“Hand Drawn Life Hurts God Heals Tshirt” A two color, soft hand design. When it’s time to make a change. The Gildan 5000 is a 5.3 oz. 100% preshrunk cotton; seamless rib at neck; taped shoulder-to-shoulder; double-needle stitching throughout; Please check the sizing chart below to insure you get the correct size. … Check out this tshirt and more at Ziz Clothing.
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Ziz Clothing – Quirky Christian Tshirts
Welcome to the world of Christian tshirts. Type in Christian tshirts in your Google search and you will pull up a very wide variety of tastes and categories. From Kerusso to C28 to NOTW … the big boys take the market share of the first couple of pages. Kerusso and C28 both have affiliate programs so … their shirts will show up on tons … I mean tons of sites. The little known or up and coming sites like … zoethreads have some fantastic tshirts … but the market is pretty much bloated with other Christian tshirts that are alot of transfer stuff. I personally really liked the jesusbranded stuff … but alas they are not around right now. So, I’m plugging another up and coming site … Ziz Clothing. There was a lot of their stuff on Tuna Tees as well … but now these guys are going after it with what they call … Quirky Christian Tshirts. I like them … they are simple, funny and different. I know they have only been up a few weeks … but they are showing up on Googles radar a few pages back. Check them out.
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Tuna Tees Funny Christian Tshirts
Thought our readers would enjoy a new Chrsitian Tshirt Site called Tuna Tees. We have enjoyed looking at the cool designs from these wonderfully funny people. You might want to hit up some of these links below for categories that are of interest.
Check out Tuna Tees For Tshirts to buy on the Fly -
Funny Christian Tshirts – Christian Tshirts – Cheerleader Tshirts – Christian Biker Tshirts – Valkyrie Tshirts – Goldwing Tshirts – Eco Tshirts – Farm Tshirts – Worship Tshirts – Youth Group Tshirts – Bicycle Tshirts – Dnow Tshirts – Funny Tshirts
Really fun stuff.
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Youth Ministry Resources and Ideas
Youth Ministry Resources and Ideas
By Allison Westbrook
Youth ministry can be an overwhelming job. It is a thankless job that involves sacrifice, effort, time, attention and love. It is in fact a labor of love. Building a successful youth group requires many things, but most of all prayer. Your priorities must first be straight before you do anything. A ministry is better if it is blessed than stressed. Nothing that youth pastors do that is self motivated will succeed the way that something will that is planned and ordained by the Lord. As for building a lasting and effective youth ministry, the principles are simple: Connect, unite, develop, equip, send. Those five steps will turn every youth into a minister of the gospel.
Connect with youth by listening to their problems, preaching relevant messages, hanging out with them when you don’t have to and praying for them. Once they are connected with both their youth pastor, they are more likely to return week after week.
Unite kids with each other to create a support system. Dissipate cliques in favor of group gatherings such as lock-ins, retreats and hang out nights. Develop the kids with discipleship tools for spiritual growth. Teach them the foundational principles of the Bible and encourage them to not only come to church to be filled, but to seek God during their daily lives.
Equip youth to minister the Word of God to others. Hold corporate prayer meetings, encourage them to lead classes in youth church and place them in positions of leadership within the youth ministry. Send the kids into active ministry. No, they may not be able to go into full time ministry, but they can create prayer groups at school, street ministry teams and conduct special outreaches.
One of the biggest mistakes that youth pastors make is investing their money and resources into ministry. Though this seems innocent enough, any youth ministry can thrive with little to no money at all. Instead, invest your kids into your resources. They are your greatest tool for ministry. Youth do not need a babysitter. They need somebody that believes in them and will push them to be all they have been called to be.
Even the top youth pastors in the country know that a youth ministry will follow its leader, and that leader needs good training. That leader needs to absorb himself in good books and surround himself with people who love teenagers. There are several good books and resources that effectively ignite passion within the hearts of youth pastors.
The website below features free ideas, articles and suggestions for youth church. One of the best resources for youth ministry is available there.
http://www.ministertoyouth.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Allison_Westbrook
http://EzineArticles.com/?Youth-Ministry-Resources-and-Ideas&id=3613964
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Ministry Coaching 101 — Getting Past Pooped
Part of the ministry role I have now in my life is coaching ministry leaders. Way back, when I was praying through my calling before going to college, I had considered being a high school coach. I ended up a pastor—a church planter and pastor. Now I am coaching pastors and church planting pastors. Its part of my story.
Gary Collins wrote, “Coaching is the key element in producing good leaders. To be a good leader you must be a good coach. And to be a good coach you must recognize that coaching is a significant form of leadership” – Christian Coaching.
If you think back on your life, I suspect that there was a coach who had an influence on your life—good or bad. For some, it might be a football coach. Others it had to do with the arts or science or scouts. Maybe it was a neighborhood dad who took a real interest in you and some others around. Coaching had a major impact on you.
When you consider your church ministry, let me ask you a question: Who is often the most under-resourced person in the church? Who gets the least amount of support and attention? (Besides you I would add).
Some chief complaints of leaders in the church are they feel uncared for, under-resourced and under appreciated—they are pooped. So often we get someone to volunteer for a leadership role—elder, deacon, small group leader, Sunday school teacher, or music—maybe give them a one day training event and then turn them loose. We delegate to them the responsibility to make it work. And they get pooped.
Here is a Principle: There are organizational systems that free leaders to lead and some that are ministry “stallers” and “stoppers”.
In church planting, studies show that a church planter who meets regularly with a coach will start a church that is two times the size of one where the planter isn’t coached. And if the planter meets regularly with a group of peers, it increases the survivability of the new church 135%. Pretty amazing influence of what coaching can do for a leader.
Coaching is essential to the ongoing health and survivability of your leaders in your church—to cut down on the pooped-out leaders. But not just any kind of coaching methodology will work. Gospel Centered, grace-saturated coaching is the kind your people need…and maybe you need as well. More on that later!
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Negative Words Equals Negative Everything
This is a great article, not only from a sales perspective, but also from a recruitment of volunteer youth workers. I have been following the thread over at orangeleaders.com for the last couple of days with interest. Mainly, because … 1.) I us
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It’s not about drilling the water well
This post is from one of the sites I follow on water well drilling missions that go on everyday around the world. Living Water International is a ministry that not only leads mission endeavors … but will train you on how to drill a well.
from this article.
From August 7-14, 2010, a mission team traveled from Houston to Honduras to drill a water well for the people of the village of Rio Arriba. Chad Yelverton, one member of the team, shares his experience from the trip:
I really don’t know what I was expecting from this trip—I just knew we were going down there to drill a well. But from the moment we arrived in Honduras I kept hearing people say, “It’s not about the well.” I started to think that maybe I was on the wrong trip. Turns out, it was the trip God had designed to heal me in a specific way.
I hear about “the joy of knowing Christ” a lot, but I’m not sure I’ve done a good job of actually living it. In fact, for whatever reason, I’ve been struggling lately to find joy, even in the midst of all my blessings, and I’ve been unable to figure out why. I believe God saw this void in me and he placed this trip before me to heal me—and he wasn’t going to let my excuses get in the way. He used this trip to challenge me to reconnect with joy.
the rest.
Source: Living Water International
http://www.water.cc/2010/08/17/i-saw-joy/
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A Practical Guide to Nuturing Lifelong Faith
Here is a brief … very brief book review that looks very interesting … maybe it goes on my “next top 10″ books I want to read. It Starts at Home, A Practical Guide to Nurturing Lifelong Faith. Photo credit from same article.
from this article.
In It Starts at Home, Bruner and Stroope offer an intentional approach to building families of faith. These two pastors and authors gather the larger-than-life realities of our relationships—such as forgiveness and intimacy—and guide readers into an accessible and applicable way of living God-intentioned lives. Foundational strategies that stabilize the relationship between a husband and wife find expression as couples become parents and grandparents of children who live a lifelong faith.
There’s more … hit the link.
Source: Youthworker.com
http://www.youthworker.com/reviews-for-youth-pastors/youth-ministry-books/11637187/
Get on your mark, get set, The World Race
The World Race is a Christian mission trip that travels to 11 countries in 11 months. Participants live out of a backpack, survive on a limited budget, and find themselves in situations where faith is the only reality to choose from. In partnering with existing missionaries and ministries, World Racers develop relationships with the “least of these”, and through acts of service see communities and nations transformed all over the world.
Have you ever wondered if there’s something more out there? If there’s more to life than empty traditions, routines, and working 9-5 everyday to achieve the impossibility of the American dream?
It’s because there is.
There is a generation of radicals whose heartbeat is to see a changed world. It’s a generation that’s dissatisfied with the status quo and is actively rising to the challenge of seeing the world transformed through tangible expressions of God’s love. World Racers are seeing lives changed in nations all over the world.
Human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery, is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world, based on the recruitment, harboring, and transportation of people solely for the purpose of exploitation.
27 million men, women, and children are enslaved in our world today, 80% of which are women, and 50% are children. We believe that God has a divine purpose and plan for these individuals and that we get to be a message of truth and hope to them.
Get involved in the Human Trafficking Edition!
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Transformational Small Churches (via @edstetzer)
Jim Thomas is originally from Detroit and Chicago and has pastored the same rural church in Northwest Iowa, Holly Springs Bible Fellowship, since 1992. After finding few resources on small churches, he started gathering helps and materials for small and rural churches and has hosted smallchurch.com since 1996.
gotta read the rest at edstetzer.com
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