Paul Turner, a veteran youth worker, gives us a walk through and philosophy behind their newly redone youth room. I am a big fan of his ‘jobs board’ idea. Welcome to another episode of Real Time Training. In this special two part episode we do a walk through our new youth facility. This is not [...]
Retreat Memorabilia Displays
Ran across this display from a youth group retreat where they had glued the scrabble pieces into place and then framed it. Pretty cool idea to take some of the items and creations from a retreat and put them into an ongoing display. We have used this scrabble board idea for a prayer station in [...]
the Chalkboard Wall
It seems to becoming a youth room norm. It is the chalkboard paint wall. Pretty simply, use some of this chalkboard paint painting a wall or area of your youth room and voila you have an active signage spot for the teenagers. Paint a whole wall, or just a sign area. Put a frame around [...]
the Youth Group T-Shirt Quilt
If there are two things we can count on in life it is death, taxes and youth group t-shirts. We do not have any grand ideas on integrating death or taxes to your youth room. However, you can take those old t-shirts and make them into a neat quilt that holds some of the history [...]
add Visual Prayers / Creeds / Songs / Scriptures
A friend of my has a new start up launch last week that has a really neat concept. They are taking the audio renderings of famous sayings & statements and putting them into visual displays onto canvas. Check out Epic Frequency. You might not have a use for Neil Armstrong or JFK. But if you [...]
The Social Network Board
My friend Chris who brought out the Facebook bulletin board changed it up now to reflect the full scope of social networks his teens are involved in. Not the most artistic in design (note the new Microsoft logo set up with the post it notes), but a cool idea to pull photos and tweets from [...]