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Episode 202: I’m Adding This Social Media Strategy to My Youth Ministry (It’s Working)

I’ve been doing social media for ministry the same way for years… mostly reels, short-form video… But recently, I added THIS one new strategy… And it’s getting more engagement than almost anything else I post. And the crazy part? Most people are either ignoring this… or doing it completely wrong. I’m not replacing video… I’m stacking this on top of it. Stick around, because I’m going to show you how you can get a tool, to do it for you, for FREE. Yeah, not joking! 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And here's the crazy part, 00:00:20:16 - 00:00:25:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry because most people are either ignoring this or just doing it completely wrong. 00:00:25:03 - 00:00:46:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm not replacing the short form vertical based video. I'm actually going to stack this new strategy on top of it and make sure that you stick around, because I'm going to show you how you can get this new strategy, a completely done for you AI powered tool for. That's right. Free. I'm not joking. Welcome, everyone to the hybrid Ministry show 00:00:46:24 - 00:00:47:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry for everyone. 00:00:47:08 - 00:01:05:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Welcome to the Hybrid Minister show. My name is Nicolas. And in this podcast we talk about making digital discipleship easy, possible and accessible. And I'm excited to share with you how this particular tool is actually going to start doing that. And like I said in the intro. For the longest time, my social media strategy, the history was very simple. 00:01:05:19 - 00:01:43:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I was posting short form, vertical based video files on Instagram or Facebook. That's call it a real feels on YouTube. It's called a short. And of course on TikTok it's just I guess called a TikTok video, right? Because that's what grows your audience. And to be clear, that's actually still true. In fact, if you take a look here on screen, if you're watching on YouTube, this is the results from a carousel based post, which is the new strategy that I'm going to be talking about versus a real and the carousel based post almost 99.1%, almost 100% follower based interactions, which is good for us as churches, right? 00:01:43:03 - 00:02:05:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Our people who are in our congregation that we're shepherding, it's, they're they're the ones that are going to be, you know, targeted and seeing some of these carousel based posts. But if you look over here at real, it's nearly 50% follower to 50%, non follower, content. So video is still the best way to reach new people. 00:02:05:28 - 00:02:08:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so what I started noticing 00:02:08:07 - 00:02:11:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry right when I would start posting these follower 00:02:11:12 - 00:02:27:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry based or carousel based posts, is that if I was only ever targeting new people, my own audience was never able to go deeper and if I'm just going to be completely honest with you, reels bring in new people care. So go deeper with the people that are already there. 00:02:27:03 - 00:02:48:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so this is where and how discipleship can happen on line. Now listen, I know that like discipleship happens best, needle in the eye in person. However, there are learning and micro learning opportunities and micro like, discipleship, simple making opportunities online as well. And I'm going to show you how this works. And so, 00:02:48:05 - 00:02:50:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry these carousel based posts, right? 00:02:50:28 - 00:03:18:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I kid you not, they're getting more saves, they're getting more shares, they're getting more swipes. And the reach, of new people is still going to continue to happen by continually, posting videos, which is a core part of my hybrid strategy. So let me show you, these are some of the top performing carousel based posts. And they're a little bit misleading because if you look at the big number that Instagram provides, that's the number of views on Instagram. 00:03:18:02 - 00:03:33:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But the top number here that I wrote in real small, you'll notice that there is a number that also includes Facebook numbers. So while this is 4268 on Instagram, it's actually 12,569 when you include the Facebook numbers. 00:03:33:21 - 00:03:49:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Same with 3541 and 8689. So these are some of the performing views from carousel based post. If you look down beneath the little graph there, that's where you see the breakdown between followers and non followers. 00:03:49:14 - 00:04:11:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then if you look across the top here you'll see comments, you'll see likes, you'll see shares and you'll see saves. And you'll see that these carousel based posts are performing incredibly well. Not to be outdone, here are the top my recent top performing reels. And just to be honest, I. Yes, I cherry picked the best performing carousel based posts. 00:04:11:23 - 00:04:40:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I also cherry picked the best performing reels so we have one that had 12,000, views and impressions on carousels. Over on reels, our best one is 2761. Still absolutely nothing to sneeze at, but not as strong as 12,000. You see what I'm saying? So you can see the breakdown. But once again, look down beneath this little graph here and you'll see the breakdown between follower versus non follower. 00:04:40:22 - 00:05:08:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so what I want to be very clear about this isn't this isn't an either or strategy. It's actually both right. Let's say this. If reels are your front door, carousels are your discipleship tool. And so once I realize this, I realize I need to create a new system. So my four step process for creating a good carousel based post, well let's just dive into it. 00:05:08:18 - 00:05:33:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Step number one decide your length. Do you want five slides or do you want to go a little bit deeper with, say, seven slides? Then I, have have actually been using and leaning into AI to help me generate my content. It's helping me create scroll stopping headlines, which I'm going to be honest with you, I've had to train a AI on how to do it, but eventually I have gotten around to telling it exactly what I need. 00:05:33:12 - 00:05:58:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Student language. So language that isn't overly churchy is going to actually resonate and relate to where they are in their life right now. And I've instructed AI to create, biblically grounded so that it actually is pulling from a biblical reference and not just what it thinks. And of course, you're you're going to want to double check that too, because I can make mistakes, as ChatGPT so lovingly reminds us. 00:05:58:05 - 00:06:18:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then in step three, I design it. A lot of times I use Photoshop. But I've also started using Canva. I've been really impressed with what I can get out of Canva, and then unfortunately, to make one of those seamless, like swipe ones, Canva doesn't actually offer something that goes, like slide by side by side. 00:06:18:21 - 00:06:37:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So it only exports the whole big thing. And so I have to slice it real quick and then post it. You know what? Actually, I think here's what I want to do. So if you were to check out this link down below in the show notes, you would, gain access to this post, if you chose to jump into it. 00:06:37:28 - 00:06:53:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I'm going to share with you how you can actually get it for free. But, you would number one, you'd select your length. So, I'm just going to say, we'll go with seven. Okay. And then this right here, you're going to deploy the AI architect. 00:06:53:10 - 00:06:59:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so, you're going to copy and paste everything here that is, italicized. 00:06:59:23 - 00:07:08:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So copy. And now I'm going to go over here to ChatGPT, and I'm going to put it in, and there's a couple of spots are you need to adjust. So right 00:07:08:03 - 00:07:23:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry here we're going to say seven slides. And then right here the topic let's say let's say over, let's say handling grief. Okay. 00:07:23:18 - 00:07:25:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then everything else should be good to go. 00:07:25:13 - 00:07:41:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This right here is instructing it to mimic the post style from from me. And then everything else, you might not be able to see it all because, you know, you got to go get it. Like, I'm not just going to give it away here on this video, but, boom, I sent it off to ChatGPT 00:07:41:11 - 00:07:54:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So now, now I got my, my different headlines and what it's going to give me. And so next I'm going to drop it into this design. 00:07:54:27 - 00:07:55:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, 00:07:55:29 - 00:08:04:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry let's go ahead and get it rolling. So, back over here, grief doesn't just go away. 00:08:04:05 - 00:08:09:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Grief. 00:08:09:22 - 00:08:29:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Boom! That's step three right there. By the way. This Canva design is included in the tool. And I'm going to make a promise I'm going to add to this post. I'm going to add bottomless Canva tool. So as I create them I'll share my templates with you. And you can take either 5 or 7, slide posts. 00:08:29:15 - 00:08:46:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So now I'm going to, just export this sucker real fast and it's going to, save as one big thing, right? Like I was saying, like Canva doesn't break it up for us. And then, we got to get back over here 00:08:46:20 - 00:09:09:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Okay. And then, this tour here, all the instructions, of course, are going to be, in the thing that you just purchase, we're going to split them horizontally, we're going to do seven, and we're going to maximize the output, split the image, download. 00:09:09:20 - 00:09:23:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then look here you have a seamless carousel post and the time you see how long this took. I did it right here live on screen for you. 00:09:23:07 - 00:09:42:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This post is going to save you hours. It's going to, I've honed in this AI strategy. So the headlines are scroll stopping. And I'm going to tell you what, my headline formula, which is baked into the AI prompt, is going to be the key to your success. 00:09:42:13 - 00:10:00:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The engine, this engine, this post is $9 and is a one time cost for you. If you want to create better carousel post and you want access to all of my Canva designs as well as I've included a Photoshop design. If you have Photoshop skills, you can jump in there and you can use the Photoshop included file as well. 00:10:00:27 - 00:10:18:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Either one of those $9 for you, you'll get the exact prompt, you'll get ten points. And like I said, I'm going to add new Canva designs, every month or so. Now, here's how you get this free. It's not completely free because you have to become a member first, but for $4 a month you would get access to this post. 00:10:19:04 - 00:10:41:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In addition to that, you're going to get access to my seasonal social media pack, which is now going to include, a like a tie over into the, carousel engine, moving forward. And that's going to be an adjustment to my overall hybrid strategy. And finally, you're going to get access to my weekly bonus podcast, where I'm trying to lean into hybrid ministry and creativity on a week to week basis. 00:10:41:10 - 00:11:01:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I'm going to, recap our service every single week. And you're going to get that podcast bonus podcast on Monday morning. And so for $4 a month, you'll get this post for and completely included as a member of your hybrid, hero membership tier and $4 a month, in case you didn't know, that breaks out to $48 over the course of a year. 00:11:01:19 - 00:11:20:11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry If you charge this to your continuing a professional development account, you can probably swing less than $50, out of your church ministry, professional development pocket and if you can't, it's less than the cost of a cup of coffee. So brew one at home. It's probably even better. Let's just be honest. I'm drinking Oak Cliff coffee this morning. 00:11:20:11 - 00:11:42:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Shout out to all of my favorite, drop your favorite coffee roaster down below in the comments, because mine's Oak Cliff. I get it from the grocery store once a week, and I'm just drinking it here on a Friday morning at my house. Less than the cost of a cup of coffee, especially from Starbucks. $4 month whiskey bonus podcast, seasonal social media pack, and now access to everything on my Patreon, which includes this, carousel engine. 00:11:42:22 - 00:11:56:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry My friend Scott Tinman, he actually taught his youth Mr. Leader cohort yesterday. He said, hey, listen, next Patreon weekly recap show have been so helpful for me to hear how and what he's doing. And it's been helping me in my own context. 00:11:56:00 - 00:12:01:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so all of the links, the engine as well as the membership are link down below in the podcast description. 00:12:01:00 - 00:12:09:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like I said earlier, we are here to make digital discipleship easy, possible and accessible. So my friends, as always, don't forget stay hybrid.

Episode 201: These Youth Ministries Are CRUSHING Social Media (You’ve Never Heard of Them)

These youth ministries are crushing social media, and here’s the thing…. You’ve probably never heard of a single one of them. Today, I’m breaking down 5 accounts that are absolutely crushing social media right now — and more importantly, I’m going to show you exactly why their posts work. Because here’s the truth… it’s not about having a big church, a big budget, or a full media team. It’s about strategy. And if you stick around, I’ll show you how you can start applying the same ideas this week — even if you’re starting from scratch. These Churches are Crushing it! https://www.instagram.com/lexumcyouth/ [https://www.instagram.com/lexumcyouth/] https://www.instagram.com/impactfindlay/ [https://www.instagram.com/impactfindlay/] https://www.instagram.com/harrodsburg.students/ [https://www.instagram.com/harrodsburg.students/] https://www.instagram.com/wakymc_stumin/ [https://www.instagram.com/wakymc_stumin/] https://www.instagram.com/crosscreekstudents/ [https://www.instagram.com/crosscreekstudents/] SHOW NOTES Shownotes & Transcripts https://www.hybridministry.xyz/201 [https://www.hybridministry.xyz/201] Bracket Episode: Links in Video Description https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntXEQG8KW0o [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntXEQG8KW0o] Opus Clip https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 [https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361] Mic Guide (in Act 4 “The Execution Layer”) https://www.patreon.com/posts/hybrid-ministry-151264417?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link [https://www.patreon.com/posts/hybrid-ministry-151264417?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] [FREE] HYBRID STRATEGY GUIDE https://www.patreon.com/posts/complete-guide-142500019?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link [https://www.patreon.com/posts/complete-guide-142500019?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] 🌸 SPRING SEASONAL SOCIAL PACK https://www.patreon.com/posts/spring-seasonal-151263940?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link [https://www.patreon.com/posts/spring-seasonal-151263940?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] Andrew Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsFhry-v_Tg [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsFhry-v_Tg] 👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick [https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/ [https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick [https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry [https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry] Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz [https://www.hybridministry.xyz] -------------- 🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉 We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context! 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Some of the below links are affilate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products //VIDIQ https://vidiq.com/hybrid [https://vidiq.com/hybrid] //BEST DYM RESOURCES https://www.patreon.com/posts/9-amazing-dym-142425755 [https://www.patreon.com/posts/9-amazing-dym-142425755] //OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361 [https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361] //HYBRID MINISTRY MEGA GUIDE Everything I've ever learned in one blog post [FOR FREE!] https://www.patreon.com/posts/hybrid-ministry-151264417?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link [https://www.patreon.com/posts/hybrid-ministry-151264417?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] -------------- 🕰️TIMECODES 00:00 Youth Ministries that are crushing social media! 0:22 Church #1 03:22 Church #2 05:13 Church #3 07:10 Church #4 09:07 Church #5 10:54 How Can You Do this? -------------- TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00:02 - 00:00:02:27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry These youth ministers are crushing it on social media, and 00:00:02:29 - 00:00:03:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry you've probably 00:00:03:18 - 00:00:04:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry never even heard of them. 00:00:04:17 - 00:00:04:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Today 00:00:04:26 - 00:00:22:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm breaking down five accounts and why their post types are working. It's not about big budget. It's not about being flashy. It's about strategy. And if you stick around to the end of the video, I'm going to share with you how you can unlock that, even for your own context of the first one you've probably never heard of is Lexington United Methodist Church. 00:00:22:12 - 00:00:40:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry My friend Todd is over there, and I love what Todd's doing. First and foremost, Todd was in a youth ministry leader cohort with me and Todd has been, diving into social media and trying to make his youth ministry and student ministry a little bit more hybrid. So, the first post type that I like is this 00:00:40:07 - 00:00:40:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry one. 00:00:40:13 - 00:00:52:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Check it out. 00:00:52:21 - 00:01:03:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if you look at this one in his algorithm here, you'll see that it has, 165, likes it's pinned. You can see to the top of his profile, 00:01:03:12 - 00:01:15:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry which means it's probably his best performing post. But what I like about it is look at this like it's not even a difficult post for anyone to do. It's a voice over. 00:01:15:12 - 00:01:56:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's him and to students, and it's a cell phone camera. And it went crazy viral. And so Todd's just having fun filming content with students in his ministry. The second post type that I like, from Todd, is this one. 00:01:56:06 - 00:02:04:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But not like that. 00:02:04:11 - 00:02:22:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Three times I mode on. 00:02:22:06 - 00:02:57:08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Oh, man. Okay, so here's what I love about this. This is a bracket style. And, you've heard us talk about it on this podcast a bajillion times. I'll link down below. Some free or, cheap bracket options that you can use. But like, look at the commitment to the bit like Spud Sinner, esp and he's got, like, graphics, he's using AI, he's got a whole bracket on his wall and he's using, like, stats and analytics, and he's just going for the like, bracketology bit and vibe, which is one of the things we've done in our context as well. 00:02:57:11 - 00:03:16:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry He's just having fun, like he's just having a good time. And to be clear, like, these are just two posts that I cherry picked out of Todd's, repertoire here. Absolutely nothing like, you know, he he does serious stuff too, so don't come at him, but like, he's just having a good time with the students. And that's what I love about how simple this is. 00:03:16:28 - 00:03:34:01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like that one. Obviously a little bit more involved, a little bit more committed to the bit. But I bet you if you ask Todd if his students enjoyed the potato bracket, I think he called it Starch Madness. They probably would. And it's a lot because of what Todd's doing on social. The second church. I want to introduce you to is impact. 00:03:34:08 - 00:03:47:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Finley. And Bree is the social media manager there. I know her boss, Scott, and. But Bree was in one of my youth Mr. leader cohorts. I want to show you this post from Bree and their church. 00:03:47:16 - 00:03:55:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I got a pizza delivery for a package. Johari. I am Tonka Johari, but I would never order a whole pizza for myself. 00:03:55:04 - 00:03:59:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm now taking you. I mean, 00:03:59:16 - 00:04:24:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This one's like. This one's so simple. Like, I want you to just notice, like, she probably found this voice over, and then she just recruited some students with her to, like, help perform this skit out, right? Like, just a great post. And then this one right here. This one went, viral, 22,000 views. This is during our, youth ministry leader cohort. 00:04:24:23 - 00:04:46:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I was like, Bree, you should be leading this thing. Check this out. 00:04:47:02 - 00:05:04:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah. I mean, look at this like, it's it's so easy. It's so simple. You've probably seen this before. It's a trend. They did it. It took off. Look at how much work it probably took. She wrote, what, ten of these little like prompts and then handed a phone to someone and said, go do this thing right. It's just before a youth group. 00:05:04:25 - 00:05:28:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's super simple. And they were rewarded with 22,000 views. Moving on to the third church here that you've probably never heard of is my friend David Carpenter at Harrodsburg. Students in, Kentucky and I ran across with David's dude on social, and David is absolutely crushing it on social media. He's in a modest and normal sized church. 00:05:28:12 - 00:05:35:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And the dude is got some chops when it comes to, like, editing and stuff like that. But what I want you to see on this particular post is, look, 00:05:35:28 - 00:05:47:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry he's just like, this is the first, photo based post, right? And I remember when I was talking to David, I was like, how do you capture photos? He's like, I just got a decent camera, and I put it in someone's hands. 00:05:47:00 - 00:06:11:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I said, get after it. And he said, you're bound to get at least something usable, right? And so he's got this picture of this kid with his hands up, and then he uses this caption here, and then he says, yep, no youth ministry. Super simple. How difficult would this be for you to go through the archives of a post that someone has taken a picture of, find this and post it like 00:06:11:25 - 00:06:16:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry super easy, super simple, and then, furthermore, he has this one. 00:06:16:14 - 00:06:20:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry These are. 00:06:20:10 - 00:06:39:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like this is a sermon clip. He sets a camera up in the back of the room. I asked him about it. He's like, I got a camera again. Paid like less than $500 for a decent camera. And he's like, I got like a a few dollar adapter, put it into the soundboard, and now I just take the audio, I link them up together, and then I create sermon clips from it. 00:06:39:21 - 00:06:50:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right. We prerecorded our messages. And so I use that and then I use a service like opus clip down below, which you could also check that out. Check out the link if that's something you're interested in. But David, I know he just does this himself using Adobe Premiere 00:06:50:26 - 00:06:55:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Pro. He's got skills in it. And so he puts sermon clips together for himself, for his church. 00:06:55:16 - 00:07:09:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like this is so simple. It's pictures of your student ministry is picture of yourself, right. Once again no social PAC here. All students, all custom, all faces within your own context. You my friend, you could be doing this 00:07:09:05 - 00:07:16:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry semester number four. Like a Russa missionary church. My friend Andrew is on a cohort at one point. And he's actually been on the podcast before as well. 00:07:16:18 - 00:07:49:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'll link his episode right up here. Andrew, what I love about his, his videos is same thing. He just he just decided to start taking it seriously. So let me show you this first post type from Andrew. 00:07:49:08 - 00:08:07:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This one's funny because look at it. If you look at this, it says throwing items on my intern, I guess is what is item four? So this is a series post. So if you look back at, Andrew's, feed, you'll notice that he's done this before with his intern. So the two of them, they just have a blast filming content together. 00:08:07:24 - 00:08:09:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The other one I like 00:08:09:00 - 00:08:24:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry from Andrew's, church is this one. Check it out. 00:08:24:17 - 00:08:40:03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Yeah. So this is interview styles. When I, when I talked to Andrew, when I interviewed Andrew, he said this is like the main thing that they do. They send this dude around and he takes a little tiny mic and he interviews students with certain questions. And, this is one of the lowest hanging fruit. Easy things to do. 00:08:40:03 - 00:08:57:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like how difficult would this be for anyone for you to hand off to any volunteer, any student in your ministry? You grab a decent sound microphone link down. Below is my microphone guide and you take your cell phone camera look. There's like this light here shining through. Like it's that that's like that's just raw. Real. And like, you don't need polish. 00:08:57:00 - 00:09:13:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You don't need a studio. You don't need, like, an amazing camera with an amazing lens. You just need a cell phone. You probably have access to it. And then the fifth and final, one is I will humbly submit my own student ministry you've maybe heard of. If you've been listening to this podcast, let me give you a couple of examples of what we do. 00:09:13:21 - 00:09:21:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Number one, very simple. 00:09:21:25 - 00:09:35:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is a transition style video. It's so simple. You just take the video of the burger's thing and you link it to something back behind it. You try and match it up. So simple, so easy. And you're inviting students to your context, to your church. 00:09:35:28 - 00:09:40:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The second thing I'll submit to you, and neither this one here is not my idea. 00:09:40:13 - 00:10:04:13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I've got to give a shout out to our resident Cody. He created a vlog style, video called disciples. He's a, disc golf, lover. And so him and our intern, they go through and they do different, like, disc golf challenges. And I will let you know, like, if you notice here, like, some of these have some pretty crazy views, 271 views. 00:10:04:13 - 00:10:22:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry He also did a series style video similar to what Andrew did over at Walker Russo, where he shot, disc of like a different, number. So like day one, one shot, day two, two shots, day three, three shots over the roof of our building until he made it. And if he didn't make it, he was going to get his head shaved during our winter weekend. 00:10:22:24 - 00:10:41:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And he made it to like two days before something like that. And so, he went crazy on it. I'll link that video down below in the description so that you can see that one. But that was a really, really good series. And another great way just to reinforce this, on our our YouTube channel, which has all of our sermon series, but a different style of a piece of content. 00:10:41:12 - 00:10:51:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And again, like this is a good example. I'm the youth pastor. I didn't have any bandwidth or idea around this. He did. I said, go for it, man. Cut him loose and 00:10:51:29 - 00:11:04:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry he's owned it straight away. And so this is what you can do when you lean into hybrid. Once you start doing things, people will notice and they'll have ideas, and then you can just cut them loose to go do those things. 00:11:04:07 - 00:11:17:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And all of these are examples of my hybrid strategy. And I'll just be honest, like impact Todd's at Lexington. David's like, they're not following me. They're just leaning in to digital and 00:11:17:18 - 00:11:41:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry social media because they're trying to speak their students language. In fact, the goal of all of this church digital and social media. Brady Scheer, he recently closed down his daily social media pack because he said, we're in a new era of social media called the syndication era of social, and his contention is that it's transitioning from social to just straight up media. 00:11:41:26 - 00:12:01:25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Here's the good news my seasonal social media pack helps blend the two between the set it and forget it. That's what he's sun setting in his in his business. He's like, we're not doing the done free stuff anymore. That's from a different era of social. But youth pastors are still busy and sometimes they just need help and they just need something that they can turn to quick and in a pinch. 00:12:02:01 - 00:12:22:16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so I'll give you some of those that you can fall back on. But more importantly, I will help coach you through and even give you assets for man on the street for transition style videos for Bible trivia. Whether you want to do interview style or whether you want to like do yourself selfie style video and spiritual content that's like Devo style, you don't need a camera in the back of the room like David. 00:12:22:16 - 00:12:46:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You just need a cell phone and you just take the script and you create devotional style content to, with or for your students on social media. If you look back through the ten highlighted posts of these five different churches in those accounts, every single one of them that was chosen had students or leaders as a specific person in the post. 00:12:46:28 - 00:13:06:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's not the Dunphy stuff that's offered anymore. That's not the era of social that we find ourself in. And so my PAC will help you if you become a $4 per month tier member, you will get that pack included, along with a weekly bonus recap podcast of my creative programing in my student ministry and what we're doing over on social media. 00:13:06:26 - 00:13:23:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But I'm rooting for you. You can lean into this. You can have fun. The bar has never been lower, and it's never been easier for youth pastors to jump in on this. So if I can help, check it out down below. If not, rooting for you as you go and crush social media in your ministry moving forward. Blessings on you. 00:13:23:20 - 00:13:28:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And don't forget everyone as you are doing this throughout your week to stay hybrid.

Episode 200: The Thing Every Youth Pastor Needs (But Can’t Afford)

Most youth pastors don’t fail on social media because they lack passion… They fail because they don’t have this one thing — and honestly, most can’t afford it. But for my 200th episode… I’m giving it away.... The strategy. The product. The membership. 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Sure, everyone's context is a little bit different, and everyone's individual responsibilities vary by position. However, it's the same thing that tends to fail, and it's the fact that either they don't have a plan or they do have a plan, but they're still not executing the plan that's laid out for them. 00;00;34;08 - 00;01;12;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And part of the problem is we don't have a plan because it doesn't feel as urgent. If you don't post to social media. Yeah. What's going to happen? But if you don't plan your Wednesday night message, that's a bit of a bigger deal. Students are going to show up. They're not going to have anywhere to go. And so what I've seen and what I've noticed, and frankly, what I've also done and implemented in my own particular context is a full proof strategy that when life gets busy, in fact, I tested it right here, an episode linked right here where I was at a conference and I had no other time on my schedule, but I 00;01;12;07 - 00;01;33;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry committed ahead of time during that week that I was going to post whatever my social media pack told me to post. And in that week, in less than 20 minutes, I was able to post all eight styles of posts. And that was me going above and beyond. Because what I recommend for most of you starting out is only to post three times per week. 00;01;33;20 - 00;02;01;29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I estimate that if you take what I lay out, all you have to do is spend anywhere from 5 to 7 minutes per week posting on social media. And the best news of all? I'm going to tell you how so here. Here's what you need. You're busy. And the fact is, like, you know, you want to reach students and maybe even further more, you know that you want to reach students digitally. 00;02;02;00 - 00;02;22;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Let me just explain why I think digital is so important. Obviously you're listening to the Hybrid Minister show, but in the last three years since I started in the context, I mean, we've doubled our in-person growth as a result, I believe, of this hybrid digital strategy. Furthermore, we've grown a YouTube channel from zero to well over a thousand subscribers. 00;02;22;03 - 00;02;42;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And you probably the most important thing is that we've set record numbers of baptisms in this moment and woven within our hybrid strategy is a baptism course where we help walk students through the meaning of it, why they should do it, and then how then to take a next step. So it's hybrid ministry is not just for vanity metrics and dancing on TikTok. 00;02;42;21 - 00;03;05;28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It really does help create and facilitate, moments of life change. And we've experienced, like I said, record in-person numerical growth as well as, record life changing markers such as baptism. And so this is why hybrid ministry is so important, and I can help walk you through it. And I believe that you as a youth pastor, you have what it takes. 00;03;05;28 - 00;03;27;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And more than having what it takes, I believe that you have the the requirement to do what it takes to figure this thing out. But here's the challenge, right? Like here's your schedule. Let's say this is your normal Monday Tuesday schedule. And of course, if I had space, you know, we'd extrapolate it out beyond that. And then let's say these are five kind of like core things that that you need to do. 00;03;27;17 - 00;03;58;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And, I'll just show you what it looks like in, in my world. Right. So your Wednesday programing, which includes everything from like planning the worship set to team and scheduling for volunteers and your message and your game and your announcements and your graphics. Like everything for that Wednesday that takes if we're if we're just being, like, honest and generous, let's say it takes a four hour block of time. 00;03;58;03 - 00;04;22;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So here's your Wednesday programing and that's what you're doing and that. But let's say you maximize your lunch hour. And so for about an hour and a half you eat. But you also are hanging out with someone. So you're grabbing, let's say lunch with the volunteer. That's not nice for relational. Relational. You grab the lunch with the volunteer. 00;04;22;13 - 00;04;46;06 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Maybe a student. If it's like a spring break type week or whatever you have. Not yet. Once checked your emails, you have absolutely no time. You haven't done that yet. And so between travel time and all that, you get back and all your administrative work, we'll just call pink. We'll just call this admin. So you got to do emails, you got to do receipts. 00;04;46;06 - 00;05;06;19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You got to process your seat from the lunch or the coffee that you just had. Right. Well, now you're at 4 or 5 and maybe you know what you do. Maybe you go home. But then maybe to. Because, again, you're a good youth pastor, down here, maybe down there. So you went home for a little bit? Here. 00;05;06;19 - 00;05;31;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You picked up your family and stuff like that. But then after dinner, you went back out and, you decided to go visit a student and watch them in the wrestling meet or whatever on a Monday night. Okay. So. So that's your day. That's your Monday. Okay. But then, it's fine because Tuesday rolls around, but you, you're doing like a a citywide disciple now, and so you have a meeting at ten for that. 00;05;31;19 - 00;05;53;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you get together with the youth pastors and you hang out and you do your thing. And then you haven't yet checked your email, so you gotta check your email again. And the secretary is upset at you because you did your C yesterday. You did it wrong. So now you got to go fix that. You got to put some finishing touches. 00;05;53;05 - 00;06;19;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You got to send, maybe some reminders, some emails. You got to make your slides for your Wednesday night program. Right. Once again. Oh. Your senior pastor, your senior pastor wants to meet with you. So, that takes up some more time, and then, well, you know, you want to be a good youth pastor, so on your way home, you can have coffee with that student who texted you this morning, and said, hey, can we get coffee? 00;06;19;20 - 00;06;46;29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so there you are. You're now getting coffee with your student. This is the problem, right? This happens week after week, day after day. And if I were to add another category over here, and let's just say we were to call it social media, you're asking yourself where in the world am I putting social media? Am I putting it down here, which is now after five family time? 00;06;47;04 - 00;07;07;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Am I putting it up here? Which again? Now you're working greater than 40 hours per week? When in the world is this going to happen? And the problem, like I said, for most youth pastors is not vision, not excitement for the thing, but it's scheduling and it's figuring out where this goes. So I'm going to help you out. 00;07;07;03 - 00;07;27;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Okay. So what is it? What is my hybrid strategy? Well, link down below is a completely free e-book. Anyone at any time can grab that. So I would recommend and ask that you do that. However, let me just break it down for you here on the whiteboard in social media, you're asking what exactly is your hybrid strategy? 00;07;27;13 - 00;07;53;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, for starters, the the step one of it is to become more regular on social media. My pack is basically like your fiber. Think about it. You'll get it. But what is it? It's posting more often to social media okay. Which everyone's down for that. And this is here for the end goal, right? Yeah. We want our student ministry or church social media to be a little bit more robust. 00;07;53;01 - 00;08;22;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's the what. Well the win right. And if we look back at our calendaring segment just a minute ago, that's the real question. When is this happening? But just to answer it for you, for me, my answer is three times per week. Okay. So we're going the what is just basically more more social. How often the result is three times per week. 00;08;22;17 - 00;08;48;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then again you're asking where and when am I going to find the time in my calendar to create 3 to 3 times more? Don't worry, I'm going to help you out with that. And then the how. Right. And this really is how like when is this getting done? Is we're going to do this thing together, right? I have this YouTube channel, I have this podcast, this is the free version of it, but I have an entire Patreon where I walk you through how to do it. 00;08;48;10 - 00;09;08;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I give you the tools when, where to post, and I make it happen for you. And all you have to do is simply run the play and post when it tells you to do it. That way you get to be an amazing youth pastor, going to coffees and going to kids games and meeting with your senior pastor and planning your Wednesday night. 00;09;08;27 - 00;09;41;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And I get to help build out your social media strategy and you get to simply follow the play. Now, you might be asking like, what if I have more creative bandwidth? And what if I have better ideas than you? I presume that you probably do. In that moment, instead of following my play, you simply post one of your ideas or one of your students ideas, or one of your volunteer's ideas, and you don't post one of mine because you do have creative energy, because you do have creative bandwidth, because you do have better ideas. 00;09;41;08 - 00;09;55;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But when you get busy, this is your fallback. It's here when you need it and because I'm giving it away, you don't even have to worry about the cost. Let's look in here to the next section. 00;09;55;27 - 00;10;21;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So here's why. This is expensive. You see, sometimes a system like this can cost hundreds. I mean, maybe honestly, even depending on who you end up going with, it could cost even thousands. And then on top of it, there's months of frustration as you enter into a brand new learning curve, trying to kind of figure all this out yourself and you realize, like, man, I'm a youth pastor, I'm not social media manager, content creator, or like graphic design or any of these things. 00;10;21;11 - 00;10;40;09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Right? So like, I broke some of this down for you because I believe that there's really like for costs. And if you're watching here on YouTube, you see them on screen. One of the costs is like if I want like a turnkey done for you social media pack in my personal opinion, one of the best on the market nucleus social done by Brady Shear himself a bet pro church tools. 00;10;40;12 - 00;11;05;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's amazing. It's $49 a month for unlimited stock footage as well as a monthly social posting calendar. One of the problems, though, and I've said this a million times over with even my own pack, is that if it can be done for you, it can also be done for many. And so it's not that custom. But Brady, in my opinion, does the best job of offering something done for you that's also still good and leans into what matters on social media cost. 00;11;05;25 - 00;11;27;24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry This is for like churches. This is $49 a month. Most youth ministry budgets can't sustain $49 a month, nearly $600 for the year. Or you could take a course. I found this video course here just by googling, and it turns out it's like $12 a month or $84 for the year. So now we're at, you know, at $684. 00;11;27;24 - 00;11;52;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now for your entire youth ministry budget, if you want to learn. And if you're like, well, I just figured out myself, well, then then comes in the time cost, right? And like, probably you putting in ten ish hours a week of of learning and trying something new and you're going to be doing and trying some new stuff. Of course, we're in a new era where students speak in this digital native tongue, and you're going to have to kind of learn to speak at least some of that. 00;11;52;15 - 00;12;14;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And just at least become fluent with it. But if you're going completely from scratch with no help, like you're looking at probably ten plus hours a week to start, and then, of course, like if we look back at our calendar, where in the world is this going to go? I mean, like your calendar is already insanely full and so, like, you don't have ten plus hours. 00;12;14;20 - 00;12;42;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so what again, always happens is a you're priced out from a cost standpoint and B, your time management isn't there anymore because you don't have the time to do it. This is where I believe I can provide value. So let's check this out okay. So let me prove to you how this works. So I'm going to give you a social media three month seasonal social media pack with a calendar and with the assets in order to create. 00;12;42;08 - 00;12;58;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now here's the problem with most social media packs if it's done for you, it can be done for many. And so I want to also add a custom edge to yours. And so you are going to have to get your phone out. You are going to have to get some microphones, and you are gonna have to do a little bit of filming of yourself. 00;12;58;01 - 00;13;20;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Your face, your voice, or your students faces, your students voices, your volunteers voices. But some customization to your social media feeds. So it's not just a bunch of graphics. You see. That's where I think most social media packs fall short. Some designers cooking up amazing designs off in the lab that are better than anything you and I could create, but what mine does is mine helps coach you into the customization. 00;13;20;27 - 00;13;54;00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so you're going to post three times per week. And one of my favorite posts is a very simple we're going to call it man on the Street style post. I've created the graphics that will overlay on top of your video. So you get your phone out, you film, you chop it up, you edit it, and all you got to do is use something like an in-app editor like Capco or TikTok simply on your phone, hand it over to a student, ask them to do it, and then you take my graphic, which had the would you rather question, and you just lay it over top of it, right. 00;13;54;02 - 00;14;27;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I mapped this out back in November, and that particular post only took me five minutes and my Wi-Fi was lagging like absolute mad, crazy man. So in less than five minutes I had a edited, filmed and then posted custom video. Sometimes it's going to be custom, right? And so in this three times we have two styles. We have custom, but then other times it's just going to be done for you. 00;14;27;09 - 00;14;47;11 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's going to be plug and play. I got what to do. And you're feeling anxious. I got verse posts. I got I got other like spiritual practice type things. Those are the ones that are packs, right. That they can be done for anyone, anywhere in any context. But I also got some of these, and this is just an example of how this works. 00;14;47;11 - 00;15;08;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And link down below is my full proof episode where like I said, I posted all eight styles. I have eight different styles. I have four custom, I have four done for you posted all eight of them and I let you know exactly how they performed. Here are the results actually on screen from my results episode. So this can work for you. 00;15;08;11 - 00;15;24;01 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And what's it going to do? It's going to accomplish this goal when your calendars overrun and busy, it's still going to give you. If you can commit to less than ten minutes, I would say ten minutes per week, then this is going to do it. And how are we going to do it? We're going to walk through this together. 00;15;24;01 - 00;15;54;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Because if you become a member of my Patreon every single Monday, I'm going to drop a recap episode. So I'm going to be there with you every single step of the way, coaching you through it. So let's check that part out. And here's the good news. To celebrate my 200th podcast episode, which is this one that you're listening to or watching, I'm giving the first 20 people free access to everything that I offer over, on, and inside my Patreon. 00;15;54;03 - 00;16;12;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Here's what's included. There is a weekly bonus podcast episode where I recap detail in outline my programing. And I'm not saying that I'm some creative genius, but I am saying that that is an attempt and that's something that we try to do. And so I explain some of the things that we offer and what we do in our programing. 00;16;12;27 - 00;16;47;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Think of it as like your virtual assistant, someone just giving you ideas and then you filtering those through the lens of your ministry, your context and your programing. I will help level up your creative programing through that podcast. Additionally, I have a seasonal social media pack, so it's three months worth of posting content. Everything that we've been working through on this episode, and it is included as a part of the Patreon membership, as well as access to every post that I have and all of the shop items that are for sale over on my Patreon. 00;16;47;02 - 00;17;14;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So if you're tired of trying to figure this out alone, then this is your moment. And here's how I'm going to do the first 20. You get this for free for the month of May. 2026. The rest of you, if you miss out on that first 20 moment, then I'm giving 50% off with this code. Same time frame h h standing for Hybrid Hero HH2 hundred 50% off to celebrate my 200th episode. 00;17;14;08 - 00;17;34;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like I said, this is open now for three weeks, so it's a strike while the iron is hot moment. You don't need a bigger budget to reach students, you just simply need the right system. And to celebrate my 200th episode, I'm giving you access to that. My friends cheering you on, rooting for you. And as always, don't forget stay hybrid.

Episode 199: 25 Youth Group Game Prize Ideas (Cheap & Fun) | FREE DOWNLOAD

I’ve given away every one of these prizes for youth group game winners over my last 15 years of youth ministry. I’m going to share 7 full-proof ideas. Then to round out the 25 claim, I’m going to live react on how to fill this bookshelf prize idea using ChatGPT. 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And I'm going to share with you seven of my favorite and foolproof ideas. And then to round out the claim that the video, which says 25 youth Group Game Ideas. I am going to fill a bookshelf, which is, full disclosure 100%. 00;00;25;00 - 00;00;48;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry My friend Josh Bowman over at I Am His Idea. We're going to actually start doing this in our student ministry this fall. You get an opportunity to use the well, let me share how that works. All of this on this week's episode of the Hybrid Ministry show. And the first game idea that is foolproof is whichever team, whichever group, whichever table we set around tables in our context, whichever one of those wins, give them pizza. 00;00;48;12 - 00;01;09;14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The pro. It is always clutch, right? Nobody has ever said about winning pizza for the group of people that just that just won. The kind of pizza for the group is that it's expensive. And so over time, if you give away pizza every single week to every single game winner, it's not always the most sustainable strategy for your budget. 00;01;09;14 - 00;01;33;18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so while it's an amazing thing to win, nobody, as you pastors maybe have the margin in their budget to give away pizza every single week, but as a one off for an elevated game, for something kind of fun, different pizza is always clutch. People who win are always pumped for it. Number two, foolproof idea that you can give away is a signed photo of one of your staff members, or yourself as the youth pastor. 00;01;33;18 - 00;01;50;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The pro is free. It cost you nothing besides ink, which if you work in a church, you know printing things off the printer is basically the one perk of getting to work as a youth pastor with in office type perks. And so use that church ink, print it off, and then sign it and give it away. That's the pro. 00;01;50;25 - 00;02;15;19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's completely free. The con well, I literally had a student one time say, I wish I would have one pizza like they did last week instead of this picture that you just gave me. So you do definitely run that risk. Hey, don't go anywhere. This is actually the type of stuff that I talk about over on my bonus podcast that drops every single Monday, every single week on my Patreon. 00;02;15;19 - 00;02;33;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Because what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to make programing more fun and more creative. I'm trying to break it every single week in a way that's different, though. We don't run the exact same service order time after time, and sometimes you just need someone else giving you ideas that you can hear, listen, and filter through into your own context. 00;02;33;14 - 00;02;58;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so for only $4 a month, a month, literally less than the cost of this cup of coffee, you can become a member of my hybrid Hero Patreon tier, which also gives you access to my three months Done for You seasonal social media pack, which will help you show up on social media. Because 95% of our teenagers 13 to 17 years of age are on social media, and so you get the opportunity to show up. 00;02;58;12 - 00;03;19;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We're 1 in 3 of those teenagers say that they're on social media constantly to make an impact and make a difference in their lives. So head on over link in the description to my Patreon. Check it out today because that makes it the third full proof idea is a game winner card. So think like credit card. Like plastic credit card material. 00;03;19;05 - 00;03;43;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You print those out and so you pay for that through like a printing agency. And actually, I have designed five different designs. And then I've put a bat so they're either like completely white or I've put them on a background. And so link down below. I have an entire guide to this episode, and included in that guide for free is a download with these ten different card, options and ideas. 00;03;43;16 - 00;03;59;27 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Grab them, print them. And then here's what we did. Anytime someone won, they got one of these cards. And then we created a little, currency. And so we said, if you have five of these, you get a free item at your cafe. Now, if you have if you don't have a cafe, you may have to figure out what the exchange rate is for something like that. 00;03;59;29 - 00;04;18;02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But they were a great motivator, right? Like they could hang onto those cards, they could collect them. They could save them. So the pro is it's like a one time costs. Right. But the other pro is that if you do use them, it's like a cafe redemption token sort of thing is that they're completely recyclable, like you'll get them back. 00;04;18;02 - 00;04;37;26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so once you get them back in the cafe, then you turn around, you give them to your next game winner, you know, and then there's also like a hidden cost moment. So like you pay for them once and then out of the cafe proceeds is where the true like money exchange happens, but you don't feel it quite as much if you're giving it away as a member of your cafe. 00;04;38;01 - 00;04;57;13 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The kind. Of course, if you spam this and you only ever do this, it can grow a little bit old. So, like, it might be something to keep in your back pocket as a go to when you don't have an idea. But then still, we've in some of these other, maybe more big ticket items like pizza for the entire group, or this fourth idea, which is the best seats in the house. 00;04;57;18 - 00;05;16;07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry The pro this is it's incredibly easy and also pretty cheap. What you do is if you have normal rows, you create a couch and a VIP type section in your, ministry and you make more comfortable seats. And so the winning person gets to bring their friends, or the winning group gets to all go sit in best seats in the house. 00;05;16;10 - 00;05;35;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And if you have a way to, like, get a mini fridge or stocked with some snacks, or even give them pizza in that that best seats in the house. It's a really great way to make those people feel like VIPs for winning the night. The only con really is, just requires like a weekly setup. And so we don't do this every week, but we do reserve it every once in a while, occasionally for winners. 00;05;35;12 - 00;05;51;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so that way if you have those, like cards, for example, you give those three weeks out of the month and then the fourth week out of the month, you do like, let's say like a best seat in the house or something like that. The fifth option I have is give some sort of like money currency. Okay. The pro is similar to the card thing. 00;05;51;15 - 00;06;08;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's easy and it's cheap for us. We use a thing called a platypus book. The reason being that was the mascot voted on by our students over three years ago when I started here at this church. And so we put it on a dollar bill and the. You know, it's funny, I actually went to Canva to try and find a dollar template, and they won't even let you do it. 00;06;08;21 - 00;06;26;04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's probably some, like, federal regulations. So I created a template. It looks like this. You can go get it over on my guide along with those cards as well. And then you can put whatever you want here in the middle for us, our mascot is a platypus. Maybe you, have like, a different mascot. Use whatever mascot you have. 00;06;26;09 - 00;06;42;08 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Maybe you want to put yourself in there. Go ahead, put yourself and you know, you could make it kind of like an office reference, like a Schrute book. And once again, you can figure out the currency. In our current context, a platypus book equals one free item from the cafe. So it's a worse exchange rate than those cards. 00;06;42;10 - 00;07;02;04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But again, it's just another like, another way, another idea. The con. Similar to the card game, it can grow tired. However, I will say students are motivated because they can win those and then they can redeem them instantly at the cafe that exact night or the exact time when they win the platypus book. The six idea is you can give away leftover merch or leftover swag that you have. 00;07;02;04 - 00;07;19;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Maybe from a camp, maybe from a retreat. The pro is. It's probably the most real prize if someone wins a genuine good t shirt. Like that's the best real prize that we've given away so far on this episode, the con is again, it might become a little bit expensive over time, and so you do have to make sure that you can kind of manage the budget. 00;07;19;23 - 00;07;39;05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then the seventh foolproof idea that has never failed me is a crisp high five or the satisfaction of winning once again, the pro, it's free. It's actually so cheap it doesn't cost your budget any money. The cons is that students might, over time, if they know that that's all they're going to win, might lose their drive to. 00;07;39;08 - 00;08;04;16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, for those of you who are like incredible like payers of attention, you'll know that this episode said 25 prize ideas. And so what I want to do is I want to let you know that this idea came to me from my friend Josh Boardman, who got a cube storage sort of thing. And so I, I'm thinking maybe next fall to grab this one that you'll see linked here on screen. 00;08;04;16 - 00;08;23;22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Also, the link is available in my guide to this episode where you can get all these different freebies. And, he said that what they did was they filled this, 18 cube. Maybe he had less, but we're going to try 18 cubes. And so over the course of like a semester or whatever, there's a different number of prize. 00;08;23;22 - 00;08;42;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So the winner gets one of the items from this cube box. And he said they just got like shoes or whatever. They numbered it. They labeled it. So the kid wins. And then either they get to pick numbers, say one through 18, or they, get to spin the wheel and then whatever the wheel ends on, they win. 00;08;42;09 - 00;09;01;10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry You can either let it deplete over time so that by the end you only have one box left, or you can, replace it every single week. And so he said there were times where he'd forget and he'd throw something random that he found in the church to give away. And so it's a great way to add some mystique and some mystery, but also not blow your budget. 00;09;01;10 - 00;09;25;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Now, what I want to do is I want to react to this here in live time, because I'm going to say here in ChatGPT you can see the prompt if you're watching here on screen, help me come up with 18 hidden shoebox game price ideas that cost less than $5. Either it's laying around the church already or it's a cheap prize to put in a shoe box that goes in these 18 cube storage box shelves. 00;09;25;25 - 00;09;43;03 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Like, for example, here's a pro tip and this might be your 26th idea, Bollman said. Sometimes he would put a can of beans in there. So let's see what ChatGPT says. And then I'm going to literally these are spitting out right here in live time. I didn't rehearse this. I never put this in ChatGPT before. You're just gonna have to trust me. 00;09;43;09 - 00;10;05;25 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But here we go. They said in the actually worth it. Anker wins. Give a $5 Chick-Fil-A gift card. Of course. Who doesn't love Chick-Fil-A Christian chicken? You can give full size candy bar bundles. So I said make it less than $5 so that this cost you less than $5. So these are your $5 actually worth it. $5 Chick-Fil-A gift card, full sized candy bar, a cold soda plus candy combo. 00;10;05;25 - 00;10;23;20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry That's a great idea. Takis hot Cheeto bags. Our kids go crazy for this stuff. Energy drink, if that's appropriate for your group, ChatGPT says it's appropriate for ours. We sell Celsius in our cafe or a mini snack pack box. Now keep in mind of the seven options I already said they could win a platypus book. They could win a game card. 00;10;23;20 - 00;10;44;17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry They could win a piece of paper that says best seats in the House, so you can recycle some of the seven ideas that we have in the shoe box. Ideas. Also, here's some like funny, right? Here's some trolls. According to I, one single mint, one ramen packet. A banana bonus is slightly brown. Now imagine we created these for 18 weeks of game winners. 00;10;44;19 - 00;11;03;12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry We put a banana in at the beginning and it was the last one taken 18 weeks later. Months into the semester that would be discussing and hilarious old same time, a single slice of bread in a bag, a rock labeled pet Rock or a church fire, or old Bulletin that's laying around as a prize. Once again, this is where it comes in clutch. 00;11;03;12 - 00;11;21;07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Sometimes they can be troll gifs, sometimes they can be actually good ones like Chick-Fil-A gift cards. We got mystery drink. So random soda flavor, weird dollar store toy off brand candy that no one recognizes, or a coupon that says trade this for a better prize. That's pretty funny. And then last 17 to 18. Skip the next game. 00;11;21;07 - 00;11;48;16 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So they automatically win the next round or 18. They get to control the room for the next 60s they get to sing a song or make a rule that's actually pretty funny. So these are 18 AI ideas. And what you could do is you can put them in, right, print them off, or go buy them or go obtain them somehow one time at the beginning of like a semester or like a certain session of time, and then put them in this 18 boxing or go nine box or whatever you want to do. 00;11;48;18 - 00;12;12;15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So once again, like I said, this entire list is going to be included down in the link on Patreon. There'll be a link to the 18 bookshelf. There'll be a link to the nine, bookshelf or recycle one that you have at home or laying around the office that you don't need anymore. Wrap these up, put numbers on them, and either choose for the student to pick them and replace it every week, or let them spin a wheel and let the wheel decide which item they get. 00;12;12;15 - 00;12;37;07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But these are 25 amazing, foolproof, youth ministry game winner ideas that don't break the bank and are actually good and actually fun. I hope you guys found this episode helpful. If you did, what would be amazing is actually if you go check out the guide over on my Patreon, that really helps more than you can imagine. Or if you don't want to leave YouTube, click the like and click the subscribe button so that you don't miss the next video. 00;12;37;07 - 00;12;46;21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry In the next episode, which is episode 200, it's going to be amazing. But until next time my friends. And as always, don't forget. Stay hybrid.

Episode 198: I Planned Your Entire Youth Group Summer… You Don’t Have to Think

Steal this brilliant idea - kick your feet back this summer in your youth ministry. I’m giving you this calendar, plus ALL these graphics away in this episode. FREE! 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You deserve it. 00:00:08:02 - 00:00:21:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I'm giving away this calendar, along with all of these graphics that you see right here on screen. For those of you watching on YouTube, welcome to the Summer calendar edition of the Hybrid Ministry Show. 00:00:21:11 - 00:00:25:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Well, hey everybody, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. If you and I haven't had chance to meet yet. 00:00:25:10 - 00:00:45:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry My name is Nick Klassen. I'm a youth pastor in DFW, Dallas-Fort worth area. And, you know, 15 or so years ago when I started in youth ministry, I wouldn't have dreamed about doing youth ministry in the summer. However, summer midweek has actually become a staple, and I remember the first year where I became a believer in doing youth ministry. 00:00:45:10 - 00:01:02:07 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Over the summer I was up. It was like a Sunday night for our youth ministry, and I was teaching, and I looked out in the crowd and I saw a girl who I hadn't seen all year long, but she was able to show up in the summer because her, competitive dance, you know, practice took a break for the summer. 00:01:02:10 - 00:01:22:19 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so ever since that point, I've been a huge believer in summer youth ministry. Not to mention, like, we go to camp right at the beginning of our summer, May 20th 9th to June 2nd. And then to not have anything throughout the entire course of the summer just feels like such a wasted opportunity to capitalize and continue on some of that summer momentum. 00:01:22:19 - 00:01:46:15 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So whether you have summer youth ministry or not, these are going to be some different theme ideas. And if you do have summer youth ministry in particular Wednesday nights, I've done the heavy lifting because over the last several years, in our particular context of our church, similar to other places, have been the rest of the the church shuts down so kids ministry shuts down, adult groups shut down. 00:01:46:15 - 00:02:04:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All happen on Wednesday night in a normal, cycle. On Wednesday night, like throughout the school year. But we we come back for 5 or 6 weeks from about mid-June once, like our, camp recap night is over until the end of July. Take a couple weeks off, the first few Wednesdays in August, and then we're back, 00:02:04:11 - 00:02:06:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry that third Wednesday in August. 00:02:06:10 - 00:02:22:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And it's like our back to school bash or whatever. So if you want to meet and do something over the summer, I have mapped out six amazing events. And what happened was a couple of years ago, we were kind of coming back and realizing that we needed to drum up some momentum because the rest of the church wasn't going to be meeting. 00:02:22:23 - 00:02:39:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And so we looked at the National day calendar, which, if you've never done that before, there's just wild amounts of national days. There's like 8 or 10 different options on some days of, of the month. And so since the dates change every single year, for the most part, we, can kind of do a different 00:02:39:05 - 00:02:41:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry like theme throughout the summer. 00:02:41:04 - 00:02:58:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So we don't do themes throughout the regular year. But but during the summer will lean into different national days. And, and I've done the heavy lifting. I have found them for you. And so I'm giving away this calendar right here and and, you know, like on this calendar, right up here at the top is where we put like our summer camp. 00:02:58:07 - 00:03:17:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then right here is where we do like our, our fifth grade VBS spot. You can like right in on top of this and any sort of design thing, Canva or Photoshop or PowerPoint or keynote. And then I send a transparent version after sticker mule to get a magnet printed. So. So go grab this. It's free over on my Patreon. 00:03:18:01 - 00:03:33:18 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But in this section right here, these are the summer Wednesday nights. And if you don't meet on Wednesday nights or you're not going to be leaning into these, this is where you can put something different, that, you know, down here is where I have like our our back to school time and then our Sunday morning, right down here at the very bottom. 00:03:33:18 - 00:03:54:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry But, this is where I would put and where I did put our Summer Wednesday themes. Now, if you do have ones and you want to just like, adopt what I have to to give literally, I'm giving this to you. Steal these for the summer and they are yours. And if you have Wednesday nights, we start on the 24th of June, and then we skip the first for the 4th of July. 00:03:54:08 - 00:04:10:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then we go through the rest of, of July, the eighth through the 29th. If you do want to meet on the first, I've added an option in there as well. And so, what's going to happen is I'm going to give you this episode now because some of you are planners and you need to get, you know, things printed and you need to get the ball rolling on some of this. 00:04:10:28 - 00:04:29:10 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Most so giving away every single graphic. And I'm going to rattle through what these different nights are. But on July or I'm sorry, on June 19th, I would encourage you to subscribe and turn the bell on on this YouTube channel because, you know, we drop an episode every single Thursday, whether it's, in your podcast catcher or on YouTube. 00:04:29:12 - 00:04:51:04 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So turn on notifications. I'm going to send you a reminder about the upcoming Wednesday night so that you can start getting working on, you can start planning, and then on the following Monday, over on my Patreon, my bonus show, I'm going to detail recap and outline how the entire night went. And I'm going to give you the service flow for the next upcoming night. 00:04:51:04 - 00:05:13:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So for example, you'll get the upcoming service flow over on Patreon, the Monday before the Wednesday night starts. So for the first one, world UFO day, I'm going to give you our entire service order. And what I always do on Patreon this summer, I'm going to, kind of like, lean harder into Patreon. So the Thursday shows are going to be quick hitters and just reminders about what's coming up. 00:05:13:23 - 00:05:17:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then on Monday, we're really going to take a deep dive where we're going to answer what we did, 00:05:17:18 - 00:05:24:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry what worked, what flopped, what I would change, and then give you the next week's assets. And here's my promise. I'm going to give 00:05:24:03 - 00:05:28:23 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry you the entire service flow, everything I have planned for the upcoming Wednesday. 00:05:28:23 - 00:05:35:28 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So I'm going to give it to you with enough time for you to actually implement the ideas that we've already come up with in our youth ministry. 00:05:36:00 - 00:05:45:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry All you got to do set the notifications, set the reminders, make sure you're subscribed, and you'll get these every single week. So I'll give you the service flow. I'll give you any 00:05:45:12 - 00:05:52:29 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry of our plus up programmatic elements. For example, on one of the days being, National White 00:05:53:03 - 00:05:56:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Elephant Day, actually, it's not National Elephant Day. It's actually National Give Something Away Day. 00:05:56:26 - 00:06:11:24 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And we kind of branded it around White Elephant. We're going to do like a white elephant gift exchange thing in the middle of July. But I'm going to tell you exactly what we did, how we did it, and what other elements kind of went along with it, along with the service flow and also any other kind of plus up ideas. 00:06:11:24 - 00:06:22:22 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And then some are just going to be simple, like, yo order chicken wings on National chicken wing and National Lasagna Day. I'm also going to give you, any games, videos and elements. And here's my promise. Okay? I'm not 00:06:22:22 - 00:06:28:00 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry going to create a custom or brand new, game every single week. I might for some, I might not. 00:06:28:00 - 00:06:49:17 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry For others, it's pretty far out. I don't know exactly what I do. I'm not promising to make something custom and new for every single episode, but my promise is, if I created, a resource in any way, shape or form, I will link it in the podcast description for free for those in the Hybrid Hero Patreon tier. If it's newly created by me, I will give it to you. 00:06:49:17 - 00:07:03:26 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry And whether it's released on dime or not, that's going to obviously be up to them as the gatekeepers. But I will give you early access. I'll just put drop box links and then if I am using something over on D, I am I will give you the link so that you can go grab it from them. I can't give that away. 00:07:03:26 - 00:07:07:02 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry It's theirs. Go give them the royalties. But I will link every single thing we 00:07:07:05 - 00:07:24:05 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry do. I'm planning my youth services and I'm putting them out one week ahead of time on Monday, so I'll lay out the entire service flow. On Monday you'll have, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to implement that and then, operate on the same National Day schedule that I'm going to be operating on. 00:07:24:05 - 00:07:42:21 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry So, like I said, the National Day calendar, if you so choose to participate, the 24th of June is World UFO day. I've got a graphic for it. You can use it. You can, use everything that we're going to do in our ministry. Then on the first is Canada Day. So hey, why not celebrate our neighbors up north, do some Canada themed stuff? 00:07:42:26 - 00:08:08:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Maple sirup. And, you know, was poutine and then do, like, a Canada themed game. It'd be super fun. National ice cream. Sunday is the eighth. The white Elephant day is, national give something away day. Pie approximation day is 22 divided by seven, which is, 3.14. That is, July 22nd. And then finally on the 29th is both National Chicken Wing and National Lasagna Day Stew. 00:08:08:20 - 00:08:32:14 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry These ideas have been incredibly successful for us. I'm literally handing them over to you. The best way for you to access that is my $4 per month Patreon tier, where I drop my bonus podcast. It also gives you access to all of our social media packs. It also gives you access to my carousel engine. $4 per month for all of that is $8 for the summer months of June and July. 00:08:32:14 - 00:08:53:12 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Worth having everything in your programing from games to service orders and all of the creative elements. Is it worth it? You have to decide. I think it is less than $10 over the course of two months. I think it's a radically insane idea. Who says radical? I don't think I've ever said radical on this podcast before, but hey, it's episode 199. 00:08:53:14 - 00:09:18:20 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry I do wanna let you know I'm dropping this a little bit out of cycle and order. And so, next week and next episode is going to be the 200th episode, and then make sure that you set your notifications for the 19th of June, where we'll start rolling these out, and we'll start continuing to push all of these events and reminding you what's coming up on Wednesday and how you can grab the graphics and how you can lean in, and how you can celebrate these different national days on the Wednesdays. 00:09:18:20 - 00:09:30:09 Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry Of those of you doing youth ministry this summer, but until next time, my friends. And as always, I hope you found this episode helpful. If you did give it a like, give us a subscribe, share it with a friend, but don't forget to stay hybrid.