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The Orange Conference ’17 Recap

May 1, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 1 Comment community, Leadership, neighbors, orange, quotes, recap

Whoa! I’m still in recovery mode from Orange ’17 as it was an amazing 3 days. This year it seemed

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“Reimagining Senior Sunday” Notes

April 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 3 Comments College, graduates, graduation, seniors

This Orange Conference Breakout session was all about seniors in high school and focused on how we could set them

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Parenting Teens in a [insert Social Media Platform] World Notes

April 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 1 Comment chap clark, development, family, social media, student ministry, Teens

Chap Clark is a Student Ministry veteran of many, many years and has written a ton of books about teens

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“Growing Young” Notes

April 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 2 Comments adults, church, family ministry, kara powell, priorities, student ministry, Students, young

This Orange Breakout session was called “Growing Young” by Kara Powell. Kara and her team at Fuller Youth Ministry Institute

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“Building a Year Long Event Strategy for Students” Notes

April 27, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments events, family ministry, small groups, Strategy, student ministry

This  You Lead pre-Orange Conference breakout sessions was lead by Ashley Bohinc. She is a Middle School Ministry veteran and their session

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“10 Ways to Focus Your Student Ministry around Volunteers this Year” Notes

April 27, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 1 Comment encouragement, family ministry, ministry, online ministry, student ministry, volunteers

One of the You Lead pre-Orange Conference breakout sessions was lead by Ben Crawshaw and Kevin Ragdale. Both Ben and

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How Privatized Social Media can benefit your Ministry

April 24, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments family ministry, online, snapchat, social media, student ministry

I have a love/hate relationship with change. I LOVE it but also take my time to SLOWLY adapt to it.

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Take vacations for THEM not YOU

April 17, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 2 Comments family, family ministry, student ministry, vacation

When I was in my younger adult years, I didn’t like going on vacation. Maybe it was because we didn’t

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Determining whether something needs a Reboot

April 10, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments evaluation, family ministry, ministry, reboot, student ministry

I don’t know if you’ve seen the television lately but there been a series of reboots of old TV shows

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Enjoy the Moments

April 3, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments family ministry, hardship, joy, life, moments, picture, social media, student ministry

One morning I was headed down to Arlington, Virginia for an early morning meeting. And with Arlington being so close

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