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Justin Herman

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Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

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Who is on this episode:

Kurt Johnston

Justin Herman

Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

Go to Linktr.ee/heyjustinherman for all his links! 

Question or Show ideas? Email Justin!

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking the time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

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Who is on this episode:

Kurt Johnston

Justin Herman

Mark Oestreicher 

Charlie Kirk

Chris and Emily Norton

Student Leadership Tip #4 (Mark Oestreicher)

• Consider a leadership community rather than single serving leadership teams
  • All the teams in one
  • Adult and student leaders 

Justin and Kurt--topics to teach about leadership and servanthood (9:00)

• Every other week do an inner quality and outer quality of a leader (Kurt)
• Teaching ownership and learning from it (be able to fess up) (Justin)
• Servant leadership (Kurt)
• Following up on visitors (Kurt)
• Don’t be a click (Kurt)
• Plan an event (Kurt)
• Honesty and timeliness (Kurt)
• Generosity (Kurt)
• Leverage Influence (Kurt)
  • Compassion
  • On marginalized people
• Don’t do it alone (Justin)
• Accountability (Justin)
• Skill of assessment (gifts and wiring) (Justin)
• Give feedback (Justin)

Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA

• A strong message can create a strong movement
• Students are looking for a purpose to believe in
• People are not correct just because they have degrees and someone else is a student
• It just takes one person telling a student that they can do something good
• Always ask more questions than you get asked
• Don’t look at any interaction as a waste of time
• 1 thing to tell students—embrace failure. Everyone will fail at something

Links:

FREE GAMES

FREE WEBCAST

Mark Oestreicher Twitter

Charlie Kirk Twitter

Charlie Kirk Podcast

Turning Point USA

Youth Ministry Podcast Network

The Seven Longest Yards 

Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

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Question or Show ideas? Email Justin!

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking the time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

Junior High Webcast coming up with Kurt and Justin on July 2, 11 am CST on building a magnetic middle school ministry. How you can be attractive and missional that kids are drawn too with a missional aspect.

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Links from this episode:

Youth Ministry Dog

Ministry Dog Twitter

Justin on Matt Lewis's Podcast

Isaac Morehouse

Crash Your Career

Niche Down

Campference

Magnetic Junior High Ministry

Whose on this episode? 

Justin Herman LINKTREE

Kurt Johnston

Youth Ministry Dog

Matt Lewis

Isacc Morehouse

Anthony Vargas

EPISODE OUTLINE!

Junior High Webcast coming up with Justin and Kurt on July 2 11 am CST on magnetic middle school ministry. How you can be attractive and missional that kids are drawn too with a missional aspect.

How to make the game time the best it can be—Justin and Kurt (04:37)

• Design it around the person with the least amount of skill in the room.
• Don’t do it by gender.
• Don’t try and force the game into your theme.
• Don’t force the kids to participate if they don’t want to play.
• Fun isn’t always games—it can be a skit or a bit on stage.
• Payoff must be equal or greater than the setup.
• Be clear and fair. Jr. Higher’s are justice oriented.
• Once in a while figure out how to involve specials needs students
• Do fun games but don’t make it the focus.
• Don’t apologize for doing games. They build trust and learn teamwork.

Youth Ministry Dog (22:30)

Interview Tips (30:43 ) Matt Lewis

• If you do what you say and show up and honor the commitment, you will be fine
• Don’t have a scarcity mentality. Fifteen minutes can turn into hours of content when the publicist tells others you honored the agreement.

Isaac Morehouse (35:03) CEO of Crash and Founder of Praxis

• Find something besides a degree to add to your resume to show your skill, and you have done something.
  • Intern for free to learn the skills
• Do not be afraid to fail or experiment to find the solution
• Dominate your niche
• Two main things matter in the market place
  • Create Value
  • Prove you can create value
  • Don’t do things you hate
  • Don’t do things you are terrible at
• Your resume needs to be more than bullet points
• Narrow down the companies you are applying to and do something extraordinary
• Find a need and show it to them (make them a Facebook page and give it to them, send them a logo if it is low resolution, offer to work for free)
• Create a project that shows your skills in a tangible way

Anthony Vargas (1:02:03) 7 Jr. High Tips

1. Know the name of Jr. High Students, leaders, and parents.
2. Every Monday, pick five students and send them a letter.
3. Try to interact with Jr. high students five senses when teaching the Bible
4. Embrace their digital world
5. Go out and evangelize with your students. They need to see it lived out.
6. The feedback of students is vital.
7. The only thing they need from you is a heart that has been with Jesus.

Discussion Questions:

1. How are we strategically using our game time? What should we start doing, stop doing, and keep doing?
2. Have you/we reached out to someone outside the church for a meeting? If so did you/we honor them or leave a bad taste about you or our organization? How can you/we improve?
3. What is your unique intersection of skills and abilities?
4. Do we know all of our volunteer’s names? Do they know their kid’s names?
5. What have we learned from our students? When was the last time we asked them (if ever)?

Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

Go to controlledchaos.fun/Justin for all his links! 

Question or Show ideas? Email Justin!

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking the time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

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Recruiting Volunteers—Justin and Kurt

1. Why Summer is the best time to recruit leaders
   • You have a lot of fun events and gives people a taste of students at their craziest. Get a leader to see the beauty in that and they will go crazy over them in group.
   • You can’t take the summer off from recruiting cause fall is coming
2. Language to use
   • What did you do last year to say you moved the needle on spiritual life in me and around me?
     • No matter the answer ask them about investing in a Jr. High Student this year. Everyone had someone or wished they had someone and they can pay it forward or be the person they needed.

3. Don’t say someone’s no for them
   • Make the ask and let them say no. Don’t be afraid to ask
4. Have a 2-3 minute elevator pitch
5. Your best recruiters are people already serving and attending.
   • Who in their circle can they ask?
   • Get students to ask.
6. Invite them into something specific
7. Don’t have eyes bigger than your stomach
   • Are you ready if you grew by 10 leaders tomorrow? Is there is a plan and process in place so they are not in the queue for 6 months?

Katie Edwards (DYM Podcast and Saddleback Church)

• Connecting with females in your youth ministry
  • Focus on the times you are with them weekly. Have those spaces to have significant conversations.
  • Healthy touch is important
    • A high five is touch. It does not always have to be a hug.
  • Great eye contact and get rid of distractions. Give warmth in your voice and how you ask questions
• Keeping volunteers
  • Create a family community that will minister to the family (their students)
• Katie-isms to cast vision and leadership
  • People over protocol, people over programs. Love people well. The goal is love and care for people if they are in the church or not.
• Innovation and Newness to the ministry
  • Never Stop Learning. Learning leads to innovation
  • Evolve with what’s best for the kids—think of new ways to communicate
  • When brainstorming make sure you have different thinkers, ages, and other
  • different types of people
  • Don’t skip the debrief—successful idea/event or not
• Make sure you understand the audience. The more you know the lower your frustration will be and help you be more effective
• Practice and experience things together with a middle schooler. (serving, learning scripture, etc)
• Missions
  • Getting them into environments with they partner with the local church in other spaces
    • Expands their view of the kingdom
    • Helps them see outside of themselves
  • Middle schoolers are fearless and are willing to step into things and having a life changing experience like that can get them into next level ministry
  • Find an organization that your church trusts to take care of the “scary stuff” and then you can just be with the students

Mike Branton (Christ in Youth)

• Environments—Where you meet is just as important as what you are meeting about
  • How will they hear if we are not intentional about the space
  • First impression for families
    • You may only get one chance with a parent. Make your space so it looks like you knew they were coming.
  • You don’t have an excuse for not being intentional with what you have
  • Having a clean space is vital.
  • It is an act of worship to have a clean space (Think tabernacle in OT)
  • Things your environment should help communicate
    • Signage (from street to seat)
    • Safety
    • Specific age (how do we say this space is for you)
    • Broken window (kids will break more and trash it) if it is pristine they will be less likely to break and dirty it up.
  • Portable is key if the space is not yours
    • You can’t just leave your stuff if it is a multi-purpose room
  • Sometimes make the space smaller (30 kids in a 300 person room is daunting). Curtains or defined spaces within the environment. Have a goal to fill it.
  • Celebrate the things that you want repeated
    • Camp, baptisms, volunteers. Use the walls, floor, bathroom to tell a story
  • You are trying to creature culture and environment is a lot of that.
    • Your environment should drive the mission home not make people want to drive home
  • Talk to parents, students, and student leaders about what they think of the space

Whose on this episode? 

Justin Herman LINKTREE

Kurt Johnston

Katie Edwards Katie's Twitter

Mike Branton Mike's Twitter

Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

Go to controlledchaos.fun/Justin for all his links! 

Question or Show ideas? Email Justin!

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

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A Junior High Podcast for youth workers.

With some culture, leadership and other stuff along the way!

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• Email Sign-ups
• Places to find the podcast
• Our Youtube Page
• Controlled Chaos Blog
• Social Media Links
• Campference

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Whose on this episode? 

Justin Herman LINKTREE

Kurt Johnston Saddleback Church

Mark Oestreicher The Youth Cartel

Andrew Stanley

@AndrewWStanley on Instagram

-Andrews WEBSITE

-Book Andrew HERE

-Andrew on our friend Carey Nieuwhofs PODCAST

Colby Taylor Mariners Church

Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

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Question or Show ideas? Email Justin!

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

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 Intro done by: Titus Weece, CIY

Whose on this episode? 

Justin Herman- Sandals Church

Elle Campbell

Tic Long

Kevin Jennings 

Things Mentioned:

Our Controlled Chaos Podcast Partner CIY, Christ in Youth.

Our Sponsors. 

Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri (where Justin went to college)

ORANGE- The XP3 Orange Curriculum 

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Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

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Question or Show ideas? Email Justin at JustinHerman@controlledchaos.fun

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

Thanks to our partners at CIY!

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Kurt Johnston- Saddleback Church

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Things Mentioned:

Our Controlled Chaos Podcast Partner CIY, Christ in Youth.

Our Sponsors. 

Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri (where Justin went to college)

ORANGE- The XP3 Orange Curriculum 

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Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

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Question or Show ideas? Email Justin at JustinHerman@controlledchaos.fun

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

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 Intro done by: RJ McCauley, Magnolia Baptist Church Riverside CA

Whose on this episode? 

Justin Herman

Kurt Johnston

Our Controlled Chaos Podcast Partner CIY, Christ in Youth.

Our Sponsors. 

Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri (where Justin went to college)

ORANGE- The XP3 Orange Curriculum 

Be part of #ChaosNation

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Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

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Question or Show ideas? Email Justin at JustinHerman@controlledchaos.fun

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

Thanks to our partners at CIY! 

Check out Leader Guide!  Send the podcast to your team and then use the leader guide to have a discussion together. NOW with editable versions so you can add your own questions too!

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 Intro is done by: Hannah Juanta, Edwardstown Baptist Church, South Australia 

Whose on this episode? 

Justin Herman-

Dr. Henry Cloud, Website

Our Controlled Chaos Podcast Partner CIY, Christ in Youth.

Our Sponsors. 

Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri (where Justin went to college)

ORANGE- The XP3 Orange Curriculum 

Be part of #ChaosNation

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Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

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Question or Show ideas? Email Justin at JustinHerman@controlledchaos.fun

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

Thanks to our partners at CIY! 

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 Intro done by: Todd Jones

We have Andy Stanley here discussing his passion about middle school students and tremendous advice for volunteers and youth workers. Andy expands on a career longevity in youth ministry, mistakes hes seen in youth workers, and how vital having a relationally driven ministry is. He ends with more amazing advice and unpacking the phrase "Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.

"1:40 Huge Announcement
1:56 Join Book Launch team
3:00 Brand new resource tied to podcast
4:29 Look back at content from Andy at Catalyst
4:43 Leadership tip for leaders at North Point
4:56 “It is crisis that creates the connectivity and it’s crisis that creates the significance of your ministry.”
5:12 Book recommendations for young youth worker
6:16 How reading Next Generation Leader will impact youth workers
8:16 Why Andy is so affirming to middle school
11:00 ""It’s worth figuring out how to grow to the size to where you can have relevant and powerful middle school ministry.”
11:20 Biggest mistakes Andy has seen in youth workers
12:46 “This is not a one size fits all model but there is a place for everybody in student ministry if that’s their passion.”
13:05 Advice from Andy for a career of longevity in student ministry
13:53 “It’s a relational family dynamic not just looking for volunteers.”
14:58 “I hope that middle school leaders and high school pastors stay a long time at a church.”
15:44 What parents should expect from volunteers
16:42 What parents should expect from youth workers
16:44 “Recruit volunteers who are going to push students towards family not pull them away.”
17:50 “Our model facilitates partnering with parents and our model facilitates long term relationships.”
18:37 Advice for youth workers who have senior leaders kids in their ministry
20:46 Andy unpacks “do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.”
20:59 “I’m not going to be fair, I’m going to be engaged.”
23:24 How Andy defines mentorship and the importance of it
27:12 Giving away books! Check out Instagram!

Whose on this episode? 

Justin Herman- Sandals Church

Andy Stanley, Founding and Senior Pastor North Point Community Church

Things Mentioned

Book: Next Generation Leader by Andy Stanley

Controlled Chaos Book by Kurt Johnston

Clay Scroggins- Lead Pastor North Point Community Church

Our Controlled Chaos Podcast Partner CIY, Christ in Youth.

CIY- Christ in Youth  

Our Sponsors. 

Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri (where Justin went to college)

ORANGE- The XP3 Orange Curriculum 

Be part of #ChaosNation

Facebook Group | Twitter | Instagram

Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Email

Question or Show ideas? Email Justin at Justin@ControlledChaosPodcast.com

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

Thanks to our partners at CIY!

Find Controlled Chaos Podcast on:
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Intro done by: Justin Kowalski, Sandals Church Riverside CA 

We are here with Britt Kitchen! He is bringing his insight on having a small group driven ministry. He provides insight on how to choose your leaders, how to maintain a culture of prioritizing small groups, and how to make small groups an authentic place for junior highers. He brings his own experience to the table and is passionate about junior highers. Listen if you want to WIN and learn how to make small groups important.

0:35 Intro to Britt Kitchen
6:27 Worship tips on how to coach a musician
8:03 “Work to be a partner with your worship leaders.”
9:01 Britt’s elevator speech about his experience
11:27 Stepping into someone else’s shoes
13:47 Small groups being essential to strategy and motto
17:19 Britt explains stage personalities and values
20:14 Risks in being a small group ministry
22:48 Have to be careful when you choose small group leaders
23:52 Creates a space for training small group leaders
25:42 ""The right leader is better than having more leaders.”
26:03 What leader to say no to
27:04 Holy spirit plays into picking a leader
28:05 “Students are looking for genuine” -Britt Kitchen
28:12 “We are trying to make our small groups authentic genuine places.” -Britt Kitchen
29:47 Tips for small group driven culture
33:04 Wrapping up with Britt Kitchen
33:26 The Mail Bag
33:35 Justin talks about Sandal’s church
34:38 Justin’s Moms passing impacted his ministry
36:18 How to do a sex series at your church
38:20 Justin explains how he doesn’t regret leaving his last church
42:00 Leadership 101 with Kurt Johnston
42:56 Truth Work Media

Whose on this episode? 

Justin Herman Sandals Church

Britt Kitchen

Tyler Rees

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Justin Herman

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Our Controlled Chaos Podcast Partner CIY, Christ in Youth.

CIY- Christ in Youth  

Our Sponsors. 

Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri (where Justin went to college)

ORANGE- The XP3 Orange Curriculum 

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS!

Orange XP3 Middle School

Central Christian College of the Bible

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Intro done by:Marc Vinzon from Mariners Church (former staff member of Justins)

Whose on this episode? 

Justin Herman- Sandals Church

Kurt Johnston- Saddleback Church

Josh Griffin- Download Youth Ministry

Tyler Rees- Orange

Things mentioned in the episode:

Free Resouce- Postcards

Middle School Ministry Campference- Youth Cartel

Believe Tours- CIY

The Orange Tour- ORANGE

National Youth Workers Converention- Youth Specialties

Download Youth Ministry University

Mariners Church

Forest Home Camp

The Debrief - Sandals Church

CIY Move Camp (High School)

CIY Mix Camp (Junior High)

Be part of #ChaosNation

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Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

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Our Controlled Chaos Podcast Partner CIY, Christ in Youth.

CIY- Christ in Youth

CIY MIX- Summer Camp 

CIY Believe- Weekend Event

Thanks to our Sponsors. 

Central Christian College of the Bible, Moberly Missouri (where Justin went to college)

ORANGE- The XP3 Orange Curriculum 

Question or Show ideas? Email Justin at Justin@ControlledChaosPodcast.com

Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

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Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS!

Orange XP3 Middle School

Central Christian College of the Bible

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Topics for this episode:  

The Upside of NO, This history of the podcast! How hearing NO to an idea set me on the path to start controlled chaos!

Summer camp, time off policy, or lack of policy for post camp for staff.  Different from church to church, we talk about what its like in our churches.

Volunteers, specifically at camp.  They are the BEST... most of them either take vacation time to be at camp, then they go right back to work.  But we touch on the expectaions we put on volunteers overall.

Health, how do we create health for our leaders with everyting we ask them to do.

Be mindful of the sacrifice your leaders make for you!

Whose on this episode? Kurt Johnston & Justin Herman

Things mentioned in the episode:

Download Youth Ministry University

Episode 0008- The Power of 3, Kurt is back & Jon Acuff

Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast- Clay Scroggins

Mariners Church

Forest Home Camp

The Debrief - Sandals Church

CIY Move Camp (High School)

CIY Mix Camp (Junior High)

Free Resouce- Postcards

Middle School Ministry Campference- Youth Cartel

Believe Tours- CIY

The Orange Tour- ORANGE

National Youth Workers Converention- Youth Specialties

Be part of #ChaosNation

Facebook Group | Twitter | Instagram

Meet the HOST!

Justin Herman

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Topics for this episode:  

Leaving well (leaving a good taste in everyones mouth)

As you leave you will be remembered by your last month… regardless of how long you have been there, how great you were or how terrible you were.. your last month will say how you are remembered… .

7 things I would do when leaving somewhere

1. Tell your boss first.
2. Don’t go out burning bridges.
3. Don’t spend the next persons money.
4. Get all the passwords and log ins, subscriptions all together for the next person.
5. Write thank you notes, a lot of them, and meet with people.
6. Don’t take stuff. Leave things.
7. Encouragement and support is key for leaders and parents.

Starting somewhere new. (Cooking with Crisco)

You cant start at the new place where you left off at the old place.

7 things I would do when starting some where new.

1. Who do I need to meet with?

2. How we do currently communicate with leaders and parents?

3. What do we do when a new kid shows up?

4. What metrics do we track and how do we track it?

5. Who are the volunteers?

6. What is currently on the calendar? 

7. What supplies and subscriptions do we have?

Extra thoughts.

-Take a week or 2 off in between if you can.

-Think about what you post at your new place.

-Work until your last day! 

Whose on this episode? Justin Herman

Things mentioned in the episode:

Middle School Ministry Campference

Controlled Chaos Book by Kurt Johnston

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Controlled Chaos Podcast: A junior high ministry podcast for youth workers!

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Thank you for tuning in.  The work youth workers do is hard work, thank you! Thank you for taking time to get a little more equipped to do Junior High or Middle School Ministry in your Youth Ministry or Student Ministry at your church.  Keep it up!