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Author: Tom Pounder

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the Overhead Projector Throwback Thursday

April 3, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments overhead projectors, projector, tbt, teachers, throwback thursday, transparency, worship

Remember this?  The Overhead Projector. Ah yes, that beautiful bulky machine that you would lug around with you so that

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the Monday Morning Debrief: How far will you go to promote?

March 31, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments banana splits, baseball, batting helmets, chicago, chicago white sox, darren rovell, espn, ice cream, promote, promotion, white sox

Did you read about how the Chicago White Sox latest food offering at baseball games this year?  According to, Darren

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the Sardines Throwback Thursday

March 27, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments games, sardines, tbt, throwback thursday, youth ministry games

I remember being a young middle school youth leader and having to answer to tons of middle school students each

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the Social Sidekick: Messaging Apps teens are using

March 26, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments android, apple, blackberry, communication, facetime, imessage, ios, iphone, ipod touch, kik, messaging, snapchat, social media, teenagers, text messages, texting, tweens, video, video chat, windows phone

It has been well documented that teens have been “flocking away” from Facebook for some time now.  I’ve even written about it on

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the Monday Morning Debrief: Be who YOU are

March 24, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments impact, individual, kardashian, kim kardashian, kylie jenner, legacy, mentor

Last week I saw this headline on Yahoo!, “Kim Kardashian Squeezes Into Kylie Jenner’s Bikini”.  What?!?  Well, it did it’s

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the Day-Timer Throwback Thursday

March 20, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments calendar, contacts, day-timer, ipad, iphone, notes, organization, organizing, planner, smartphone, tablet

Remember this?  The Day-Timer? When I came on Staff for my very first Student Ministry position (Jr. High Intern), one

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the YM Sidekick Bracket Challenge!

March 17, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments bracket, cbs, challenge, dick vitale, espn, ncaa, tournament

I’ve posted about it before, but the NCAA Tournament is a great opportunity to build relationships with students. With that

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the Monday Morning Debrief: the need to take a breather

March 17, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments day off, rest, sabbath

Ministers work a crazy life.  Rarely are there days in which there are 9-5 days and Monday – Friday work

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the Social Sidekick: Facebook Group Events vs. Fliers

March 13, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments events, facebook, fliers, groups, Instagram, marketing, social media, twitter

I rarely print fliers anymore.  In fact, if it wasn’t for people who still have a desire to have a

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the Monday Morning Debrief: Seeing things from a different view

March 10, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments clips, illustrations, movies, viewpoint

Back when I was growing up, Dead Poets Society was a very popular movie.  Not because it was filled with

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