iLove the iPhone

I am so excited and sad today. I am so excitied the iPhone comes out. I want one so bad. The reason I am sad is because I can't afford to get one. I am a huge mac fan, and I know the iPhone will be huge. If you would like to doante money to the "iPhone for Snyder fund" please don't hesitate. Just cal me or e-mail me and let me know how much you would like to donate. Thanks.

SNYDER

the commercial that scared my wife and then I find this little gem

This is one reason I love Oklahoma and Jon Stewart. This is hilarious.



SNYDER

The old re-committment box

What is the deal with the re-committment box. I am not a fan of it, especially in youth ministry. If you give a kid a chance to check a re-committment box he will re-committ his life every week. As the church are we not explaining salvation correctly or what it means to re-committ our lives to Christ? Or if we have already committed our lives to Christ do we have to re-committ them. Please help me understand this. Maybe it is just the Bible belt where this occurs. I don't know. Let me know your thoughts on this subject.

SNYDER

Rain, rain and more rain

It has rained here for the last 3 weeks straight. There were 3 days that it did not rain a drop on our house, the other 18 days it did. We have a drainage creek about 25 ft from our fence. One night it was 5 feet from the fence. It has rained so much. And it doesn't look like it is letting up for another 4 or 5 days. Even though we really need it here I have not decided yet if I am tired of it. Ok, see ya.

SNYDER

Another fun Friday

I really don't have a lot to say today. We are doing housework and just hanging out. Friday is my day off. I really want to write a book. I have a good idea for it. I just need to get in the routine of writing for 30 minutes to an hour everyday. I have talked to a couple of people about my idea and they think it could work if present it right. I have always had this desire to write a book whether or not it ever sales. I will let you know how that process is going.

SNYDER

My meeting with Bobby

As promised, here is a little debrief. Bobby's title is Innovation Leader at Lifechurch.tv. Sweet title I know. Other than coming up with ideas and making sure they happen, he also does some other stuff at the church. He is the public relations guy, he approves budget, he helps out with new campus development, and many other things. He loves hi job. He said that anyone can come up with ideas, but there are not a lot of people who make those ideas happen. He tends to be one that makes them happen. We talked about where Lifechurch was headed and some cool things they were doing. My main purpose of going was to talk to him about youth and how he thinks it will look in the future. I wanted to get his opinion because he is not part of the youth team. He had a lot of great points, and recommended some sites to check out. Being the tech guy he is. He thinks that youth ministries should be doing way more online than they are. This is where our youth are. we need to engage students where they are in the internet environment. This means Myspace, Facebook and Youtube. But there is more than just posting on these sites to come to church on this night at this time. we need to find a way to reach the students that won't step foot into a church. We need to give students a way to grow spiritually online. Mom and dad need to be more involved. We have to use the web and more technology anyway we can.
He also broughtup the point that the church is about 2 steps behind the rest of the world. The church use to be at the forefront of technology and reaching as many people as possible. The church needs to come up with more ways of reaching more people. We need to come up with things that the world will want to use. Not vice/versa. If anyone reading this keeps up with what churches are doing. Pay attention to Lifechurch in the coming month. They have some really awesome stuff they are doing.
I hope this makes sense. Here are 2 sites he recommended.
1. ChangeThis
2. Google Reader this is for if you read a lot of blogs. I checked it out today and am still tryiong to figure it out, but it is pretty sweet.
And for you all that read a lot of blogs to learn. One thing he said was to read as many blogs as possible.

SNYDER

Click Comments

So I added this new feature to my blog, ClickComments. If you don't have time to leave an actual comment you can click on one of the icons depending on what my post did for you. It could be interesting. Let me know what you think.

SNYDER

My dream job

Today I am meeting with Bobby Gruenewald from Lifechurch.tv about what he does. His title is innovation leader. Sounds awesome I know. That is why I am going to go meet with him. I want to find out what he does on a daily basis and how I can apply it to youth ministry. I am really looking forward to this meeting. I would love to have this title in youth ministry at a church. It has to do with everything from how to implement technology into youth ministry, to how to make small groups better, how to get video to our students easier. My main passion for this is because as a church we always seem to be 2 steps behind what the world is doing. We always seem to copy the worldly things. I want to do some things so far outside the box that the world will want to copy what we are doing for the youth culture. I will definately let you know how this meeting goes with a post later tonight summarizing it. It should be amazing.

SNYDER

Doing the shuffle

I just got tagged by Kurt to list the first 15 songs on my iPod when I hit shuffle. Here we go.
1. For Reasons Unknown: The Killers
2. Staring At the Sun: U2
3. Ultra Violet(Light My Way): U2
4. The Sharing Song: Jack Johnson
5. Yahweh: U2
6. Closer: Charlie Hall
7. Wasteland: Augustana
8. Til Kingdom Come: Coldplay
9. On A Night Like This: Dave Barnes
10. Accidentally In Love: Counting Crows
11. Inside Your Heaven: Carrie Underwood
12. Where the Streets have no Names: U2
13. My Own Two Hands: Ben Harper & Jack Johnson
14. I'm Waiting: The All-American Rejects
15. Thinking of Someone Else: Spymob

That was fun. Now I am going to tag my wife and Allison Murray

Just another great video

Enjoy, a great video that some of my friends voiced over. nice job jake and todd
SNYDER

Summer Camp

Summer camp was amaizing. I did not have a chance to post some updates while there, but I will recap it now. We took about 215 students 6th through 12th grade. We were there for 5 days and 4 nights. We did all of the programming and rec. We essentially did everything. Which like I said in an earlier post was new to me. We titled it "Snapshot". We had 3 messages during the week. The first night was on Who I was, the second night was on who I am now, at this moment, which is no longer now. It was an interesting talk. The last night was on who I am becoming. We played off the idea of a camera. How you are in the dark, unexposed, then you see the light, get exposed and then have to be devoloped. The whole idea was awesome and it would be an incredible 3 or 4 week series for your ministry. If you have any questions about it I would love to answer your questions.

SNYDER

Gearing up

Summer Camp is just around the corner for us. We leave in 2 days and are hustling to be ready. Our printer has been broken since Thursday so that is fun. WE will be gone for 5 days. It is suppose to be really hot, but it will be fun. We have over 200 students going which is like 90% of our students who come on a regular basis. We are progrmming and running he camp ourselves. They loved last years camp, so hopefully this one is 10 times better. I will fill you on more later.

SNYDER