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| By Mark Pittman—Tuesday July 28th, 2009 |
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Our good friends Family Force 5 will kick off their first annual “The Family Force 5 Christmas Pageant” tour on November 28th in Grand Rapids, MI. This Christmas tour promises to be no different than any other Family Force 5 show except they’ll be have House of Heroes along for the sleigh ride to sing some of your favorite holiday tunes and the only way they know how...through rock and roll baby!
The inspiration for the tour comes from their new project “The Family Force...
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| By Scott Osterbind—Monday July 27th, 2009 |
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(you need to get to know Revive - watch the video at the bottom... you'll appreciate how they "get" student ministry)
Very cool stuff... as reported by WNDU - NBC affiliate in South Bend
"Hundreds turned out for a free concert Tuesday night in Elkhart.
It took place at the Crossroads Community Church's north campus on Middlebury Street and featured the bands Revive and 1000 Generations.
It was billed as a show for the "underworked and out of work."
"Nobody has tickets for a conc...
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| By Scott Osterbind—Monday July 27th, 2009 |
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Although he’s always loved music, becoming a worship leader was never on Brenton Brown’s proverbial to-do list. But when the church he attended a couple of months after dedicating his life to Christ didn’t have anyone for the job, Brenton stepped in to fill a need in the congregation—even if he barely made it through the chord changes.
Now, several years after his crash course in worship leading, Brenton’s songs are being sung by millions in congregations all aro...
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| By Allen Weed—Thursday July 23rd, 2009 |
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D-Groups, Discipleship, D-teams... whatever you call them, we all know how important getting students into small groups can be. For your new-to-middle-schoolers, this will probably be the first time they have ever been (or really needed to be) in a small group.
After 20 years of serving youth leaders and doing youth ministry ourselves, we know Middle School is big, dark and coming straight for your newbies! It's that transition from homeroom and desks to... lockers, tons of new people, new ...
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| By Barry Bridges—Monday July 13th, 2009 |
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10. Middle school kids are different.
Really different. Starting with the obvious is so, well, obvious. Stand four seventh graders together, two females, two males. Quick, take a picture. Study that picture. Get it? Middle schoolers are not only different from high school young adults in every way; they are also very, very different from their peers.
9. They have higher energy, shorter attention spans.
A specialized ministry that will embrace the energy and adjust the attention demands c...
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| By Scott Osterbind—Monday July 13th, 2009 |
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Be sure to download the SHIROCK song Calm Inside The Storm (below)
“Everything Burns” is your latest record that was released in February 2009, and was also released by interl’inc to several thousand youth leaders in YLO 76. Talk about the meaning behind “Everything Burns” and the charity that you started which shares the same name.
The idea came a few years back when I wrote a song called “Everything Burns.” At the time I was thinking a lot ab...
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