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MELLOW WAVE
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Looking for great (game, object lessons, worship, volunteer celebration, etc. etc.) ideas to take your preteen ministry to the next level? This podcast is created and curated by FourFiveSix.org, a community of leading voices in preteen ministry. Our goal is simple: a short (4,5, or 6 minute) podcast a few times a week (4, 5, or 6 times) that gives you a quick, easy, free idea that you can use in your preteen ministry THIS WEEK. Have a question about preteen ministry or a unique preteen ministry idea that we can feature on our podcast? Send it to [email protected]. Want to get more great ideas right now? Come join the community of preteen leaders at fourfivesix.org
Episodes
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FFS 332: LEADERSHIP IDEAS: No More Competition
Today on the podcast, Sean shares an excerpt of Melissa McDonald’s session at the Preteen Leaders Conference. Melissa discusses the idea of building a team in your ministry. Not only building a team among the leaders but also with the preteens. In her ministry they stopped playing competitive…
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FFS 331: Connecting with Preteens: Recap Yearbook
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Zach Matchett about the Recap Yearbook. Zach and his team have created a memento of the year for their students to reinforce what they learned over the year. It is a devotional and a yearbook all in one. They started from the very first meeting of the school...
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FFS 330: Connecting with Preteens: Family Devotionals
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Michael Grady regarding a family devotional that he has created. Michael has a passion for what the Bible has for families and the knowledge it can offer when you really know it. He took this passion and created a devotional to allow families to spend time…
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FFS 329: Delivery Method: The Value of Memorizing the Message
Today on the podcast, Sean talks about the concept of memorizing your lesson. The benefit is greater when you have the ability to memorize the message you will be teaching. Memorizing your message removes the barrier between you and your audience. It allows you to focus on the people you are...
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FFS 328: EVENTS: Family Framework Events
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Zach Matchett about the Family Framework Event. Zach is from a multi-site church in Indiana, Northview Church. The framework is a series of mile marker events that students and families go through from when they are born to when they graduate. Discipleship…
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FFS 327: LESSON IDEA: Prayer Knight
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Pastor Chris regarding Prayer Knight. Recently Elevate had a service, which was called Prayer Knight. It is a play on words to give the night a medieval theme. The whole night carried this theme even to the point of having a cardboard castle set up on stage....
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FFS 326: OTHER: Worship Curriculum
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Yancy and Robert Quinn regarding Heartbeat Worship Curriculum. Heartbeat worship curriculum is a bi-weekly curriculum meant to help preteen and younger kids engage in worship. Yancey explains the background behind the curriculum and her mindset regarding…
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FFS 325: DISCIPLINE: Anticipating Preteen Behavior…NOT!
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Makenna about anticipating their behavior. You can’t expect preteens behavior. Recently in one of Elevate’s services, the preteens were given two choices of what they wanted to learn. As a leadership we felt that they would choose “A” but when it came down…
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FFS 324: Other: Going to a Conference
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Amanda Davis and Kathy Pitrat from Mt Zion UMC in Bel Air, Maryland about learning at conferences and implementing that information. A conference is not like anything else you might do to get ideas for your ministry. By setting aside time away from...
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FFS 323: Lesson Idea: Transformation, Application and the magic word
Today on the podcast, Sean talks about sanctification in the preteens in your ministry. What can we do to come along side of our preteens and help them to become sanctified? When we teach the preteens lives, we tend to want to see the application that the lesson can be used in their lives. There...
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FFS 322: Lesson Ideas: The Spiritual Need of Preteens in 2019
Today on the podcast, Sean shares a portion of the Peer Group Level 2 discussions recently regarding their most engaging lessons. During the most recent Peer Group Level 2 meeting, Patrick Snow asked the attendees what their most engaging lesson was recently. Through the groups discussion there...
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FFS 321: Lesson Idea: Two-Colored Prayer
Today on the podcast, Sean talks about an activity to use with your preteens, the two-colored prayer. At a recent pastoral meeting the pastors were given a journal and two different colored pencils. The pastors were directed to write down their questions, thoughts or needs to God in one color and...
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FFS 320: CONNECTING WITH PRETEENS: Preteens Making an Impact
Today on the podcast, Sean talks with Makenna about the idea of offering preteens a place where they can make an impact in the ministry. Preteens are at the age where they can begin to make the decision about how they want to give back to the church. They are at the age where they can make the...
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FFS 319: EVENTS: Going Big Just not all the Time
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Jaime about the idea of alternating big events with ones less taxing. Jaime’s favorite thing from 2018 was the Friendship, which required the putting up and tearing down of a giant spaceship every week in Elevate. Although this was a lot of work it was fun…
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FFS 318: LEADERSHIP: 6th Grade Champions
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Pastor Chris about the 6th grade leadership program in Elevate. Having Pastor Chris join the Elevate team as the 6th grade pastor has allowed us the opportunity to expand our current leadership program. Chris has found that these oldest preteens are able to...
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FFS 317: DELIVERY METHOD: Changing Up the Normal
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Zach Matchett about the idea of changing up your normal. The idea of changing your normal routine in your ministry can bring about so many positive results. It is the idea of what can be done during our normal service that isn’t normal. For Zach it is his...
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FFS 316: LEADERSHIP IDEAS: Learning from Fortnite
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Dan Istvanik at Victory Church in Lancaster, PA about learning from Fortnite. Dan recently wrote an article about Fortnite. It wasn’t the standard discussion about whether you should be using Fortnite in your ministry. Instead Dan asked the question of why…
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FFS 315: SERVICE ELEMENT: Video Announcements
Today on the podcast, Sean and Makenna talk about video announcements. When ministries have announcements, there are two basic ways during service to go about this: video announcements or live announcements. The problem with live announcements is they can quickly use up a ton of time. A plan for…
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FFS 314: LESSON IDEA: Filter of Hope
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Scott Santee from Indiana who works with churches and organizations to bring water filters to poverty-stricken places around the world. Getting preteens involved in raising money for those in poverty around the world can be an abstract concept for them.…
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FFS 313: LESSON IDEA: Clean-Up Service
Today on the podcast, Sean talks about having a service focused on cleaning up the church. To clean up a giant cardboard maze which was spread over 5 different locations with 40+ preteens during a Sunday morning service sounds like an awful idea. It turned out to be an amazing service with every...
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FFS 312: Connecting with Preteens: Do Something
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Dan Scott the author of “Caught in Between: Engage Your Preteens Before They Check Out” and is on staff with Orange. Children’s pastors across the country are seeing a decrease in number of students when they reach 4th and 5th grade. Dan discusses the...
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FFS 311: Event: Dry Bones
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Chris Santos the 6th grade, Pastor in Elevate regarding the production of Dry Bones. One of the visions of the 6th grade ministry was to get the 6th graders more involved in the process of the ministry. The 6th graders were part of an illustrated message,...
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FFS 310: Other: 3 Keys to Multisite Preteen Ministry
Today on the podcast, Sean talks with Zach Matchett about having a multisite preteen ministry. Zach runs the preteen ministry for a church that has 11 sites of which 7 have preteen ministries. Through consistency, ability to work for any size environment, and adaptability the same information can...
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FFS 309: Other: Persistence in Prayer
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Eddie Aviles from Washington about persistence in prayer. Two years ago, Eddie and Sean met at the Northwest Ministry Conference in Washington. At the time Eddie’s church offered no preteen specific ministry but Eddie had a passion for preteens. Coming up on...
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FFS 308: EVENTS: Bridge 45 Panel
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Louie from Morningstar Community Church in Oregon about a Q&A Panel he does in his ministry. Once a quarter Louie brings in pastors and leaders from the church to answer serious and silly questions from the 4th and 5th graders. This allows leaders in the...
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FFS 307: EVENT IDEA: Small Group Night
Today on the podcast, Sean and Makenna discuss small group night that took place in Elevate recently with the 4th and 5th graders. Over a couple weeks leading up to the event the Small Groups discussed ideas of things they would like to do together as a group on this specific night. For example,...
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FFS 306: LESSON IDEA: Sleuth It Up
Today on the podcast, Sean shares about a recent lesson idea he used in Elevate called Sleuth It Up. As part of an ongoing preteen series called 30 Pictures of Jesus, Sean’s preteen group is taking a look through the book of Luke at various pictures of who Jesus is. Part of this journey was a...
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FFS 305: VOLUNTEER DEVELOPMENT: Helping Small Group Leaders Win
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Zach Matchett from Indiana, regarding the Small Group Tool Kit that his team has created. Sean first heard about this tool kit that Zach’s team created during a peer group meeting. Zach held it up and showed it off during the peer group video conference.…
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FFS 304: GAMES: Preteen Created Games
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Mark one of the camp directors for Elevate last summer, about making up your own games. In Elevate over the summer, one of the camps had an element, which required the preteens in their groups to create a game. They created their game and then everyone...
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FFS 303: DELIVERY METHOD: Divide and Conquer
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Makenna about dividing and conquering in ministry. In Elevate this is done a lot on Sunday’s. In Elevate’s first Sunday service they divide out the 6th graders and send them to a separate room and Pastor Chris and his wife Jaime lead them. In Elevate’s Step…
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FFS 302: SERVICE ELEMENT: Prayer Partners
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Kaye Allen, regarding the idea of prayer partners between the preteens and the adults of the church. Once a month the adults active in Kaye and her husband Harley’s class come in and partner up, 1-1 sometime 2-1, with the preteens in Elevate. The students…
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FFS 301: SERVICE ELEMENTS: Doorframe Prayer
Today on the podcast, Sean discusses the idea of doorframe prayers. This was an idea thought up by Chris Santos, the 6th grade pastor in Elevate. The doorframe in the 6th grade ministry space is metal, and magnets will stick to it. Chris bought magnets and stuck stickers to them and invited the...
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FFS 300: EVENTS: Water Wars
Today on the podcast, Sean talks about an event Elevate had recently, Water Wars. This is a great idea that you could use when the weather is warm. Elevate was doing a lesson on Jesus being baptized and started the night off with a great preservice time, “Water Wars”. As the preteens arrived the...
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FFS 299: EVENTS: Community Wide VBS
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Jacob Horn the children’s pastor from North Madison Christian Church out of Madison, Indiana, regarding the community wide VBS they offered. Jacob has 10-15 preteens at their church and have come up with a way to host a VBS for their kids without having to...
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FFS 298: SERVICE ELEMENTS: Successful Preteen Volunteers
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Patrick Snow regarding the successful use of preteen volunteers. Patrick has successfully chosen preteens for years and brought them up on stage as volunteers while working with Superstart!. The ability to bring a preteen up on stage and interact with the...
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FFS 297: DELIVERY METHOD: The Importance of Framing
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Pastor Chris, regarding the importance of framing things. The idea behind framing is setting up a message or a game so that your explanation allows the audience to know what is going to happen. It is the concept of setting the tone for what you are expecting...
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FFS 296: CAMPS: Virtual Lost and Found
Today on the podcast, Sean talks with Makenna about the use of virtual lost and found to let parents know what stuff was left behind from camp. After the very first summer camp this past summer Elevate had so much left behind items from campers. This could have either cost a headache for the…
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FFS 295: SERVICE ELEMENTS: Scraping Small Groups…Kind of
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks about the idea of scraping small groups…kind of from your service. Sunday mornings used to be all about the small groups for Elevate. Recently there was a change to that. Elevate still uses small groups on Wednesday night but Sunday’s there has been a shift away...
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FFS 294: LESSON IDEA: Salvation Building Blocks
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Patrick Snow about the use of “Salvation Building Blocks” to teach the salvation message. Patrick discusses how Superstart, this last season, began using three building blocks (blue, red and yellow) or as they call them “Building Blocks”. These three…
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FFS 293: LEADERSHIP: Limits are OK
Today on the podcast, Sean discusses the idea that we all have limits and those limits are necessary and OK. You have big dreams of what your ministry can be and how God can work through you. Unfortunately, God did not give us no limits in our lives. This might seem contrary to what scripture…
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FFS 292: DISCIPLINE: Enforceable Statements
Today on the podcast, Sean talks with Jaime Santos a psychologist, who alongside of her husband Pastor Chris run the 6th grade ministry in Elevate. She was on today to discuss the concept of enforceable statements. Enforceable statements are a great disciplinary technique that will help…
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FFS 291: LEADERSHIP IDEA: Renewing Your Passion
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Hannah Bush, a pastor at a church in Texas and a writer for Deeply Rooted Curriculum, regarding the idea of renewing your passion for preteen ministry. By stepping out of the leadership role and stepping down into the trenches and being on the level with the...
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FFS 290: LESSON IDEA: THP – Take Home Point
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Zach Matchett, 5th/6th grade pastor, from a church in Central Indiana, called Northview Church a multi-site church. Zach discusses this concept known as T.H.P., short for Take Home Point. This is one statement, one question, or one commandment that the...
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FFS 289: CAMPS: Lessons From Camp
Today on the podcast, Makenna discusses four lessons she learned as Camp Director for Elevates day camps this summer. Lesson #1: People Over Program. When camp is really about the campers you will do just about anything to serve the campers. Maybe that is rescheduling the day because it is too…
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FFS 289: CAMPS: Lessons From Camp
Today on the podcast, Makenna discusses four lessons she learned as Camp Director for Elevates day camps this summer. Lesson #1: People Over Program. When camp is really about the campers you will do just about anything to serve the campers. Maybe that is rescheduling the day because it is too…
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FFS 288: CONNECTION IDEAS: Reaching the Sporty Kids for Christ
Today on the podcast, Sean talks about a way to connect to preteens who are sporty or athletic. By being relevant about what the preteens life is all about and helping them make a connection between what their lives are about and God who created all of life. There are preteens in our ministry…
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FFS 287: LEADERSHIP: The FourFiveSix Ministry Community Facebook Page
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Robert Quinn who is involved in the FourFiveSix Level 3 Peer Group. Robert just started a week ago, a Facebook community page for FourFiveSix. This came out of the thought that community and communication among ministries was a necessary aspect that the peer...
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FFS 286: LESSON IDEA: Elevating God
Today on the podcast, Sean shares a lesson idea that was used in Elevate this last Sunday. This was a lesson that Sean used as the new 4th graders started this last Sunday. The ministry is called Elevate which is for 4th, 5th & now 6th graders. Sean wanted to share this lesson because there might...
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FFS 285: LEADERSHIP IDEAS: L.I.T. Leaders in Training Program
Today on the podcast, Sean speaks with Clint May out of Benbrook, Texas about the L.I.T. program that he created. Clint describes the history of what brought him to start the L.I.T. program. Through his years in ministry, he has seen such a change in the preteens and their families and as a…
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FFS 284: LEADERSHIP IDEA: Mutiny! The Preteens Are Running Kids Church!
Today on the podcast, Sean shares an excerpt from Karl Bastian’s session at the 2018 Preteen Leaders’ Online Conference. Karl explains how adults in churches are reluctant to serve, only about 20%. On the other hand, if you ask the preteens in your ministry to help, the numbers are much higher;...
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Looking for great (game, object lessons, worship, volunteer celebration, etc. etc.) ideas to take your preteen ministry to the next level? This podcast is created and curated by FourFiveSix.org, a community of leading voices in preteen ministry. Our goal is simple: a short (4,5, or 6 minute) podcast a few times a week (4, 5, or 6 times) that gives you a quick, easy, free idea that you can use in your preteen ministry THIS WEEK. Have a question about preteen ministry or a unique preteen ministry idea that we can feature on our podcast? Send it to [email protected]. Want to get more great ideas right now? Come join the community of preteen leaders at fourfivesix.org
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