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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…”

What I Learned About Loving People From Robert Pattinson

Matt Rothacher — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:35:32 +0000

What I learned about loving people from Robert Pattinson [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]

Spiritual thoughts from the Chick-Fil-A

Matt Rothacher — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:45:12 +0000

So unfortunately we don’t have a Chick-fil-A in our town, in fact you have to drive about 2hrs to get to one. Needless to say if I happen to be near one come mealtime we stop. Tonight we ate at the Chick-Fil-A in Conway Arkansas, and while we were eating my wife made a neat Continue reading →

Stage Lighting on a budget

Matt Rothacher — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:23:58 +0000

For most of us small church youth pastors stage lighting is a luxury we can’t afford, right up there with a fully functional sound system. Well let me tell you what we did in this particular situation. I walked down the lighting aisle at WAL-MART and picked up a couple of those clamp lights you Continue reading →

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 →

Plug-In

Matt Rothacher — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:55:42 +0000

This video blog is part of our New Believer DVD that we’re hoping to have finished by this summer. This particular video talks about the importance of being around other Christians at church and in life in general. If you can use it feel free. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this 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 →

Stay on top of things with Twitter

Matt Rothacher — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:40:53 +0000

This is my 20th post on www.mattrothacher.com and its been a blast so far to be able to relay things I’m thinking or doing and we’re just getting warmed up/ Things here are certainly not slowing down we have plans for a new look coming soon as well as the brand new video blog features Continue reading →

www.youcantgooglethis.com

Matt Rothacher — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:14:35 +0000

So I was driving home from town the other day and drove past a billboard that had this on it, underneath the picture was the web address www.youcantgooglethis.com Now I won’t spoil the fun, you can click the link above and see what it says. I will tell you that I like it! I think its Continue reading →