SPECIAL! Josh Griffin and 3 Values when doing a Sex Series!
I caught Josh at In and Out Burger and got a chance to shoot this quick video - brilliant - check it out!
Episode 36: How to Pastor your Volunteers
This week Tom, Matthew and Scott all jump into a conversation with me about how to pastor volunteers. Lots of resources and time is spent on training volunteers, which a part of pastoring them. But often we forget the shepherding and encouragement that is necessary in really caring for people. How have you pastored your volunteers?
Hosts:
Tony Steward
Tom Reopke
Matthew McNutt
Scott Mullens
Show Notes:
- Andy Stanley
- Rick Warren
- “Help! I work with Hurting Kids!”
- Group’s Volunteer Central
- Bill Hybels - LEAD
- Group National Youth Ministry Conference
- Youth Specialties National Youth Worker Conference
Picks of the Week:
- Matthew: The New Breed by Johnathan McKey
- Scott: What Matters Most by Doug Fields
- Tom: Rick Warren at the Exponential Church Planting Confernce
- Tony: Revolution Wordpress Themes (for having your church site run on Wordpress)
Episode 35: How to help your students discover their spiritual gifts
No body panic, but here is a new podcast on time! Thanks to Tom, Scott, Lee and Matthew for all showing up and talking about how to help students discover their spiritual gifts. We also talk about the new Facebook chat feature and as always our picks of the week!
Special thanks to our new show sponser YouthMinistry.com. This week’s show is specifically sponsored by Congratulations You’re Gifted,C by Erik Rees and Doug Fields. If you leave your suggestions on how to help students discover their spiritual gifts in the comments section then you could win a free copy of Congratulations You’re Gifted!
Show Notes
- Lifeway Spiritual Gift Survey
- Skype
- Off the Map - Jim Henderson (author of Jim and Casper go to Church
- Living Your Strengths
- Strengths Finder
Pick’s of the Week
Tom’s Pick: Flip Video Camera and Flip Software for Mac
Lee’s Picks: The Present Future and Jim and Casper go to Church
Scott’s Pick: animoto.com
Matthew’s Pick: The Journal of Student Ministries - Youth Specialties
Tony’s Pick: Congratulations You’re Gifted - Erik Rees and Doug Fields
Host Links
- Tony’s Facebook and Twitter
- Matthew’s Facebook and Twitter
- Tom’s Facebook and Twitter
- Lee’sFacebook and Twitter
- Scott’s Facebook and Twitter
Episode 34: Photography in Ministry
Whoa! My life has been sabotaged by multiple issues (work, computer, etc.) over the past couple of weeks - still no excuse but here is the show we did on Photography in Ministry. We talk about what cameras work best, what to watch out for in posting images of students and what tools to use to get them online. Thanks to Tom and Scott for jumping in with me late at night for the show!
Picks of the Week:
Scott’s Pick: drop.io - online storage exchange points - GREAT PICK!
Tony’s Pick: Audio Books - Audible.com
Tom: Prince Caspian Insider Videos!
Episode 33: Best Practices for Weekend Programming
We have the gang back again with Tom, Scott, Matthew and myself talking about everything from eating and exercise, best practices for weekend programming and our picks of the week!
Picks of the Week:
Tom’s Pick - Six Reasons a Pastor Should Blog
Matthew’s Pick - DVD Ripper at www.aoamedia.com
Scott’s Pick - www.wetpaint.com - free wiki software for group collaboration
Tony’s Pick - SuperDuper - backup software for Macintosh Computers
Show Notes:
Simply Youth Ministry
Josh Griffin in Dubai
Rick Rolling
Rick Warren
Techcrunch sues Facebook
Google Documents
Matthew McNutt’s Biggest Loser Story
Marko’s Biggest Loser Content
Planning Center Online
John Eldridge
Focus on the Family Institute
Media Shout
Episode 32: Best Practices in Staying Productive
This week we get all Covey’d and GTD’d out with productivity best practices. Tom, Lee and Scott join me again this week, thanks guys!
Show Notes:
Jesus Quit Church
Direct Mail
First Christian Canton
Great Park Church
"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Journal" (Stephen R. Covey, Debra Harris)
Franklin Covey
"Moleskine Ruled Notebook Large" (Moleskine)
"Palm Tungsten E2 Handheld" (Palm)
"Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity" (David Allen)
43 Folders
Circus Ponies Notebook (Mac Application that Rocks!)
Tony’s Business
Google Documents
Hipster PDA
LifeHacker.com
Bi-Modal Work Styles
Church 2.0
Starbucks
Gmail GTDInbox Firefox Extension
Matthew McNutt
Simply 3 Day 15% off Sale
Episode 31: Avoiding a Competitive Spirit by Learning to Define Success
This week on the Who Are These Guys Podcast we have hosts Tom Roepke, Scott Mullens, Lee Nicholson, and Mr. Meltdown Matthew McNutt.
This week we talk about how to deal with a competitive spirit, and how it usually comes from an inaccurate measurement for gauging the success of your ministry to yourself, your pastor and you congregation. We also talk about mobile blogging, productivity and other resources.
Show Notes:
Utterz
Tom’s Utterz
Tony’s Utterz
43 Folders
David Allen - author of Getting Things Done
Inbox Zero - Merlin Mann
Tom typing in the background
Malone College
Skype
Church 2.0
Twitter.com
Purpose Driven Youth Ministry
Mentioned Resources
"Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity" (David Allen)
"Purpose-Driven® Youth Ministry" (Doug Fields)
Episode 30: Keeping Balance in Ministry: The struggle between family, faith and kids farting in the front row
Show Notes
We are back with a new Who Are These Guys podcast episode! This week Tom Roepke and Scott Mullens both join me in talking about the struggle to keep balance in youth ministry, social networking and Macintosh computers. It’s a great show and we are excited for next week when we will be talking about what to do when dealing with competitive youth pastors and ministries in your area.
Be sure to check the blog for guest posts and practical tips in ministry!
Links
Simply YM
Simply Podcast
Josh’s Blog
Tony Morgan’s Facebook Death
Social Networking in Plain English
Contagious Solutions - Show Sponsor
MySpace vs Facebook
Tony’s Twitter
Tom’s Twitter
Scott’s Twitter
Andy Stanely Article: cheating the Church
Saddleback Services Live
Top Stand Alone Laptop for Ministry
TWIT [This Week in Technology] Podcast with Leo Laporte
VM Ware Fusion
37 Signals
Call Recorder
Planning Center Online
The Show Must Go On!
We have heard you guys and we are going to keep doing the podcast. This time each week we are going to provide a round table discussion from youth pastors and young leaders in ministry from all walks of like and parts of the world. If you would like to be a part or if you have ideas please send them this way!
One Last Episode - Josh and Tony are walking through new doors!
Well my friends it is time for this podcast to come to a close. Josh and I both are being called into new roles in our lives and the availability and energy to keep doing the podcast just isn’t there. If you haven’t heard Josh has been asked to be the Interim High School Pastor for Saddleback Church. This is a great opportunity for Josh. But if you were stepping into Doug Fields old shoes you would want to make sure nothing was distracting you as well! Pray for Josh and go over and congratulate him at his blog!
For me I have been feeling a call to do something different with social media and the church for a while but hadn’t been able to put my finger on it. Just recently I have had some great conversations with mentors and leaders in my area and have started to get a clearer vision to what it is God has be stepping towards. So I am in the process of planting a church, but one that is built from the ground up through the internet. I am still writing, talking and figuring out what that means, but I am going to start this spring with a website, weekly teaching that is a combination of sermon and small group, and community building. There is a landslide of thoughts I have on the subject and if you are interested in the church, the idea, think it is terrible, or whatever please let me know. I am focusing all my writing and thoughts about this church, ministry and other fun stuff at my blog www.tonystewardblog.com .
BUT! We still have one show that we have committed to back when we ran the contest for registrations to Group’s National Youth Ministry conference coming up this year. Scott Mullens show idea on “The 21 questions to ask while interviewing” is the show we are going to use to close the Who Are These Guys Podcast chapter. If you have any thoughts or ideas on this topic, and even if you want to be on the final show, then email me at steward.tony |at| gmail |dot| com .
As a parting note, I want to let everyone know how much Josh and I have appreciated your kind words and encouragements as we did this podcast. We honestly never thought so many of you would be blessed like you have and are thrilled that we were able to provide encouragement, insight and training for you and your ministries. Many of our podcast shows have been downloaded over 4,000 times and we know there is a community of around 300 people who were faithful listeners.
The website and podcast feed will stay live for a long time - and who knows maybe this will just end up being a pause on the show.
Thanks all and Blessings for you and your ministries! And remember that you have something to contribute to students, to your church and especially to other youth pastors!
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