Thursday, January 9, 2014

Join the call with Josh Griffin on 2/13


Youth Speaker's Coach is excited to announce an upcoming Master Class in Communication with Josh Griffin, High School Pastor at Saddleback Church.

Josh Griffin is a high school pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA, and has been in full-time youth ministry for 15 years. He’s the author of 99 Thoughts for Youth Workers99 Thoughts for Small Group Leaders, and coauthor ofLive Large, Be Different, Shine Bright, with Doug Fields. Josh speaks a little, writes a little, Tweets a bit, and blogs a lot — more than 20,000 youth workers visit his blog each month. He’s also a father of four.

Join in on the FREE conference call with Josh on Thursday, February 13 at 5pm/4pm/3pm/2pm (ET/CT/MT/PT).

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE CALL!

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Countdown: Top 14 Team-Builders for 2014 (#14)


As a youth communicator or youth pastor, it is vital that you have a few SOLID team-building activities in your back pocket. Whether you are preparing a short-term missions team, building student leaders, or just facilitating some fun at camp, you want team-builders that WORK and are FUN. Nothing is worse than pulling your group of students together for a "game" and then facilitating a BORING team-building activity.

Over the next number of weeks you will have the opportunity to view and download the 14 Best Team-Building Activities for 2014 (according to Youth Speaker's Coach) for FREE.

Here is Team-Builder #14:

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TEAMWORK & TEAMPLAY
GivaGeta Character Cards
THE BIG QUESTION ACTIVITY

Over the last number of years,I have used these oversized playing cards dozens and dozens of times as an icebreaking activity for both small & large groups. 



While they come with about ten different activities you can facilitate with them, there is one team-building activity I come back to again and again, "The Big Question." Each card comes with an icebreaker question, such as, "Tell me about your favorite story with food in it."

Here's how you play:

1. Begin by randomly distributing the cards so that each student has a card.

2. Have students partner up with another student in the room and each ask the question on their card to their partner.

3. Each pair of students answers each others' question.

4. Students then SWAP CARDS and find a new partner. Repeat steps 3 & 4.

5. Once students have mingled around for a while, bring the group back together and have each students share a fascinating fact that they learned about someone else in the group during the activity.

To find out more about Teamwork & Teamplay Givageta Character Cards or to purchase your own deck, head to their website. 


Tuesday, January 7, 2014

How Will You Grow as a Communicator this Year? [FREE GIFT INCLUDED]



2014 has arrived!

As you are setting personal, ministry, and life goals, take a moment to reflect upon how you will intentionally grow as a communicator to students this year.

Here is a FREE Evaluation Template that you can use to help narrow your focus as to which areas you need to grow as a communicator this upcoming year.

May God grow you exponentially as you pursue Him!

Happy New Year!