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Author: Tom Pounder

Student Ministry 

the Monday Morning Debrief: Being Aligned

June 9, 2014 Tom Pounder 1 Comment alignment, discord, mission, Strategy, unity

I’m reading Simple Church by Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger right now. It’s a fascinating book and if you

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the Social Sidekick: A new way to be Praying for Others

June 5, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments conference, imessage, messages, mms, orange, prayer, rethink, sms, text, texting

At Orange ’14 Matt McKee lead a Social Media presentation and he started off his presentation with us doing something

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the Monday Morning Debrief: Parents Will Respond

June 2, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments dangers, facebook, gaming, information, Instagram, lecture, meetings, online media, Parents, social media, video games

For years and years I have tried to do Information Nights with parents to share with them the vision and

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the Social Sidekick: A Social Media Info Night

May 29, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 2 Comments dangers, Parents, social media, Teens

Working with Teens we know that social and online media is here to stay.  We used to communicate with fliers,

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Student Ministry 

the Rolling Thunder of Student Ministry

May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 Tom Pounder 2 Comments impact, jesus christ, life change, memorial day, rolling thunder, sacrifice, serving, washington dc

Ever since I can remember, living in Washington, DC on Memorial Day is special. I know, Memorial Day is special

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the Monday Morning Debrief: Remembering

May 26, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments death, freedom, God, history, memorial day, rememberance, soldiers, war

  On this Memorial Day, remember those brave men and women who gave up their lives so that we could

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the Social Sidekick: Making your viral video

May 22, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments editing, facebook, social media, videos, viral, viral videos, youtube

A while back, in a way of promoting our upcoming nZone Rave, we decided to make a video that we

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the Monday Morning Debrief: And then, this happened…

May 19, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 1 Comment boundaries, fun, humor, love

A five star…right in the back…with no shirt on. Oh man did that hurt. Just moments earlier, Cory (a volunteer

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Use Online Tools and Social Media to Make Old Games New

May 15, 2014March 21, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments online ministry, student ministry

We live in a tech world. Technology is all around us…we all know this. So what better way to use

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the Monday Morning Debrief: Front Lawn Mower

May 12, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments appearance, lawn mower, lawn mowing, secrets, transparency

Yesterday, I got home with the girls from a great weekend of softball and dance.  We were gone all weekend.

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