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Jun 2 2008

NEW: Youth Ministry Ideas Design

NEW: YouthSpecialties.com

NEW: Adam Mclane is working for Youth Specialties!

NEW: Youth Ministry Ideas getting totally redesigned!

I’ve been living off of free for a long time and not that there is anything right or wrong about it, however I have decided to step out in faith to ask if you would consider a donation to help me redesign my site.

I know, it’s the “D” word. This word is just like the “F” word (fundraising of course - what were thinking?).

Now I have to create a case as to why you should give. That’s a great question because now I have to evaluate if Youth Ministry Ideas is worth it - I think that it is.

The following are some reasons why you should consider a donation from your youth budget:

  1. FREE ideas - You can’t get any better than free right? I don’t mean the kind of free that is free for awhile and then later I charge you for access to my site.
  2. Youth Ministry Ideas From the World - You can now register and submit what your game ideas are, lesson ideas, worship ideas, leadership ideas, and more all for free. I have one writer that is from the UK which many have clicked on his great material. My site isn’t limited to the states.
  3. Freshness - Every week there is something new for you here to think about or use for your youth ministry. It’s nice to keep getting new ideas to keep you fresh.
  4. Give-A-Ways - Anything from cash to gift cards will be given away to lucky email subscribers.
  5. Video Demonstrations - My next project is to add video demonstrations and encouragement. These demonstrations will help you “see” how a game works or doesn’t - but hopefully works, leadership tips, encouragement. This will be a great future benefit.
  6. Lessons - My site currently doesn’t have many lessons on here, but I will be adding powerpoint lessons along with my notes for you to tweak any way you like.
  7. More - As more ideas become available I will share them with you.

Give whatever you believe you should give, but I want to make a suggestion that you consider spending a one time $10 out of your youth ministry budget. Currently I have between 250 - 270 subscribers and if each subscriber donated $10 I would have the necessary funds to complete this project. Plus, I have many more visitors that aren’t subscribers too.

Currently right now I’m in the 1st page of google for keywords, “youth ministry” and #1 for “youth ministry ideas” and I want to keep providing resources and fresh ideas to those in youth ministry and the new design will be sweet.

I highly suggest using your youth ministry budget because that what your budget is used for. I’m certain you have a curriculum or youth supplies category that you could tap into - there always is the miscellaneous category right;)

Any left over donations will be going back into the site as a prize or added feature. Thanks so much again for your participation. I’m looking forward to seeing the changes.

To help out, click on the DONATE button in the upper right-hand corner of the site. Funds are being accepted through paypal, but you don’t need a paypal account in order to give.

It will still be in blog format and it will be worth it for you!

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  1. adam mclane said:

    I just want to make sure that no one thinks that I did the redesign. A few people have asked me that… while I’ve known for a few weeks that I was going to be working there, I just started yesterday… which was by coincidence when the new site really made a public launch. In fact, Cathy led the whole project and I think she did an awesome job. :) I don’t think you made that leap, but I would never want people to read that and think that the two lines there are related.

    Anyway, I’m totally excited about starting at YS. Thanks for noticing!

    June 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 am

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