Ok this may sound like self promotion but it’s actually not. If you don’t know how the publishing industry works let me just tell you that I’ve already been paid to write this book and there is a high probability that I won’t ever see another dime. But with that said I’m promoting this because I think it’s a great resource.
Some of you who know where I work might laugh that I wrote a book like this. But, what you don’t know is that in the last 4 years we’ve cut 30% of our program budgets and have cut almost the same of our staffing budgets. If I showed you our budget dollars you would be surprised at the amounts that we have to work with. But the truth is very little has changed at our church because we’ve just gotten more creative how we use the resources.
I wrote this book out of my experience working at 4 different churches all of them with a ton of different resources. Somethings that I tried at one church worked amazing just because we had different resources to pull it off and those same things didn’t work at another church.
We who work in the Youth Ministry world need to stop thinking that the only resource we have is money. There are a ton of other things we need to consider.
So even if you don’t work in youth ministry here’s what I want you to do.
Buy this book for a youth worker.
The book actually releases today August 16th on Amazon. Would love to have you buy a copy and drop it by the youth ministry office at your church
Hey Lars. Ordering this one today. My youth stayed in your youth facilities one night this summer…so i know what you’re saying. Your church is blessed…but with the economy, that could change quickly. Just because we have a budget doesn’t mean we shouldn’t look for other ways to get a job done. My morning donut budget is gone…but now i have a network of parents who bring breakfast for 40-50 kids. I never thought something like that would actually work…but its been awesome. One mom brings a hot plate and cooks eggs to order. All of the students know her by name. Looking forward to getting some good ideas from you.
Jesse- Thanks for the comment. You are right everyone can benefit from this book even if you have a bigger budget. Great idea about morning food. We still do donuts and like you are donut budget is shot.