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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…”

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 →

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.

Its all about Jesus… I mean is there really anything else?

Matt Rothacher — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:08:43 +0000

That’s been my teaching philosophy for the past 7 years. I was in my office frantically trying to figure out what message I was going to share that would highlight my creativity and provoke an emotional response from a student one Wednesday afternoon, you know an hour or two before the service kicked off, and Continue reading →