The recent flood in Bloomsburg, PA wreaked havoc on the community and surrounding areas when the Susquehanna River overflowed its banks. The American Red Cross is now reporting that the flood destroyed more than 1,000 homes and did damage to another 2,300 in Columbia County alone.

Residents are still cleaning up the devastation…and they need your help in October.

You are invited (and needed) to serve at a flood relief event in Bloomsburg on any Saturday during the month of October. Help is badly needed before the bitter cold of winter sets in. Register for The Big Day of Serving and help with projects like picking up debris, tearing out drywall, and cleaning walls to help residents get their homes prepared for repairs, if they are determined habitable.

The Big Day of Serving is typically a youth targeted event, but we need your entire church and others you know to partner with us for one Saturday in October. Please invite everyone you know to come with you….

Youth Groups, Women’s Groups, Men’s Groups, etc
People you know from a neighboring community or church
Your family, friends, and neighbors
Choose from a flood relief event any Saturday in October:

October 8 | October 15 | October 22 | October 28

The cost is $29/person and covers the costs of materials to clean up the community, as well as lunch and dinner for your group. Please bring bottled water in with you: as of today the drinking water supply is still contaminated from this terrible flood.

Prepare your church to serve this community in a way that will be beyond their wildest imagination. Your service will not only make a physical impact on Bloomsburg, but you will offer these residents hope as you serve them.

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Prepare. Go. Live. – Helping your short-Term Mission Drive Your Long-Term Vision
by LeaderTreks & SYM

Few things will bring the gospel to life for your students like heading out onto the mission field. Spending a day, weekend, or longer in service to God, for his love, and with people in need brings the calling of Christ vividly into focus. With this easy to implement 3-part missions trip curriculum, you’ll get everything you need to get your students ready (Prepare), devotions for the trip (Go), and follow-up materials (Live) to make their experience part of an ongoing, godly lifestyle. And what good would we be if we didn’t include helpful stuff for leaders to make the whole trip more fun for everyone? No good at all, so we’ve given you plenty.

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Introducing the NEW LIVE Curriculum Commercial! If you watch this upside-down you can see Matt McCage’s hair flow like its blowing in the wind! Haha but more importantly…Matt McCage is your contact for all things LIVE Curriculum, which means questions, dislikes, loves, prayer concerns, algebra questions, and yes most definitely you can call him to find out what is on Television tonight (He memorizes the TV guide daily). HE can tell all about our 2 BRAND NEW LIVE Curriculum lines: LIVE Leadership and LIVE Books of the Bible.

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The Simply Youth Ministry Conference 2012 Brochure is finally ready! This is what many of you have been waiting for! Every year we hear from you the youth ministry nation that you need the brochure sooner, as you need it to show you church board, Senior Pastor, or other governing body. Well, we have worked crazy long hours, drank 18 cases of Red Bull, and finally got this done for you! Oh and yes this is in your hands way sooner than it was last year!

Inside this 2012 brochure you will find speakers, class schedules, connect groups, SYM SoulCare, and a passion for youth workers! If you have any questions about anything SYMC please contact Matty McCage: 615.349.7111 or MMcCage@SimplyYouthMinistry.com.

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There are 2 conflicting thoughts in my mind as I write this… One – this current generation of students seems hard-wired to make a difference, to be a part of something bigger than themselves & Two – youth leaders sharing they can’t get the students in their ministry to commit to a service opportunity or event.
Huh? Those two things don’t seem to make sense…

But… maybe they do…

Is it possible that we haven’t done a good job connecting a service event with their desire to change the world? If that is true, how do we correct that mistake?

Every service experience or mission trip inherently has at its core the opportunity to change someone’s life. Whether it’s “just” helping to transform a neighborhood for a day or traveling to Peru to help a partner church ministry build new church buildings, there is the chance that any student participating in that event will be part of God working in someone’s life. I believe it’s important for each of us as leaders to communicate those opportunities, the true needs, very clearly. If our students know the needs and know that they can be a part of God working to bring change, they will want to be a part of that!

So… how do we get that info?

We need to ask. Ask your mission partner, whoever that is. Your church ministry partner. The missionaries your church supports. Your friend from seminary who is ministering at a church in need. Your mission provider or organizer. Those folks should know the answers to “what will we be doing?”

Fully informed students will want to be a part of the life-changing work God does on a mission trip. They are hard-wired that way. It’s our job to help them see how they will…

This issue is one of the reasons we created The Big Day of Serving. It’s a simple, single-day of service event where your students will help to transform a neighborhood in need. It’s only $29 per person and includes everything for the day (projects supplies, lunch, a t-shirt, etc…) We’d love to have you join and make a real difference for a community. For more information visit www.TheBigdDayofServing.com or call/email Jake Rasmussen at 1-866-974-6759 or JRasmussen@SimplyYouthMinistry.com.

To watch LIVE at 12:30pm MST on September 12th, 2011 click here or go to www.SimplyYouthMinistry.tv.

Group Magazine Live is a topical, live podcast that will run every two months to coincide with the current issue of Group Magazine.

GML’s second episode will discuss “Youth Leaders at Risk”. We will dive into the what, when, where, why, how a youth worker is to care for students, family, oh yeah and themselves! Guests will include cross-fit expert and 100 mile marathon veteran Andy Brazelton, Leneita Fix (founder of www.blueskygreensky.com), and Darren Sutton (an in the trenches Youth Worker & Biggest Loser Applicant). Oh and special surprise guests that might be musically inclined, super funny, or just some close ministry friends! Rick Lawrence (Editor of Group Magazine) will host, & Toby Rowe (of Group WorkCamps) will co-host. Together they’ll expand on the topic of “Youth Leaders at Risk”, and how to combat the struggles of ministry, life, and health in order to personally draw nearer to Jesus.

Be sure to join the LIVE Q&A portion of this event when you arrive at www.SimplyYouthMinistry.tv. PLEASE INVITE your volunteers, fellow church staff, youth leaders, area pastors–

Simply Youth Ministry Tools | TEAM – Intro Video
Your volunteers, student leaders, and parents can all walk through step-by-step training videos from the comfort of their own home and at their own pace. PLUS you get notifications as training videos are completed by each individual person. Hear what Kurt Johnston has to say about this NEW resource created to help you work smarter!
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