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3 Reasons to Not Open Youth Groups Right Now

With Alberta allowing 50 people in a gathering the question facing next gen leaders is whether or not they should open their youth groups with phase one restrictions? In this blog we look at 3 reasons why you should not open your youth group yet.

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3 Ways To Engage Parents as a Youth Leader

Parents can sometimes be seen as adversaries in youth ministry, but the fact is they need to be our teammates. This article explores 3 ways that you can help bring parents alongside you in your mission and vision for their children in your youth ministry during Covid-19 and beyond

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3 Ways to Conquer Loneliness in Your Community

Loneliness is a crippling reality of our social situation. People not only are cut off from the availability of in person meetings with friends and family, but at the same time are facing a feeling of loss of purpose. As people lose their jobs and go on government support there has never been a time where alleviating loneliness in our world is more important. So how can your church respond? Here are 3 ways your church can help to support your community in feeling connection.

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Creating an Online Youth Grad Event via Zoom

One of the sad facts of the world stopping on its access during COVID-19 is that your grade 12 students will not be able to celebrate graduation as they expected to. No dinner, no walking the stage. And while for some people that’s not that big of a loss, for others this is a highlight of life. So how can you as a youth ministry step in and make that happen?

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How to Create a Drive In Family Movie Night at your Church

Looking for ways to still connect with your community during this Covid-19 shutdown? Everybody wants to leave their homes but can’t. I know I have been looking for any excuse to get away from my computer and out of my living room. So how can the church utilize the space we have without people being allowed to come inside the building?

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5 Tips For Serving Your Community During the Crisis

As pastors, if we can mobilize our people and not allow them to be frozen by fear. We could come out the other side (and there is going to be another side) stronger and more effective than ever.

Here are 5 ways you can impact your community during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Youth Isn't Cancelled

We are faced with a challenge at the moment with the COVID-19 virus for sure. You cannot meet and probably should not meet in person. But the fact is we are facing a real opportunity to leverage tools that maybe we have hardly considered to this point. So while you cannot plan a event as normal, your church continues on. We have always been more than a gathering. Here are 3 practical tools you can use to keep the ministry thriving as well as ever during this pandemic and social distancing.

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