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Tiger Woods and David Platt

Matt Rothacher — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:18:19 +0000

In the same way David Platt (and these other men) have a passion for God and His word. Their role as pastor has not diminished the hunger for the presence of God’s word in their lives.

Strategy in Staffing Volunteers

Matt Rothacher — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:38:28 +0000

Several years ago I was looking for wisdom on how to restructure our ministry to be prepared to handle ministering to hundreds of teenagers, I took my wife, pastor, and at that time our lone volunteer to Indian Springs Baptist Church in Bryant Arkansas the ministry that Mark Cox now heads up. I learned a Continue reading →

Announcements: Video Style

Matt Rothacher — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:47:28 +0000

“in my opinion the video announcements have been the most effective. Why? Because for some reason we’re trained to watch whats on the screen…”

Framed Shirt Art

Matt Rothacher — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:14:15 +0000

Something I’ve always found cool, thats a great way to decorate empty walls with class is “Framed Shirt Art.” It’s a very simple and inexpensive way to add sentimental decorations that are unique to your group. All you need is an event T-shirt and a picture frame: We use our church’s Disciple Now T-Shirts, but Continue reading →

Trash Bag Sanctuary for under 50 bucks

Matt Rothacher — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:32:27 +0000

When I first moved to my current church we had no space to meet in on Wednesday nights. AWANA needed our one place that was ours, in fact AWANA pretty much needed the entire facility. Now I will preface this article by telling you that I was the first full-time youth pastor in the church’s Continue reading →

5 Things Youth Pastors Should Learn From Shaun White

Matt Rothacher — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:49:21 +0000

5 THINGS YOUTH PASTORS SHOULD LEARN FROM SHAUN WHITE The first in a new series. Video casting. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]

Guest Post: 5 Ways To Ensure Your Teenager Doesn’t Care About God

Matt Rothacher — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:21:17 +0000

Mark Cox is the youth guy at Indian Springs Baptist church in Bryant Arkansas, and is one of the most passionate guys I’ve encountered in youth ministry. I asked his permission to steal this post from him, as he says what many of us have felt or experienced in student ministry: In youth ministry, one Continue reading →

Take a page from the pros…

Matt Rothacher — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:21:16 +0000

When it comes to games, I like to try and take them to the next level at least in the presentation of them, and in order to that I like to go to the experts.

You Do What?

Matt Rothacher — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:54:44 +0000

There’s A bunch of things we do that are unconventional, and possibly to the casual observer considered odd. But I’ve found that the odd is often the most innovative. This page is dedicated to the things that most people aren’t doing and might should be. Even if they have to tone it down some.

Stuff you should Steal

Matt Rothacher — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:51:16 +0000

There’s a load of resources out here on the web, these pages are most definitely worth a look, and possibly a right click save as. The Bible tells us that there’s nothing new under the sun, so feel free to take any of these ideas and make them your own.