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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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

April 8, 2011 I proposed to my beautiful fiancé, Tina Clucas. My elaborate plan involved Tina following clues to different locations that were significant to us. At each location there were friends or family waiting to hand her the next clue. It ended with her arriving on the church grounds where we met as staff [...]

My messages rarely have a point. Well, they have a point, but I don’t use it. And to be honest, the entire ministry is better for it. I recently began to purposefully erase the main point from my messages when speaking to preteens so that our small group leaders could deliver that point. I was [...]

I’ve been there, trust me, I’ve been there. The well thought out lesson, great Biblical content, and some nice power point slides. You are ready to teach God’s Word! Except Sunday comes around and, well, you know how this goes. Some kids look asleep, others look like they cannot stop moving, and the same two [...]