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Author: Tom Pounder

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Sometimes you need to reinvent the wheel

March 29, 2013February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments home groups, life groups, nzone, sacred calves, small groups, sports, traditions, ultimate frisbee, youth group

Being in ministry for over 14 years I have heard this phrase numerous times, “You don’t have to reinvent the

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the Monday Morning Debrief: NCAA Tourney = Great Relationship Builder

March 25, 2013March 11, 2018 Tom Pounder 2 Comments bracket, butler, conversations, georgetown, ncaa, relationships, slam dunk, tournament, young life

I’ve posted about why I think the NCAA Tourney is great for ministry before. But this year, it is even

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Student Ministry 

Chowtime – 3/21

March 23, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments basketball, big church, community, gene hackman, hoosiers, marko, pastors, small groups, social media, stats, student ministry, unison, vision, youth ministry, youtube

Here are some things you can chew on for a bit… Stat to Chew on…63.6% of teens were introduced to

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Student Ministry 

the BLACKBOARD: Student Ministry Team(s) Organization

March 22, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments Discipleship, high school, Leadership, servant leaders, sports, student leaders, Students, teams, volunteers

As I’m looking at my Student Ministry Team and re-evaluating the effectiveness of it and how we can do better,

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Student Ministry 

the Monday Morning Debrief: the Pope and Leadership Selection

March 18, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments conclave, italy, leaders, Leadership, pope, rome, student ministry, vatican, volunteers, white smoke

In case you missed it, this past week the Catholic Church has announced that Jorge Mario Bergoglio will be the new

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Student Ministry 

Chowtime – 3/16

March 16, 2013 Tom Pounder 1 Comment bracket, conference, espy, isolation, Leadership, march madness, ncaa, orange, raising the bar, rethink, special needs, stage of life, stats, teams, Teens

Chew on these things for a bit… Stat to Chew on…56% of teens feel that the media’s advertisements are the

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Who is your “Rat Pack”?

March 15, 2013February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments 1960s, dean martin, frank sinatra, humphrey bogart, kennedy, rat pack, sammy davis jr.

If I could live in any decade, I would want to live in the 1960s.  From JFK to Joe DiMaggio

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Student Ministry 

the Monday Morning Debrief: Keeping students engaged

March 11, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments android, apple, computers, ecosystem, galaxy, graduation, ipad, iphone, ipod, ministry

If you haven’t ever met me before in person, it wouldn’t take you long to figure out, once we do

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Student Ministry 

YM DEVO: Perception is everything

March 8, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments Anais Nin, caleb, devotional, joshua, moses, numbers, perception, promised land, spies, youth ministry

“We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are.” ~Anais Nin What happened in the passage below

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Family Ministry Student Ministry 

the Monday Morning Debrief: Closing Shop

March 4, 2013 Tom Pounder 2 Comments best buy, closing, Discipleship, finance, outreach, program, sears, stores, yahoo!

A month ago, Yahoo! Finance posted an article speculating about 8 Companies that would have to close the most stores

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