would really make all the difference in the world. And thank you for being here for this questions playlist. The next episode is linked right here on screen. But until next time. And as always my friends, don't forget stay habits.

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 know, it gets on there because it's actually going to happen during this cycle, which I should say, for context, we produce three calendars per year. 00:06:44:09 - 00:07:05:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We produce a fall one, we produce a spring one, and then we also produce a summer one. And so in light of that, we're pumping out calendars three different times per year to get into the hands of students. The fourth level, and this I think, is, one of them, the most impressive, like, decisions that I ever stumbled into. 00:07:05:20 - 00:07:24:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I honestly can't even tell you how I stumbled into it. And I would say that this is the key. However, level five, is a new one that we've recently unlocked, and I think it's even better. But number four is we make this design and then we print this using like sticker mule. We print this on a magnet. 00:07:24:25 - 00:07:43:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Here's the psychology. Here's my thought behind it. Right. Everyone passes out a calendar for the year. There's the sports calendar. There's the academic calendar. And in a lot of cases, there's the youth group calendar. But what I want and maybe this is just my competitiveness, but like I want my calendar to be the thing holding on other calendars. 00:07:43:07 - 00:08:05:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. Like if you got your sports calendar, I want the youth calendar to be the thing that is keeping the sports calendar affixed to the fridge. That puts us on top of it. And they're probably going to choose sports over student ministry. But I just like to think in my own head, like, think about all of these calendars that are on magnets, that are on people's fridges, that are at the top of line, top of sight. 00:08:05:03 - 00:08:33:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And hopefully they're seeing, and remembering and keeping us again, top of mind. The fifth and final level, which I think is like the ultimate is, you'll see here. And you've probably noticed that we actually and this is helpful because of our website, we build our website and our calendar on our website, on the provider of, of nucleus, and on nucleus, what you can do is you can link in a dot ICS, which is an iCal calendar extension. 00:08:33:21 - 00:08:48:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So it's all you put in like your phone. But it's also like a shareable option out of like even a Google calendar. So we create just like a Google Calendar, we keep the Google Calendar up to date. That auto populates to our website, right? Which is like again, and I said, like, you want to make sure that your, your website is up to date. 00:08:48:27 - 00:09:09:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if people land on your website, that's information is not on your your big calendar, your highlight calendar, your magnet calendar that they do end up on your website, they're able to obtain the information that they need and that they're looking for. But then we've created a QR code where they can simply subscribe to the calendar in their phones. 00:09:09:07 - 00:09:32:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so this is, in my opinion, the penultimate, because this makes these, at a glance calendars great, but not the most crucial thing. I think a lot of youth pastors treat this calendars the most crucial thing. But what happens when students don't have access to it? What happens when they lose it? What happens when you give it to them and they accidentally set it down before they get it into the hands of their parents? 00:09:32:18 - 00:09:56:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If a parent can subscribe to our calendar, then they will never miss an event. They'll never miss an update. It will be populated onto the very device and onto the very app that they use to manage and control their entire life. Their calendar app. And what a better place than for your youth ministry and your church calendar to be on parents phones and on students phones. 00:09:56:22 - 00:10:18:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so put a QR code, put some sort of link where they can go and they can subscribe to the events. And so all of the events are exactly where they're supposed to be and where you ultimately want them to be at the end of the day, remember, the goal of this is communication so that people know what's going on and that they then also hopefully choose to attend your church and your event in your youth group. 00:10:18:04 - 00:10:39:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The the goal and this is not a beautiful calendar. Hopefully we can help you create one. And once again link down below free in the in the podcast or YouTube description. But the goal is communication at its core. And so that fifth and final layer adding adding a QR code so that people and parents can, subscribe to your church and your youth ministry calendar. 00:10:40:01 - 00:10:54:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Such a game changer. Well, hey everyone, the next episode is linked right here on the screen as well as the subscribe button. If you found this episode helpful, a payment for this free calendar would be amazing. 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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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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 How to Teach a Wild Room 00:48 I’m a glutton for chaos 01:56 Level 1: Tell Them 03:50 Level 2: Know Them 07:40 Level 3: Include Them 08:59 Level 4: Engage Them 10:44 Level 5: Teach Them -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:07 - 00:00:24:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You know, that moment that you're trying to teach, and two kids start whispering to each other, someone's throwing a sock, and somehow some how slime is involved. 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 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. 00:07:06:14 - 00:07:26:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And did you know that monthly Hybrid hero 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. 00:07:26:25 - 00:07:55:08 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 thing I want to, challenge you to do is to include them, right? Like include the students. And so one of the things that we do is in addition to the breaks is while we're in the gaps of our teaching, we'll also include moments that we call table talks. 00:07:55:08 - 00:08:16:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if you don't have the ability to set tables, you can also call it a turn and talk. And you still get the alliteration, which is exactly what all of us Baptists want to do. But we have to somehow try and move our students from a passive consumer to an active contributor. And I get it. Like most churches in America, especially like big church where you're senior pastors, preaching is a passive consumer setting. 00:08:16:08 - 00:08:36:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But we say you need to get involved in serve. You need to get involved in the community. You need to get involved in the life of our church. And yet then the way to get involved is just make sure that you come and sit here and listen to us talk instead. What if you gave them an opportunity to, think through this, to analyze, to evaluate, to discuss, to wrestle with the truth that's coming at them from God's Word. 00:08:36:27 - 00:08:47:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And when I'm teaching, teaching, teaching. And then all of a sudden I throw a table, talk. They're not allowed to just sit there like this anymore. 00:08:47:28 - 00:09:12:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I don't, I will, I wasn't listening. Well, what do you say to when I throw a table talk? I say, hey, listen out loud with words. Go. The fourth level is to engage them. So give breaks, create table talk. So these are both natural rhythms and breaks and pattern interrupts that are going to help with the kind of Marvel theory, the keep it moving. 00:09:12:08 - 00:09:34:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Keep it going. Don't get stale, don't get stagnant seven second thing but now when you're actually teaching, use creativity. And once again, this is why I have my Patreon, because I want to help you lean into your creativity. You can make your illustrations better, right? Like we're using Collider. And one of the lessons, was talking about a dog pooping on the lawn. 00:09:34:22 - 00:10:06:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, that's a great illustration of a self collider. Best curriculum on the planet. Use hybrid ministry. 1001 word to get 10% off your first year of it. But I punched it up a little bit. How I, I took their dog pooping illustration, and I added a photo of a cute dog. All right. And then after adding the photo of the cute dog, I decided, hey, let's name this cute dog to the point that as I'm making this illustration about forgiveness of a dog pooping on your front lawn, I had a student all the way leaned in, eventually. 00:10:06:21 - 00:10:38:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Say we named the dog Buttercup based off the sidekick voting feature. I said, hey, Buttercup, is cooked, okay? And you got to be using sidekick on the regular because you can add in things. And I added this one on the fly. In fact, on the episode, I just recorded five minutes ago, the breakdown episode, I explained to you how I came up with this and how I instituted it, and link down below in the show notes will help you know how you can run sidekick and pro presenter at the exact same time, but you need to engage their creativity. 00:10:39:05 - 00:11:00:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You need to make your your lessons and your illustrations more creative and help them lean in. And then the fifth and final, level here of, teaching a wild room is to actually teach them, like, actually teach them God's Word. In fact, in an episode link down below, I talk about a couple students who came up to me afterward and they said, you need to do that more. 00:11:00:25 - 00:11:28:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I was like, what is that? And they said, you, you actually like, taught us, like you gave us like a sheet of paper or our Bible, and you were underlining and circling and drawing arrows and, and helping, create like parallels between different like things in the text, like, do that more like actually leaning in to teach them, not just give them a motivational message, not just give them creativity, not just break up our programing, but actually teach them something valuable and meaningful found in God's Word. 00:11:28:22 - 00:11:50:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's the fifth level of helping tame a wild room and doing all five of these things on a regular and consistent basis for us has really helped lean in and created value and opportunity within our youth ministry. Well, hey everyone, I hope you found this episode helpful. Tap the next episode. Subscribe here on screen. But until next time and as always, don't forget stay hybrid.

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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 committee that you're sitting down with and having this discussion. It will show you what they are looking for and what they are valuing. 00:06:52:28 - 00:07:17:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry As a youth pastor, when a youth pastor comes into their their church. And another thing that you might notice is they may have some very strict particular ideas and you might ask like, so how did how did it end with the last person that was here? And you might come to notice that they're trying to interview for the opposite person, especially if it ended badly. 00:07:17:08 - 00:07:35:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you that's not a red flag. That's not a reason to say no to the job. But it's it's worthwhile for you to take note of, okay, I'm up against this person's performance and the expectations that this person brought to the job, and they're trying to find someone a little bit different, and you're going to have to at least be able to speak to that. 00:07:35:16 - 00:07:53:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if they say this person has to be incredibly organized, you say, is it okay if I stack a team of people around me to help me be organized? Because that might not be my strong suit or or something like that, but be prepared to respond to that question. If I did a great job, what did I do? 00:07:53:12 - 00:07:53:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The fourth 00:07:53:29 - 00:08:18:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry level, which is the mentor mode level, is the tip I want to have for you is have a defined philosophy of ministry for yourself. If you know why you do what you do, then when you get in, you start talking Fortnite lock ins and ideas like, I'm just going to be honest, when I, as an interviewer, get a bunch of like ideas of like youth ministry stuff, I genuinely don't care. 00:08:18:24 - 00:08:37:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the reason I don't care is not because I don't think those aren't good ideas, but those aren't the real needle movers. The real needle movers are the ideas that are tied to a genuine biblical purpose. So in our church, we kind of operate out of like a four chair disciple making model. Other churches or other people like I would recommend. 00:08:37:12 - 00:09:11:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you don't know anything about a philosophy of ministry, before you hop into an interview, take a look through either one of these two books, Purpose Driven Youth Ministry by the goat himself, Doug Fields, or for Chair Discipleship by Dan Spader. Or better yet, read them both. But everything you do. We just had this discussion last week with my my current interns, residents and staff, and we said everything we do around here is incredibly strategic and incredibly tied to a reason and a biblical purpose, even if from the outside looking in, you're like, you guys are just the hybrid ministry. 00:09:11:13 - 00:09:35:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Social media people like, know every single reason by what we do on social media ties back to a particular meaningful moment and meaningful reason and meaningful purpose. And while you're in the interview, the test for you, once you have your philosophy of ministry laid out, is you need to try and listen for balance in their in their line of questioning across all the lanes of disciple making. 00:09:35:10 - 00:10:03:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry For example, they might lean heavy evangelism. So while you're in there, the test question that you might have is you may ask them about their, disciple making culture, or they might lean heavy on education and discipleship. And you might ask them, what's the last outreach event that you've had? So the test is you want to try and listen for an aim for some measure of balance and, and, churches tend to skew and lean, either strong discipleship, strong evangelism, strong worship, strong serving. 00:10:03:07 - 00:10:17:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But you want to try and listen for or ask about, right? And if you have a philosophy of ministry and they don't talk about worship at all, you might ask about what's your opinion of worship? How does you know? How does your church? How does your youth ministry attempt to approach that? 00:10:17:06 - 00:10:21:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The fifth and final level, which is the boss level, which is where the twist comes in? 00:10:22:03 - 00:10:43:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The tip is this. The tip is flip. The interview and interview them. Right. The the bottom line about all this is this is the church isn't just choosing you though. They are. You're also choosing them. You have to decide, do I want to work? Here's this type of place I want to be. Do I like them right during this interview process, do they? 00:10:44:02 - 00:11:00:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They treat me well because here's the fact they're going to treat you in the interview process as well as their as well. Excuse me, as well as they're ever going to treat you. And can you see yourself and can you see even maybe more importantly, especially if you have a wife and kids, can you see your family there long term? 00:11:00:27 - 00:11:19:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. This is the secret cheat code that sets you apart. That is the test. That is the twist is that you are going to be interviewing them. And you see all throughout the test I offer our different little like subtle tests where you're trying to gain Intel and you're trying to come to an understanding of the church as well. 00:11:19:16 - 00:11:42:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so the cheat code for this is that when you learn to interview them, they also because A you're going to be curious. They like that. They like when people are curious they like when people are asking questions. So if you think that this helped you level up your interview game, hit the subscribe button that you see here on screen, as well as hit this next episode button. 00:11:42:21 - 00:11:58:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We're going to be answering some more questions and, trying to head through different layers and levels of youth ministry. It will help you both crush your weekly ministry as well as help you get a new job in the future. But until next time and as always, my friends, don't forget stay happy.

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 social media? 00:06:16:11 - 00:06:45:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry 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. 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. 00:06:45:27 - 00:07:05:24 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. 00:07:05:24 - 00:07:22:24 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. 00:07:22:24 - 00:07:37:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The other thing that we use is a feature called Digital Notes, which is just a US leaning into the resource and the platform of the YouVersion Bible app, live event section that, YouVersion includes. 00:07:37:06 - 00:07:59:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we set up a YouVersion live events, reading plan. Or it's not even a reading plan necessarily, but a YouVersion live events to follow along with the notes every single week. And like I said, we sit at tables and so we have like a little placard, plastic about this big. It sits in the middle of the table and it says, follow along with this week's digital notes, and it's got a QR code. 00:07:59:28 - 00:08:27:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so the QR code stays the same. But then on our QR code service generator, we turn around and we change the link to that every single week. So we change the link to the newest, iteration of the digital notes of the YouVersion, events plan. And so, they can also, you know, navigate into it and find it on the YouVersion live, section of the YouVersion events, and they can follow along. 00:08:27:10 - 00:08:49:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry As you know, we're very like, video centric and hybrid ministry centric youth ministry. So we create thumbnails for all of our talks. And so all of our in-room talks also have the thumbnails that go at the top of the YouVersion live events plan. But the, other beautiful thing, frankly, about the YouVersion live events plan is you can link to things external. 00:08:49:16 - 00:09:10:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So once they're on there, you got them hooked in and you can help them follow along. You can ask them questions and they're things that they can interact with. They can highlight scripture, they can take notes. But then you can also include external links. So we have a next step like form on our website that we use. And so at the end of every single lesson we say are you ready to take a next step? 00:09:10:12 - 00:09:30:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Click here to let us know and it'll navigate them off to our website. And then the final piece in the YouVersion events is we include a Bible reading plan that relates to the topic of sorts. And so any single given week a student on the YouVersion live event plan, they are encouraged or asked at least if they want to take some sort of spiritual next step. 00:09:30:13 - 00:09:37:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And they're also fed some sort of Bible reading plan. And so I want to point that out as a way to say we have 00:09:37:13 - 00:09:55:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry use phones and sidekick gives us a sliver of that. But our digital notes really opens up a wide avenue of ways that we can help students take next steps and be more intentional and meaningful during the lesson, so that they're using their phones to follow along with what's going on. 00:09:55:15 - 00:10:15:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, I told you I made a calculated risk with tables. I also want to let you know that phones is another calculated risk. And in fact, like one of the one of the comments on this post of the question that I'm reading said, man, just let kids have their phones, stop making it a fight. And like I tend to actually agree with that guy, but I will let you know. 00:10:15:00 - 00:10:37:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like phones are still a fight and they are still a distraction. Just last week, two nights ago in our youth group, one of our leaders, one of our table leaders. So we have students that are in, senior high that are leading groups in discussions. He was playing a game on his phone, and one of our staff one up, and they said, our table leaders are allowed to play games on their phones. 00:10:37:01 - 00:10:54:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And he knew the answer to that was like, no. And so he had to go to that kid and say, hey, put your phone down. So if that's coming from one of our leaders, it's there's that much even trickle down to the rest of students. So, well, hear me say, what we do is not foolproof, all right. But it's a calculated risk that I'm willing to take. 00:10:54:01 - 00:11:12:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And one that when a student brings their friend for the first time and a mom and dad. Imagine this. Your parent, you send your kid to imagine you send your kid to a completely different denomination or different religion to go with one of their friends, and then they don't have their phones for an hour. How would you feel if you couldn't get in contact with them? 00:11:12:17 - 00:11:32:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You know, we're the millennial generation of of parents. We want to have contact with our children, especially if we've paid for and given them a phone. And so we try not to make that an obstacle for people to be able to come into our ministry. But again, it's a calculated risk and one that we are, used to, fighting and using. 00:11:32:11 - 00:11:48:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So let us know down below in the comments what you do in your youth ministry as it pertains to cell phones. And go ahead and subscribe what you see right here on the screen and check out the next question. Video. There's also here on screen. But until next time. And as always my friends, don't forget stay happy.

These 5 Shifts in my approach to volunteers revolutionized by youth ministry. These aren’t quick hacks — they’re the foundational principles that changed my thinking but they led to real, measurable growth. The best news of all, not for me in the moment, but you is that each of these shifts were like levels in a video game that come with the big bad boss of a failure story that I had to defeat, from one of my 15 years in youth ministry, each boss becoming more and more epic, the final one left me questioning not only my job, but my career in ministry. 🍂 FALL SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-seasonal-137477671?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link 🦸 HYBRID HEROES GET THE PACK FOR FREE! https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/171 100th Episode - How it Started https://youtu.be/q0L-Dxhs7cI 👉 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 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 of time to write 25 notes between five of them, you know what I'm saying? But I didn't delegate it to them. So therefore the fail was that it ended up on my desk the very next day. And I had, instead of five cards to write, which is what five different volunteers with 25 cards would have, written. 00:06:46:15 - 00:07:06:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I wrote all 25 of them, and so I had to learn to start delegating. And it took a minute. And that's part of the the, the fail in this is that it takes a minute to get up over that initial hurdle of creating a system of delegation, like getting the postcards down there, telling them where they are, telling them how to check on who the first time guests are. 00:07:06:20 - 00:07:27:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You know how we're going to handle that, because they might not know in the moment, like when a kid checks in. But once we get past all of that, then, I start to experience a little bit more, success. And I beat that level. Of delegation. We all know that there's only a certain amount of capacity that any one person has, and you might be a person with an extraordinarily high capacity. 00:07:27:25 - 00:07:47:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But as your church and as your youth ministry grows, you're going to reach a breaking point where you definitely need to move on and defeat that big bad boss to delegation. Which led me then to my third level, where I had to shift my mindset, from the event is this is the event level. I had to move from event to hybrid. 00:07:47:03 - 00:08:06:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the fail is that early on in some of my early on days, every single event was crucial, and every single attendance marker in that event was even more crucial. So if we had a big event, the first thing I was doing was I was checking guest cards and I was checking our, check in kiosks because I wanted to see how many kids we had. 00:08:06:21 - 00:08:24:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I thought to myself, you know, like, if we have this event and last event we had, say 50 kids, I wanted to get to 55, or I wanted to get to 60, or I wanted to get to 65. And I started to put all my effort and my worth honestly into that bottom line number. And I started making it all about events. 00:08:24:26 - 00:08:46:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then Covid happened and what I realized during Covid, was that we had and I actually share this entire story right here at this video linked up, here at the top of the screen in my 100th episode, I made a little documentary style, like, kind of how and where this hybrid thing all came from. But what I realized was that there were multiple avenues of touch points. 00:08:46:02 - 00:09:09:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In fact, my very first day, on a job at a church was the first day of Covid. And in that I realized, out of sheer like constraints, like we didn't have in-person, I couldn't speak to the students live in a room. So all of the normal touchpoints were gone. And so I had to get creative about how we can still connect with students through writing things like postcards, which probably were some of that started. 00:09:09:17 - 00:09:27:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I wasn't delegating quite yet. Right. Or, social media or all those types of things. And that's really where a lot of this hybrid stuff came from, realizing that we can still do pastoral care even when we're not in the room. Now, I wouldn't recommend, like, Covid going back to that where we we're never in the room and that's never a possibility. 00:09:27:29 - 00:09:45:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But there's some both and right there's there's the both of being able to be in the room and also some of the pastoral care that can happen when we're not in the room and we can lean in to some of that sort of hybrid thing. And so the fail was when I would ride or die based off of some of those event numbers. 00:09:45:25 - 00:10:02:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I had to get over and realize that Covid allows me to have more touch points with it, which is honestly the entire reason why this podcast exists. 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? 00:10:02:15 - 00:10:31:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry 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. 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. 00:10:32:02 - 00:10:51:27 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 hero 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. 00:10:51:27 - 00:11:11:09 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. The fourth level is to move. 00:11:11:11 - 00:11:35:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is called the desperation level. I don't know if you've ever been there before, but you look at a spreadsheet and you just realize, like, man, I have so many gaps. I have so many holes in our, volunteer schedule and so you're desperate and you're recruiting people that, might not even be the best fit. You're recruiting people that you don't even really want to recruit, but you are desperate. 00:11:35:16 - 00:11:55:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, the shift I had to make was I had to move from desperation to confidence. And the confidence comes from this. Right. And I don't know how to tell you to to move from this aside from prayer, and just a mindset shift. But the confidence should come from the fact that this is not your student ministry. 00:11:55:06 - 00:12:12:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And while, yes, you're being paid to run and manage this student ministry, this is God's church. And Jesus told Peter that the gates of hell will not prevail against his church, that he is going to set up like you have the ability. And so therefore, you should have the confidence to lean on that promise. This is God's church. 00:12:12:20 - 00:12:31:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is God's student ministry. And so you don't have to be desperate. He cares more about it than you do. And so I will tell you one year, this is the boss that I had to defeat. This is the fail story that I had to overcome. One year I was, rolling hard. Like the weeks were just going by me to do. 00:12:31:10 - 00:12:49:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And all of a sudden, like, the the drop dead deadline for me where I needed to have all my leaders in place for small groups and new students and promotion week, we did it at the end of the summer. And so it was like early to mid August, which meant by like Labor Day or maybe even a little bit before that was going to be back to school. 00:12:49:14 - 00:13:04:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We were going to be having new students roll on up into our student ministry, and this particular class of students had a couple of kids in it that were, known throughout the entire church that like, they were tough ones. Right. And so I was having a really hard time because no one really wanted to be their leader. 00:13:04:23 - 00:13:27:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, I was I was trying in that moment to practice the confidence. And I remember, low key inside freaking out. But I was sitting in church, okay. And I just, I remember exactly where I was sitting, and I looked across the auditorium a little bit of the ways, and I laid eyes on just this dude. 00:13:27:06 - 00:13:45:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I knew, that he worked with, the homeless shelter in town. I knew that he had kind of like a, history of volunteering in sort of that arena and and he worked with a demographics that were maybe a little bit, above and beyond what our normal volunteers were used to working with, let's just say. 00:13:45:08 - 00:14:06:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I looked at him and I felt the Spirit of God say, go ask him. And so I went straight over to him and I said, hey, I got an idea for you, and I got a proposition. And we hadn't even really met. Right? Like his, his step kids were in my ministry, so like, we had that relationship like him, and I hadn't really talked very much, and he jumped in, and it was a beautiful pairing. 00:14:06:16 - 00:14:24:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It was a beautiful like decision. Like he was exactly the right guy for that moment. And I just remember I look back at that story a lot of times and that's a success story, frankly. But it was almost a fail story because I almost didn't have enough volunteers to start the year. But God reminded me, this is my student ministry. 00:14:24:21 - 00:14:43:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is not yours. And so, you should still put the work in. You should still make the asks, you should still do the recruiting. But at the end of the day, you can operate out of a position of confidence. And quite frankly, this is something that I'm always working on because even in my current setting right now, we're still short a few volunteers. 00:14:43:23 - 00:15:03:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I'm not trying to be desperate. I'm trying to come from a position of strength, and I'm trying to come from a position of confidence. And when I did that in my spirit, well, maybe not all the holes got plugged from a pragmatic standpoint in my spirit, I was able to rest and relax and just lean on God and realizing this is his student ministry. 00:15:03:25 - 00:15:20:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Which leads me to my fifth level. And it was the arrogance level, right? Very similar to level two, which is the Lone Ranger level behind the Lone Ranger level is this idea that, like, I can do it and I want people to know that I can do it, that I can do an amazing job in the Lone Ranger level. 00:15:20:03 - 00:15:43:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's I'm just bad at delegating. But in this level, not only was I bad at delegating, I refused to delegate because I wanted the glory. I wanted the accolades, I wanted the credit and the the massive fail story. And this is, I was brand new in a church, and I changed what they did for camp. So the first year I went, it was my actual very first week on the job. 00:15:43:09 - 00:16:04:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I went to camp the very next year. I knew in my spirit I wanted to run my own camp. I wanted, all of the the glory, all the accolades that went along with that. And I could have gotten my leaders on board, but I was a being a lone Ranger and b being arrogant because I wanted to prove that I could do it, and I wanted them to be impressed with what I could do and what I could pull off. 00:16:04:12 - 00:16:21:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And frankly, what we pulled off was great. And we had a lot of like, God still used it, right? It's like that verse where where Paul says, like, I don't care why people are preaching. Like the fact that, Jesus is being preached like that's still the wind, but like, in that, like I lost a lot of equity. 00:16:21:12 - 00:16:42:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I lost a lot of track record. I lost a lot of trust with my leaders. And one night I was sitting out outside on, like a bank at the camp, kind of in a private spot, fielding a phone call from my senior pastor who said, hey, listen, if you wouldn't have handled this conversation a little bit better, we might be talking about your job. 00:16:42:06 - 00:17:03:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I was I was in that moment was one of my deepest, darkest, worst kind of moments in all of ministry. And simply, it was because I needed to make the shift from arrogance to humility and realized that the the leaders that God had put around me got to put around them, put them around me, to help maybe overcome some of the weaknesses that he knew that that I had. 00:17:03:15 - 00:17:28:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I could lean on them and I could trust them. And they were willing participants and willing people there that wanted to help me. I had to defeat that big, bad boss of arrogance. So these five leadership shifts have absolutely revolutionized my thinking. From chaos to control, from Lone Ranger to delegation, from event based to a hybrid ministry strategy, from desperation to confidence, and finally from arrogance to humility. 00:17:28:26 - 00:17:38:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I pray, and I hope that you can make those five shifts in your youth ministry and in your volunteer leadership delegation rooting you on. And don't forget, my friends, to stay hybrid.

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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 all of these sort of like ren fair ideas around it. And so, you know, we talked about, you know, the importance or not, the importance of we it was an invite. 00:05:50:04 - 00:06:08:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we didn't have like a message or anything, but, we had all sorts of different, like, medieval themed games. We did the impossible shot with the bow and arrow. We did like, a giant scavenger hunt. We got a joust. We even looked into getting turkey legs, but that was either a impossible or B cost prohibitive. 00:06:08:01 - 00:06:29:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I can't remember exactly the reason why, but either way we didn't come up with it. But then in and around it, we played Loot and Lunacy and we broke it up into two chunks. We played some at the beginning and we played some at the end. And, you know, here's the fact is, I actually, because this is recent, I detailed an outline this entire episode over on a recent bonus Patreon podcast episode. 00:06:29:16 - 00:06:40:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I get on and I talk every single week. Actually, as soon as this episode hits stop, I'm gonna turn around and a record and recap last night's, last night's Youth Mystery, which was we had an 00:06:40:20 - 00:06:50:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry amazing, like, custom game that came out of like one of our, team members just heads like, it was fantastic. And I can't wait to share it with you. 00:06:50:03 - 00:07:11:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So click the link down below. And guess what? You also get access to the seasonal summer social media pack. 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. 00:07:11:03 - 00:07:30:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You see, you don't need that kind of stress this fall. That's why I created this the fast 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. 00:07:30:17 - 00:07:50:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Instagram, TikTok and YouTube shorts feed. 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. 00:07:51:03 - 00:08:11:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Where the pack is 1799. 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. Moving on. 00:08:11:27 - 00:08:31:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Talking about back to school bashes. That was a like back to school night, medieval themed back school bash. The mistake I made in that is that. Do you know how to spell medieval? I spelled it wrong so many times. And emails out to parents. The whole thing. And I 00:08:31:02 - 00:08:33:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry still don't even know if I know how to spell it. 00:08:33:05 - 00:08:40:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Grammarly tells me it's medieval, but I was spelling it MLG. Easy io. 00:08:40:18 - 00:08:45:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But then I had to spell it mega. I even I like it, I messed it up 00:08:45:24 - 00:09:06:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry so many times. So don't be like me and look up how to spell medieval before you send out emails to parents. But, typically a back to school bash for me, growing up in youth ministry and this is like a big event, a party and a bunch of, like, those giant inflatables and like, you know, obstacle courses, not bounce houses. 00:09:06:16 - 00:09:29:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Exactly, but like, obstacle courses, jousts, Velcro wall, like the hanging wrecking ball, the bucking bronco, like stuff like that. And so one year I had, created a special events team, and there's a guy at our church who's super awesome, super willing to help, but, like, didn't want to be, like, necessarily like a youth leader. But he was like, I'll be on like the events team, which was great. 00:09:29:24 - 00:09:50:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I had our students helpline the night and like what they wanted for food. And they said they wanted Buffalo Wild Wings, which was great and so called ahead place to order. And you know, all the inflatables, all the things are going, kids are showing up, but the food's not there. And I had sent this guy and his name was Tim to go out and grab the Buffalo Wild Wings. 00:09:50:12 - 00:10:09:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Order. And I had placed it ready to be picked up at, you know, let's say 615. Well, he told me that when he got there that they didn't start preparing the order of nearly 250 wings until he arrived at 615, and it was supposed to be ready to pick up at 615. And I said, no, it was supposed to be pick up. 00:10:09:07 - 00:10:33:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry He said, that's what I told them. And they even said, oh yeah, but we want your wings to be fresh. And so he was like 45 minutes late and all the kids are like, where's the wings? So when you're doing catering and when you're doing a big giant pickup order like that, like just make sure the restaurants don't do harebrained stuff like wait until you get there to start preparing it, which is going to then make it like an hour late. 00:10:33:01 - 00:10:52:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Good grief. Event idea number four is last year actually linked right here? I discussed our Christmas movie bracket. And what we did out of that. And again, this is another good plug for my Patreon as I discussed in detail and outlined all of this in my Patreon as well. But we did a bracket which is movies go head to head. 00:10:52:05 - 00:11:09:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In fact, this was the member resource back in, youth ministry back in December of 2024. So if you remember, you might even have access to this for free. Otherwise, I'll put the link down in the show notes. You can go grab it for just a few bucks, but kids vote head to head on different Christmas movies. 00:11:09:18 - 00:11:33:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then what we did was that was just running in the background. In the month of November. But then what we did was the winner was what became our Christmas movie night. And then my boss shout out to Darren, he did a, he added a flavor of bring your own chair to the Christmas movie night. And so kids are coming in and in shopping carts and in camping chairs, and one group even brought a full air mattress to sit on. 00:11:33:18 - 00:11:54:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we took all the chairs out of our auditorium and we played the movie, up on the screen. And the kids brought all their own chairs. Now, the mistake that I made in this event was trusting that ChatGPT would know where all of the homeland Swearwords were, because I actually edited, I was going to edit out any cuss words from the Home Alone movie. 00:11:54:16 - 00:12:22:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so ChatGPT told me. And then what happened was, by the grace of God himself, I was thinking about a certain part of the movie, and I remember, oh, there's a swear word there. And I didn't edit that out, so I had to go back in and reedit it, a reedit another edit that after one I had already made, because the first one I made was I was trusting ChatGPT to give me accurate information, and alas, it gave me some accurate information, but not entirely accurate information. 00:12:22:09 - 00:12:41:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So check your AI chat bots people. And then finally, the fifth idea that I have is a Super Bowl party. If you are a youth group that meets on Sunday nights, you're obligated to do something with the Super Bowl. Now, what I would recommend from a philosophical standpoint is if you're ones in a group, don't add a Super Bowl party to it. 00:12:41:23 - 00:12:55:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But if you're sending a group, you've got to figure out what you're going to do. And so I remember the first year that I was at a church that had converted from Wednesday to Sunday. And so in comes along the Super Bowl and all of a sudden people were like, oh yeah, we got church and don't we? And they're like, where are we going to meet? 00:12:55:29 - 00:13:13:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we had a Super Bowl party at my house and it was averagely attended. It wasn't great. And so, the and everyone was like, well, we got a party with these people every year and we do this this time of year. And so I was like, I'm not doing that. I'm not competing with the Super Bowl anymore. 00:13:13:07 - 00:13:31:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Not to mention, I like sports. I want to watch the Super Bowl. And if I'm running a party, I don't get to watch. I don't get to lock in. I don't get to pay attention to the Super Bowl. And so the mistake, I would say, of, doing the Super Bowl party is actually having one. However, if you're a Sunday night meeting youth ministry, what do you do instead? 00:13:31:28 - 00:14:03:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, I, I moved up our party, in the next couple of years, and we started doing, like, a pre-game or like a tailgating party. And I know those have negative connotations, but just like a before the Super Bowl party of the Super Bowl party. But we're done by the time Super Bowl parties are so big obstacle course in the middle of our, our space and, some football trivia and, I think we did, like, Nerf wars in a room, actually, and I ended up hiring a DJ, which, another mistake was that deejay was awesome. 00:14:03:17 - 00:14:35:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, he wasn't like some, like, low level DJ. He was so good. And the music was so loud, and the kids, complained. They're like, I couldn't hear myself think. And so I had to go ask him to turn the music down a little bit. That was another mistake. But all in all, super fun. I encourage kids wear jerseys and whatever, but we did it on Super Bowl Sunday, just a few hours before the game started, and then if you are like me and you like sports and you like football, you wrap your event up and you're home in your recliner by 6 p.m. and you're watching the game, you don't have to 00:14:35:19 - 00:14:52:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry worry about commercials. You don't have to worry about halftime shows except for your own stuff. You just get to enjoy the game for itself. So those are five of my favorite theme nights. Comment down below what your favorite youth ministry theme night is, and tab this video here on screen so that you can check out the next one and be sure to give us a subscribe. 00:14:52:29 - 00:14:56:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But until next time, and as always, my friends, don't forget, say habit.

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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 all of these sort of like ren fair ideas around it. And so, you know, we talked about, you know, the importance or not, the importance of we it was an invite. 00:05:50:04 - 00:06:08:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we didn't have like a message or anything, but, we had all sorts of different, like, medieval themed games. We did the impossible shot with the bow and arrow. We did like, a giant scavenger hunt. We got a joust. We even looked into getting turkey legs, but that was either a impossible or B cost prohibitive. 00:06:08:01 - 00:06:29:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I can't remember exactly the reason why, but either way we didn't come up with it. But then in and around it, we played Loot and Lunacy and we broke it up into two chunks. We played some at the beginning and we played some at the end. And, you know, here's the fact is, I actually, because this is recent, I detailed an outline this entire episode over on a recent bonus Patreon podcast episode. 00:06:29:16 - 00:06:40:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I get on and I talk every single week. Actually, as soon as this episode hits stop, I'm gonna turn around and a record and recap last night's, last night's Youth Mystery, which was we had an 00:06:40:20 - 00:06:50:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry amazing, like, custom game that came out of like one of our, team members just heads like, it was fantastic. And I can't wait to share it with you. 00:06:50:03 - 00:07:11:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So click the link down below. And guess what? You also get access to the seasonal summer social media pack. 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. 00:07:11:03 - 00:07:30:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You see, you don't need that kind of stress this fall. That's why I created this the fast 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. 00:07:30:17 - 00:07:50:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Instagram, TikTok and YouTube shorts feed. 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. 00:07:51:03 - 00:08:11:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Where the pack is 1799. 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. Moving on. 00:08:11:27 - 00:08:31:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Talking about back to school bashes. That was a like back to school night, medieval themed back school bash. The mistake I made in that is that. Do you know how to spell medieval? I spelled it wrong so many times. And emails out to parents. The whole thing. And I 00:08:31:02 - 00:08:33:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry still don't even know if I know how to spell it. 00:08:33:05 - 00:08:40:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Grammarly tells me it's medieval, but I was spelling it MLG. Easy io. 00:08:40:18 - 00:08:45:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But then I had to spell it mega. I even I like it, I messed it up 00:08:45:24 - 00:09:06:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry so many times. So don't be like me and look up how to spell medieval before you send out emails to parents. But, typically a back to school bash for me, growing up in youth ministry and this is like a big event, a party and a bunch of, like, those giant inflatables and like, you know, obstacle courses, not bounce houses. 00:09:06:16 - 00:09:29:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Exactly, but like, obstacle courses, jousts, Velcro wall, like the hanging wrecking ball, the bucking bronco, like stuff like that. And so one year I had, created a special events team, and there's a guy at our church who's super awesome, super willing to help, but, like, didn't want to be, like, necessarily like a youth leader. But he was like, I'll be on like the events team, which was great. 00:09:29:24 - 00:09:50:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I had our students helpline the night and like what they wanted for food. And they said they wanted Buffalo Wild Wings, which was great and so called ahead place to order. And you know, all the inflatables, all the things are going, kids are showing up, but the food's not there. And I had sent this guy and his name was Tim to go out and grab the Buffalo Wild Wings. 00:09:50:12 - 00:10:09:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Order. And I had placed it ready to be picked up at, you know, let's say 615. Well, he told me that when he got there that they didn't start preparing the order of nearly 250 wings until he arrived at 615, and it was supposed to be ready to pick up at 615. And I said, no, it was supposed to be pick up. 00:10:09:07 - 00:10:33:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry He said, that's what I told them. And they even said, oh yeah, but we want your wings to be fresh. And so he was like 45 minutes late and all the kids are like, where's the wings? So when you're doing catering and when you're doing a big giant pickup order like that, like just make sure the restaurants don't do harebrained stuff like wait until you get there to start preparing it, which is going to then make it like an hour late. 00:10:33:01 - 00:10:52:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Good grief. Event idea number four is last year actually linked right here? I discussed our Christmas movie bracket. And what we did out of that. And again, this is another good plug for my Patreon as I discussed in detail and outlined all of this in my Patreon as well. But we did a bracket which is movies go head to head. 00:10:52:05 - 00:11:09:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In fact, this was the member resource back in, youth ministry back in December of 2024. So if you remember, you might even have access to this for free. Otherwise, I'll put the link down in the show notes. You can go grab it for just a few bucks, but kids vote head to head on different Christmas movies. 00:11:09:18 - 00:11:33:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then what we did was that was just running in the background. In the month of November. But then what we did was the winner was what became our Christmas movie night. And then my boss shout out to Darren, he did a, he added a flavor of bring your own chair to the Christmas movie night. And so kids are coming in and in shopping carts and in camping chairs, and one group even brought a full air mattress to sit on. 00:11:33:18 - 00:11:54:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we took all the chairs out of our auditorium and we played the movie, up on the screen. And the kids brought all their own chairs. Now, the mistake that I made in this event was trusting that ChatGPT would know where all of the homeland Swearwords were, because I actually edited, I was going to edit out any cuss words from the Home Alone movie. 00:11:54:16 - 00:12:22:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so ChatGPT told me. And then what happened was, by the grace of God himself, I was thinking about a certain part of the movie, and I remember, oh, there's a swear word there. And I didn't edit that out, so I had to go back in and reedit it, a reedit another edit that after one I had already made, because the first one I made was I was trusting ChatGPT to give me accurate information, and alas, it gave me some accurate information, but not entirely accurate information. 00:12:22:09 - 00:12:41:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So check your AI chat bots people. And then finally, the fifth idea that I have is a Super Bowl party. If you are a youth group that meets on Sunday nights, you're obligated to do something with the Super Bowl. Now, what I would recommend from a philosophical standpoint is if you're ones in a group, don't add a Super Bowl party to it. 00:12:41:23 - 00:12:55:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But if you're sending a group, you've got to figure out what you're going to do. And so I remember the first year that I was at a church that had converted from Wednesday to Sunday. And so in comes along the Super Bowl and all of a sudden people were like, oh yeah, we got church and don't we? And they're like, where are we going to meet? 00:12:55:29 - 00:13:13:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we had a Super Bowl party at my house and it was averagely attended. It wasn't great. And so, the and everyone was like, well, we got a party with these people every year and we do this this time of year. And so I was like, I'm not doing that. I'm not competing with the Super Bowl anymore. 00:13:13:07 - 00:13:31:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Not to mention, I like sports. I want to watch the Super Bowl. And if I'm running a party, I don't get to watch. I don't get to lock in. I don't get to pay attention to the Super Bowl. And so the mistake, I would say, of, doing the Super Bowl party is actually having one. However, if you're a Sunday night meeting youth ministry, what do you do instead? 00:13:31:28 - 00:14:03:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, I, I moved up our party, in the next couple of years, and we started doing, like, a pre-game or like a tailgating party. And I know those have negative connotations, but just like a before the Super Bowl party of the Super Bowl party. But we're done by the time Super Bowl parties are so big obstacle course in the middle of our, our space and, some football trivia and, I think we did, like, Nerf wars in a room, actually, and I ended up hiring a DJ, which, another mistake was that deejay was awesome. 00:14:03:17 - 00:14:35:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, he wasn't like some, like, low level DJ. He was so good. And the music was so loud, and the kids, complained. They're like, I couldn't hear myself think. And so I had to go ask him to turn the music down a little bit. That was another mistake. But all in all, super fun. I encourage kids wear jerseys and whatever, but we did it on Super Bowl Sunday, just a few hours before the game started, and then if you are like me and you like sports and you like football, you wrap your event up and you're home in your recliner by 6 p.m. and you're watching the game, you don't have to 00:14:35:19 - 00:14:52:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry worry about commercials. You don't have to worry about halftime shows except for your own stuff. You just get to enjoy the game for itself. So those are five of my favorite theme nights. Comment down below what your favorite youth ministry theme night is, and tab this video here on screen so that you can check out the next one and be sure to give us a subscribe. 00:14:52:29 - 00:14:56:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But until next time, and as always, my friends, don't forget, say habit.

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 are you planted? Now? Listen, I get all that stuff. Sounds great. Those are like for kind of like, high level principles. It's not disloyal to, like, you don't need to disclose to your church when you're looking. Keep it open communication about where your workloads are and do everything you can to bloom. 00:06:47:22 - 00:07:08:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Where are you planted? However, in this next section we're going to explore when are the three different? What are the three kind of different like options of telling your your bosses, your senior pastor, your church that you're considering looking and what are the pros and what are the cons? Because factors you could really do any of these three different scenarios. 00:07:08:07 - 00:07:31:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And there are pros and cons to all of them. Let's check it out. So as I said in the beginning, I've been youth ministry for 15 years. I've made I've been in five different churches, some part time all the way back in college, others full time, you know, several years, just couple of years, like, and in every single step of the way, I've made different decisions about when I chose to disclose that I was looking. 00:07:31:12 - 00:07:54:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So let's talk about when you tell your church or your boss or your senior pastor or whoever it is as your direct supervisor, that you feel obligated to let know that you're looking when you tell them everything. Okay, so I worked in church one time where they said, hey, if you are starting to get like squeamish and squirmy about your job, let us know and you got to think about it like, of course I would say that. 00:07:54:01 - 00:08:11:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Why? It helps them brace for impact, right? And it does. It does in a way. Put them in the driver's seat. Okay. And we'll get to that and we'll talk about that in just a minute. But if you do tell them everything. What are some of the pros of that. Well the first pro is it does build transparency and trust with your current church. 00:08:11:14 - 00:08:32:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. It let them know exactly where you're at and you won't blindside them with any sort of decision. Additionally, if you're feeling this sort of way about like your workload, and you let them know, like, hey, listen, I'm looking. I'm seeing this. I'm seeing that, like, it may actually also lead to a resolution. If they do value who you are and what you bring to the table in your work, you know, I think and they do want to retain you. 00:08:32:28 - 00:08:55:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Then you've if like, it's more than just say, hey, like this is hard. You're like, hey, this is hard. And I'm looking that might put a little bit of like a different fire underneath them if you tell them early on and then the third pro and this is like it could potentially allow for a smoother transition if they support your exploration and potential future interviews, if they're on board all the way. 00:08:55:08 - 00:09:10:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, you know, because if they're not, for example, like you got to figure out how to do that without getting like exposed or caught. And again, that's where it feels like, you know, it feels like you're doing something wrong. But just like put yourself in the shoes of like if you are like a CFO at like a big company, right? 00:09:10:24 - 00:09:28:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And like you're like, hey, I have a job interview. Somewhere else, like, I don't know, I guess, like sometimes that can be like a tricky thing to do, but like, for the most part, like, transitions, people moving up, people moving out, like, that's kind of normal part of, like everyday life in church, we tend to take it a little bit harder because there's like a personal aspect to it. 00:09:28:29 - 00:09:49:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So the cons of letting them know everything early on is this is it could strain your current relationship. Right. And that's the tension, like the pro is it builds trust and transparency. The con is it could potentially strain it. And the fear is if it strains it is like will they ever fully lock into you as like the youth pastor at that church, or will there always be a seed of doubt? 00:09:49:12 - 00:10:09:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like as soon as something gets better, soon something gets rocky. You're out. You know, I mean, the second con is, it might lead to immediate pressure, or even termination if they see you as disloyal. And that obviously, this worst case scenario, if you let them know and like I feel to be somewhere else, let you go and you know, that would strengthen you got to provide for your family. 00:10:09:25 - 00:10:33:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you can't really be without a paycheck. Like I get that fear. You know, it's probably, unless it, you know, and like, have evidence that it would happen. Like, it's probably not going to happen if the people that you work with are reasonable, but, you know, it could. Right. And then the third thing is like you also risk the word of it spreading and potentially affecting relationships within your church or even like on your church staff. 00:10:33:28 - 00:10:54:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And what people think about you. And you know, whether or not they believe that you're going to be kind of like around for the long haul. Here's the pros and cons in the middle, which spoiler this is typically the one I choose. But I will be honest, like a lot of church like early on interview stuff like, it ends up being a pretty prolonged period and ends up fizzling out. 00:10:54:22 - 00:11:16:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if they say no to you, I feel like that's God closing the door. And then be like, you don't again have to disclose, have people question, you know, whatever. Tell them in the middle the middle spot for me, is often a like an in-person like sort of site visit. And that's where like, all right, I feel like I need to, like, say something. 00:11:16:01 - 00:11:45:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Okay. I haven't always done that. Just full disclosure. And, when I have not done that, and then I just, like, told them all the way until the end after I accepted, wasn't super great. And but otherwise. Right, like, I would like to tell I like to try and tell them, like, if I go to a site visit, like, hey, there's this this opportunity, that's kind of like where I would prefer if I could and if I feel safe in the job that I'm in all that type of stuff. 00:11:45:23 - 00:12:04:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So the pros of telling them in the middle is it balances transparency with also some caution, while giving you time to kind of assess where you're at with some of the current options. The second thing is it allows you to gauge their reaction once you have concrete offers. Right. And then also helps kind of strengthen your position as a staff member. 00:12:04:26 - 00:12:22:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then the third one is it may encourage them to act on your needs like, you know, for example, like you're feeling overwhelmed, when they now see that, like you're serious and like you actually have something like on the actual line. Of course, the cons are it could backfire if they discover your job search earlier and you didn't tell them. 00:12:22:13 - 00:12:40:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then, of course, it damages trust even more. You could be risked as seen as manipulative if you're using it for like just simply a negotiation tactic to stay put. And then the third one is it may complicate leaving if they retaliate or do choose to make a sudden change and you don't yet have an offer, you know, signed all the way. 00:12:40:09 - 00:13:10:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The final one is don't tell them until you accept it all. And in full disclosure, I've done this a couple times and it hasn't been amazing. So I, I will say like, learn from my mistakes. Not necessarily what I would recommend, however, here are some of the pros, right? The pros are you maintain your current position, your income, your security, all that stuff the entire way during the search, you avoid potential conflicts or pressure from your current church leadership, and it gives you full control over the timing of your departure, which I would say you're entitled to. 00:13:10:27 - 00:13:32:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. The downside is how the church chooses to react. And like, you can't control those types of things. However, I think the earlier you tell them, the more trust and transparency you have. And, it also helps them kind of like I said, like, brace for some of that impact. The cons are could risk damaging your reputation if they do find out through other means could also burn bridges. 00:13:32:18 - 00:13:48:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like again, people's feelings might just be hurt and like, they like they feel like you never, gave them a fair shake. And then finally, they may leave. It might leave a lot less time for, like, a smooth transition. All that type of stuff impacting your ministry. Let me just leave you with this kind of, like, final bonus hack. 00:13:48:10 - 00:14:08:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like when you're leaving, it's natural to feel bad and to want to stay and to hang on as long as you can have done that a handful of times, like, hey, stick on for six more weeks, like after they know they start to make decisions without you, they have to they have to move on. And the longer you stay, you're just like a dangling dead fish, like you run out of stuff to do. 00:14:08:15 - 00:14:25:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They start dishing your work off to other people. And so, well, you do want a smooth transition, especially for the students, and you want them to feel like they were able to say goodbye, within the office and within the decision making framework and culture. Like it is better if you let them know. And then it's a quick kind of departure. 00:14:25:17 - 00:14:40:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, hey, I hope you found this episode helpful. If you did give it a like, give it give us a subscribe. We're going to be answering some more questions. So you can do that right here on the screen. Or you can see what the next video is going to be, that we're going to be answering from some different questions that we're finding in different youth pastor Facebook groups. 00:14:40:12 - 00:14:43:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But until next time, my friends. And as always, don't forget stay hybrid.

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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 through kind of a chronological lens. There's not a great way to buy this, honestly. They have kind of like a print on demand sort of deal, and our church, doesn't, want to pay tax because we're tax exempt. 00:06:32:14 - 00:06:47:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And there wasn't a very easy way for me to figure out how to not do tax. But they do have a completely free e-book version of it. And so if you don't mind the e-book version and then maybe write down your answers in, like, a journal, then you can totally go that way and it's completely free. 00:06:47:26 - 00:07:09:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The next book that I recommend to all of our team as they're communicating is, in my opinion, the best communication resource out there from one Andy Stanley. Now, listen, I know that recently some of his, comments and some of his thinking have become a little bit polarizing in the church subculture. But you can't argue that he's not one of the best communicators out there. 00:07:09:20 - 00:07:42:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so he has a book on communicating for a change that I absolutely love. And so, some of our team has already been through that. And so for this, for our brunch and learn, I'm taking through, two people who have not yet been through that. And we're not only going to read it and discuss it, but we're also going to workshop like a future message for them, in this sort of way that Andy, builds out his, his messages, which is in his, his kind of famed and patented outline of me, then we, then God, then you, then we, and the the sort of thesis for his whole book is drive towards 00:07:42:16 - 00:07:59:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry one main point and then tell a story you know about you, that's the me. And then broaden it so that it includes everyone. And, you know, create this tension like, this is not only a new problem, but it's a we problem. But here's how God solves it. And here's one thing that you can do as a result of that. 00:07:59:23 - 00:08:20:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then finally, if we all did this, imagine how the world could be different or the world could change to really, really good framework. And I basically use it every single time I preach. Next. After that, we are moving into our youth ministry university, which we are platinum members at our church. If you're not, you should go check it out on Download Youth Ministry. 00:08:20:06 - 00:08:42:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry At least check out Collider, which is an amazing, you know, scope and sequence curriculum. You can use code Hybrid Ministry ten, if you want to get 10% off co-leader for the year. But we're using a, we're using the programing like a pro, which is Justin Knowles and Josh Griffin, and they're sort of like a programing course that they have on WAMU. 00:08:42:06 - 00:09:02:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, I wanted to get our, our team thinking and talking about creative programing and, you know, that's actually a really, really high value for me, something that I care a lot about. In fact, that's one of the things that I talk about on my bonus, Patreon hybrid heroes podcast every single week. Hey, quick break. 00:09:02:22 - 00:09:19:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry 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. You see, you don't need that kind of stress this fall. 00:09:19:06 - 00:09:42:14 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. 00:09:42:16 - 00:10:02:26 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. 00:10:02:28 - 00:10:22:29 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. So in addition to social media, in addition to programing like a pro, that is one of the things we're taking our team through. 00:10:23:01 - 00:10:46:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We are also then, after that, we're going to take them through the book Lead Small, which lead Small is actually sort of like written as a job description for small group leaders. It's kind of meant to hand to small group leaders. It's a really quick and fun read. And so, in the middle of sort of like our year, I dropped lead Small on them because I think it's probably going to be the quickest of all the reads that they're going to have to do. 00:10:46:22 - 00:11:10:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we'll have a discussion and that'll be, really us thinking and strategizing as staff about how we can equip our small group leaders to continue to lean into some of the core, kind of like five lead small principles. My friend Carrie Rae, who's, over on staff at y, AM3 60, he's famous for saying, like, any youth pastor could have written this book. 00:11:10:18 - 00:11:50:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Orange just went ahead and did it. And once again, I know that there's some, you know, stuff going on around with orange, but the core principles of Lead Small, which are taken from Scripture, are also, not, you know, they haven't, ceased to, to be relevant. And so they're still very useful to creating a good culture of relationships and connection and small group and most youth ministries, I would argue that are greater than 25 to 30, which is probably most of us are going to need to have a pretty strong lead, small culture, because, you as a youth pastor can't provide care for greater than 30 students. 00:11:50:01 - 00:12:16:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you need to, enlist small group leaders to help continue on in that care. It's a biblical principle. We see, Jethro challenged Moses to do that when Moses doing too much. And Jethro says you need to delegate. And and that's what we as youth pastors also need to do. Not because we don't care about students, not because we don't want to be in students lives, but because we want to equip our small group leaders to be kind of the torch bearers for some of that shepherding and pastoral care. 00:12:16:19 - 00:12:38:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so that's what the lead small principle is all about. The next thing we're going back to, why I'm university and we're looking at family ministry, just basically thinking like, how do we partner with parents? That's a core kind of like principle that all of us in youth ministry, should care about. That's what orange is kind of built off of, you know, like, the church and the churches. 00:12:38:07 - 00:12:56:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What is I think the church is red. No, the family is red because it's their heart and their love, and the church is yellow because like the light of God. But together they should make orange. Right? And so it's partnering with families in your student and in your youth ministry. And so, youth minister University has a whole family ministry course. 00:12:56:27 - 00:13:19:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we're going to watch that and then we're going to discuss that as a team. This book right here is essentially my, small group, curriculum strategy guide. It is Sticky Church, written by Larry Osborne. And I read this book all the way back when I was an intern myself. And his whole premise is your church will grow when you're small. 00:13:19:15 - 00:13:43:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Groups are sticky. So it's but it's more than just lead small culture. It's what's the curriculum and what's the driving force within your small groups. And his premise is essentially you should do a sermon or whatever your main messages, sermon based small groups. And some of you, totally agree, which, you know, if if you are like a subscriber to co-leader, you understand that that's exactly like what it is like. 00:13:43:19 - 00:14:06:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You listen to the message and then you break into small groups to discuss it. In our context. We teach on one night and then our small group curriculum is taught on a whole nother day and a whole nother calendar time of the week. Which is similar to like a big church model where if you go to church and then you have small groups that meet decentralized host homes throughout the community, and they're discussing the pastor's sermon. 00:14:06:12 - 00:14:25:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's a similar sort of mindset. So this comes from, I'm sure other people have this this idea in this mindset. But, I remember at first from Larry Osborne and I found this book to be incredibly helpful and incredibly impactful. Towards the end of the year, we're finally going to get into the why I'm university purpose driven youth ministry discussion. 00:14:25:09 - 00:14:45:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The only reason that this isn't higher, and the only reason that I don't recommend this sooner, is because, we kind of did like the knowing him, which is going to be a, a ministry philosophy and a ministry purpose, conversation and discussion. And so what I'm doing is I'm bringing this back around, bookending it at the end of the year. 00:14:45:07 - 00:15:04:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the book dug this book. Phenomenal. I love this book. I was just trying to cut down on the reading, and I saw that there was a video course. And so we're going to go ahead and have take our team through the video course and just kind of explore the five different purposes of the church, which again, we are already kind of like our team. 00:15:04:24 - 00:15:23:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Our team has a good understanding of that as it pertains to like Jesus's disciple making pathway, like those sections on the pathway often are tied to different purposes of the church. So this will, be reiterating it and meshing into that way of thinking just from like a slightly different angle. So I'm really excited to bring this one back around. 00:15:23:28 - 00:15:47:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then finally, the ultimate bookend for church discipling by Dan Spader, one of my all time favorite books as well. It's he's the founder of Sun Life. And so just like we have four steps on our church's pathway, he has four chairs. And that it's going to pair really well with that knowing him and then that purpose driven youth ministry discussion I will give and I will give a nod. 00:15:47:26 - 00:16:06:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the only other reason I didn't include this book for all youth pastors is, this is like the goat of all youth ministry books. Is your first two years in youth ministry? The only reason I didn't include it for our team is because, as interns, they've already gone through it and read it. And so, I recommend that one as well. 00:16:06:18 - 00:16:24:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Written by Doug Fields as well. Phenomenal and fantastic book. And so if you're in youth ministry and if you're wondering, like, what do I do? How do I connect? Now, listen, you might be thinking, if you wrote that question like, how do I connect with teens in like this new world that you're like, these aren't that new of resources? 00:16:24:24 - 00:16:48:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you're right. And maybe it's because I'm an old fuddy duddy. Or I think that some of these things are tied to the Great Commission and are key to like some, some youth ministry like purpose, which, you know, purpose driven youth ministry for church discipling and knowing him are all like youth ministry strategy and church ministry strategy, doing and running church and making disciples like Jesus. 00:16:48:18 - 00:17:08:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then within that you got teaching and programing. So those are in there. And then finally, leading small group. So you got lead small and you got sticky church. And then the last piece is how do we partner with parents? And that's why we included that family ministry piece. All these things really help hopefully give a good holistic view of of good youth ministry. 00:17:08:05 - 00:17:25:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, you know, I've been youth ministry for 15 years. These are some of the core things that have helped shape my thinking and some of what I do as well. And let me just say kind of one final piece, like, if you're not a platinum member, you should become one because they give you a conference registration ticket and some of those do. 00:17:25:22 - 00:17:47:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I am 100 roundtables conferences, have been some of the most formative things to my youth ministry thinking and, my, my honestly, my health and my longevity in being a youth pastor for more than 15 years. So, hey, hope you found this episode helpful. We're going to be answering some questions in the subsequent episodes. It'll be linked in a playlist, or you can tap the video that you see right here on screen. 00:17:47:29 - 00:17:56:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Hey, subscribe or like or a share would really mean the world to us if you found this episode helpful. But until next time. And as always, my friends, don't forget stay hybrid.

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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 hand over as much of that as you feel comfortable to your students. So let me share with you the three different tiers of options and solutions I have that you can lean into this hybrid strategy, which for us gave us two growth in a three year period of time. 00:06:58:12 - 00:07:25:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Let's chat. Let's check it out okay, so you have the intern budget. How do you get started? Well, I would recommend hopping down in the description to grab my 100% completely free e-book. In my original iteration, you heard me say, if you're listening to the contact section of this that I posted three times per day, I've scaled that back, but it's still two times per day, which is still an aggressive growth strategy and mindset. 00:07:25:09 - 00:08:00:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I'll just be honest, one of the main reasons that I post that aggressively is because we film enough content that I have enough things to keep my feed going and being posted, but it's a lot of students and it's a lot of leaders, and so a lot of custom content for our student ministry. But I even recommend now, and I've done it and I've seen it in some coaching relationships that I've had that if you post three times a week, if you're starting completely from scratch, it's still a good strategy to lean into from a hybrid ministry standpoint. 00:08:00:08 - 00:08:21:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so link down below is my 100% completely free e-book. And if you want the start from scratch version, if you want the hey only post three times per week, then I recommend this next one, which is the youth pastor budget. And I can get this all for you via my Patreon account and my four seasonal social media pack. 00:08:21:23 - 00:08:39:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry 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. You see, you don't need that kind of stress this fall. 00:08:39:03 - 00:09:02:09 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. See? See? Here's the thing. You can grab my pack right now over on Patreon. 00:09:02:11 - 00:09:22:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And did you know that monthly hybrid hero 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. 00:09:22:20 - 00:09:44:22 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. So as you just heard, the fall season of Social Media Pack is here. Go grab it. Go download it. It is the youth pastor version of this budget 1799. 00:09:45:03 - 00:10:07:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry However, in and on top of that, if you head over to my Patreon and you become a $4 a month member, you will not only receive that pack for free as a part of that membership, but you'll also then be subscribed to a weekly bonus podcast where I sit down on a microphone every single week and I explain and I outline and I flesh out all that we did. 00:10:07:16 - 00:10:32:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I basically go through our service order, and I talk about one things we could have done to be more creative and things that hit really well, and what we're doing on social media and how we're capturing certain things and all these different things. And so if you pair my bonus podcast with the social media pack, which again, reminder is free if you're a hybrid hero member, all of those things can be used to your advantage. 00:10:32:23 - 00:10:58:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry To get you started in this track of hybrid ministry. Listen, it's not here to help me get rich. It's really just here to help resource you and give you the foundation and the building blocks for what it takes to really, truly lean into a hybrid strategy, which again, as a reminder to our growth in the course of a three year period of time. 00:10:58:11 - 00:11:21:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, in both of those options, they're going to talk to you a lot about the value of your social media platforms. However, the real ultimate goal, I would say, is to find a way to post your weekly messages to YouTube. Now, if you have live streaming capabilities or at least live captioning capabilities, then that's a fantastic strategy. It gets the job done. 00:11:21:22 - 00:11:43:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We, both prefer. And also due to the constraints of not having, you know, camera capabilities in our main meeting room, we film our messages very similar to this direct to camera. We'll use a teleprompter at times and we will post those directly to YouTube. And at this point now we've built up our budget in order to be able to pay for editors to do that. 00:11:43:02 - 00:12:13:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But in the very early iterations, I was the editor. And you can use something like, you know, Adobe Premiere Pro Final Cut Pro, DaVinci resolve, or even something like Cap Cut to get the job done. But once you get a long form, like, posted version to YouTube, this is the senior pastor budget. If you need an editor or if you need someone to do it for you, I can either offer coaching, which is like a, an agreement for a set of time or I can do it for you in my communications. 00:12:13:21 - 00:12:30:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Done for you pack in my free time. Off to the side of me being a real life youth pastor, getting those long form clips is really helpful because then you can use an AI service like Opus Stock Pro to clip them up for you. They're not as good as if a human does them. But again, you're busy. 00:12:30:16 - 00:12:46:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You got things going on and, open Stop Pro is a really reasonable rate to kind of offer to do that. And it really does help flesh out and fill out your strategy, because if your strategy's all bunch of fun and games that you're doing with your students, that's great. Hopefully that's going to hook some viewers in your audience. 00:12:46:06 - 00:13:22:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But then you also want to win, or at least, have the algorithm feed them some of your spiritual content as well. And that's where this really comes into play. And you can add the Patreon pack right on top of what this is, where, like, I'll be doing this for you. You can add in that Patreon pack, which will help help give you the, the coaching and the framework and the resources to hand this off to someone if you don't want to go all into this senior pastor budget option, if you just need to stick with your main youth ministry budget, here's what I would recommend. 00:13:22:05 - 00:13:47:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Of all of these things, lean in to the youth ministry budget option because it is $4 a month for the Hybrid Heroes bonus podcast tier, and that nets out to only $48 a year. Four times per year. You're going to get the social pack for free included in your membership. So for $48, you will have a fully locked and loaded social media hybrid strategy. 00:13:47:02 - 00:14:11:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And just as a reminder, that strategy is what led us to to growth in our student ministry. Now, once you start filming and posting your long form, messages to YouTube, that's really where you can start to see the parent rewards and the leader rewards and all of this, as I teased at the beginning, because you're posting your messages to YouTube and so parents can go watch it and see what their kids are learning. 00:14:11:08 - 00:14:36:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And it's a great tool and resource in that regard. And also, leaders like we teach our message on Wednesday, but we also post the film YouTube adaptation to it as well. And so far, our leaders who lead a discussion based off the topic on Sunday morning, they have access to that teaching as well. And both of those are ways in which we've both, found incredible amounts of, like, help and resources to both our parents and our leaders. 00:14:36:11 - 00:15:00:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Not no matter which of those options you choose. I want you to know this going hybrid is not the end goal. You know this. The end goal is to make more and better disciples of Jesus. Whatever your mission statement is, I hope it's rooted and tied to the great commission of Jesus. And this hybrid strategy is simply a strategy that sits inside this great commission from Jesus. 00:15:00:06 - 00:15:12:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so keep doing great youth ministry. Keep doing what you're doing, and if this can help you, I hope that it does. And I want you to know I'm rooting for you. So don't forget my friends. And as always, stay hybrid.

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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, as they get into this, like, this gives them not only, like leadership experience, but also some opportunity to, like, be a disciple in this avenue of social media. Right? It may not be the most precise, it may not be the most theologically astute. It may not, you know, be the deepest or the the most, like, precision, and, you know, tightened up version of all this stuff. 00:06:02:06 - 00:06:29:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But like, they can learn how to influence their friends for and with the message of Jesus. So let's explore now, like, what exactly are some of the roles that we have instituted in our social media team? Let's take a look. So if you download my seasonal social media pack, you'll see that I recommend, two things transition videos and man on the Street videos. 00:06:29:11 - 00:06:51:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Those are things that are part of the custom for you section. And what the custom for you section is, is it's the section of my pack that makes it, your church specific because I do, I do give you some done for you stuff like Bible verses and, how to deal with anxiety, how to, you know, some like emoji guesses, some, some spiritual practice videos. 00:06:51:21 - 00:07:07:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Those are nameless, faceless. So any youth ministry can download those and use them. The custom for you section. What that does is it puts your people, your faces and your stamp on your social media, but that is going to require you to get out of camera, get out your phone, get out someone's phone and film some of these things. 00:07:07:29 - 00:07:31:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so two of those are interview interview questions like man on the street style and transition style videos. Those are two staples of our social media strategy in our youth ministry. Every single Wednesday night, we are filming something and so we're but we're only filming one type of thing per week. So one week we're filming main on the street, and then maybe the next week we're filming transition style videos. 00:07:31:21 - 00:07:53:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I also include For you some bonus content of like topic ideas for either dress and or may seven question style videos. And so those are the others that we have on our monthly schedule. So man, on the street transition style videos, drafts, seven questions. Any given that you come into our youth ministry, we're doing one of those four things. 00:07:53:18 - 00:08:12:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, in the bonus section, the drafts are the seven questions. If you want to start doing some of those, we film those in like a fully, built out studio. I'll link the tour episode to our studio if you want to see our studio, what we've bought, how we outfitted it so that we can have multiple different sets in one, one room, one space. 00:08:12:16 - 00:08:36:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You can go check that out again. Link down below in the description. But here's some roles for for people in that, in that type of night, in that type of setting. So we record using podcast style microphones, which means we need to record into some sort of audio interface. So we plug it into like a Scarlett focus, eight eight and then that runs into like a computer, and then the computer is running like Adobe Audition. 00:08:36:22 - 00:08:57:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we have a person who sits there and runs audio. And so they literally do the thing like speeding, speeding, speeding. And so that person makes sure that the audio is actually rolling. And then they'll also put headphones on to ensure that they can hear what the people are saying and they can actually mix it. Do like a live mix using the Scarlett focus right. 00:08:57:24 - 00:09:18:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We'll also have someone running camera. And so they'll literally click the record button on the camera and then they'll click, you know, stop record. And for a while there, we had them clap in front of the camera. But like I said in the intro, we actually just, bought a clapperboard. And so either they can do it or if you have enough people, you can have a whole nother person do it. 00:09:18:03 - 00:09:37:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the clapperboard that we bought is a dry erase. And so you can put like, you know, you can erase it and you can write like drafts, take four and then you can write the names of the people and that way if you could get them to spell their names for you, you're going to get their names on the edit spelled exactly right, which I think is really important. 00:09:37:15 - 00:10:01:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We also have a television screen, which sometimes for like our leader podcast, we have that on the actual camera and use it as like a presentation, if you will. But for these videos, we actually put it, off camera so that the contestants can see the slides because there's like scripts and stuff, like for example, the script that like for seven questions is, hey, the name of the game is seven questions if you want to play and close your eyes, the answer is going to be right here on the screen. 00:10:02:01 - 00:10:16:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The category is fill in the blank. It's hard sometimes. The sixth grader walks in. They want to be part of the social team. They want to be on in want to do the social challenge. And you tell them the script and they can't remember it. And so that TV right there really helps them, you know what I mean? 00:10:16:25 - 00:10:36:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, see what they're supposed to do. And then we'll also after that script, we'll just make a slide that says one and that's question one. And then two, three, four. And so that that screen also helps them like keep track of the questions. And then there's always some sort of like call to action at the end of every video like hey, comment below your answer or comment below, did you get it? 00:10:36:07 - 00:11:08:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or you know, whatever. And those are just kind of like prompts so that someone doesn't have to speak them. Because when someone speaks them from off camera, you have to edit them later, which is not the end of the world. But again, it helps. And so you can have someone literally sitting there running slides. It's also helpful to have people recruiting because we're in our studio, students might not know that the social challenge is going on, or they might know now, at this point in our in our context, but they might not be like aware of it or looking for it or, you know, running towards it. 00:11:08:11 - 00:11:23:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you have people who are like, hey, you want to be in social challenge today? And then they'll bring them back to our studio and then they'll help, kind of like queue up a line. And then lastly, you can have a host, a person who is out in the hallway talking to the people, waiting, explaining to them what they're going to do when they get in there. 00:11:23:15 - 00:11:44:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you're going to want someone who's got some charisma on that. But, all of those are different roles that we have tried to implement and institute for our studio based social challenge nights. Now, there are those are drafts and seven questions. So that's two out of our four social, challenge, you know, scheduling nights. The other two are when we're out and about. 00:11:44:22 - 00:12:02:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we grab a tripod, a camera and a microphone, and we hit the street and we don't go anywhere. But just like our student lobby. But we're out and about. We're more visible. So you don't quite need as many, like, hosts or anything like that. But you may need like a recruiter. You still need someone like, hey, you want to come be on social media tonight? 00:12:02:21 - 00:12:18:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You want to come here to some questions. And so they'll fold people in the queue up a line. They'll get them off to the side there. So that's another option or another role. Of course you're going to have your interviewer. So the person that's on camera that's asking the questions like, hey, would you rather this, would you rather that? 00:12:18:15 - 00:12:40:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And listen, all of these questions are included in my social media pack. And so what I recommend is that you batch record so that you ask 4 or 5 questions, and you ask 4 or 5 people the same 4 or 5 questions, and then boom, you have 4 or 5 different men on the street style videos. And so that interviewer there's asking the same person these, you know, 4 or 5 different questions. 00:12:40:21 - 00:13:04:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Obviously, you're also going to have a camera person. You're also going to have an audio person. And I like to have the audio person, plug the headphones directly into the camera and listen to make sure that they can hear, and that's not too loud. And, you know, if like, anything gets cut out, that they can make them go back and reshoot it with film it, you can have someone holding up like a sheet with the questions or even times we've rolled that TV out. 00:13:04:14 - 00:13:24:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right? And so we've had a person there, managing that TV or running slides for that, you know, or whatever the case may be. And so those are all different ways and things that you can use for like man on the Street transition style videos are very similar, except for all you really are doing is like, you know, you get like a video of a kid who was riding a skateboard and they fell on the floor and they fell like in this certain position. 00:13:24:19 - 00:13:40:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So you tell someone, hey, lay like this, and then you give them some sort of script like, oh, that hurt. Make sure that you always have someone to help pick you up. We got that here at our church on Wednesday nights. See you at 630 or something. You know, something silly like that. Like it's kind of meant to be, you know, silly like that. 00:13:41:00 - 00:13:58:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Those are the two, like, on the night, jobs. And let me just tell you, like, once we started walking around with the camera, especially for, like, man on the street or, like, transition style videos, the kids came out of the woodwork in their interest level for it. We have, seven, I want to say different like serving teams for students. 00:13:58:01 - 00:14:25:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We have welcome team. We have cafe, we have tech team. We have social team, we have photography. We have worship. Maybe that's it. Oh no. And then we have our table leaders. That's probably like our highest, spiritual bar of of role. The team that people want to be on the most is the social team. And so we have, like, increased our engagement around student serving because the social team exists. 00:14:25:29 - 00:14:48:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But the real, in my opinion, this role right here, this next role, this is really like the role that has changed everything for me. It's the student editor. So I post ten pieces of content per week. And this is a genuine, real, true, authentic statement. I don't edit any of it okay. So let me let me walk you through, what I post. 00:14:48:14 - 00:15:07:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's some of it's going to be similar to what you might get in the fall seasonal social media pack. Some of it is a little bit different. You can sprinkle in any of these ideas because I'm asking you in the seasonal social media pack to post three times per week. So if you like any of these ideas you got, you got margin to kind of add this and make it your own and bring your own flair. 00:15:07:20 - 00:15:27:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I post like a meme Monday every single Monday morning that is just like a static carousel kind of based post. What we've done in our, our staff team is we created a Google Drive folder and we just say, hey, as you're scrolling social media, if you come across memes, save them and dump them in this folder. 00:15:27:12 - 00:15:46:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so all I have to do on Monday is go grab them from that folder, pull them out. You know, I put ten out for carousel post and I post them, recently I've only started doing five because I've also started posting them over on the YouTube posts section, and they only allow five total, as opposed to Instagram, which now I believe allows like 20. 00:15:46:18 - 00:16:16:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I wasn't posting, by the way, I wasn't posting to YouTube, but I had a kid who said, are you going to do me Monday anymore? And I was like, yeah. And he's like, on YouTube. And I was like, oh, so that made me, you know, kind of start doing it, on, on YouTube there. Additionally, I post three sermon recap clips, so like, what we do is we film our messages long form posted to YouTube, and then we edit them for YouTube with edits and captions and all the things. 00:16:16:24 - 00:16:42:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But before, we edit those or I'll have whoever is editing for me because I actually pay for an editor on these. I'll have them send me just a clean copy so they'll they'll compile it all together chronologically, and then they'll send me a copy without captions and without any of the, you know, B-roll or whatever. And I'll take those clean copies and I'll upload them into something like Open Source Pro, which, by the way, there's a link down below if you're interested in checking it out. 00:16:43:01 - 00:17:21:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It doesn't change anything for you, but it is a small, affiliate commission link for me, which would be incredibly helpful if that's something you want to try out. It makes my job so easy. I clips those up, and then we just download three of those and store them to post on three different days in our week. If you don't pre film like a long form message, then my foster seasonal social media pack, it gives you like devotional scripts that you can hold your phone and you can speak direct to camera on those, and it'll tell you exactly what to say and how to include it and that, that, that hits the same 00:17:21:14 - 00:17:40:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry basic gist of what, a clip is meant to do where your Devo, clip, which isn't maybe tied to like a specific sermon or message, but it's still it's going to perform really well. I'm going to do a really good job for you on social media. So either one of those is fine, but it's some sort of spiritually charged content, right? 00:17:40:05 - 00:17:58:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Because some of these other things aren't spiritually charged content. And so your goal is you want to hook people, hook students, or hook your, your students friends with some of the goofy stuff so that you're showing up more and more in their algorithm. So that's why you also want to include some of these spiritual things so that they'll run across those as well. 00:17:58:27 - 00:18:17:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But the way I don't edit them is I use opus clip if you want to, you know, film something on your phone, that's fine. Then what I would recommend is handing over your phone to a student editor. Or if you pay for like a service like Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci resolve, you can get them on a computer and they can edit that video for you. 00:18:17:28 - 00:18:36:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or even if you don't want to do it, have a student film there and let them edit it, and they can use something like on their own phone, like cap cut, or even just something simple like the TikTok or Instagram Reels editor. Our four social challenge archetypes remember seven questions drafts, man on the Street, transition style videos, all edited by students. 00:18:36:25 - 00:18:58:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And right now I'm actually building like a tutorial. Because, like, I've trained students and it takes a lot of my time to get them up to speed, but I'm building tutorials now, where they're watching me edit one, and then they can go back and they can watch that as reference as they edit. And so now I'm able to recruit more students without any experience, and I'm having them do that on something like Adobe Premiere Pro. 00:18:58:25 - 00:19:14:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I have had students in the past who have their own editing, kind of like chops. And I'll just send them a link from our Google Drive of like, like a seven questions and I'll say, hey, get this under a minute, add captions on the screen, add music, and send it back to me. And they do a great job and I'm fine with it being that way as well. 00:19:14:21 - 00:19:39:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So it doesn't have to be exactly like I'm doing it, or exactly in like, you know, my template, which, by the way, I have, seven questions and address template link down below. It's included in the for seasonal social media pack, or just in 100 bonus ideas for free listed down below in the description. Another video that we do is like, just like our Wednesday night recap, which is a very simple collage style video. 00:19:39:05 - 00:19:57:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I walk around with my phone and I get anywhere from like 5 to 7 second clips. Put that in TikTok, it does auto cut for me and boom are done. And then the last remaining of my ten is one of my four seasonal social media packs. Either a verse, a spiritual practice video, a how to carousel or an emoji phraseology guesting. 00:19:57:12 - 00:20:21:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And again, all of those are going to be included in my fast seasonal social media pack, which, by the way, if you didn't know, is 1799. However, I have a bonus Patreon podcast for $4 a month where I not only give you everything in my store for free so that includes this pack, but also I, recap what we did from a creative programing standpoint and from social media. 00:20:21:13 - 00:20:48:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry From a social media standpoint. The previous week in student ministry. Think of it as like your weekly, debrief meeting with, like, you know, a trusted friend. And if I were you, that's $4 a month. You can charge at times $1,248 to like, professional development or your student ministries budget in that way. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to include a checklist for you of roles, of things to do, of what to film all of that. 00:20:48:21 - 00:21:16:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's over on my Patreon. Once again, that will come with a nominal fee because Patreon doesn't let me give it away for free. However, if you are a hybrid hero, you get that checklist that costs you $0 included in your $4 per month membership Hybrid Heroes tier. This is how we do it. This is how I have handed all of this off, and I don't lift a finger any more for capturing, editing, or creating any of our social media content. 00:21:16:03 - 00:21:38:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You two can build a robust, student led, student driven social media team and social media feed. All you gotta do is start leaning in. Some of the students that God has gifted and and given to you in your context. I'm rooting for you. Don't ever hesitate to reach out. I got the pick my brain. Link down below in my, description. 00:21:38:08 - 00:21:50:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If there's something that can help you get this up off the ground. But until next time. And as always, my friends, don't forget. Stay hybrid.

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. 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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 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, these are the custom ones. Right? So every single one of the custom folders gives you some instructions how to do it, what to do. These are some Bible trivia, questions. So it's got five different rounds of five different posts that you can do Bible trivia. You can either hop on screen and do it, or better yet, hand it to a student and let them do it. 00:06:57:15 - 00:07:15:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then I also give you some graphics that you can use, to just overlay it, and you can build that in like a cap cut editor or a TikTok editor. And once again, have your students do it. Here are some, like recap or like devotional type videos. They're like, you're going to be your spiritually charged pieces of content. 00:07:16:01 - 00:07:32:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Again, you can hop on camera or you can hit to student and all of these, right? I have five script ideas right here that you can use. And it's got editing notes and all the things like that. If you have like a long form version of your message, you can use link in the description, something like an opus stock pro, to clip that up. 00:07:32:28 - 00:07:50:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you can also just post that and then kind of like skip this little, folder section altogether. These are some men on the street. Would you rather fall based questions? So here's again some instructions on how to do it, what those are. And I created overlays. So all you gotta do is just go around, ask a handful of students using one of those microphones that you bought. 00:07:50:11 - 00:08:10:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Would you rather wear an itchy sweater or continually have leaves in your pocket? Would you rather be lost in a corn maze or smashed your perfectly carved pumpkin? Would you rather have, to eat leftovers for a month or risk every lawn in your neighborhood? Right. And so you see how like, those, those are great. And then finally, here are some transition invites, our videos. 00:08:10:07 - 00:08:39:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I give you the beginning of a video and then you overlay that right here and like, boom, you have one of your students pop in and, they say, hey, you should come to youth group, like, Wednesday night. What time? All that type of stuff. And I give you five of those. And so these all are the custom sections of your, of your social media strategy because a, a completely done for you is going to rob your social media feed of you. 00:08:39:22 - 00:08:59:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I don't want to do that. And so this is about as easy as we can make it so that like it still has you in it, but it's still also like not that much work. You can clear this bar. And like I said, we can get your students up to speed on this, which is what we're going to talk about in the next section of the video. 00:08:59:20 - 00:09:39:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So remember, while we're trying to increase social media engagement on your feed, the ultimate goal in all of this is not just social media engagement, but hopefully life change in the in the life of your teenagers and of your students. And so hopefully, the more that they engage with you on social, it's also going to mean the more that they're going to engage with you in person, which is really like the impetus for this entire hybrid strategy online, which is where a lot of students are spending their time and their lives paired with your in-person moment, so that together you can create a solid hybrid environment, one that, like your students, they're they're stepping back 00:09:39:21 - 00:10:09:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry and forth in between those two worlds constantly. They live in that sweet spot called hybrid. And this social pact helps bridge that gap between those two different, sometimes seemingly opposing sides of the ministry aisle. And so I want to encourage you to continue to lean into it. And best yet, the best way that I have discovered to keep this ongoing, sustainable strategy, because I want to point out, I'm encouraging you to post three times per week. 00:10:09:11 - 00:10:41:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In my context, we post ten times per week. The only way that I'm getting ten posts done per week is by creating and leaning into a fully student run, an LED social media team, and I am going to detail and outline every single step of that in the very next episode, so that you can build that for yourself so that you can pass that off and you can teach your students very simply how to become influencers in their faith, not just online, but in their faith. 00:10:41:23 - 00:10:55:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That episode is going to be the link to right here on screen. Go ahead and tap that. Head over to that video and we will see you in episode 165 for building your own social team. But until next time, and as always, my friends, do not forget to stay hybrid.

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?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=productshare_creator&utm_content=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! 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 Post Event Debriefs 00:25 Your Complete Fall Strategy Session 01:33 Proven Debrief Strategy 04:02 This Strategy was GENIUS!! 07:22 Your Fall Social Media Strategy is HERE! -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:06:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Post-event debriefs can feel like a roast session if we're not careful. 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 Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right, take those archive notes and add them to the upcoming plan. So then, when the upcoming plan is coming, we look back and say, what did we say last year? And like a great example of this is like at summer camp, people said like last, like not the most recent summer camp we did, but the one from the summer last summer, people said something small like, hey, we should have a lost and found, or we should have more trash cans. 00:06:16:16 - 00:06:33:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, you know, a week or two before we went, really? Hey, let's let's look back at that. Those debrief notes were like, oh, yeah, that's right. The lost and found in the trash cans. We pull those together quick. There are small things we were going to completely forget to do them, because we were so focused on all the other kind of like things and elements of camp. 00:06:33:14 - 00:06:51:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But we looked back at our debrief notes and those two little small things like, really help. Like I said, kind of like May made the difference, right? And so however you choose to do it, one of the words that my boss always kind of used was, we need a place to memorialize these thoughts, right? So like we say them, write them down for us. 00:06:51:26 - 00:07:21:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's base camp. You can use whatever kind of project management tool or software that you want to do and go ahead and take that to the races, but you should use these right? Broken slash confusing and missing. Use them in your next event evaluation. And here's the thing. If you go ahead and download my donate, event guide, come back to this episode or check this episode out right after your event is over so that you can really, truly lean in to, these questions and make your event as good as it can be, on and off into the future. 00:07:21:06 - 00:07:38:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, here's the thing. All of this has been ramping up. This is a this has been focused on one night, right? One night of like a big event, one night of like bring your friends. And you know, we talked about in the first episode, but the the spiritual CPR strategy. So cultivate and then plant and then reap. That's a cultivate event. 00:07:38:22 - 00:08:06:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's a cultivate night. How do you then carry on that momentum on into the next coming weeks? One of the elements, one of the small slivers component, but one that I really think has been super huge in our student ministry around, reaching, frankly, reaching more students, and reaching more lost students in an effort to be, both like planting seeds of like, spirituality as well as just like having fun is, is through using, the means of social media. 00:08:06:18 - 00:08:26:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so obviously, here I am. It's a hybrid ministry podcast. You probably saw that one coming, but that's been a hugely beneficial and hugely big piece in our overall strategy. And it's become one of our primary evangelism mechanisms. And next week I am dropping the fall seasonal social media pack. Now here's how this is going to work next Thursday. 00:08:26:08 - 00:08:47:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you're subscribed, you're going to get it as soon as it drops. It's over on my Patreon. So is Patreon.com slash hybrid ministry. And over there there is a tier of podcast, a bonus weekly podcast where I'm just detailing an outline, all of my events, and all of our Wednesday nights, our programing, what's going well, what we're doing on social media, moves are making changes that we got going on. 00:08:47:29 - 00:09:03:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Here's the thing. This week at time of of filming that one, this episode drops. So at time of filming, my boss actually just submitted his resignation. So I'm actually stepping into a new role and I'm stepping into a new seat. And so I'm going to have the opportunity to share some of that with you. And I'm really excited. 00:09:03:13 - 00:09:34:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But that podcast that patrons hear is $4 per month. Now, here's the thing. The seasonal social media pack is like 1799, and it is meant to last for three months. So if you do the math, you actually come out ahead on the, on the tier. And so what I would recommend right now, if you're listening to this week leading into launch, go over to Patreon, give me the $4 per month, getting in on that tier, and then you will get everything in the store, not just this upcoming seasonal pack, but you can grab the summer pack. 00:09:34:13 - 00:10:02:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then, on Thursday, you can grab the fall pack, and there's actually a free week trial there, for you to check it out. So click the link down below. Become what we call a hybrid hero at that $4 per month tier. So excited to do that. And we're going to be dropping not only that pack next week and kind of walking through what that is, but then we're also going to start looking at how can you build and create a social media team within the the gathering in your in your context as is, that's fully and completely run by teenagers? 00:10:02:02 - 00:10:19:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm going to walk you how we did it and how you can do it in your youth ministry to reach students, but also create momentum for your students that are attending your church in person as well. So once again, thank you guys so much for being here. I hope you found this episode helpful. If you did like it, subscribe, share with the friend. 00:10:19:10 - 00:10:23:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But until next time and as always, don't forget to stay hybrid.

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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 nearly not enough time for them to do everything, because when they leave, I want them to have in their mind like, oh my word, that event was so fun. 00:05:47:14 - 00:06:03:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I didn't even get to everything. And that's kind of like the vibe I want them to get in the car with with their parents, right? And when they're parents, like, how was it there? Like it was awesome. There is so much to do, you know what I'm saying? Like, that's kind of the vibe that we're going for. So if you're here on YouTube, these are going to flash up here on the screen. 00:06:04:01 - 00:06:24:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry These are free time stations that are high fun, but they're low prep. And some of these we've done before, others of them are ideas that I have for future ones. And if you're doing the World's Greatest Donut Event launch guide, you can use some of these. These are ones that we actually have pulled together, for the donut event starting with. 00:06:24:29 - 00:06:50:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The first one is we had a donut temporary tattoo parlor. And so we can have students come in and just get a temporary donut tattoo. Right. And it's like you're doing the scavenger hunt. Like, one of the things I've done is, a future idea is like, we've done a scavenger hunt is one of the clues on the scavenger hunt was to have to go and prove that you got a donut tattoo, so it's like you kind of kill two birds with one stone. 00:06:50:00 - 00:07:10:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They come to the scavenger hunt, which is a second idea, by the way. Come to the scavenger hunt. One of the one of the clues is you know, go to the donut tattoo thing and they prove that they've done it. And so in addition to it, we like I try to hybridize my scavenger hunt, which, if you didn't know by the way, I have a weekly bonus podcast over on Patreon. 00:07:10:00 - 00:07:36:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's only $4 a month, and I want you to think about that. Investment of $4 is like your creative programing assistant. Like, here's my question is $50 per year worth it for you to have? Almost like a programing and social media consultant and coach? Because that's essentially what this $4 tier would do. It's going to give you, for $48 for you, 12 times four. 00:07:36:07 - 00:07:57:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's going to give you, someone who's just doing this on the front lines and is evaluating everything that I'm doing and boots on the ground. I'm not just like some, you know, youth ministry content guy. Like, these are things I'm actually doing. And I'll, I'll coach you through just by the evaluation of my own strategy, how it's going, what's going well, what's not going as well. 00:07:57:00 - 00:08:15:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you can just steal all that I'm doing and bonus points, at the end of this episode, I'm going to be dropping a product that's $17. That's going to be incredibly valuable to you as you continue to lean in on social media. That's going to be free if you're already a $4 tier member of the Hybrid Heroes podcast. 00:08:15:27 - 00:08:33:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I try to hybridize, and this is an example of thing I'll talk about on my podcast, The Scavenger Hunt. So, for example, we say, hey, prove to us that you voted on the first round of the donuts, because remember, at this event we're launching the bracket. And so we're doing donuts, seed number one versus donuts. Seed number 16. 00:08:33:28 - 00:08:53:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Donuts number eight versus donut seed number nine. Prove to us that you voted. And so, they can either vote with paper printouts which is the most boring, or they go on Instagram or YouTube and cast a poll style vote. Another one I'll do is I'll say, like in our most recent uploaded YouTube video, what was on so-and-so's shirt? 00:08:53:10 - 00:09:15:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What color was so-and-so's hat, who's teaching like or whatever? And so that'll also encourage them to pull their phones out. If they don't have a phone, go find someone who does have a phone and look at our YouTube channel. And then, you know, bonus points if you subscribe, like all those types of things, like, I'm trying to kind of lean into not only the other stations like the donut tattoo station, but also some of our hybrid ideas. 00:09:15:26 - 00:09:32:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so Scavenger Hunt is one of my all time favorite stations. Another one is just simple, right? Like create a board game station. Like we already have a bunch of board games in our cafe. In our game room. We'll just lay those on a table and say, you can go do board games. And here's the thing so low prep on your part. 00:09:32:22 - 00:09:53:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You don't have to do anything with it. We in this donut event, we've done donut decorating for like a couple nights ago in our youth ministry, it was National Sugar Cookie Day. We did sugar cookie decorating like you could do some sort of food decorating or craft decorating of sorts. One of the one of my all time favorite active games is steal the Bacon. 00:09:53:19 - 00:10:10:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so in this event, we just do steal the donut. You can buy a big donut plush on Amazon, or you can just very simply like throw anything out there, like a piece of, like we've done, like I've done like a duck tape night before. And I took a piece of cardboard and I duct taped all around the cardboard, and we played steal the duct Tape. 00:10:11:03 - 00:10:27:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, whatever theme event you're doing, like, steal that thing for, like, a steal the bacon style game where you have ten people on one side, ten people on the other, or however many. Right. And you can number them off. So this is one, this is one, this is two. This is two. When you call that number, they run on into the middle. 00:10:27:22 - 00:10:45:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Another one of our all time favorite active games is we call it One of our volunteers labeled it here called poison, but I've grown up calling it Kajabi can can just with the big trash can in the middle. And you try to not touch the trash can by holding someone's, you know, hands and dragging them into the trash can. 00:10:45:14 - 00:11:08:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You want to be the last person standing. Here's a pro tip grab dog rope. Chew toys so that you're not holding someone's like, wrist and like, crushing their knuckles because inevitably you're going to have like a senior guy football player next to like, a seventh grade girl. And he's going to destroy her hand. So give them both, like, dog rope, chew toys to hang onto with, like the ropes on the end. 00:11:08:23 - 00:11:29:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry She's got a rope here. He's got rope here. And of course, if you break the chain, you're also out. Another thing that we've done before, and I'm just going to be honest, I don't know how well it worked, but we did like, big screen Mario Kart video game, tournament video games, and Mario Kart always a hit. The part that I'm not sure that worked was the tournament aspect. 00:11:29:24 - 00:11:45:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like it was kind of chaotic and didn't really know who's next and who's in line and, you know, whatever. But it was still fun. Overall, we have in our space, we have like a nine square, so we'll just say eight. You can you know, play nine square if you want. So that's an option. Gaga ball. That's an option. 00:11:45:17 - 00:12:04:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if you don't know like I recommend two portable versions. And so maybe you're in like a shared space. But for an event like this, you can drag those out and set them up. Link down. Below is my, recommended nine square option and my recommended Gaga ball option. So those are things you make a little financial investment here on the front side, but then you can use this whenever you have a big event like this. 00:12:04:29 - 00:12:23:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And those can be a part of your station, some of the things that you offer. And then finally the social challenge. So social challenge I'm going to teach you how to do that here in a couple episodes. So make sure that you're subscribed. But the social challenge is we some social media content with our students, by our students every single Wednesday night. 00:12:24:01 - 00:12:43:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And in the link below, I am going to share with you exactly how you can, build your own social media team and the exact strategy that we use. And like I said in a couple episodes, I'm going to flesh out a full class on how to build out a social media team based on student ministry volunteers and what that does. 00:12:43:13 - 00:13:03:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That just helps kind of continue to create those hybrid connections. You're doing it via social media. And like I said on August 28th, we're dropping something big that is going to help you get that social media team up and off the ground. So you're definitely going to want to make sure that you're subscribed. But for the next video here, we are going to now talk about we've done this donut event. 00:13:03:09 - 00:13:25:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We've welcome new students. We've included free time stations. Now let's look at event evaluation. How do we know whether or not we hit the mark? How do we know whether or not this event was successful? How do we know whether or not the budget money that we spent with, whether the juice there was worth the squeeze? We're going to answer all of those questions on the video that's linked right here on screen. 00:13:25:05 - 00:13:31:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So make sure that you tap into that and until next time, and as always my friends, don't forget to stay hybrid.

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. 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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 our student? I'm glad you asked, because in the next episode, we're going to talk about one of the key components of this, fall kickoff event. And it's the fact that we include we alluded to a little bit in last episode, but we include this moment of like 45 minutes of free time for students to do whatever they want. 00:06:21:14 - 00:06:33:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That video is going to be linked here on screen. Make sure that you're subscribed. If you're watching this live, so that you don't miss when that episode drops next Thursday. But until next time. And as always, my friends, don't forget to stay hydrated.

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The ultimate fall youth ministry outreach event that actually gets students to show up—plus grab a free donut event download to boost your next youth group outreach. Whether you're planning fall events, student ministry games, or looking for fresh youth group outreach ideas, this episode breaks down how to win students with Sonlife's classic CPR strategy: Win, Build, Equip. Don’t miss this youth pastor resource that combines social media, donuts, and brackets into one unforgettable church outreach event! 🍩 "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/160 ☀️ SUMMER SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry/shop/summer-seasonal-social-media-1540452?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=productshare_creator&utm_content=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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Well, hey, everybody, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. If you and I haven't had a chance to meet yet. 00:00:26:15 - 00:00:50:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry My name is Nick Klassen, a 15 year youth ministry veteran. And in this episode, I want to share with you my all time favorite event archetype for youth ministry fall kickoffs. In fact, included in the link down below is everything that you're going to need, including shopping lists, graphics, and, the rundown in order to execute and pull this entire event off. 00:00:50:06 - 00:01:11:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But before we dive into that, I do want to talk just a little bit of youth ministry, philosophy and strategy. So if you're only here for the event guide, hit the chapter mark down below and jump to that part of the episode. But for the rest of us, like I want to ask this question like, is doing an event like, what is the purpose of doing an event in youth ministry? 00:01:11:14 - 00:01:32:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You know, I grew up under the tutelage of a ministry philosophy called Sun Life. Shout out to Sun Life. And they're still around. But, they are not as predominant or as prevalent as I remember them being when I was in middle school or high school. You know, my dad was a youth pastor, and he was closely associated and affiliated with them. 00:01:32:24 - 00:02:10:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so thus I went to like student based trainings and conferences. And they have a ministry philosophy called, spiritual CPR. And each of the letters in that are like an acronym for different things. So the C in spiritual CPR is like cultivate this idea of building and investing in a relationship. Like think about a friendship. And probably one of the things I remember the most from this was like, if you had a neighbor and like every single time you're outside, like gardening or getting the mail and you like bumped into your neighbor, and you're trying to, like, share your faith with them and share the gospel with them, like you probably wouldn't every 00:02:10:24 - 00:02:28:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry single time you talk to them, like, hey, if you died tonight, would you know exactly where you're going to be? And the sun life kind of strategy then implemented that back over into student ministry and is like, hey, every time you have an event, every time you especially have like an outreach event, like you don't have to necessarily share the gospel. 00:02:28:16 - 00:02:46:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Part of it is trust building and cultivating that ongoing relationship. And that might be a polarizing opinion, but that's sort of like the strategy and the philosophy that I've, you know, seen my youth ministries kind of thrive under and that I've sort of like adopted as a youth pastor, and also one that I grew up in as like a teenager. 00:02:46:11 - 00:03:09:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, like, this event is a cultivate style event. It's one where the goal is to like, cultivate and build relationships. Meanwhile, the P then stands for plant and that's like a regular like youth night. That's one where like you will, you know, obviously like teach a Bible lesson from Scripture and you're going to kind of be planting the seeds of like faith in about Jesus and like about what people understand. 00:03:09:04 - 00:03:25:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then finally, the R stands for reap. And so CPR, cultivate, plant reap. It's going to kind of have that like gardening kind of metaphor. But the reap right is like a farmer when it's time to harvest like they go out and they actually like take the dividends, take the yield from the harvest of what they cultivated the soil with. 00:03:26:00 - 00:03:53:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Of what, like they planted and then how that grew and then what was officially time for them to take that. And so this style of event that I'm about to share with you is a like a classic cultivate type of event, an event where the goal is to like just build a relationship and earn trust. And I especially think like a lot of times, I don't know about you, a lot of times I feel like youth pastors think the goal is to like earn trust with like the first time guest and like, well, we want to do that. 00:03:53:22 - 00:04:23:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I think more than that, the goal is to build trust with the student who's bringing their friend who already calls your church home. It's like that student wants to know, like, can I bring my friend to something at the church? And it not be weird and it not backfire on me and my church, not do something that makes me or my friend feel a little bit uncomfortable or like, because what you're asking someone a student to do is you're asking them to lay down a pretty amazing amount of social capital in order to bring their friend to this event. 00:04:23:10 - 00:04:40:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And we say it all the time as youth pastors, right? Bring your friends, bring your friends, bring your friends. It's like a common youth ministry sort of moniker. And so one of the things I like to do, and I only do these probably 3 or 4 times per year, is a strictly cultivate event. And now you might be thinking like you don't have curriculum, you don't have content. 00:04:40:13 - 00:05:04:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's one of the reasons why I link down below my hybrid strategy. Like recommends filming your messages. And so we've done before where like we didn't have the message, but we still had like a message for that week. It's still tied to our Sunday morning curriculum. And so like as students were leaving, we'd share like just a little clip and say, hey, this is on YouTube, scan this QR code, just go subscribe to our YouTube. 00:05:04:07 - 00:05:28:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And it's a great way to kind of accomplish both of the things that you're looking for. So with all that being said, with that philosophy sort of late as a groundwork, what's the best fall outreach event idea for youth ministries? Let's check it out. So some of my favorite Cultivate Event style of outreach events are centered around and, predicated on this idea of a bracket. 00:05:28:13 - 00:05:46:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, if you've, you know, been new to my channel at any length of time, you can go back and look at some of these former episodes linked here on screen or down in the show notes. But I've detailed an outline these bracket ideas several different times. In fact, I have an episode strictly dedicated to this exact event that I'm going to kind of like rehash here. 00:05:46:29 - 00:06:10:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Again, it's this, world's greatest donut bracket. In fact, there's an entire a product centered around this on Download Youth Ministry. And here's a couple of the reasons why I like this style of of that. First and foremost, when I feel like when youth ministries get larger than 30 to 40, you basically have to just create like a themed gathering or a themed party of sorts. 00:06:10:09 - 00:06:29:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, like, whatever that party is like, you just kind of like chop that check in and like rehash it and like reuse it in different ways. But like, we do all sorts of different things. And actually this is the start of a master class like fall, fall youth Ministry Masterclass playlist. This is episode number one here on YouTube. 00:06:29:00 - 00:06:47:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm going to be giving you a A completely for free. But like step number one is having an a, an amazing kickoff event. And so at these kickoff events, this particular one is going to be donut themed. And so as we take this donut themed event, what are the ways that we utilize it and use it throughout this this night. 00:06:47:11 - 00:07:02:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now here's again, here's the reasons I like these bracket style events. Number one, it's a voting style event. And so, it's like a winner advances and the loser is out. But you can use it for multiple weeks in a row. I love things that like, can carry on throughout. So like this might be a great like launch night. 00:07:02:29 - 00:07:22:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You're going to launch all 16 of the different like donut options. But in the coming weeks you're going to vote them out. And so that has and promotes a carryover effect for students who may want to like bring their friends to this event. But then the friends come back and then again in the weeks that follow. Those events are those nights, I'm sorry are going to be more like standard youth ministry night. 00:07:22:02 - 00:07:49:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You're going to be teaching a message, you're going to be having a small group. You're going to be having discussion around what the Bible has to say. Meanwhile, this kind of donut themed thing is going on in the background. The other reason I like it is because it promotes social media. And again, you're going to want to subscribe because at the end of this five part masterclass, we are going to be talking about how to continue not only with this spark of social media, but how to then carry that on into a more regular rhythm, and one that you as a youth pastor, you may have to get up off the ground, but then you 00:07:49:28 - 00:08:11:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry fully hand it off to students because, you see, this world's greatest donut event is all meant to and aimed at pushing students to go check out your social channels, whether it's YouTube, TikTok, or over there on Instagram. So in the event guide, you're going to get a full service order. So we have a five minute countdown timer. It's a world's greatest donut themed countdown timer. 00:08:11:15 - 00:08:30:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It is available in the Download Youth Ministry link, again included in the show. Notes down below. And then at the beginning we like welcomed people. We told them that it was time to like, start voting, and we gave away some door prizes and some giveaways. We did some worship songs, and then we played a game called Guess That Donut. 00:08:30:19 - 00:08:48:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then we gave the winner like a big box of, like a dozen of, like, custom craft, like, you know, special curated donuts. And then we played the donut on a string game. That's where, like, you have a friend up above, like on a chair or on the stage with, like, a donut on a string. 00:08:48:02 - 00:09:09:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then the person down below has to be the first one to eat it. That's a super fun game. And then we and we're going to detail this fully in a future episode. Again, make sure you're subscribed. But we give our students like open kind of like rec free time in the middle of our event. So we have all sorts of different things in there like donut decorating, find the donut, steal the donut, donut tattoo stations again. 00:09:09:07 - 00:09:30:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Subscribe. We're going to go over that in the future episode. Then we called everybody back in and we gave away a grand prize of sorts. And so as you're looking ahead and as you're thinking about planning, I have like links, I have downloads, I have what you need in order to take this event to the next level that is downloaded and available for you completely for free. 00:09:30:12 - 00:09:54:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Go check out my free donut event guide. Go grab the World's Greatest Donut Guide, over on Download Youth Ministry and start planning your fall kickoff and your fall calendar, so that you have an event that is going to not only be amazing and fun and sweet, obviously, because donuts are amazing, but also you're going to start creating and building the groundwork for a strong hybrid and a strong social media presence. 00:09:54:24 - 00:10:10:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And this is the perfect way to kick off your school year with this. And again, reminder at the end of this playlist, I'm going to be dropping something huge that you are not going to want to miss out on. So make sure that you're subscribed. And until next time. And as always, my friends, don't forget to stay hybrid.

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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 Which Mic is Best for You? 01:10 Budget Mic - Bluetooth Mic 03:01 Mid Tier - Rode Wireless GoII 04:28 Pro Level - Sennheiser Portable Wireless Lavalier 05:37 BONUS - Sennheiser MKE 600 Shotgun Mic 07:39 BONUS #2 - Podcast Mics -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:03 - 00:00:06:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This microphone right here is less than $10. And I'm talking directly into my cell phone, 00:00:06:06 - 00:00:09:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry camera video and is being recorded to that audio track. 00:00:09:21 - 00:00:22:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Meanwhile, if you switch to this lapel style microphone you see on news anchor host weatherman Stephen Smith on ESPN, this microphone is nearly $700, and it requires an audio recording interface. 00:00:22:10 - 00:00:27:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then we also have this middle of the road microphone here, podcast style microphone. 00:00:27:04 - 00:00:48:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you take my seasonal summer social media pack, which is less than $20, and you download it, you realize that as I'm hoping to help youth pastors create custom content that it's going to require at some points in time, a microphone. And what I want to do in this video is I want to show you all of the different array of options that you can use. 00:00:48:18 - 00:00:49:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All the way from like 00:00:49:20 - 00:00:50:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry budget microphones 00:00:50:25 - 00:00:51:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry to the most 00:00:51:25 - 00:00:54:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry expensive Cadillac style microphones 00:00:54:00 - 00:01:09:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry to these mid tier podcast, but really cool and vibey looking microphones that your students are going to love. Because in this episode, we're going to answer the question, which mic should you use for the content that you're creating in your youth ministry? Welcome, my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry Show. 00:01:10:21 - 00:01:31:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What's up everybody? Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. You and I haven't had a chance to meet yet. My name is Nick Klassen, and we're going to explore microphone. And they're really important because actually, right now, this exact audio is coming. Me talking directly to my camera on the other side of the room. You can see that so far of all the audios you heard is the worst style of audio. 00:01:32:00 - 00:01:51:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And we're going to go through budget options as well as all the way up to the most expensive style of options. And you'll notice if you follow my hybrid ministry social media recommendations, that it's going to require you filming some of your own custom content, and that's going to require you to want to have a microphone, because this audio right here is just not doing it. 00:01:52:03 - 00:01:53:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So first we're going to look at budget 00:01:53:28 - 00:02:20:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Audio. This is my budget audio recommendation. It's one of these Bluetooth style microphones. They are really cheap. They clip on. They are wireless, which is nice. And they plug directly in to your phone. You can get these for less than $10. And at a minimum, what this does is the requirement for decent microphone audio is you just want to isolate the audio source away from the video source. 00:02:20:27 - 00:02:45:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now this one records directly into the actual video file. So you you like your video and your audio will be immediately linked up, which is good news. But I would say this one here, we're going to call this like the student ministry volunteer microphone. Like it's helpful. It gets the job done. But there's certainly like a lot more potential in your microphones. 00:02:45:04 - 00:03:01:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But this is the run of the mill, the most basic. And if you are on a tight budget, you should definitely consider grabbing something like this. This is usb-C direct into Android or into the newer iPhones, or you can find the lightning connections. Both are available at the links down below in the show notes. 00:03:02:12 - 00:03:18:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So this one right here is actually one of my newest recommendations. It's the road wireless go to. Not because I've been against it, but because it's just brand new. I just got it. And so right now I'm actually talking direct into my cell phone camera. 00:03:18:24 - 00:03:41:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And right now I'm talking direct into my Sony ZV one camera, which that, camera is actually also linked down below in the link included in the description. I would call this one like the church in terms of microphones, but it's the church intern that actually reads commentaries and has maybe gone to at least a couple like Bible College or seminary classes. 00:03:41:15 - 00:03:58:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, like, they know a little bit more what they're talking about. You can tell the quality on this microphone is quite a bit better than the quality of the last microphone. The pro, of course, is once again it's wireless. It's easy. And it can go direct into your cell phone. And so you don't need like a whole nother camera or anything to do that. 00:03:58:06 - 00:04:17:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It also doesn't need any sort of audio interface. The downside is that, you know, it's going to run out of battery, and the quality just it might not be up to, you know, full like, professional grade level of quality. But once again, these are for social media. So maybe that's totally not that that needed, you know. 00:04:17:07 - 00:04:27:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry There are two of these actually in the pack. And so like you and then like, another person could each have one clip of mine or even use them for like a podcast, or something like that, if you really, you know, want it to go that route as well. 00:04:28:22 - 00:04:55:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This pro-level microphone is the Sennheiser lavalier system. It is the senior pastor of microphones. It's buttoned up, it's expensive, it's intimidating, and it's very, very serious about what the job needs to be and about getting the job done. This one is probably the most overkill. It is more broadcast quality. It's great for live, it's great for studio stuff. 00:04:55:29 - 00:05:14:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It is wireless. So you see, I have a pack that I have right here in my pocket. And this wire that's just like clipped on. Then here through my shirt. And then I have a receiver over there on my focus. Right. So this one does require an audio interface and it's not recording directly onto any of the video. 00:05:14:07 - 00:05:36:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So you need to record this separately. You can use something like GarageBand or we use like Adobe Audition. But then you have to link this audio up with the audio from the camera. Now, I do have a couple other bonus options that might be worth considering, and I think I can add a little bit of punch to your studio, and we're going to check those out in the next section. 00:05:37:29 - 00:06:03:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This microphone right here is the Sennheiser M-k 600. I would call this one if the last one was the senior pastor of microphones. This one is the executive pastor of microphones. It you know, it knows where to aim. And it's going to hit every single time. But you also better know what you're doing. So the pros and cons of this are you do not need pro as you don't need a wireless interface. 00:06:03:19 - 00:06:25:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I am plugged directly into my Sony camera a can of course, is you will probably need some sort of adapter as this goes through an audio like one eighth cable inch headphone jack. And so you're going to need some sort of adapter, probably a microphone to usb-C or to lightning to go directly into your phone. The other con, of course, is it's wired okay. 00:06:25:11 - 00:06:43:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so like you're going to need, to have like an XLR cable. It's like what you would use for your worship, music or worship department. But you can see some of the pros of it. We use this a lot. We've used this almost exclusively, on our man on the Street videos. And so we've bought this, like, microphone flag with, like, our church branded logo in it. 00:06:43:16 - 00:07:02:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's also battery powered with just double A batteries. And so that's easier than trying to remember to plug in something that's like, usb-C or like rechargeable in that way. And so, this is a really good microphone. It is cheaper than the lavalier. And so this may be something that you want to do, when you buy it again, once again, link down below. 00:07:02:20 - 00:07:24:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry There is an option to mount it directly on to your camera. And you can mount it there and then it's like a shotgun style. The downside of that is if there's any distance between the camera and the person, it's going to pick up everything in between. So, like this entire episode, I've been moving around to different corners of our youth ministry, social media studio. 00:07:24:25 - 00:07:39:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, we have had incredibly bad sound bleed through these walls, which go and lead to our auditorium, which is why we ended up going for this next bonus item that you're going to see here. In the next section of this video. 00:07:40:12 - 00:08:04:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And here we are. Back where we started. And these right here are the, podcast style microphones. There's once again a link down below in the show notes. You can check these out. These microphones are kind of like the youth pastor of microphones. They are professional. They're paid, they're full time. Hopefully you're full time and they're cool looking or like try hard, cool looking. 00:08:04:01 - 00:08:27:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Maybe you're giving it too much. But the fact of the matter is these much, much to the opposite of the shotgun microphones before I catch almost zero sound bleed. And so for most of our like, we do drafts and we do seven questions here in this room for most of these videos, these microphones do a fantastic job of picking up the audio of the students that are talking directly into it. 00:08:27:18 - 00:08:47:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Not to mention it cuts out some of the exterior wall noise that we were talking about in the last section and in the last clip. The cons of these, however, are they once again, they're XLR, so you are going to need like a music microphone. And oftentimes we use two of these. So you're going to need at least a two channel audio interface. 00:08:47:10 - 00:09:08:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We use the focus rate Scarlett. Air you can check that out once again. Link down below for that in the show notes. The con of that, of course, is that is going to be an upgraded and an additional cost. And so you'll just have to figure out between this one or the Bluetooth wireless or the Rode Go Wireless two, or the condenser microphone or the lavalier microphone. 00:09:09:03 - 00:09:32:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry What microphone is best for you? Now here's what I'm going to tell you. I recorded all of this audio in its raw and rarest form. And so you're going to hear it. And you can now make the decision, based on listening to this podcast episode, which one you prefer and which one you like best, and which one sets in and makes the vibe for your student ministry and your social media. 00:09:32:24 - 00:09:53:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But the good news is, this is no matter what you decide, my content, regardless of the quality of your microphone, whether you go budget or whether you go pro level, my content works for all of it. The 1799 summer seasonal Social Media Pack, which will allow you to not only get some done for your content, but it will also help encourage you to create some custom content. 00:09:53:23 - 00:10:18:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And why you want custom is because you want your students, your face, your leaders, and you want your social media to feel real, and you want it to feel like you. And these microphones will help enhance that experience. And I want you to have an amazing and popping off social media. Hey, members of my Patreon who get a bonus weekly podcast also get that downloadable social media pack which is going to drop four times per year. 00:10:18:20 - 00:10:33:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Every new season, they get it completely for free and as an included part of their membership tier, and it's actually cheaper to become a member than it is to download the pack outright. So consider doing that. But until next time. And as always, my friends, don't forget to stay hybrid.

In this episode, Nick Clason of the Hybrid Ministry Show, unpacks the #1 thing he's done to make his church's social media strategy keep running amidst the busy seasons. Not to mention, his full-scale strategy that will not only give you the space to level students up into leadership, but provide you with the posting plan while they're learning. Tune in! ☀️ SUMMER SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry/shop/summer-seasonal-social-media-1540452?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=productshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *🦸 HYBRID HEROS GET THE PACK FOR FREE! * https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/158 ✅ 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 Develop Your Students 00:49 Why Have a Social Media Team? 04:58 Summer is the Perfect Window to Develop it 05:21 Your Full Social Media Strategy 06:48 A Content Strategy that Runs while you Train -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:20:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You've got teens who love TikTok, who know Capp cut better than you and are making videos all summer long. What if this summer, rather than just discipling them, you actually turn them into influencers who are reaching their peers for Jesus through social media. Welcome, my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry show. Well hey everyone, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. 00:00:20:14 - 00:00:41:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you and I haven't had a chance to meet yet. My name is Nicholas and the host of this here Hybrid Ministry podcast. And in this episode, I want to talk about why you should, train teen editors to edit and to manage your social media content. Why? Summer is the perfect window to do that. Also, how do you stay active on social media while you're in the midst of building up a team? 00:00:41:12 - 00:01:01:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And finally, I have the ultimate and most perfect solution for you, so be sure to stick around to the very end of the video. But the reason why you should be leaning into teenagers on social media is because, according to Pew Research, a recent study showed that 90% of teens and an even earlier studies showed that 95% of them spent regular time on YouTube. 00:01:01:05 - 00:01:25:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Not to mention the fact that they use their mobile device, Gen Z, more than any other device combined. And I think the screen time is up to an average of seven plus hours per day, which is the equivalent of watching the entire Lord of the rings trilogy every single day. And so this is where teenagers are. And the fact is, you and I work as youth pastors in a day and age where we can reach teenagers through their screens and through their devices. 00:01:25:25 - 00:01:41:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you should train teenagers to do that because you might not be well versed in it. You might be not be very good at it. And see, probably most importantly, you have other things to do. You got sermons to write, you got leaders to develop, you got bosses to meet with. You got students to grab coffee with. 00:01:41:29 - 00:02:10:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You have a plenty of other things going on in the meantime, you still should be reaching teenagers and reaching students and being present on your church's social media platform. In addition to that, it helps give students development and leadership and ownership. You know, according to the study, Growing Young by fellow Youth Institute, they said that key chain leadership was a key for students who grew up in youth group, but also chose to stick around in youth group after they graduated from high school. 00:02:10:15 - 00:02:32:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So what what actual areas of leadership and ownership are you handing to your teenagers? And the fact is, this is school is gone. Students have more, windows of availability. You should be teaching and training your students this summer to take your social media platform so that once you hit the fall, you are off to the off to the races and you hit the ground running with students managing and editing it. 00:02:32:09 - 00:02:51:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In fact, last summer I remember I was sitting there, we had an intern on our staff, and then his younger brother was in sixth grade, maybe seventh grade. And they were just like sitting around. We were cleaning up after the night. And so his younger brother was still in the building with, you know, the rest of our team helping and just kind of hanging out, waiting for his brother to be ready to take him home. 00:02:51:24 - 00:03:07:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I looked at him and I said, hey, you want to learn how to edit TikTok videos? And he's like, sure. I say, have you ever done it before? He's like, no. And I was like, all right, sweet. I said, come in tomorrow, see if your brother, your mom can take you. Have him text me and, we'll get you set up. 00:03:07:21 - 00:03:30:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We'll get you editing. And so he came in the next day. We haven't have the luxury of having a spare computer sitting around, and I showed him how to edit and actually teaser. If you go and grab my, summer social media pack, you'll see that two of the bonus pieces of content are things called drafts, where you go back and forth with a student or with another person, and a game called Seven Questions. 00:03:30:11 - 00:03:45:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I got him set up editing that game. Seven questions real easy. I used Adobe Premiere Pro. I taught him how to use it. That's what I use. I taught him how to how to use what I know how to use. And, he was slow at first. He had a lot of questions, but I kid you not, this is not an exaggeration. 00:03:45:23 - 00:04:07:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This last week we haven't been meeting on Wednesday nights. And, so fast forwarding the story after he got up and running, he pretty much comes in every single Wednesday and edits for me. He's home school. He comes in around 2 or 3:00. He brings his dinner and he edits until youth group gets started around six. So he sits there for 2 or 3 hours and, we, we repaid him with free summer camp this year. 00:04:07:19 - 00:04:27:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or we'll let him get snacks at a liter workroom. And so we haven't been meeting on Wednesdays for the last several weeks. If you're a subscriber on my Hybrid Heroes Patreon membership to. You know that, we're back now, but, I called up his mom, and I said, hey, listen, like we haven't had a brand new edit for some of our social content in nearly five weeks, can you please send him? 00:04:27:29 - 00:04:47:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the reason I tell you that is because I want to. I want you to notice and see how reliant I actually have become on student editors. Like I don't touch edits anymore. And so the downside is I've filled my time with other things. And so if I don't have a student comes in, come in and edit, we're in a little bit of a hole. 00:04:47:15 - 00:05:08:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry However, he's been incredibly helpful with that. And so he's taking it taking it for us and kind of, you know, gone off to the races with that. And so student editors are amazing. And this summer, while they have more free time, if you choose to carve out a little bit of time, train up leaders, create a strategy for them, like help them understand and know what's next. 00:05:08:02 - 00:05:23:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You can hand it off to them full stop. I genuinely mean it because I've seen it happen in my own context. But now you might be thinking like, what is a good strategy? Like, what should we be doing? I'm glad you asked. Actually, link down below is my free hybrid strategy guide. It will tell you exactly what we do. 00:05:24:01 - 00:05:46:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But if you buy my seasonal summer social media pack for only 1799, it's the cost of less than $0.07 per post idea. It will cover three months worth of posting or better yet, become a Patreon member. Get my weekly bonus podcast where I recap everything we've done and you get that resource for free. It will actually give you a three post per week strategy, and there's two sections of it. 00:05:46:28 - 00:06:02:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The first section of it is done for you, which means you don't have to think about it. The graphics work no matter what context you're in. You download and you upload and you're off to the races. You're done. The custom for you does require a little bit more work. And that right there is something that you could genuinely hand off to a teenager. 00:06:02:12 - 00:06:22:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry There's devotional content. There's Bible trivia content. There's men on the street, content you can let your teenagers do all of those things, and they can own that, and you can just cut them loose to run wild with it. Maybe my custom for you ideas give them a springboard, but then they have better ideas. They should. I'm 35 years old. 00:06:22:29 - 00:06:41:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I have gray in my beard. There's no way that a teenager in Gen Alpha Gen Z doesn't have better ideas than I do. But my strategy will help give you, like, the track that you want your teenagers to stay on, and then this pack will help you hand off to teenagers to actually take it. And actually run with it. 00:06:41:29 - 00:07:03:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And for less than $20, you can have three months worth of content. It is so worth it. And that strategy will run not only in the background as you are getting your teenagers up to snuff, and as you're getting them trained and as you're getting them off to the races. But then additionally, it will give them something to continue to lean into and to own and to create that key chain style of leadership. 00:07:03:24 - 00:07:24:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You and I know this. The Apostle Paul says our job is to equip the saints for the works and for the acts of service. Your job is not to run a social media channel and to be a social media manager, but you have teenagers who are interested in it and would really be good at it. And so why don't you take the opportunity to level them up and to hand off a serving opportunity? 00:07:24:27 - 00:07:48:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The last thing I'll end with is this is our student social media team is our biggest and most energetic team serving team in our entire student ministry. Kids clamor to be on it. And so if you want to get kids involved in serving, because we know how important serving is not only for the retention long term and remaining involved in youth ministry, but also for their long term development of their faith. 00:07:48:29 - 00:08:09:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you want to do that, you need to start having a social media strategy and one that you can hand off to students and teenagers, and this pack will help you do that. Well, hey my friend, so glad that you're here. Don't forget, and as always, link down in the description to everything that we talked about. Make sure that you subscribe so that you don't miss a single another episode the rest of the summer. 00:08:09:19 - 00:08:13:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But until next time. And as always, don't forget to stay hybrid.

Nick Clason breaks down the battle between Done-for-You and custom church social media—and why your ministry might need both. Discover how a hybrid ministry strategy saves time and amplifies your church’s voice. This episode unpacks it all and points you to the ☀️SUMMER Social Pack—the perfect combo of polish and personalization. ☀️ SUMMER SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry/shop/summer-seasonal-social-media-1540452?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=productshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *🦸 HYBRID HEROS GET THE PACK FOR FREE! * https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/157 ✅ 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 Done vs Custom Social Media 00:19 The Tension Filled Debate 00:51 Custom - Pros & Cons 03:39 Done for You - Pros & Cons -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00;00;00;04 - 00;00;29;18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Let's settle the debate that has been splitting up church staff rooms for years. No, I'm not talking about oat milk or regular milk in your lattes. I'm talking about done for you. Social media versus custom social media. Let's check it out. So let's break it down. DIY or custom social media is just simply better. Like, it's like eating organic. 00;00;29;18 - 00;00;55;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, you know, it's better. You know, it's good for you. You know, it's what you should do. However, as you also probably know, it takes so much longer. And that's what leads us to then pivot back into the done for you. Because it's simple. It's easy and it's done for you. So let's break these two things down. So what are the pros of doing a custom social media? 00;00;55;10 - 00;01;29;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry One with your name, your face, your personality? Well, the first thing is obviously it's tailored for your people. It can be tailored for your people because you're their pastor. You know what they like. You know who they are. You know what they need, and so you can create that for them on your social media feed. The other thing, like we talked about in the episode linked right here, is that it showcases your voice through a series of what Hubspot's trends report is calling Micro Connections. 00;01;29;08 - 00;01;50;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Your voice becomes what people kind of gravity hate towards and are used to seeing on your social media. You want your voice and you want your face. And you got to think, if you're a pastor at a church, there's already an element to you, or there's already an element to your church where your people are familiar with your pastor's voice. 00;01;50;12 - 00;02;19;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so why should your social media not continue to be an extension of that online? And then the last piece, of course, is that it has the opportunity to engage authentically. We're like a done for you or like a custom thing for you. Like doesn't quite have that as much as because it's just a bunch of rote, static graphics that were done and can be used on anyone's social feeds, across any church, in any part of the world, or any part of the country. 00;02;19;23 - 00;02;37;24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And while the graphics look amazing and maybe even better than what you can pull together, it's not really you. And you don't have the opportunity to then reach through that and engage authentically with your people, which is one of the problems, in my opinion as well, of doing something that is like a done for you, which we'll get to in just a second. 00;02;37;26 - 00;03;02;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry However, the cons of like a custom social media feeds is it takes hours. And secondly, it also requires skill like you need typically a staff person who knows what they're doing. In my experience, a lot of pastors, a lot of church, ministry people, they don't have that skill or they don't have it yet. And so they don't hop in to learn that skill and therefore they just shy away from it. 00;03;02;17 - 00;03;27;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Which I get, like, we don't like to kind of put ourselves out there into new and sort of like uncharted territory. There is another thing out there that, let's just be honest, like, people feel this pressure to try and compete with every other big church in the country. Like, you can't be elevation and that's okay, right? It's not necessarily a bad thing that your church isn't the biggest, greatest, sleekest, best looking church. 00;03;27;06 - 00;03;50;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like it's okay that you're not. You can't be them. And, no one's expecting that of you. We just want you to be you. So let's move on then, and talk about the pros and the cons of done for you. Done for you is like ordering DoorDash, right? It's convenient, it's simple, it's easy. And best of all, there's no messy dishes to clean up. 00;03;50;11 - 00;04;09;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You get all of the goodness and none of the work that has to go with it. So let's talk about the pros of done for you. First of all, and probably most obvious is that it saves you time. Like, you know, you're busy and this gives you a solution to your busyness to still remain active on social media. 00;04;09;13 - 00;04;42;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Secondly, you you look your feed looks more polished, like you have professional designers and professional graphic artists doing these done for you. Social packs. And so therefore you can lean into their expertise and you can just post their things. And then lastly, it helps you stay consistent because if you take over a fully custom social media strategy, you know that like eventually the week of VBS is going to hit, which is what I'm right in the middle of right now and I'm exhausted. 00;04;42;15 - 00;05;01;07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or you got summer camp, or you got a missions trip, and social media falls back to the back burner because you weren't able to stay consistent while you were on social media. So those are some of the pros of having done for you. It saves you time, it looks polished and it helps you stay consistent. But the cons what are some of the cons. 00;05;01;07 - 00;05;22;04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, it's going to feel cookie cutter right. Again, if they can do it for this church and your church, they can do it for a hundred other churches. The other thing is it definitely lacks your church's flavor like it's not your church on social media. It's some graphic designer in a lab who cooked it up hours away. And that's your on now on your church's social feed. 00;05;22;04 - 00;05;41;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like that's not really who you are. You're just borrowing something that someone made somewhere else. And then the last part is like, you gotta be honest. Like you might still have to tweak it a little bit. Like there might still be some things that don't exactly fit your church or your church's culture. And so therefore when you post it, captions whatever. 00;05;41;11 - 00;06;01;23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like you have to tweak some of it because it might not fit your exact vibe. What they gave you. And so there's still a little bit of work to do. So let's what's better? Like let's land it once and for all. Let's settle the debate done for you versus custom. What if I told you that you didn't have to choose? 00;06;01;24 - 00;06;27;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah that's right, because I actually made for churches and for youth pastors the summer seasonal social media pact for this exact reason. It helps you stay consistent. It creates a social media posting calendar. Half of the packs are done for you like they're ones that work. They're sleek, they're modern, they look the part and you can just download them and post them and go and not think anything of them. 00;06;27;21 - 00;06;47;23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The other half of them are custom for you. So yes, a little bit more work, but I've tried to take the like all of the work that you're going to have to really do out of it. There are scripts. I just read the thing and do it direct into your camera. There are graphics just overlay the graphics. You look like a pro, but it's still you. 00;06;47;23 - 00;07;17;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's still your church. It's still your people on your church, social media feed. All of those things are all in that, like, custom for you. And then I have a posting calendar so you can follow that in an effort to stay consistent. And so that if you do that, you won't fall off the wagon when it becomes a busy week, when it becomes VBS week, when you go off to summer camp, your social media will still have something regularly being posted to it three times per week, which is what what I recommend. 00;07;17;23 - 00;07;39;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if you download this pack and post at that rhythm of three times per week, it will get you through the months of June, July and August. And I get it. You're watching this video, this podcast dropped in the middle of July. You can grab it now and cram all in, because coming up in just a couple of weeks is going to be our full social media pack. 00;07;39;01 - 00;08;01;19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if you didn't know this members to my Patreon who get a bonus weekly podcast already for $4 per month, they get this pack as a part of their membership tier. So join get the bonus podcast where we're talking all things hybrid ministry. We're talking all things creative youth ministry programing. You'll get that delivered to your podcast catcher every single Monday morning without fail. 00;08;01;21 - 00;08;23;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And every single time we drop a seasonal social media pack, it is yours for free and is yours for the taking. I would love to have you check those things out. They are made for you and this is just to hopefully help make your life easier. It really is an entire summer social media hybrid strategy locked and loaded. 00;08;23;06 - 00;08;47;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's what I do in my church every single week, and I just want to help you win in your youth ministry. So skip the burn up. Skip the Canva at 9 p.m. on every single Sunday night, heading on into your week, and grab the best of both worlds with the summer seasonal social media pack. It is linked down below and let your summer get scroll worthy. 00;08;47;25 - 00;08;51;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And as always, don't forget my friends to stay hybrid.

Need church social media content this week—but don’t want to film a thing? Nick Clason shares 3 ready-to-post reels straight from his ☀️SUMMER Social Pack, built for youth pastors who want freedom and engagement. Discover how hybrid ministry strategy can simplify your posting rhythm and still crush it on Instagram and TikTok—no camera, no editing, no stress. ☀️ SUMMER SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry/shop/summer-seasonal-social-media-1540452?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=productshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *🦸 HYBRID HEROS GET THE SOCIAL PACK FOR FREE! * https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/156 ✅ 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 Let Freedom Ring! 00:46 3 Posts, No Work? 01:29 Reel #1 02:41 Reel #2 03:31 Reel #3 04:30 Why Done For You is Dead -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:01:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry No camera, 00:00:01:25 - 00:00:03:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry no editing, 00:00:03:21 - 00:00:05:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry no stress. 00:00:05:01 - 00:00:09:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Let's be real. Trying to post social media while you're busy 00:00:09:29 - 00:00:17:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry running youth camp, trying to prep a sermon and get that one kid to just eat that one vegetable 00:00:17:28 - 00:00:24:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry can feel like putting out a large campfire with just a small squirt gun. But what if I 00:00:24:14 - 00:00:31:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry told you that this week, even with 4th of July, and even with fireworks and cookouts, and that one student who thinks that 00:00:31:18 - 00:00:34:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry sparklers are lightsabers, that you could post these 00:00:34:28 - 00:00:37:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry three social media posts without 00:00:37:20 - 00:00:40:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry filming a single thing. 00:00:40:05 - 00:00:43:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry No camera, no editing, no stress. 00:00:43:24 - 00:00:59:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Let's check it out. Since it's the 4th of July week, let's talk freedom. No, not the bald eagle on the motorcycle kind, though. Respect, but freedom from that feeling that you have to perform for the algorithm 00:00:59:00 - 00:01:01:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry just to stay visible. 00:01:01:27 - 00:01:09:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I made this episode for the youth pastor who wants to stay active on social media, but also is interested in sleeping. 00:01:09:22 - 00:01:19:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This week, while fireworks are flying and hot dogs are being cooked on the grill. This is your let freedom ring episode where you get 00:01:19:03 - 00:01:28:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry three reels without any work. Does it sound too good to be true? Well, let's check it out. Welcome, my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry show. 00:01:28:09 - 00:01:40:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry First up emoji summer phrases. Emoji phraseology is a game that I've created and that is available for sale over on Download Youth Ministry. 00:01:40:13 - 00:02:00:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the social versions of those are sort of built for like, Instagram Stories. But in my social media pack, I took the stories versions, I put them together, I added an overlay, and I made it more of a guess it before the timer runs out. Style of video. And you'll get five of those in my summer social media pack. 00:02:00:21 - 00:02:04:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The good news is that five of those paired with five of the 00:02:04:05 - 00:02:24:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry others in this video, and five of the third example, is going to help fill out your social media feed. Because here's the thing in the summer social media pack, I've got a stack of these reels, and they're all a part of this section called the done for you section, where you very simply hit download and then hit posts. 00:02:24:22 - 00:02:53:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's like a chill day on July 5th, when everyone's recovering from sugar and sunburns and the deep, existential conversations that took place sparked by the fireworks. It's so easy that you can kick your feet up and you can just watch it perform. Coming in hot at number two are the Spiritual Practice Reel videos. I have these reels that help promote spiritual practice. 00:02:53:11 - 00:03:06:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Once again included in the done for you section of the Summer Social Pack. They're going to encourage your students not only in their faith, but to quite literally engage in spiritual practice 00:03:06:12 - 00:03:20:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry while scrolling through social media. We got things like prayer. We got things like scripture reading. We got things like meditation, and we got things like guided prayer and Bible study, just to name a few. 00:03:20:03 - 00:03:48:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And again, all of them are included in the done for you section. You simply download, you simply post, kick your feet back and watch your students engage on social media. All right, listen, this third idea, it's like so easy. It just might be like feel like cheating because these are really, seriously easy. They're inspirational Bible verses and they always perform. 00:03:48:07 - 00:03:50:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They perform so incredibly well. 00:03:50:06 - 00:04:09:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And again, they're included in the done for you section of the summer social media pack. Now you gotta understand this, right? The Summer pack comes with a fully customizable posting calendar. I've created a grid for you. All you gotta do is insert what you want posted where. So this week 00:04:09:28 - 00:04:11:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry pops up is 4th of July. 00:04:11:20 - 00:04:16:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You're off. You're at the beach, you're watching fireworks. You don't want to put the work in. No big deal, 00:04:16:02 - 00:04:37:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I got you. What you do is you decide these are going to be the done for you weeks and plot payment. And you are good to go. But here's a here's the problem right linked up here at the top of the screen I talk about why the done for you social calendars are dead because if everything's done for you, what it does is it erases you. 00:04:37:29 - 00:04:44:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The youth pastor already raises you and your students early, raises your leaders from the equation and your 00:04:44:10 - 00:05:03:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry social media feeds starts to look more stock and less personal and less customizable. You want that customizable element. Why? Because you're the relationship. You're the connection. And that's who students are looking for. And that's who students are finding and building up those micro connections on your social feeds. 00:05:03:20 - 00:05:29:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so that's why my pack well, I will help you let freedom ring, let you wash your hands and have an easy week. I also have some stuff that's going to require just a little bit of filming on your part, but I've got the scripts, I've got the templates. I tell you exactly how to do and what to do so that you take it and you are the hero on your church's social feed and on your church's social platforms. 00:05:29:10 - 00:05:51:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Listen, I get it. Ministry doesn't stop just because TikTok rolls out a new trend and you're out there, you're celebrating the 4th of July. That's why I made these. The emoji, the spiritual practice. But the verses. But like I said, the honest truth is you can download stock packs from anywhere. So what sets mine apart? Mine is the fact that I also include, well, I have a Dunphy section. 00:05:51:12 - 00:06:25:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I include a custom for you section, and that's my attempt to help you keep your face and your voice and your personality on your church's social media feed, and all of the ones that I've included in this video, plus my custom for you section of the pack, which has Devo videos or, clip up your long form or, some transition invite style videos made on the street, interview questions, all of those just to help you win on social media this summer. 00:06:25:27 - 00:06:41:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And like I said, all of them are included in my summer seasonal social media pack. The link is right here down below. If you're watching on YouTube, if you're on a podcast catcher, go grab that link as well. But here's the fun news if you are a Patreon paid member, not only 00:06:41:26 - 00:06:49:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry do you get the summer social media pack for free, but I also include a free weekly bonus podcast 00:06:49:08 - 00:07:00:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry where I'm evaluating my programing in live time in an effort to continue to remain hybrid and to, turn up the heat on the creativity in our youth ministry programing. 00:07:00:06 - 00:07:23:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's like having your very own programing assistant in your pocket that is all cheaper. You do the three months of of summer, you add those up. That's cheaper than what the social media pack includes. So consider hopping in and being a $4 per month paid member on my Patreon. Listen, if you don't want to post anything this week, link is below. 00:07:23:26 - 00:07:41:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Let freedom ring, wash your hands, kick your feet up and have a great room. Have a great week! Oh, and also don't ever give sparklers to middle schoolers ever. Don't forget stay hybrid.

Consistency is hard—unless you steal my system. In this episode, I break down my exact weekly summer content rhythm for youth ministry using the ☀️ Summer Seasonal Social Media Pack: 1 spiritual reel, 1 fun reel, 1 carousel, and some bonus hybrid magic. You’ll get the full template, schedule, and content—so you can stay consistent, connected, and (mostly) sane all summer long. ☀️ SUMMER SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry/shop/summer-seasonal-social-media-1540452?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=productshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *🦸 HYBRID HEROS GET IT FOR FREE! * https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/155 ✅ 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 Dodgeball in a Cornfield & Summer Youth Ministry 00:55 My Secret Sauce Strategy 01:46 Monday’s Post 03:17 Wednesday’s Post 04:25 Friday’s Post 05:08 Bonus Ideas 06:11 Amazing Deal -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:06 - 00:00:29:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Consistency is hard unless you have a system. So steal mine if I'm giving you permission. So can we just be honest? Like summer youth ministry is kind of like playing dodgeball in a cornfield. No walls, no rules. Just pure chaos. You're leaders gone. You're students at camp. You simply trying to keep your Instagram feed, not looking like a ghost town. 00:00:29:08 - 00:00:56:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, in this video, I'm going to share with you my weekly social media strategy and how I grew a YouTube channel, along with several other social accounts to over 900 subscribers, completely organically. And best yet, it's actually all available to you. Link in the description. For less than a cost of a weekly cup of Starbucks. Welcome, my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry show. 00:00:56:24 - 00:01:18:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well hey everyone, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. If you and I haven't had a chance to meet you. My name is Nick Clayton and in the trenches youth pastor currently serving on assignment in the DFW Dallas Fort Worth area. And I've been passionate about this thing. Digital ministry. I'm trying to make it, possible, accessible and frankly, easy for all of us. 00:01:18:22 - 00:01:45:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I have a full proof system that I actually I want to share with you. And like I said in the open, steal it, man, it is yours. And so every single Monday, I post some sort of spiritual real. My goal, my goal is to post two pieces of content per day. However, what I recommend for most churches and most youth pastors who, maybe don't have as big of a team or as much experience with content is to post three reels per week. 00:01:45:12 - 00:02:04:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if you are following my proposed and recommended secret sauce strategy, it would be posting some sort of spiritual reel per day. Now, if you prefilled your messages, or even if you like, capture your video live in the room somehow, then I recommend posting it into something like an opus clip. There's a link down below for you to check out. 00:02:04:25 - 00:02:28:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Opus clip where I'll take your message and I'll just chop it up for you using I super easy, super great. The other good thing is, if you do have some sort of like long form message version of your, of your message, if you're teaching in some way, shape or form, when you upload that to like YouTube shorts, you can link a featured video to the short and it can link out to your long form of that. 00:02:28:28 - 00:02:57:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so that's what that's what we do. If you don't have either a, the capacity to sit down ahead of time film, that's what we do and that's what I recommend or B, capture it live in the room when you're teaching, then see if you download my social media pack. I actually have, but a bunch of different scripts to help you get through the summer of videos that you can just shoot on your phone selfie style and edit directly in something like a TikTok editor, an Instagram Reels editor, or even something like Cap Cut. 00:02:57:15 - 00:03:16:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so that's what I would recommend you doing on Monday. And listen, if you're going to steal this, you're just going to grab my strategy. The number one way that you could give back to this channel is a very simple like or a subscribe. It really it costs you nothing over on YouTube or on your podcast catcher. And it really does help us out a whole bunch. 00:03:17:01 - 00:03:35:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Moving on. The second style of post I recommend that you do is do something fun. You know, I think a lot of times in youth ministry we feel like we have to be serious all the time, especially when it comes to what's going on on social media. But the fact of the matter is that think about your personal social media habits, whatever platform it is for you. 00:03:35:23 - 00:03:56:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Maybe it's Instagram, maybe it's TikTok, maybe it's YouTube, maybe it's even something like Reddit or Facebook. You know, I feel a lot of youth pastors on Facebook. Why do you get on social media? Maybe you always get on to, like, do your devotions in a low key sort of sense of the way, hoping that your church that you follow is going to post scripture and, and some sort of reels like that. 00:03:57:01 - 00:04:15:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or if you're like me, you get on to laugh, to be entertained. Maybe I'm a huge basketball fan. I get on to, watch basketball content. And sometimes, sometimes I'm just going to be very honest with you. Sometimes I even I even get in arguments about my favorite team. So, that's a confession I'm willing to make, but post something fun. 00:04:15:12 - 00:04:48:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And in this downloaded pack, I include some done for you fun content, emoji guesses, or transition hook style videos. Things to have fun with your students. And then Friday, go ahead and post some sort of carousel post. Post a Bible verse or post, something spiritual like what to do if you're facing anxiety. You know, I, I posted that, recently, actually, this link right up here at the top of the screen is, from a video what I posted using my weekly summer content pack and the carousel post performed incredibly well. 00:04:48:08 - 00:05:02:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Go back and listen to that one. You'll see the ways that people were responding to it and says what to do when I'm facing anxiety, what to do when I'm struggling with anger, what to do when I'm struggling with lust, and we feel some of those in there completely done for you. Grab them, download them, post them to your feed and use them. 00:05:02:24 - 00:05:38:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And they're there for you and they're there for the taking. But I also recommend, in addition to some of these things that I've given to you, I've included some of my bonus content. And every week we get together with some of our students and we do man on the street interview style videos, or we do, tier rankings, or we do a guessing game called seven questions like, and we'll get students together on camera, either me versus them, them versus a staff person or them versus each other with podcast microphones or just a little like Bluetooth connected to your phone's sort of microphone, and which interview them we like, have fun, chatting it 00:05:38:26 - 00:05:57:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry up with students, hearing their opinion, and then also like kind of messing around with them on on the edit, which is another really kind of like fun way to create content not only for your students, but also with your students and all of that, all of that. The good news is included in my summer seasonal social media pack. 00:05:57:20 - 00:06:20:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's it. That's my one week. You take that, you repeat, you rinse, you repeat. You do it again, copy it, steal it, and implement it in your ministry. But hold on a second. I got an amazing deal for you on the other side. Check it out. So there's a lot going on this summer, I get it. And you want to stay active even when you're doing slip and slide kickball. 00:06:20:16 - 00:06:42:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This isn't a metaphor. I really own this, and someone's probably definitely gotten hurt on it before. So here's the deal I don't spend six hours a day. I don't spend six hours a week on all of this. I've put all of this together. So all you need to do is hit the link in the description and go download the Summer Seasonal Social Media pack. 00:06:42:02 - 00:07:01:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It has my weekly proposed schedule for you for the summer. It also has some pre-made templates, things like man on the street, questions, graphics. All you got to do is overlay that in an editor and you can do it directly on your phone, or even in something a little bit more upgraded, like an Adobe Premiere Pro or a DaVinci resolve. 00:07:01:09 - 00:07:21:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then half of the post that you're going to get are completely done for you. Plug and play and you're off to the races. The other 50% is custom, because I don't think that a fully downloadable, where it removes your face and removes your voice and it removes your personality. I don't think that's a good strategy for social media in 2025. 00:07:21:07 - 00:07:40:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so the good news about my pack is that I still allow you to be the voice, to be the face, to create content with and for your students. And you and your students are featured on your social platforms. But I've done all the heavy lifting on their scripts and graphics and templates and, telling you exactly what to do. 00:07:40:02 - 00:08:04:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All you gotta do is follow my instructions, put a cell phone camera and you are off to the races. The result? Consistency, engagement, and not fumbling the bag on your social media feeds this summer. Listen, I got you a link down in the description. Thank you guys so much for being here on the Hybrid Ministry Show as we attempt to make digital discipleship easy and possible and accessible. 00:08:04:10 - 00:08:08:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Until next time. And as always, my friends, don't forget to stay hybrid.

Here’s what usually tanks your social media engagement every summer—and what I’m doing instead. Because posting a blurry pic of your youth group playing dodgeball again is not a strategy. 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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 What is your Social Media Strategy? 00:25 Mistake #1 02:49 Mistake #2 04:18 Mistake #3 05:30 Mistake #4 06:32 The Summer Social Media Pack -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:09 - 00:00:22:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Here's what's probably tanking your engagement on social media this summer, and here's what I'm doing to try and combat that, because posting a blurry dodgeball pic is not really a strategy on social media. In this video, we're going to look at some common social mistakes at youth pastors just like you and just like me tend to make as well as I offer a solution for each and every one of those mistakes. 00:00:22:26 - 00:00:48:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Welcome, my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry Show. Well, hey everyone, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. I've been in youth ministry for 15 years, and I have made all of these mistakes. And I want to help you avoid stepping in those pitfalls. So let's hop in to these common social media mistakes. And mistake number one that most youth pastors make in the summer is they go radio silent. 00:00:48:24 - 00:01:12:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry No, the video is not. Pause. I'm just showing you what your social feed might look like, because I know if you're anything like me, you get busy, you got VBS, you got camp, you got missions trips, you got events. One summer I did a kickball event, and I sprained my ankle in front of all of the kids, and I had to literally crawl my way back to the pavilion because I was so hurt. 00:01:12:07 - 00:01:29:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I was out doing ministry, and I thought to myself, I can't do social media like I'm these are the important things. This is social and this is this is real ministry, social media that can go on the back burner and you need to show up on social media. And here's why. Because our students are showing up on social media. 00:01:29:08 - 00:01:55:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we two in an effort to try and be where they are, we want to show up where they are. And guess what? You don't have to just pull away in your office and create a bunch of content quietly void of interaction with students. No, you can actually create content with students. And if you grab my summer social media pack, it's actually designed to be three posts per week, some of which are just plug and play like you're at the park playing kickball. 00:01:55:25 - 00:02:12:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You're like, oh, I need to post something. Boom. You drop it when the kids get home, they see it. But there's also content that you can create and film with your students, and not just for your students, but since it's with your students, it also ends up being for your students. So mistake number one is go radio silent. 00:02:12:10 - 00:02:46:06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The fixes. In my social media pack, I've baked in three posts per week at a minimum. And then if you are downloading anything else, say like you're a dying member and they give you the social pack monthly. You can filter those things in every other week, and you can actually show up every single day, not only with some custom, content, which is what I offer for you, where you or your students are the actual voices and faces on your social media, but you also then have some of this other kind of like done for you content, which will just still kind of give proof of life to everybody else on your social feed. 00:02:46:14 - 00:03:10:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Let's hop in here to mistake number two. So mistake number two is using static done for you posts. Now listen, I get it. I just actually said to do that. But I say do that in compliment to what I'm offering. But actually my my package here allows you to, to use like half done for you. You need these where you don't have to think about it. 00:03:10:22 - 00:03:37:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You forgot. Oh no I'm supposed to post. You pull it open, you post it, maybe you're on the toilet and you get it done. Okay. But other times I actually give you and carve out for you an opportunity to engage with your students, your leaders, for you and your students and your leaders to be the heroes on your social media packs and so like it allows you to to lean into those inside jokes and, and the the culture that exists within your student ministry. 00:03:37:07 - 00:03:56:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I do it all for you. I tell you exactly how to do it. I tell you exactly what to do. So link down below. Go grab it. Go check it out so that you don't just become a random, generic boring like no context for your ministry social media feed, but you actually become one that is, relevant. 00:03:56:00 - 00:04:18:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And it's popping and it's it's leaning into what's popular on social media now, which is short form, vertical based video. I'm gonna help you, film some stuff. Reels, TikToks, YouTube shorts, whatever works in your context. But you can use it in your context. You can use what I've created, but then you and your student ministry can actually be the heroes in these, on your feed. 00:04:18:22 - 00:04:37:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Which leads me to mistake number three. Not thinking ahead like, you know, you got camp, you know, you got VBS, you know, you got that mission trip. What are you going to post? You don't have a plan? Then that's what causes you to do. Mistake number one, which is go radio silent or you just part of my French fart. 00:04:37:07 - 00:05:01:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Something out. That's no good, because you're like, I ran out of time. I just got to do something. My pack will help you think ahead. I literally scripted it out. June and then July and then August. Away is mid-June already. No problem. Bump it down. July, August, September. Some of them, like emoji phrases like those are summer guess, themed. 00:05:01:12 - 00:05:20:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But like a lot of the other stuff, like it does not tied directly to a season. Grab it and then hey, guess what? Best news of all coming in the fall. I'm going to be offering a fall social media pack. The same archetypes, the same concepts, but fall themed and fall, base and fall topics for you to lean in. 00:05:20:08 - 00:05:41:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I will help you plan ahead on social media so that you can spend time on the parts of ministry that mean and matter the most to you and your group. Which leads me to my fourth and final mistake that youth pastors tend to make and is forgetting the hybrid strategy we think it's all about in person, and we're all we're fully present. 00:05:41:03 - 00:06:00:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And by the way, you should be fully present. You definitely don't want to get fired, but you also want to show up digitally. You want to show where students are spending most of their time. You know, Pew Research did a study that said 90% of teenagers spend time, meaningful time on YouTube. Why are we not there? Why are we not there? 00:06:00:10 - 00:06:27:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Showing up as youth pastors, as student ministries, answering some of life's hard questions, and I will show you how to do all of that, not only in the summer pack, but hey, guess what? Maybe you don't want to spend any money. Grab my hybrid strategy. God, it is completely free. And it's also linked down below for your convenience, all you gotta do is pop in your name and your email and, hey, maybe, you know, if you want to give some sort of payment to this podcast, a subscribe would be fantastic. 00:06:27:02 - 00:06:44:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It literally costs you nothing, but it does actually help us out quite a bit. Listen, I know this all feels like a big sales pitch, but the fact of the matter is that the key to social media is consistency. And that's what my pack is going to help you do. Maybe by the end of it you don't need me to be consistent on social media. 00:06:44:18 - 00:07:02:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's great. That's the goal. I want you to graduate from this. Maybe you're the type of person that's never going to really lean in hard on social media. That's fine too. Keep coming back. These packs are going to continue to recycle with new content every single season, which is going to be three months worth for you to be able to take and make your own. 00:07:02:22 - 00:07:23:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I want you to win because I want you to take these packs and make your social media come to life with your smiling faces and your students. So like I said, link down below, grab it. And guess what? If you are, interested in this, the best deal, the best value. Honestly, take my money is to become a member. 00:07:23:06 - 00:07:43:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry $4 per month. You get this pack at the, the Hybrid Heroes tier, completely included, as well as a weekly bonus podcast. You know, we just got back from summer camp. I've been talking to my students and talking to all my hybrid. Here's about everything we did at camp. All of the creative elements that we woven to what we're doing. 00:07:43:26 - 00:08:03:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you get that completely for free drops every single Monday. What we're doing in our context, what we're doing in our ministry, a real youth pastor with real boots on the ground experience, helping you lean into the creativity and the hybrid ministry that students so crave. I want to help you, win on social media and win in creativity in your student ministry. 00:08:03:10 - 00:08:09:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Check out the pack or become a member so good that you're here. Don't forget, my friends, as always, to stay hybrid.

I didn’t make anything new this week. I literally just hit post. Let me show you exactly what I shared using my Summer Content Pack—and how it performed. Plus two bonus pieces of content that were the true all-stars at the end of this video! ☀️ SUMMER SOCIAL MEDIA PACK https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry/shop/summer-seasonal-social-media-1540452?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=productshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *🦸 HYBRID HEROS GET IT FOR FREE! * https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/153 ✅ 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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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 I didn't make anything new this week! 00:29 Post #1 01:13 Post #2 02:18 Post #3 03:05 When a post doesn't perform… 04:34 Easy Summer Social Media Strategy 06:06 Post #4 07:16 Bonus Post: 7 Questions 07:55 Bonus Post #2: Drafts 08:37 The Power of Variety -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:02:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I didn't make anything new this week. 00:00:02:10 - 00:00:06:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I downloaded, I posted, or I used the scripts included. 00:00:06:29 - 00:00:15:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm going to show you exactly what I use out of my summer social Media content pack, as well as let you know how it performed, 00:00:15:02 - 00:00:17:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry plus two bonus 00:00:17:08 - 00:00:23:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry pieces of content that are also included in the pack. And I'm gonna let you know how those perform as well. 00:00:23:08 - 00:00:28:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They were really the all stars of the week. Welcome, my friends, to the Hybrid Ministry show. 00:00:28:17 - 00:00:44:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right, so first up, we have the what to do if archetype. This is included in the done for you section of the Summer social media pack. And this particular post if you're watching here on screen, which is why you should definitely be subscribe to our YouTube channel. 00:00:44:11 - 00:01:03:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So you can see some of this stuff is because, this one says what to do if you're feeling anxious. We had a lot of great engagement on this, including some shares. One of our leaders shared the whole carousel to her Instagram story. Why? Because it's relevant to what people are going through. And so here's what's so cool on Instagram, we had 00:01:03:15 - 00:01:08:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry 483 people view the post, 13 likes, five shares. 00:01:08:13 - 00:01:09:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then over on 00:01:09:08 - 00:01:13:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry TikTok we had 151 views with 12 likes. 00:01:13:12 - 00:01:29:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The second post type that you're going to see is the Devo style clip. Now this one is included in the custom for use section, where I've included scripts and graphics and templates, and depending on what that type of post is. But this particular one, I use one of the scripts that I've included. 00:01:29:14 - 00:01:52:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I shot this 1 in 1 take. You'll notice I'm going to cut off because I'm just getting ready to play pickup basketball on Tuesday morning of, before staff meeting this week. And so I just still had that outfit on. I grab my phone selfie style video, low pressure sitting in my office, and then I use this script, like I said, included in the social media pack, and I think it landed perfectly. 00:01:52:13 - 00:01:56:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But best of all, again, if you're watching here on YouTube, check this thing out. 00:01:56:00 - 00:02:06:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I edited this whole thing in the TikTok TikTok video. TikTok was that TikTok video editor at man, and it looks so professional. 00:02:06:24 - 00:02:10:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And here's how it performed on Instagram. We got 179 views, ten likes, 00:02:10:21 - 00:02:18:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry YouTube, 895 views, four likes and then TikTok 535 views and 55 likes. 00:02:18:17 - 00:02:40:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Post three is another one of the custom for you. This is the transition hook style video, so this one is a vertical piece of content where I include the start of the video and then here at the very end, it cuts to one of our, students in our ministry that's actually, acting out the rest of it, where he then stands up and he talks to people about God. 00:02:40:27 - 00:02:52:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, sometimes we invite people to church. Sometimes we invite people to events to Sunday morning to Wednesday night, or we just simply talk about the importance of leaning in to God and trusting him. But what I want you to see here is look at this on 00:02:52:07 - 00:02:55:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Instagram. 427 views, 16 likes 00:02:55:01 - 00:02:59:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry YouTube 1686 views 16 likes. Check this one out 00:02:59:13 - 00:03:03:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry TikTok only 50 views zero likes. 00:03:03:13 - 00:03:03:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now I want to 00:03:03:23 - 00:03:20:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry stop here and talk for a second. What do you do when you experience a post like this? My guess is, you've done something like this before. You've tried something before, you've tried your hand at social media, and you've gotten a post like this one, right? Here's the thing. Just like basketball, many of you know I'm a huge basketball fan. 00:03:20:13 - 00:03:41:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Just like basketball, you have to trust the process. Sometimes you guard your kids to the best of your ability. And here is where we do turn around. Three pointer at the end of the shot clock and it goes in. But all you can do is control what you can control, get in position, practice and use and do the fundamentals and just continue to execute. 00:03:41:29 - 00:04:00:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Sometimes it goes well for you and other times not so well. But the fact of the matter is you just got to keep showing up. And that's really the game with social media. And that's what makes it so hard. I think a lot of times for youth pastors is to continue to show up when you experience less than, you know, less than encouraging results. 00:04:00:29 - 00:04:19:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Kind of like this one, right? And you'll notice this is a clunker, but it's a clunker on TikTok. And that's why I recommend diversifying the platforms that you use. I have analytics from YouTube. I have analytics from Instagram, and I like how both of those performed, even though on TikTok it didn't quite perform how I want it to. 00:04:19:16 - 00:04:33:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But that's okay because I still got over 2000 views, or at least close to it. I'm doing math in my head on the fly. Never a good recipe, but, I and I got over 2000 views, across two other platforms, even though I only got 50 on one. 00:04:33:28 - 00:05:11:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Hey, youth pastors, church communications people, would you like to have your social media dialed in for the next 90 days, especially with summer on the horizon? Listen, that's exactly what you're going to get with the summer and seasonal social media packets. A new product that I'm rolling out exclusively on my Patreon is three months of custom strategic content for less than $20, and this is built specifically for busy youth pastors like you who want to stay active on TikTok and Instagram Reels and YouTube without spending ten plus hours a month figuring out what to post. 00:05:11:19 - 00:05:32:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So here's what you're going to get. You're going to get 50% of the content completely done. It's turnkey. Plug and play, post it and go. The other 50% is custom content for you to still shoot. However, I'm going to provide scripts and templates and frameworks so that your face, your students and your volunteers are who are seen on your social media feeds. 00:05:32:24 - 00:05:54:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is not just pretty graphics. This is a full blown social media strategy for the next three months, designed by someone who knows both youth ministry and digital ministry. And so if you're tired of scrambling for the cost of less than a pizza and frankly, more nourishing than a pizza, grab the seasonal social media pack today. Oh, and I almost forgot. 00:05:55:02 - 00:05:57:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Patreon members get it for free. 00:05:57:20 - 00:06:11:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right, post number four is the fourth and final one I'm going to share with you today. This one is again from the done for you section. And this woman is so plug and play. I've already created it for you, even though the thumbnail says I created none of these. 00:06:11:15 - 00:06:27:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I created all of these, but I created them for you to take and to do and to download. And I supply all of the different verse texts. And here's how it performed. Instagram 207 views eight likes YouTube 1198 views 62 likes 00:06:27:01 - 00:06:30:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry one comment from Jenna Jack which says I memorized this passage. 00:06:30:29 - 00:06:36:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then on TikTok 507 views 95 likes one comment to save 00:06:36:12 - 00:06:41:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry the summer social media pack includes eight different types of videos. 00:06:41:10 - 00:07:00:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I've shared four of them with you. Two of the ones I share with you were from the done for you section, and two of the ones I share with you are from the custom for you section. The custom for you are making your social media about you, you, your leaders, your students like making you guys the real heroes on your social media. 00:07:00:24 - 00:07:07:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But to channel my inner Billy Mays here, I want to say, but wait, there's more. 00:07:07:04 - 00:07:25:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I also pulled out one of our seven questions archetypes, and that's included in the bonus section of the content with over 100 different topic type ideas. And on this particular seven questions, we took it to our studio in our church, and I sat down with two of our students, two of our high school girls, and they played seven questions. 00:07:25:03 - 00:07:45:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry One of them was thinking of something in their head, and the category was beach item, and she was thinking of Beach Umbrella. And the other one had to guess. And for that one on Instagram, we had 431 views and 19 likes. On YouTube we had 227 views, eight likes, and on TikTok we had 963 views and 21 likes. 00:07:46:00 - 00:08:02:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We also then, with a couple of our high school boys, sat down and did a NBA dress section, which I do have words for these guys because nobody, nobody included the MVP of the NBA this year one Shay Gilgeous Alexander. Regardless of that, here's 00:08:02:18 - 00:08:08:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry how their post performed on our social media on Instagram 500 views, 17 likes, two comments, seven shares 00:08:08:27 - 00:08:17:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry YouTube 1244 views 13 likes TikTok 862 views 36 likes three 00:08:17:04 - 00:08:18:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry comments and two saves. 00:08:18:05 - 00:08:27:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And listen, the comments are not always the nicest, especially when you do sports stuff. So just be on the lookout for that. Protect your students. Or, you know, I don't know, maybe don't. 00:08:27:19 - 00:08:39:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But here's what I notice, right? Variety works. You'll notice I share with you, two from our PAC, two from Denver. Done for you, two from custom, and then two of my bonus ideas. 00:08:40:01 - 00:09:05:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All very different varieties. Some spiritual, some not spiritual, some plug and play, some where you have to do a little bit of editing, but every style hits differently. Some are more reflective, some were more scroll stopping. But the big takeaway is that I didn't actually create any of these from scratch. And so like I said, every single one of these comes straight out of my summer content social media pack. 00:09:05:17 - 00:09:10:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You get it for just 1799 is linked down below in the description, which is 00:09:10:17 - 00:09:32:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry three months worth of your social media strategy. And that's actually only $0.07 per post idea. It's insane value. You would not avoid buying something for $0.07 if it was going to really increase. And add so much value to your life. Just look at how performed on our social channels. 00:09:32:16 - 00:09:58:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry These are real results from a real student ministry in Dallas, Texas area. They can be your results to. All you got to do is head over to the link and download those. You won't. You will not regret it. Listen, I want you to save actual time this summer for actual ministry. Let me do the work. Let me play on your social media calendar and hey, I'll see you next week with more info and deep dives like this. 00:09:58:27 - 00:10:02:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And don't forget, as always my friends, to stay hybrid.