Peer Groups

Interested in joining a FourFiveSix Peer Group? Of course you are. You will join a half dozen (or so) other preteen ministry pastors and leaders in a monthly conference call ...

Letting Go of the Bike

Letting Go of the Bike

It has happened to all of us. You were teaching someone (or being taught) to ride a bike. You’ve gone over the structural mechanics of handles bars and pedals and ...

Map of Preteen Ministries

Map of Preteen Ministries

It’s a big task, but we’re trying to list every preteen ministry in the world.  (See, told you it was a big task.) Browse the list below and let us ...

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2012 Preteen Leaders Conference Other Board

This is the special Other Board about all the great ideas that preteen leaders have all across the globe that came to the preteen leaders conference. Enjoy these Other ideas from preteen leaders like you. Decorate your own cupcake -yum- Preteen mission trip with group workcamps. AWESOME! Service Projects Yearly, Quarterly, mini ways to serve [...]

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2012 Preteen Conference Volunteer Boards

Volunteers ROCK. Here are ideas all about volunteers from the attendees at the 2012 preteen Conference. Always have Ice Cream Social for leader Appreciation (Then ask if they will return in fall) Great Leaders usually have Preteens, experience Youth make great leaders and make events work

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2012 Preteen Conference Game Board

2012 Conference is underway and we have asked all the attendees to help out with sharing what great GAME ideas they are doing in their preteen ministries. Here is their list. Crud War- Messy Games!!! Source4ym.org “The best resource” Everybody’s It! (Grapple) Bible Baseball & Jepardy Medic (Aslo called Aw Fony) on source4ym.org Win it [...]

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2012 Preteen Conference Teaching/Curriculum Board:

Part of the 2012 Preteen Conference was for all the attendees to write down their great ideas about what they have done with regards to curriculum and teaching their preteens. Here is the list they came up with. Connect Grapple J12 Lifechurch.tv “the loop” Also use for girls small group “true colors” by WOW kids [...]

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2012 Preteen Conference Worship Boards

For the 2012 Preteen Conference people were asked to share what they do in their preteen ministries with WORSHIP. Here are their ideas Loud and Fun, Get them Excited to Worship Lots of dancing, jumping and moving! Hillsong 1shine MARC WYMORE-great Preteen Worship Amber Sky We don’t have too big of a worship section, we [...]

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Preteen Conference the Small Group Board

At the 2012 Preteen conference attendees were asked to write their ideas of what they do with Small Groups so we could share them with the world. Here are the small group ideas: 1.Games within your small groups. It gets the quiet kids to open up and talk more. 2. Small groups of boys with [...]

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What’s Your Next Step?

This question was asked at the start of the conference. For many of us this is a difficult question. We rarely get a chance to really sit down and dream about the future. One great thing about coming to the FourFiveSix Conference is that it allows you to dream with others who are living out [...]

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It’s the SXSW of Preteen Ministry

The FourFiveSix Preteen Leaders Conference is coming: April 18-20 in Rocklin, CA. And we hope to see you there! This annual event is the SXSW of preteen ministry. While SXSW is a gathering of all things music and film and interactive, paving the way forward for the next Twitter and Foursquare, the FourFiveSix conference is [...]

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Delivery Methods

The 2012 FourFiveSix Preteen Leaders’ Conference is just 9 weeks away!   The centerpiece of our conference this year is what are calling, “Delivery Methods”.  And we are so excited to experience these with you…we can hardly contain the anticipation. What is a “Delivery Method” exactly?  Well, I’m glad you asked. The first two years [...]

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Who Fits Best In Ministry?

Parents or Volunteers The topic of Parents or Volunteers is always heavy on the mind of the pastors to students of all ages. Who fits where and why as the teacher, motivator, discipler, craft person or creative genius in the preteen ministry? I have read Collaborate and right now I am reading The Future of [...]

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