00;00;01;06 - 00;00;29;52 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, good morning and welcome to my office. Today I'm going to show you how I create a creative youth ministry program for our mid-week services. You know, I was helping lead a youth ministry leader cohort, which was started by my friend Dairy Prince. They're free, by the way. Check them out if you want. Link down below. But ten out of ten youth pastors believe that creative programing is essential for a good youth ministry. 00;00;29;54 - 00;00;47;49 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I try and challenge myself to create something like that. And so I want to take you into the lab this morning. I'm going to turn this camera around and show you my screen, and just give you an opportunity to kind of get inside my brain. Not that my brain is anything special, but it wouldn't really be that interesting. 00;00;47;49 - 00;01;13;30 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we're going to spice this up a little bit. This is my real youth ministry programing that I'm going to be experimenting and messing with over the next four weeks, and I have created for myself three. I almost had four, but three different challenges over these next four weeks. Challenge number one is the order must not repeat. I'm going to do a different service flow and different service order every single week. 00;01;13;34 - 00;01;32;18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The challenge number two in that is I'm going to create a custom from scratch submitted to download Youth Ministry. Game number three is that then I am going to hop on and I'm going to tell you exactly how it went. So this is the front side creation. And then challenge and run through is I have to evaluate it. 00;01;32;18 - 00;01;54;51 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And we're going to do that in my bonus podcast. And if you listen to my bonus podcast I will include the custom game for free before it's ever even on the store at diam. You can go get that over on my Patreon. It's time to dive in! Welcome everybody to the Hybrid Ministry show! The February 4th is going to be the first week of Our God guys and girls. 00;01;54;51 - 00;02;15;35 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Basically like the sex series in Planning Center. You'll see over here is, just like our basic template. We got song bumper welcome announcements game. Now, you know, one of the things I said, challenge number one was I want to do different order. Like I try to keep our students, like, on their toes. A little bit. One of the things that I challenge myself to do is to not preach my entire message. 00;02;15;35 - 00;02;35;22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, and this trickles down to the rest of our entire team to not preach their entire message in one shot. Like, if I preach 30 minutes to students, I don't think that that's effective. They're losing it at the end of 30 minutes. You know what I mean? However, a it is incumbent upon me to make it actually interactive and interesting, but maybe I can buy more time. 00;02;35;22 - 00;02;54;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I can buy more speaking time if I don't keep it all together. And so because of that, we kind of you are talking to like two parts, an opening and a closing. And sometimes I can just be like an opening illustration, but other times it could be like two thirds of the talk and then we just close with like the final third or final, you know, a little snippet there at the end. 00;02;54;15 - 00;03;12;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we keep on hold our service order very loosely, like we don't want to ever really get stuck in a rut. And so I'm going to show you like kind of a basic service order today. But in the coming weeks, like we're going to be really like messing things up. So, we'll start with a couple songs. 00;03;12;11 - 00;03;29;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Our kids love worship. And so, the countdown video will end and the band of band stage, and they're going to, they're going to get it and we're going to, we're going to even put in here like hype song. Then we have a bumper video. I've created it from God, guys and girls. It's very short, but we're going to make it happen. 00;03;29;12 - 00;03;48;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then we're going to do the intro. And again, I'm going to say ten minutes or so, I'll do an opening, and then we sit around tables and there's like a little placard in the middle that we actually link, like a YouVersion live events to that they can follow along with on their phones. That's one of the ways that we try to redeem phones in our room rather than villainize them. 00;03;48;14 - 00;04;11;00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we film all of our messages ahead of time on a teleprompter. I'm actually doing that a little bit later this afternoon. But this right here is my this was from this was the original that Jerry wrote. This is my adaptation to it for YouTube. And then this is going to be my in room version. So I made a copy of it and my say in room message oh one relationships. 00;04;11;01 - 00;04;37;00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And now this like some of this stuff is like very YouTube like focus, right? I'm going to talk about roller coasters and maybe that will actually give me a little bit of an idea for a game later. I'll see. And we're going to use our handy dandy sidekick. So this was last night's presentation on June 17th. 00;04;37;09 - 00;04;55;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now this is going to we're going to build, I don't know, I'm making this top five roller coaster ranking thing. I don't actually know what it is. We're going to make it up. So that's going to be kind of like how I program it to be interactive. Right? So this is going to be a voting thing. 00;04;55;08 - 00;05;18;49 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then I'm going to do my top five roller coaster ranking. Think like my number one is Guardians. Tron might be my number to my threes are I called vortex which no longer exists Kings Island, Diamondback, Top Thrill Dragster, Cedar Point, and then that transitions me into this statement. I think we can all agree our least favorite roller coaster is a teenage dating scene. 00;05;18;49 - 00;05;34;28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I need to find in here a good spot for a table talk. Good. So we're going to turn this section into a table talk. Table talk. 00;05;34;33 - 00;05;51;47 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm thinking maybe a roller coaster game. I don't know, like, I mean, we could do like, a real or fake roller coaster. That's pretty basic. Like a basketball game where someone does like this with, like, the roller coaster thing, and you all kind of, like, follow, like, I'm trying to think if there's a way to, like, maybe make something like that, I don't know, I got I got to start kind of like noodling on it. 00;05;51;47 - 00;06;12;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I don't, I don't have anything yet. We're going to come back and that's just a placeholder though. So we're going to do, intro to the message table talk announcements. It's the Wednesday before our winter weekend. So Wednesday, two days later, our winter weekend starts. So this is the final push for signups for that. And then roller coaster game maybe. 00;06;12;25 - 00;06;29;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But we're going to link the announcements and the game after the table talk. So instead of the message table talk and then, Cody and Kelly, they're going to come up and they're going to interrupt the table talk and they're going to give our announcements, move on into the roller coaster game. And then and then that's going to be that. 00;06;29;08 - 00;06;50;34 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So you'll notice so far. Well, actually I have the bumper video up here. I'm going to move it. So I like coming in after worship. I think it's pretty easy to come in after worship. I think it's hard to come in after a game when they're like, riled up a little bit more. So I like a bumper video to give us that, like that moment. 00;06;50;34 - 00;07;12;35 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All right, to buy us some of that space. And so I'm actually going to, come in after the song into the opening message table talk announcements, roller coaster game, and then do the bumper video here. And then this is where I'm going to do the rest of my message. We're going to delete this table talk, and we're just going to do a woven all through in here table talks. 00;07;12;39 - 00;07;33;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then one final piece that I sometimes like to add is after a song is like a bit of a message rap. So I got a girl. My name Ali. She'll do a good job with that. She can give a little bit of, like, a final bow and dismissal. Now you're like, this isn't creative programing, Nick. 00;07;33;08 - 00;07;54;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, like, I get it, right. Like, the elements that you might not know, is, are digital notes, the QR code where they can scan, as well as our interaction here with sidekick, and then really the game that you're going to see me create here in, you know, maybe a couple of hours. And so, I'll bring you back when I'm ready to create this game. 00;07;54;26 - 00;08;15;43 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The other piece is like, I will go through here and, try to find moments of interactive ness, make sure that I have good illustrations. Make sure that I'm using sidekick if I'm able to, bring students up on stage, if I can, and find different, like, things with that. And so, the final kind of product of that. 00;08;15;43 - 00;08;41;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. We're going to review that, in our our recap pod, which is member of my paid tier, Hybrid heroes, Patreon membership. It's only $4 a month, and that $4 per month, what it gets you is a weekly bonus recap podcast, right? Like in just a minute, I'm going to sit down and then we'll talk about January 7th and it's going to release on the this following Monday. 00;08;41;15 - 00;08;59;57 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Talking about what we did in our program, we played a game called, New Year's New Year in Review Rumble. It was part of the download Youth Ministry membership. And it was like an okay game, but I would give it I'll give it like a B. And I'm going to tell you what worked in our context and what we failed at that. 00;08;59;57 - 00;09;17;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That made it a B, and how we maybe could have punched it up a little bit better. And we do that every single week over on Patreon. Only $4 a month. And you can use, like, your, you can use your, like, professional development budget money for that because it only nets out to like $48 a year. 00;09;17;19 - 00;09;35;41 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Or if you don't have that as a youth ministry, again, it's only $4 a month. So maybe even out of your own personal pocket, a cup of coffee in your office instead of getting it from Starbucks one time per month. And there is that cost savings. And in addition to that, like for this playlist alone, you're going to get all the games I make. 00;09;35;41 - 00;09;56;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You're going to get them completely for free. I'm going to give you a Dropbox link in the podcast description and my monthly social media pack, which usually costs $17.99. It's free for Hybrid Hero members, so let's figure out where I go in this direction with this game thing. Well, all right, welcome back. As you can see, it's now daytime. 00;09;56;09 - 00;10;13;57 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I think I got a game concept idea. Challenge number one was accomplished by creating a new order. It's the first order. So because it's first order, it's a new order. And I have been racking my brain all day on games. And I think I finally came up with a game. Got it from Big Brother. Shout out to Big Brother. 00;10;13;57 - 00;10;31;49 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's going to be like kind of like trivia based, but musical chairs where like one less or like spoons where like one less option is still like available every single time. So you have to run, get the correct answer and then bring it back to the front of the room. I'm going to go in the lab. I'm going to create this. 00;10;31;49 - 00;10;40;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We're going to time lapse this thing and and we'll let you know how goes. 00;10;40;06 - 00;11;00;22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we ended up going with a game called No Way or No Seat. So it's like musical chairs. Meet octave from Big Brother plus Bible trivia. So well you're going to end up having is like at least ten contestants. We have 16 tables in our room, so we'll spin the wheel and we'll do table numbers, and then they'll send a contestant from their table. 00;11;00;34 - 00;11;15;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then the winning person will win something like snacks or something like that for their table. It's always an easy, huge win. Or we sometimes take out a couple of tables and put in some couches and call it the best seats in the house and give them pizza or drinks or snacks or whatever. And so that's what we're going to end up doing. 00;11;15;12 - 00;11;38;53 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I just made this game and, I'll let you know exactly how it goes. In fact, I've already let you know how it goes. It's going to be linked on my Patreon right here. That dropped last Monday. And so if you want $4 per month, not only will you get my seasonal social media pack my weekly recaps of how my creative programing is going, but you'll also get access to this game that I just created. 00;11;38;58 - 00;11;55;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It is going into the Divine Pipeline as we speak, but it is probably not there yet unless something crazy happens. So, if you want this game for free, or not for weeks, you can do this $4 a month. But you know what I mean. Like, you get a lot of other stuff, and this is included as a perk to it, so go check that out. 00;11;55;05 - 00;12;16;40 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So challenge two is now complete. Challenge three is actually already complete on my Patreon. In the next episode, we are going to talk about what happens if I break programing whole new deal. I am game challenge, whole new flow in order as well as a whole new recap. Be sure to check that out my friends. But until next time, and as always, don't forget to stay hydrated.