Hey the guys over at YM360 are doing some cool stuff this week. They’ve have a whole competition going and they are giving away some great resources.  They asked me if they could give away some copies of my book  Youth Ministry on a Shoestring so Thursday that’s what they are doing. They are also giving away copies of  Tim Schmoyers book too. Great Guys with huge hearts and they are a startup out the gate providing really great resources.

It’s not often that something new starts and is so impressive right away. These guys are legit and are producing really great things.  If you know me then you know I’m pretty honest and not just saying that because they are linking to my book. I really am impressed with them.

Click here to get to their blog 

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