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Staying in the Loop: Social Media

December 5, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments facebook, Instagram, pheed, picsart, snapchat, social media, Teens, tumblr, tweens, twitter, vine

A month ago when Facebook posted it’s Quarterly Report, they blew away estimates by posting better than expected earnings.  However,

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the Monday Morning Debrief: Duplicating Stuff

December 2, 2013January 6, 2014 Tom Pounder 0 Comments backstreet boys, comedy, jimmy fallon, lip sync, snl, talk show host

Late Night Talk Show hosts have caused me to have some great creative ideas lately.  One of those hosts is

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Student Ministry 

the Monday Morning Debrief: Dealing with Underperformance

November 25, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments adjustments, big ten, changes, football, Michigan, Strategy, student leadership, vision. leadership, volunteers, wolverines

At the beginning of the College Football season, the Michigan Wolverines were expected to compete with Ohio State and the

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Student Ministry 

Lessons learned from JFK

November 22, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments assassination, bobby kennedy, dallas, jfk, john f kennedy, lessons learned, marilyn monroe, ministry, president

I have mentioned this before, but one of my favorite Presidents ever, one with whom I am most fascinated with, is

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Student Ministry 

We did a Rave

November 18, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments dance party, mission, outreach, party, rave

In years past, I have talked about ministries I have been involved with doing dance parties.  They have proven quiet successful

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Student Ministry 

the Monday Morning Debrief: Feeling my age

November 11, 2013November 11, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments Discipleship, mentor, old age, role model

I’m 38 years old with 4 children of my own.  Between the Disney and Nickelodeon shows, play dates and dinner

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The Secret Ingredient to Home Group Success

November 7, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments community, Discipleship, home, home groups, ministry, outreach

Home Groups have been apart of the New Life Student Ministry even before I took over as the Youth Guy.

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Student Ministry 

the Monday Morning Debrief: Rising up Women and Minorities

November 4, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments apple, every kid, Leadership, minorities, tech, women, young life, youth ministry

This past week, I stumbled upon an article/discussion from Yahoo! Finance about the lack of women and minorities being represented

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Win the Day

October 25, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments aa, fear, one day at a time, win, winning

I had a person text me the other day, “So I’ve been sitting in my schools parking lot for 10

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Refining Environments: Students Seminar Notes

October 17, 2013October 17, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments communication, culture, music, orange, Parents, social media, student ministry, Teens, worship, youth group

At the Orange Washington, DC Tour Stop last week, I went to the Refining Environments: Students seminar led by Jeff

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