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

Summer Camp

We are in full swing in getting ready for summer camp, and I realize that when it comes to planning a summer camp I have no idea what is going on. At Saddleback we went to a camp that did all the programming for us and ran everything. Where I am now at Journey we do it all. I am learning how to do this, but it has been a challenge. What are some Pro's and Con's of doing camps these 2 different ways?

SNYDER

Plugged in

We now have internet and television in our new home. It is so great. I really didn't mind not having internet, but I was missing TV. I had no idea what was going on in the world which may have been a good thing. I will be blogging more now that I can do i from home.

SNYDER

Youth Ministry in 2 totally different places

Being that I have lived and done ministry in both California and Oklahoma I have noticed some differences. I will be writing about those in the next few posts.
Oklahoma - Bible Belt
California - NOT in the Bible Belt

Being in the Bible belt and doing ministry is so much different than doing it in California. Students in the Bible Belt have the theological knowledge, and can talk the talk , but don't walk the walk.
In California they are more likely to be totally on fire for God and if they aren't they aren't afraid to tell you. It's a different world and it is a world that I am having to get use to.
The way you do ministry is differet. In the Bible Belt you have to minister to the students and people who have been around the Bible and kno, but don't necesarily live it. In Cali, they have to learn the Bible and then make up their minds whether or not they will follow Christ. I know this is kind of rambling and just a thought and my opinion from my experiences and may not be the same as some of what you have experienced but it is worth thinking about.

SNYDER

10 days...

....until I marry the most wonderful woman in the world. We are getting married May 4th in Aliso Viejo, California. For hose of you who don't know, I met her while I was an intern at Saddleback Church. We dated for a about a year and a half before we got engaged. She is originally form southern California. How I got her to move to Oklahoma is a great question. Anyways, I can't wait.

SNYDER

Seriously

'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' wins $25,000
NEW YORK (AP) -- OMG!

Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pennsylvania, was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" in 15 seconds.

"I'm going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes," the teen said after winning her $25,000 prize from the electronics company LG.

Morgan defeated nearly 200 other competitors at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan to become East Coast champion and then beat West Coast champion Eli Tirosh, 21, of Los Angeles, California.

She estimated that she sends more than 8,000 text messages a month to her friends and family.

Youth Ministry

So, I said I would post about my journey in youth ministry. I have been on the job as a junior high director for almost 3 months now. Let me tell you, it's a harder than I thought it would be, but it is so fun. Anyways, we are trying to figure out our small groups. We want our students to serve in the community once a month with their small group and then meet 3 other times a month for normal Bible study. I figure its time we start showing people what it is like to be a Christ Follower and not just tell people.

SNYDER

home renovation

So, I bought a house and it needed a little fixing up. A little turned in to a lot. Luckily it's not expensive just a lot of work. Scraping the ceilings and wall paper in just about every room. Good exercise, but not fun. The house is a mess, but it will look brand new when I am finished in the next week or so. It also has to be textured and I am still debating whether to have someone come do it or do it myself. What would you suggest? If you have textured before please let me know.

SNYDER

I'm Back

After a little blogging break I am back. I went to Mexico for a week. I came back for 3 days and then I went to California for 5 days. Let me just say that I never thought I would miss California when I first moved out there. I miss it a lot. Now that you know where I have been, over the next week I will share my journey of my first couple of months on the new job.

SNYDER