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May 16, 2024 Episode 097: 📈 Exponential YouTube Growth Hacks: YouTube Shorts Crash Course
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DESCRIPTION
YouTube has more to offer than just posting videos!
It has some social media components in it!
We explore the best 3 non video elements
As well as all the things you need to know about YouTube Shorts.
How to Post
What to Post
How Often to Post
FULL PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLngXlSr64YaLHMhNNfqmmmAsKRJ1VCBJl
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📓SHOWNOTES
//SHOWNOTES & TRANSCRIPTS
http://www.hybridministry.xyz/097
//YOUTUBE VIDEO
https://youtu.be/I_6AF8qOPVg
//OPUS.PRO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf600kbri2Q
//WORLDS GREATEST DONUT EPISODE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ryhkIRyDb4&t=25s
//BRADY SHEARER
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//EMOJIPEDIA
https://emojipedia.org/
//YOUTUBE COACHING [FREE!]
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//YOUTUBE EDITING [FREE!]
https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/editing
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🛠️TOOLS
Some of the below links are affilate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products
VIDIQ
https://vidiq.com/hybrid
BEST DYM RESOURCES
https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym
OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS
https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361
//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Exponential YouTube Growth
01:32 3 Amazing YouTube Features
07:03 How to Use YouTube Shorts
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✍️TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:01 - 00:00:26:09
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I grew a YouTube channel for $0 of paid promotion in just a little over a year to almost 600 subscribers today, as the day of recording, it has 573 subscribers, and probably by the time that this video actually drops, it will probably be close to 600. Now, you might be wondering how or how did I go about doing that, especially for free, because it seems like everything today is all about paid promotion and paid ads.
00:00:26:09 - 00:00:52:13
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And in a lot of ways it is. But the way that we did it completely organically in our church and our student ministry was through the avenue of YouTube. Shorts. Shorts are an absolutely fantastic tool to growing your YouTube channel and your followers. And in this video today we are in a playlist. This is a continuing continuation of the playlist YouTube for Youth Ministry.
00:00:52:13 - 00:01:23:02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so along with shorts, it also YouTube has the offering of a thing called the community tab and some other fun features. So we're going to explore two of my favorite features in the community tab. And a third feature that I really like, the podcast feed. I'll talk to you all about that. And then we are going to dive in a full crash course on how to shoot, film and upload YouTube shorts, how to post, what to post, how often you should post, and finally, make sure you stick around all the way to the very end of the video.
00:01:23:04 - 00:01:48:22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Because my all time favorite feature, especially for youth ministries, I'm going to share with you all the way at the end. Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. Well, hey everyone, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. If you and I haven't had chance to meet yet, my name is Nick Clason and I am a youth pastor currently serving in the DFW Dallas Fort Worth area, and I started a YouTube channel for my church in January of 2023.
00:01:48:22 - 00:02:15:17
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And today when this thing posts, today at the day of filming, we have 573 subscribers. You might be wondering, like, how did that happen? And in a lot of ways, it was due to YouTube shorts and some of the other features embedded in YouTube. Now, one of the knocks on YouTube is that it doesn't act and operate like some of the other social networks, but the fact of the matter is, like Instagram is almost completely overwhelmed by millennials
00:02:15:17 - 00:02:37:23
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Those who have settled in as Instagram as their platform of choice. And so generation Z over on TikTok and now Generation Alpha coming up behind and 95% of your students on YouTube, there may be some features that things like Facebook and Instagram and TikTok have to offer that we didn't think YouTube does, but now they do. And so three of those features that I really like.
00:02:37:23 - 00:03:06:02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
The first one is the community tab. And one of the ways in which I utilize the community tab is through posting things similar, like you might see on Instagram called Carousel posts, which, by the way, if you grab my completely free e-book, which is linked right here on screen or down in the show notes, wherever you're listening to this, you'll notice that my weekly schedule is encapsulated by almost 100% vertical short form videos, and I really only make 1 or 2 graphic style posts.
00:03:06:05 - 00:03:24:29
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Let me say that in the new wave and in 2024 and beyond, I would like to increase my offerings of graphic post education based posts. Honestly, the Goat right now is Brady Shear over at Pro Tools. His Instagram is phenom and also you need to go check out what he's doing there. I'd love to start posting more things like that in our student ministry.
00:03:25:02 - 00:03:52:03
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And the good news is that YouTube offers that functionality and it's called the community tab. Right? Like TikTok might let you post just some photos on their thing, and they're starting to do that as well. But YouTube has added the community tab, and the community tab can get a little bit tricky. I have manually, started pointing our students towards it, because it's, it is a little bit of like the least known feature on YouTube, but you can offer things like carousel posts.
00:03:52:03 - 00:04:12:04
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
You can also offer things like polls. And we use that in some of our voting, which linked right here at the top of the screen is one of my all time favorite events, called the World's Greatest Donut. And it's a voting event. So students are voting for this donut versus that donut. And so if you want a full breakdown on how to use that and all the assets that go with it, check that video out, link down below.
00:04:12:04 - 00:04:30:29
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And that video is all the things that you're going to need in order to grab the world's greatest donut. It's also linked down below in the show notes as well, but you can post polls on YouTube, you can post polls on the community tab, and I just point students towards it. And as long as they have the app and are subscribed to us, they can, rifle on over to the community tab.
00:04:31:06 - 00:04:58:11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And if they start engaging with the community tab from our channel on a regular basis, then it'll begin to show in their YouTube home screen, on their feed, on their algorithm. And so the ones the accounts that I interact with on the community tab, I see more and more often. And so you might think like, oh, we can't use YouTube only because it doesn't have some of the features like votes and polls and posts and links like Facebook and Instagram do.
00:04:58:11 - 00:05:32:06
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And that's just false. Like YouTube does offer a lot of these same functionalities. And so I love those things to lean into, to create more of a community than just me blasting videos out on YouTube or, or viewing YouTube as my video holding container. It is now a much more robust social media platform. The third idea YouTube has recently introduced is podcasts, and it looks when you're posting it, it'll show up in the playlist dropdown option as this another like thing, another playlist option.
00:05:32:06 - 00:05:54:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so you select the podcast option. And then it dumps every single video that's checked in your, video containers, all of your videos, any ones that are checked as a podcast, it'll drop it into what looks like a playlist. And so it's called a podcast and it is a little bit new. And so there is there are still some kinks, I believe, being worked out by YouTube.
00:05:54:16 - 00:06:13:12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But a couple of different ideas is if you want to have like a podcast with some students, like that could be an option. You could post some videos to YouTube. And so people who follow you or subscribe to you or have interacted with your videos, they will see them, but they can no to go and navigate directly to the podcast feature on your YouTube channel and go ahead and check that out.
00:06:13:14 - 00:06:33:05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Also, an idea that we have, I'm toying around with doing this and I'm thinking about offering it is putting our leader a leader, podcast over there on YouTube as well. So it will be included on our full YouTube channel, but particularly in the podcast, feed, which, like I said, looks and acts and seems a lot like a playlist.
00:06:33:05 - 00:06:48:11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But we're going to start doing some stories and some wins and celebrate some of our leaders, as well as offer some training. We're looking to do like a weekly one under 20 minutes and just kind of like an on the go training for our leaders. And I think the YouTube podcast feed is a phenomenal place to do it.
00:06:48:12 - 00:07:12:21
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Now we are going to offer probably an audio only version as well using like RSS, and they can get it through their Apple iTunes, or Apple podcast feed catcher as well. But YouTube does allow us to have like a place to put those things as well. Not so YouTube shorts, right? When I started posting early on the days of our YouTube channel, my YouTube shorts got tons and tons of traction.
00:07:12:21 - 00:07:32:00
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And I think that the algorithm, because we were new, because we were trying it out, I think the algorithm was rewarding us a little bit. But if you open your you up your YouTube app and right here you just select this plus button, you'll notice it does give you a few options. So that's where you might, you know, put a post, might put a poll or some other like options to your community people.
00:07:32:02 - 00:07:46:27
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But this option right here, if you click shorts, will give you the option now to film or upload a short. And so of course if you want to film it, it's got this camera functionality. You just hit the camera button and get going, do a selfie style video or turn it around and film whatever's out in front of you.
00:07:46:29 - 00:08:04:15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But if you are following my playlist here and you have prerecorded your messages and you've used Open Stop Pro, which is linked down below in the show notes, and you want to, upload a video that you've already downloaded from your phone or from like a Google Drive or Dropbox link. This would be where you would select it.
00:08:04:18 - 00:08:32:02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And then from this point forward, it's now included. Now you'll notice that YouTube shorts only allows 60 second clips, and so YouTube shorts, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook Reels, similar pieces of content. Those other three, not YouTube allow longer than a minute. So any video uploaded on to YouTube that is vertically based, either on desktop or on mobile will be automatically converted into shorts, and then we'll be put in the shorts feed kind of container on YouTube.
00:08:32:06 - 00:08:54:11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so you can create longer than a minute ones that will also upload to Instagram or, you know, TikTok. But because of YouTube's length limit at 60s, every single video that I produce personally, I keep under 60 seconds. That way I can post across all 3 or 4 platforms all at the same time, all at the same video, all the same type of content.
00:08:54:14 - 00:09:13:10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so it's uploaded. If it goes beyond 60s, it's going to clip it or shave it. And so you're going to just want to make sure that you keep whatever you are posting at that 60 second limit. And then here off to the side, this is where you might add like text or, you know, add some other features. And then right up here at the top, this is where you might add some music as well.
00:09:13:10 - 00:09:34:23
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so it's similar. If you've ever used Instagram Reels or TikTok it's similar interface. They're all a little bit different. But once you've kind of done all the editing here, you'll go to the next screen. And this is where you post it. And YouTube only offers like 100 to 160 characters here on the title. and you could go back in after you upload it onto desktop.
00:09:34:23 - 00:09:52:19
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I have not found a way to do it on mobile yet. I guess unless you go into the YouTube studio app, which is a whole separate app to add things like tags and longer descriptions, but essentially you're just adding the title. Now what this looks like on the home screen is you get three to 4 to 5 words of visibility, depending on the number of characters.
00:09:52:22 - 00:10:20:15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And in my opinion, that actually tends to be what draws me to click a YouTube short. And so you might consider putting an emoji. Here you go to like emojipedia emoji. emojipedia.org or whatever to copy and paste in emoji. or just use one from your phone. Obviously if you're posting on mobile, and from there then you'll be able right to, to type maybe eye catching or hook inducing kind of title.
00:10:20:18 - 00:10:36:10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Now, the question you might be asking is like, what do I post? Right? Well, if you've been following this playlist again, I recommend using Opus.Pro to get your long form teaching videos, which you have done by sitting down direct camera in front of a cell phone. You've upload that to opus. It's giving you however many clips.
00:10:36:10 - 00:10:54:01
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I personally use three opus clips per week that are sermon based, and then the rest. I'm doing fun stuff, right? I might do some educational or spiritual based content that's not message related. I might do some spiritual practice videos, but I'm also going to do a lot of fun stuff. And I view my social media and again linked down below in my e-book.
00:10:54:01 - 00:11:08:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Grab that if you want my full strategy on what you should be posting on your social media. But I give you ideas and I give instructions on how to do it, what to post, ideas and things to use, how to include your students, how to include your volunteers, how to include your other staff, how to just include yourself.
00:11:08:10 - 00:11:36:12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But creating content that is based I and and optimized for social media because social media is much more than just an announcement platform, social media is a chance for us to produce entertaining and fun and relevant content that people actually get on social media to consume. And so post some sermon clips and post some fun clips so you have a good variety of both, and that you're giving a good picture of what you and your church is all about.
00:11:36:18 - 00:12:02:26
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But then, I recommend what I do right now is I post two times per day, five days per week. I take weekends off, and whatever rhythm works best for you. And I was in a heavy, heavy growth mode. I did three times a day. I've backed it down to two times a day. but also, if you can only post one time a day or one time every other day, so that you're like 3 to 4 times a week, whatever you do, just show up regularly.
00:12:02:26 - 00:12:29:06
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And if you are sitting down and taking the time to pre film your messages, you have that content to then help supplement what you post on social media. So if you do a long form video and you're just getting started and you want to do a sermon clip, do one sermon clip and then do two other types of clips, one fun, one with your students and then one other selfie style video where you're just giving, a continuation or devotional thought from the message of that week.
00:12:29:06 - 00:12:50:02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And boom, there's three posts, one every other day, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and you're good to go. Another thing that we as youth pastors have in our back pocket at any given time is recap videos like ten, 3 to 5 second clips that you put into like a cap cut template or something like that. And you can create a Wednesday night or Sunday night or whatever night your youth night is.
00:12:50:04 - 00:13:08:11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Recap very, very easily, without a lot of work, without a lot of editing. And those things perform really well on social media because not only are students looking for themselves, but parents also are looking to see if they're students having a good time at youth group. But once you're ready to post over here, back on the post screen for the YouTube shorts.
00:13:08:11 - 00:13:42:23
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
This is my favorite feature and it's unique to YouTube because we are posting our messages, our long form messages to YouTube. And so when you post short, you can link it to a featured video. And so when I post a sermon clip, I link it to my long form sermon video. So if someone stumbles across our video on the YouTube shorts feed and they're just scrolling through and they're stopped because of the hook or the text on screen or whatever the case might be, and it it in a it captures their imagination and it makes them start thinking and they start wondering, and they want to explore more.
00:13:42:25 - 00:14:04:27
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Boom. Right here at the bottom of the video is a full featured video, and it will take them over to that. And that's one fantastic way to grow on social media. And it especially works well for those of us in youth ministry who are pre filming our messages, and are then also growing and posting via the community tab and on YouTube shorts.
00:14:04:27 - 00:14:21:07
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Listen, I know it's been a lot of work. I know we've been like adjusting our time management. But in the next video I want to take you to is I want to show you our full church studio. We took one room in our church and we completely revamped it for a studio. I'm going to give you the tour.
00:14:21:12 - 00:14:36:27
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I'm going to go through all the gear. I'm going to talk through all the equipment. I'm also going to share with you some of the different concepts and how we utilize and use it. All of that is going to be here in the very next video, which is linked right here directly on screen. I hope to see you over in that video.
00:14:36:27 - 00:14:41:01
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And don't forget and as always, to stay hybrid.
15 min
May 09, 2024 Episode 096: 🔀 YouTube Playlists: Rethinking Teaching in the Church
💥 [LIMITED TIME OFFER] Custom Social Coaching for Youth Pastors💥
https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching
🔥 [FREE] Hybrid Ministry Strategy Guide🔥
https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book
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DESCRIPTION
YouTube Playists are a fantastic way to offer courses and learnings for your church.
And when we lean into them, you can start to get time back for your family during the evenings.
Anything that you might be tempted to turn into a meeting can become a playlist.
We'll show you everything you need from philosophy behind online teaching as well as how to get started posted playlists on YouTube.
FULL PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLngXlSr64YaLHMhNNfqmmmAsKRJ1VCBJl
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📓SHOWNOTES
//SHOWNOTES & TRANSCRIPTS
http://www.hybridministry.xyz/096
//YOUTUBE VIDEO
https://youtu.be/_ENegjJ7cvM
//YOUTUBE COACHING [FREE!]
https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching
//HYBRID STRATEGY GUIDE
https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book
//UNDER $100 GEAR GUIDE
https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit
//YOUTUBE VIDEO EDITING [FREE!]
https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/editing
//ANSWERING SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
http://www.hybridministry.xyz/095
👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry
Website: https://www.hybridministry.xyz
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🆓 FREEBIES 🆓
📅 "The Full Hybrid Ministry Strategy"
https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book
🖥️ "My 9 Favorite DYM Resources"
https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym
📨 Full Proof Recruiting Email
EMAIL: https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/recruiting-email
🍩 "FREE World's Greatest Donut Event Guide"
GUIDE: https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/worlds-greatest-donut
😨 "Have I already Ruined my TikTok Account?"
https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/ebook
======================================
🛠️TOOLS
Some of the below links are affilate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products
VIDIQ
https://vidiq.com/hybrid
BEST DYM RESOURCES
https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym
OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS & REELS
https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361
//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100
https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit
AUTO POD
https://autopod.lemonsqueezy.com?aff=MX7Vv
TRY REV.COM FOR TRANSCRIBING
https://rev.pxf.io/R5nDOa
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Teaching and the Local Church
02:12 In-Person vs. Online Teaching
08:05 YouTube Playlists for Churches
10:53 How to Get more Time at Home
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✍️TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:27:03
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
The Great Commission of Jesus tells us to make disciples, to then baptize people. And then thirdly, and finally to teach. Teaching is one of the primary functions that all of us accomplish as members of the local church, as churches and pastors and leaders. Teaching Disciples of Christ is one of the primary ways in which we raise them up to become more and more in the image of Christ.
00:00:27:05 - 00:00:52:01
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So teaching takes all kinds of different forms, but one of the main forms is through a sermon. And so if you've ever sat through a sermon, then go ahead and like this video because we're going to talk about rethinking teaching a little bit in this video. If you've ever delivered a sermon of your own, then give us a subscribe because we're going to help you craft that in a way that can live in exist on YouTube in a hybrid manner.
00:00:52:01 - 00:01:16:21
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And, well, regardless of whether you're in either of those camps, turn the bell on. Because in this playlist, we want to help you navigate teaching in YouTube and in a playlist like right here at the very top of this video. We are in a series in the video playlist called YouTube for Youth Ministry. Whether you're in youth ministry or in church ministry, this playlist is all aimed at helping you and your church become relevant.
00:01:16:23 - 00:01:43:16
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And postings on YouTube that can live beyond just a one time meeting. And so one question that I've been grappling with in this entire playlist is does teaching is it required and mandated to be in person? Obviously, all of us like when things are in person and it feels more comfortable. But in today's video, we'll unpack that question and we'll explore these three things.
00:01:43:16 - 00:02:08:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Number one, in person versus online based teaching. Number two, the best teaching component that I believe is already embedded in included in the YouTube algorithm and is a huge and strategic advantage for most churches. And finally, how do you reduce your nightly commitments of being out of the house and in church? Meeting, and how do you how you reduce that by half?
00:02:08:17 - 00:02:41:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show, Well, hey everyone and welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. And we are on the downhill slope of YouTube for youth ministry. We're on episode 96 here, which means we're only four away from the 100th episode. And I have a really special and very different interview style, hundredth episode coming up. It is going to be awesome, but we are in this playlist, here now talking about YouTube for youth ministry and one of the kind of key grapplings is does teaching have to be in-person versus online?
00:02:41:08 - 00:03:04:22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And little spoiler. The second point of this video is talking about the best component included in YouTube, and that is playlists. And that's what we're going to be looking into today, is creating playlists for YouTube and youth ministry, and how you can go about, like adding your teachings to YouTube. But the first question, I think, probably demands a little bit more of a philosophical response.
00:03:04:22 - 00:03:49:06
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Right? Does teaching is it required to be together in person? And so, let's just be honest. Let's talk about a couple of things. First of all, online and the internet is phenomenal, right? For a couple of different things. And in-person is phenomenal for a couple of different things. And they are uniquely different. And so one of the reasons why we we can't just only like live stream our videos to the internet and leave it at that without coming back behind it and optimizing it for the internet is because that's created for an in-person moment and, like a YouTube video or a podcast.
00:03:49:06 - 00:04:20:24
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Those are created for like online types of learnings or conversations. And so I think that online is actually a fantastic content delivery source. And I think in some cases, raise your hand. Give me a like comment below. If you've ever been in a PTA meeting or if you've ever sat through like a government presentation that is like PowerPoint heavy, or if you've ever been to like something from your kid's school that you're like, man, I could have done this better, right?
00:04:20:26 - 00:04:41:22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Because it's boring. And they're just they're like kind of droning on like the Charlie Brown teacher. But the internet is actually strategically, uniquely positioned to be really good for content delivery. We have things like podcasts, we have things like online courses, we have things like YouTube videos just like this. In fact, what I would love to do is offer.
00:04:41:23 - 00:05:05:26
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Right now I'm offering three slots and I have one of them already filled, but three slots of 100% free, online hybrid and or YouTube coaching. And so if you're looking to go from ground zero to actually doing something on the internet, I'm offering four sessions of coaching 100% completely free to you. All I ask is that you actually use my service and that you give me a killer review.
00:05:05:26 - 00:05:25:21
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
If you believe that my services demand that. But I want to help you get up and off the ground because there are a lot of opportunities on the internet now. But that being said, you and I are like, well, bro, listen, we did this. We lived during Covid. We know how much it stunk to be forced to be only online.
00:05:25:21 - 00:05:52:18
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And and we all missed in-person. And that is 100% true because in-person ministry and in-person moments are best for things like community and things like relationships. Just like you can teach a message while you're in-person, you can deliver content while you're in-person. Online offers a unique opportunity for that. And in the same way, you can experience community online things like discord channels.
00:05:52:18 - 00:06:12:23
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I'm a big Oklahoma City Thunder fan. I actually means a lot of community through things like Twitter. during Thunder games, or people who play online video games. So community is also possible online, but we all know it's best nearly eye to eye, shoulder to shoulder. That's what things like small groups and discipleship often happen best in in-person settings.
00:06:12:23 - 00:06:35:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
However, you know, there are also moments where, an in-person group, we meet together, but we have a group chat that stays pretty active throughout the week. And that's one of the ways that we stay connected to one another. That's the power of hybrid. And so in most cases, most churches I've ever been to or seen are using in utilizing in-person trainings in their teachings.
00:06:35:14 - 00:07:09:24
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
That element of the Great Commission as, must see-TV. “Hey parents, we have a screen time workshop and it is on Saturday at 11 a.m. hope to see you there.” As if that content can't be captured and recorded and disseminated otherwise. And afterwards. Because what's our goal? Do we want parents to be equipped and learn the information that we're presenting, or do we want their butts in the seats to cover our attendance numbers?
00:07:09:24 - 00:07:40:11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Right. And so while it's necessary, I'm not proposing giving away and and doing away with in-person teachings. Right, I do I do want you to understand that it doesn't always have to be an in-person experience. And YouTube gives us a really amazing opportunity to do that. And I'll actually help you get started in this for free. Link down below is my 100% completely free hybrid strategy guide going from zero to actually starting to do something.
00:07:40:11 - 00:08:04:20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And one of those elements is recording videos and posting them to YouTube. I have a gear list in that e-book for under $100 to get you going, with cell phones and tripods and microphones to get up and running and start recording some videos and posting them to YouTube. Next, we're going to look at what YouTube already has, which is this component called playlists.
00:08:04:23 - 00:08:26:20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So anything that you might be tempted to turn into a class or a meeting or a workshop or a meetup or an after church, like pizza with the pastor sort of thing, any one of those that isn't like relationally charged, I believe. And even if they are relationally charged, we can pivot and reposition the way that we're doing it so that it can be included in a YouTube playlist.
00:08:26:20 - 00:08:52:03
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
However, playlists are basically like free courses on YouTube's platform. So like, here's just a few examples and ideas of things that you could use in a playlist setting, but it's not limited to these things. You. The sky is truly the limit, and anything that you feel like you could use or might need down the road in the future, like you can take these and use them.
00:08:52:03 - 00:09:11:28
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So like we this is one we have done. We created a like baptism class. Like what is the theology behind it? Why do we do it? what are the biblical implications for it? And so we just filmed a little videos explaining those things. You can also do one on like the Lord's Supper or you know why we take it, the symbolism behind it.
00:09:12:00 - 00:09:37:06
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
You could do like an Old Testament survey, a New Testament style survey. You could do a playlist on like spiritual gifts and volunteering in the church. And so first like figuring out what your spiritual gifts are, and then second, like how to discover where the opportunities are. You could do one on lust, and purity and battling like addiction. And that way you could do ones for parents on like screens and technology.
00:09:37:08 - 00:10:07:27
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
you could also do one on like the problem of evil. Why do bad things happen? People are always asking that question. It's a really relevant topic. Leader trainings, parent workshops. Like, you know, in the video link down below, we talked about the importance of asking and answering specific questions for students. And so while a good strategy is answering specific questions for teenagers in the land of this playlist conversation, you're doing that with your sermon series as well.
00:10:08:04 - 00:10:26:12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But what's like a question? You know that, like you have to answer on a pretty frequent basis that you could capture and post to YouTube? And I get it. You're like, well, I've done the the work, the content. I've sat in front of a camera and delivered it. But now, like, I want to make sure it looks like good for YouTube.
00:10:26:12 - 00:10:49:27
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And hey, I also, in addition to free coaching, I'm also offering a limited time offer for some free video editing. And so if you want 4 or 5 professionally done videos that you can include into a playlist type format, I would love to help you do that same stipulation as the coaching. Just use it and just leave me a review and you can get more information for that down below.
00:10:49:27 - 00:11:13:11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
In the show notes. And all of this leaning into hybrid, leaning into digital. Right. Let's be honest, it's going to help you default into being able to spend more time at home because whenever we're like, “oh man, we need to host this parent meeting.” And we already got Wednesday nights, we already got Sunday night. So I need to figure out another night of the week that parents are available to host an informational meeting.
00:11:13:13 - 00:11:37:10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so that has to be like a Monday night or a Tuesday night or a Thursday night or whatever the case may be. Right? We we default into hosting those things in in-person meetings. And so start asking yourself this question is, “Can this content be covered in a digital format?” Can this content go on a YouTube playlist?” It's great for sermon series.
00:11:37:10 - 00:11:57:04
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
By the way, if you start, pre filming your messages like any message is a playlist. Any course can be a playlist. And now I get it. You're like, well, “I really want to be like in-person and like working this out with the students,” then yes, by all means, you should be doing those types of things in person.
00:11:57:11 - 00:12:17:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But if it's strictly an information style, transfer of things like that can very easily be recorded and sent out and you get to do the recording and the sending out in the editing and all the components that go along with it in your office hours, and you get to do that and then be home at night with your family.
00:12:17:17 - 00:12:46:05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so when should a meeting be in person? When do we we make the decision that this one, this one needs to be in person? Well, often we default to having it in person for things like accountability. I want to I want to be sure that they're watching this, that they're consuming this information. But if you've ever seen, like the learning, the learning triangle pyramid, like only 5% of people retain information from auditory lecture style based teachings.
00:12:46:05 - 00:13:14:25
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so often the thing we're saying when we say, I want to ensure that they get this content is we want to force them to be there because we don't actually trust them to consume the information on their own time. And in some cases, that might be valid, right? But rarely is the content delivery in the style actually more captivating than setting them up with some good content and some good editing in a YouTube or a podcast style environment.
00:13:15:00 - 00:13:38:06
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So here's a fact regardless, like as you as you're measuring these things out like why in-person, when in person should it be in person? YouTube has a ton to offer, one of which is what we just talked about here playlists. We're actually going to explore a couple other really cool features in the YouTube platform called, the shorts feature and the community tab.
00:13:38:12 - 00:13:57:19
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
That video is going to be linked right here on the screen. So if you're ready to jump into episode 97, hit that on screen. Catch us over there on the next one. Don't forget. And as always, we are making digital discipleship easy, possible, and accessible. So stay hybrid.
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May 02, 2024 Episode 095: 💻 Posting Your Teaching Message to YouTube
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Whether you think it or not, if you're a youth pastor, you're in the content creation business!
In this episode we'll walk you through how to create
•Epic Titles
•SEO Infused Tags
•Meaningful Descriptions
•Links that get clicks
•Helpful Chapters
•Eye-Popping Thumbnails
•YouTube Cards & End Screens
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//YOUTUBE VIDEO
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TAGS
//VIDIQ
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DESCRIPTIONS & LINKS
//ONLINE MESSAGE EXAMPLE
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//DIGITAL NOTES (YOUVERSION EVENTS)
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CHAPTERS
THUMBNAILS
//ADOBE TUTORIALS
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//CANVA
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Youth Pastors are Content Creators
01:48 Creating Captivating Titles on YouTube
04:57 Adding Relevant Tags
07:07 Creating Descriptions that Matter
11:00 Create Chapter and Timecodes
11:55 Eye-Popping Thumbnails
13:14 What are YouTube Cards?
15:44 End Screens on YouTube
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✍️TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:38:18
Nick Clason
Mr. Beast, Dave Ramsey, Sean Cannell and you? What do all four of these people have in common? Well, all four of them, including you, by the way, are a content creator. And if you're a youth pastor, you are in the content creation business and maybe not yet creating online content, but you have the skill set necessary because we right now are in a playlist linked right here at the top of the screen where we are talking about YouTube for youth ministry.
00:00:38:18 - 00:01:07:10
Nick Clason
And if you've done the things that we've talked about in this playlist so far, while you start pre-recording your messages and you start scoping them out ahead of time, and you start with the idea of posting them to YouTube, which, by the way, right now I'm offering a very limited time free editing offer. So if you pre film your messages and you want to send them to me, once you get to the whole kind of editing part, which tends to be what trips people up on YouTube, I would be happy to do that.
00:01:07:10 - 00:01:28:24
Nick Clason
Click the link down below in the show notes and reach out and let me know and inquire if those spaces are still available. But you know, content is one thing, right? Like creating the content, shooting the content, even posting the content, right? But when you post it, there are actually some pretty incredibly important things that you need to make sure that you are doing.
00:01:29:00 - 00:02:00:16
Nick Clason
And we are going to talk through all of those things today in this video where we are talking about your titling, your tags, your description, the links that you include in your description, how to make chapters, thumbnails, cards and end screens. I know it seems overwhelming, but let's hang out and let's dive into that today. So if you head on over to YouTube, once you've created an account and you click create and you click upload video, you will get a screen just like this and you will click select file.
00:02:00:16 - 00:02:20:11
Nick Clason
And then you will begin uploading it. And once it begins to upload on YouTube it will look like this. So this is from episode 93 on video editing. And so I've already input all the details. But if you are watching, on YouTube right now, you'll see this. If you're on a podcast catcher, head to the link in the show notes and scrub ahead to this section.
00:02:20:11 - 00:02:41:23
Nick Clason
But you will see right up here at the top your title. Now, this is what most people do in churches. This is certainly what we did in church, especially when we started in the middle of the pandemic. We had a show, it was called unscripted and we would, have them classify by seasons, which I thought was pretty cool and pretty innovative.
00:02:41:23 - 00:03:16:01
Nick Clason
So we would say like unscripted season two episode four, which was great for us as far as indexing and titling and categorizing. However, think about this. If we had a lesson on unscripted that week and unscripted was every single thing in the, show. So that included like the game and the worship and all the thing. But like, if we had a message on suffering, let's say, like it would just say season two, episode four, there was no titling there that, you know, indicated, what the actual topic was of the message.
00:03:16:01 - 00:03:38:00
Nick Clason
So your title, just like your thumbnail, both are really important as far as communicating to your audience what your video is going to be talking about. And so if you're in church, a lot of times we do this in churches where in the middle of like a series and we're like, David series, sermon three. Right. Which like, that's great.
00:03:38:00 - 00:04:00:27
Nick Clason
And you can actually on YouTube really easily include your series into a thing called a playlist. And so they can all be included. David, you know, can be included into a playlist, but talk about what you're talking about, you know. So if you're talking about David and Bathsheba, maybe your title is like coming back from Giant Mistakes or leaning in to God's grace.
00:04:00:27 - 00:04:25:14
Nick Clason
Right. And I'm going to talk to you in just a minute about ways that you can figure out the best words and the ways to title these things. But very simply, if you make this small shift from just creating it for your church people, where you're explaining, like David, you know, message three and instead shifting it to like what the actual topic is like, that is going to be one major and massive shift.
00:04:25:14 - 00:04:50:10
Nick Clason
And in my completely free e-book, which is linked right here on screen with a little bit of a rebrand, new new title, we are now switching the name if you've already downloaded it. Still the same content. I just changed the title to The Complete Hybrid Strategy Guide. and we actually talked to you, in this e-book in detail for you how to start pre filming your messages and how to get going on YouTube.
00:04:50:10 - 00:05:08:10
Nick Clason
So maybe you've been watching this playlist, but if you download this e-book it will be kind of your step by step guide to starting to create content on YouTube. Once you get past your titling, there's another really important part. And it's all the way down here at the bottom. it's passed you a little description box. It's pass it thumbnail thing.
00:05:08:12 - 00:05:28:26
Nick Clason
It's pass your playlist selector and it's in this area here called tags. Okay. Now you'll see right here on mine I have these little like, ranking things and that's from a service called vid IQ which link down below is a vid IQ link if you're interested in grabbing that for a free trial or for a period of time.
00:05:28:28 - 00:05:48:25
Nick Clason
But this will help rank what some of your tags are. So if you are talking about David and Bathsheba, you might write in David and you might write in Overcoming Sin, and you might write in God's restorative grace. And just these tags, these are ways in which people, that search for things on YouTube. Because, remember, YouTube is owned by Google.
00:05:48:25 - 00:06:12:24
Nick Clason
And so people are going to YouTube and they are searching things like they went on Google, for example, how do I come back from a massive mistake that I've made and maybe your video on David will actually help communicate that. Or maybe someone's looking for some research on David and they're saying, hey, I want to know, like, when were David and Bathsheba like, you know, what year did David and Bathsheba take place or something like that?
00:06:12:24 - 00:06:32:05
Nick Clason
I don't know, but just begin to think like the people that are searching on YouTube. And so you may answer certain things like, you know, how to overcome sin, but you may also answer David and Bathsheba, you know, whatever year it was or something like that. And so you can put some of those things in. And this little plug in here is from vid IQ.
00:06:32:05 - 00:06:54:24
Nick Clason
And so I have that plugged in right here at the top, watch some of my stats and gives me kind of some, some analytic type stuff. And so it also can give me you know, some, some suggestions for tags and stuff like that. And so if you are interested in that, something like that, you can get that for a pretty nominal, pretty minimal fee and also a trial to go ahead and get the ball rolling on that.
00:06:54:24 - 00:07:14:24
Nick Clason
You should definitely check that out. But tags are pretty important. And you'll see that it has, 500 potential characters. So whatever you do, try your hardest to, get your tags filled all the way out to as close to 500 tags as possible. after that, I want to talk here for just a minute about the, description section.
00:07:14:24 - 00:07:33:13
Nick Clason
So the description section, this is where I include a lot of, like, relevant links. And so if you're watching on YouTube and you're watching my video right here, this is my, you know, hey, I'm offering free editing right now, so click that link. And since that's one of my main kind of call to actions out of this message, out of this video, like, I want you to click that.
00:07:33:13 - 00:07:50:29
Nick Clason
I'm putting it right up at the top. I also have my strategy guide right here. and you can also grab that as well. then right here, this is like just a description. So just think like think like a little mini, you know, paragraph two paragraphs, three paragraphs, kind of blog post. So same kind of idea as the tags.
00:07:50:29 - 00:08:19:13
Nick Clason
But this one is you're typing it out. You're typing it out, for the audience that may find it because YouTube and the algorithm, they're always crawling every single piece of text and every single piece of content from the video. So all the captions that you have, all the words that you say, all the things you write, all the tags you have, all the title that you have, all those things go into account as people are searching and looking for different videos on YouTube.
00:08:19:13 - 00:08:37:26
Nick Clason
And so, just fill this thing out and I'll show you an example. if you are watching on YouTube, you can see me navigating over to it live time right now. But our student ministry YouTube account, and you'll see that we have every single one. We have, a next step. So this just takes us to we use, Church Community builder.
00:08:37:26 - 00:08:58:27
Nick Clason
So this is our digital Next step card that's included in every single description. And we have a thing called digital notes, which students can use to follow along, both live in the room and also here on YouTube. And so, this is free a free service from the YouVersion Bible app. It's just a way to continually make things more hybrid in your space.
00:08:58:29 - 00:09:18:28
Nick Clason
and so look, you look we're talking about David this week as well on this episode. and so this is just an example of a couple of links that you can include. And I like to try to include every single, next step, every single link into here, into the digital notes. And so, you know, right here it says Ready to surrender Control.
00:09:18:28 - 00:09:40:27
Nick Clason
Let us know by taking a next step. This is the exact same link as the one I just showed you, right. It takes it out to that next steps form as well. And so we're all this is like our final last step. And so in my sort of like ultimate strategy guide I'm posting fun shorts that people will find as I'm posting spiritual shorts so that people will be inspired, that then push to our long form content.
00:09:40:29 - 00:09:55:26
Nick Clason
So then they go watch a long form version of our video, and then that drives them to a next step, and then they take the next step here. And that's how we capture and gather their information. That's how it is in a pie in the sky type of world. It doesn't always work that way. You know that as a youth pastor as well.
00:09:55:28 - 00:10:14:06
Nick Clason
But this is how I can reconcile and say like, this is why we post fun content. This is why we post short inspirational shorts, because we're driving to this long form version of our video, which is then driving toward a next step which allows us to capture information from students, gather their their info and follow up with them, and ultimately disciple them.
00:10:14:06 - 00:10:36:04
Nick Clason
Right. And so that's that description. Place is also where you can include, the links like, you know, digital notes. If you want to do that, feel free to borrow that, steal that. You use that in your own space, or in next steps form or whatever the case may be, if you are not, you know, like if you're, not a youth pastor and you're also just looking to post videos on YouTube, that would be where you might post things like affiliate links and whatever.
00:10:36:04 - 00:10:55:02
Nick Clason
And so you'll see that for me as well. Like right here, these are my show notes. And so these are different things like you know this it takes you to the show notes on my podcast page. This is you know we talked about Cap Cut, DaVinci resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, some other links about growing as an editor, tutorials, limited time offer.
00:10:55:04 - 00:11:17:11
Nick Clason
Here's all my socials. Here's some other freebies. Here's some affiliate links, like so. All that stuff is kind of chock full in there. But then this is another really important thing. This is really, key thing to do. I think when you're posting videos to YouTube is create chapter and time codes, and all you got to do is just add them right here in the description.
00:11:17:11 - 00:11:39:21
Nick Clason
If you're watching live on YouTube, you can see that. And I just go back through the video and I watch it manually, and I type out when I started talking about each of these things. And if you are watching on YouTube, you'll see down below. I'm also now starting to highlight that on screen with some text right? So that whenever anyone's watching, they can scrub ahead and see what I'm actually talking about in each section of the video.
00:11:39:21 - 00:12:00:15
Nick Clason
Because I don't know about you, but there are some times where I don't want all the fluff at the beginning, I just want the direct answer. So YouTube helps index better when you include chapters, and just by putting them in there, YouTube will auto break that up and it will, create chapters and create divisions within your video for the people in your in your space that are watching it.
00:12:00:17 - 00:12:27:20
Nick Clason
beyond chapters. the other thing that is really important, probably just as important I would say, is the title is your thumbnail. And so your thumbnail is very simply your, your, your like first impression, right, of what's going on. And so, a lot of experts say you want anywhere from, 2 to 6 words on the thumbnail, as little as possible.
00:12:27:21 - 00:12:51:07
Nick Clason
Because think about if someone's scrolling through on their phone. They're just getting a small image of it. So you want it to be enough to incite curiosity that will cause someone to click on it and then get started on your video. And so rather than David, invest Sheba week three of the David series, your church name in your, you know, date that you preach it or whatever.
00:12:51:10 - 00:13:14:20
Nick Clason
Like just simply post like, you know, returning to God. Something like that. Right. And you can put, like a screenshot of yourself or a screenshot of whoever's speaking and do some graphic editing. With that, you can use things like Adobe Photoshop. You can use things like Canva, links to those all down in the description of this podcast episode.
00:13:14:22 - 00:13:20:01
Nick Clason
but you can use some of those things so that you can create a good first impression.
00:13:20:01 - 00:13:35:08
Nick Clason
One other, couple other kind of like next level sections. And you'll see here, here's my vidiq optimize score. there are a couple of things here that I have not, you know, like, they don't they don't think my titles very easy to understand.
00:13:35:10 - 00:13:53:06
Nick Clason
but one of the things that can help increase your score is adding things like cards. And so you get one card per playlist. And if you're watching this video, I did it right, the very top. Right. So we're in a playlist called YouTube for Youth Ministry. In this video I did it as well. I did it at 45 seconds.
00:13:53:13 - 00:14:09:28
Nick Clason
And so I'm just highlighting like, hey, you're in the middle of a playlist. If you want to go back to the beginning, catch up, or you may reference another video from another time. Maybe somebody, doesn't want this video that you're talking about, but you can help point them out to another type of thing that they may be interested in.
00:14:10:01 - 00:14:33:04
Nick Clason
It'll show up on screen, similar to something like this. Someone can click on it while they're on YouTube and take them to another video on YouTube. Sean Cannell has, a Ten Commandments for YouTube. And one of the things is keep people on YouTube's platform as long as possible. At least that's YouTube's cool, right? And so, all these things help help you rank better.
00:14:33:04 - 00:14:54:19
Nick Clason
So that's an example of a card. You get one of those per video. And when you're pre filming you can write that in. And if you're using a teleprompter like we had talked about in a previous episode, linked to a teleprompter down below in the show notes. Grab that. But you can write that in so that you make sure that you include the card in your video, but you can, you know, kind of point to it.
00:14:54:21 - 00:15:12:28
Nick Clason
and here's like a little hack, like if you are filming direct camera, if you point with your left finger, it'll pop up right here on top of your screen. A lot of times I'll add a sound effect and maybe like the thumbnail of the playlist or the video I'm talking about, and pop it right in right where my finger comes in, and also have it come across right above it as well.
00:15:13:00 - 00:15:33:11
Nick Clason
That's just a little editing thing. And again, if you're interested in editing, reach out to me down below in the show notes. but finally the last piece. And, you know, also, by the way, hey, listen, here's the thing. Maybe you don't have a budget for editing and you're like, I want to do this. and I'm going to learn editing, but, like, I just I need someone to help me walk through this.
00:15:33:11 - 00:15:53:19
Nick Clason
Like, I'm also offering some coaching right now at a smaller rate. for sessions of coaching, just a few. Just a few bucks. If that's something that you're interested in, I can help you go from wherever you are and start making progress on your hybrid strategy today. And then the final piece that you want to include is your end screens.
00:15:53:19 - 00:16:17:29
Nick Clason
And it's the same concept as the card where you want to keep people on the YouTube platform. As long as possible. You'll notice on, this video here, I included, four different end screens. I have, and this is, this is a little hack. I often, dovetail onto the next video on my on my playlist, but this is the most recent video I've uploaded.
00:16:18:03 - 00:16:36:27
Nick Clason
And so right now I don't actually have the next video on my playlist. all the way edited and all the way uploaded to YouTube. And so right here, this is just a placeholder once I upload, video 94, this is video 93. Once I upload video 94, I'll go back into here and I'll replace this video right here, which is called video, which is best for viewer.
00:16:36:27 - 00:17:03:04
Nick Clason
That's YouTube's algorithm doing its thing. And I'll add video 94. Now you might be thinking, Nick, aren't if I post it and I say next videos on screen and it's not uploaded yet, won't that be a problem? And yes, for that like one week or so it won't be there. Okay. But from that moment on, once you upload or the the second video on the playlist goes live, it will live there on for the rest of eternity and time.
00:17:03:04 - 00:17:29:12
Nick Clason
And so one of the things we got to start getting, getting used to as youth pastors and people using the internet is that YouTube will live on in perpetuity forever, as long as you keep it up there and so. Well, the people that watch your video now, for your church, maybe in the series with David and Bathsheba, when you move on to the next section of the The Playlist and you're talking about David at the end of his life, and that's video number four.
00:17:29:15 - 00:17:51:09
Nick Clason
If people discover this a year down the road, two years down the road, ten years down the road, they will have access to that next video. And you can serve the people on YouTube forever. And that's one of the beautiful things about you and I as youth pastors, becoming content creators is that we can, effectively reach more people than just the people in our direct physical care.
00:17:51:09 - 00:18:10:14
Nick Clason
And that's one of the reasons I think going hybrid as at least one of the other benefits and I don't even think it should be the main or primary benefit of what we're doing, but it is at least something that we can use and utilize to our advantage. I also oftentimes include the playlist on here and the subscribe thing as well.
00:18:10:14 - 00:18:26:14
Nick Clason
And so you can add those to the end of your video as well. You can create a little Endor screen like I do, which has like little placeholders. And you just pop the video right in there. You can use something like a motion or a.com to find a thing like that. Speaking event screens. You will see right here on screen.
00:18:26:14 - 00:18:45:19
Nick Clason
If you're watching on YouTube our next video, which is the importance of playlists and courses. And so we're going to talk in depth about those. How do you utilize them and the advantage that you and I as youth pastors have, and how playlists are the perfect solution for us in our churches, in our youth ministries. So go ahead and check that video out.
00:18:45:19 - 00:18:49:08
Nick Clason
And don't forget, and as always, to stay hybrid.
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✨If You’re a youth pastor, looking to reach the 95% of teenagers who spend time on YouTube, study according to Pew Research, and You’ve shot a video you're ready to share with the world...
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Getting the Word Out About your YouTube Video
02:05 Growing a YouTube channelf rom 0 to over 500 subs
06:15 Viral Reels Framework
11:47 Opus.Pro the Mindblowing Shorts Creator!
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✍️TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:28:05
Nick Clason
If you're a youth pastor or church ministry leader of any sort looking to reach the 95% of teenagers who declared, spend time on YouTube, according to a Pew Research study that was done recently. And you're following everything that I've laid out in the playlist linked right here. You have pre shot a video. You have edited a video and now you are getting ready to then have posted the video to YouTube.
00:00:28:07 - 00:00:42:00
Nick Clason
Well, those are the first three steps that now now that you've taken those steps right you've taken the time to upload that video to YouTube. How do you get the word out about the fact that you have a video now on YouTube?
00:00:42:00 - 00:00:49:21
Nick Clason
Well, one of my favorite features embedded into YouTube is the shorts tab. It's very similar to TikTok.
00:00:49:21 - 00:01:19:01
Nick Clason
It's a discovery based short form vertical video category kind of algorithm. And it's it's kind of taken social media by storm. I'm curious what what your choice would be because all social medias have it now, right? Like maybe like me, I'm a millennial and a lot of millennials sort of settled in on Instagram. If you're an Instagram person, go ahead and give us a like, maybe some of you, you prefer TikTok and TikTok is sort of your social media of choice.
00:01:19:01 - 00:01:31:26
Nick Clason
Go ahead then and give us a subscribe if that's you. And, well, if you're YouTube itself and you need to turn the bell on because you definitely don't want to miss any more videos in the playlist that we're in right now. Titled
00:01:31:26 - 00:01:43:25
Nick Clason
YouTube for Youth Ministry. But YouTube shorts is a great way, along with some of those other social media platforms Facebook, even Instagram and TikTok to get the word out and to be discovered.
00:01:43:25 - 00:02:08:17
Nick Clason
And so in this video, I'm going to share with you my strategy for growing a YouTube channel 100% organically with zero paid reach. My viral Shorts five part framework and give you the not one, but two mind-blowing tools to help you do it all. Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. You know, I haven't had a chance to meet yet.
00:02:08:18 - 00:02:25:27
Nick Clason
My name is Nick Clason and I right now I'm employed as a youth pastor in DFW, Dallas Fort Worth area, and I started at the current job in which I'm at now in September of 2022 and in January of 2023.
00:02:25:27 - 00:02:35:16
Nick Clason
So if you do some quick math, you'll realize there's just four months, before in January of 2023 when our church made a name change.
00:02:35:16 - 00:02:58:23
Nick Clason
And so that's significant because when I started in September of 2022, our student ministry did not have a YouTube account. And furthermore, I did not launch the YouTube account because of the name change coming in January. And so I held off, which gave us which gives us very clear kind of markers and timelines and stuff like that. So
00:02:58:23 - 00:03:02:26
Nick Clason
hold off did not start the channel until January and didn't start posting until January.
00:03:02:26 - 00:03:27:00
Nick Clason
And so as I'm looking right now, I'm typing it into my computer right in front of me right now, Cross Creek students on YouTube has 530 subscribers in just over a year. It's now March 20th when I'm recording this. And so we're looking at a year, and about three soon to be four months, 530 subscribers. Now, that's nothing to write home about.
00:03:27:00 - 00:03:46:24
Nick Clason
There are certain channels that have far more you know, subscribers and engagement than than we do. But my guess would be if I were to ask you, like, hey, do you want to get the word out? Some of your students, do you want to get the word out? Some of the parents in your ministry, and you want to get the word out to just some other people about the message of hope found in the gospel through YouTube?
00:03:46:24 - 00:04:07:05
Nick Clason
You would probably say yes and say, hey, would you be okay? 530 subscribers, which, by the way, is also continually growing. And so, in that time we have pre filmed our videos. I did it all off of my cell phone, which is actually what I'm recording on right now as well. and so it looked videos looked very
00:04:07:05 - 00:04:18:09
Nick Clason
similar to this with, you know, maybe different set, different locations in our church and one of our offices behind us filmed all the videos off of my cell phone for the first about a year.
00:04:18:11 - 00:04:28:28
Nick Clason
got all my gear for about under $100, got a little tripod, some lighting, some microphones, and that is actually linked down below in our gear for under $100. And
00:04:28:28 - 00:04:43:17
Nick Clason
then if and or when you are ready to upgrade to a little bit nicer camera in a little bit, it's a little bit easier to not do it off of a cell phone, when you do it off a camera, because it doesn't, eat up your cell phone space, you can use SD cards and stuff like that.
00:04:43:20 - 00:04:57:25
Nick Clason
I recommend the Sony Zv-e10 that is also linked down below, and it is about $600-$700. $600. And then if you get a good lens with it's another, you know, 100 bucks or whatever. So in the $700 ballpark,
00:04:57:25 - 00:05:04:13
Nick Clason
which is not a ton, but maybe you're not ready to do that. And that's why I would just stick with the under $100 thing.
00:05:04:13 - 00:05:12:24
Nick Clason
And then once you've shot the video and you're staring down at a video editing screen, you might be like, I don't even know what to do.
00:05:12:24 - 00:05:27:01
Nick Clason
Right now, I'm offering a limited time offer for anyone who's interested in my video editing services. and I will actually edit your videos for free. I'm just simply trying to get the ball rolling on this for me.
00:05:27:01 - 00:05:52:21
Nick Clason
And so I'm asking for you to, to shoot it pre film sent me out, edit it professionally and get it ready for you for YouTube. And maybe, as I say, that you're sitting here thinking like, I'm not ready for that. Like I don't I don't have the infrastructure for that. Well, then I can help you implement a hybrid strategy through some one on one coaching sessions as well.
00:05:52:23 - 00:06:19:03
Nick Clason
Those are also being offered right now. Limited time for free. All you gotta do is hit the contact tab down below in the show notes. Let me know. Reach out if I have space available still in my time and in my schedule, then I'd be happy to add you to something like that. Now, when you are posting on social media, when you are using short TikToks, reels on Instagram, Reels on
00:06:19:03 - 00:06:25:12
Nick Clason
Facebook, there are five kind of key categories and key factors, and I like to call it my viral Reels framework.
00:06:25:12 - 00:06:49:21
Nick Clason
It's five parts. but really it's isn't as formulaic as much as it is like when you're posting, these are the five things you need to attempt to try to make happen. So viral reel framework, category item number one is attention. Attention is everything. On social media. You know that there are certain reels that capture your attention better.
00:06:49:26 - 00:07:11:01
Nick Clason
And then there are other reels that are just plain, flat out boring. And think about your own viewing habits on social media. When you're on there, you're not necessarily on there to just, be informed, right? Like in some cases, you might be you might be on there doing a little bit of research. And the information is also inspirational.
00:07:11:01 - 00:07:36:20
Nick Clason
And so therefore you do like gather and capture some information. That's great. But whatever, whatever causes you to stop scrolling and hover over a video or hover over a post for a while, that's going to be the key. And the same is true with you, and the same is going to be true for all of your youth ministry, social media, your, goal is to get someone to stop and give you their attention.
00:07:36:20 - 00:08:05:05
Nick Clason
And so the better that you do, stopping and grabbing their attention, the better. So that could be, you know, opening the the reel with a zoom in or a sound effect or some sort of, like, surprising thing, or someone running at the camera or, I mean, there are all kinds of different ways to sort of grab and capture someone's attention, but if you don't have their attention, they're going to continue on scrolling as you know, as you probably use as well.
00:08:05:11 - 00:08:35:09
Nick Clason
Boom boom, boom boom boom. And now you're seven reels back and no one gave you any more time of day. So be thinking about how can you capture someone's attention. One good way I like to do that is, to give them context. And so that's my second, that's my second framework piece, is that if you are pre filming your messages and if you are dropping in little clips from your messages, give them the the more fuller embodied context of what you're talking about
00:08:35:09 - 00:08:40:04
Nick Clason
so that it's not just a soundbite, but they understand what
00:08:40:04 - 00:08:44:25
Nick Clason
what this clip is referencing and where it's coming from and what you're referring to.
00:08:44:25 - 00:09:13:11
Nick Clason
So you can accomplish that with like an AI voice, or you can accomplish that with just some text on screen. And then that way, boom. As I scroll there, it's got a little text on screen. And if you want to make that context, make that hook, whatever it is, make it a little bit interesting, give it a little bit of intrigue, like the four surprising ways that you can connect with God or one thing that makes Jesus mad, or seven ideas or, you know, whatever the case may be like.
00:09:13:14 - 00:09:34:26
Nick Clason
But give them some context, because if you are going to be giving them a real from a longer form clip, you're going to want to give them some background so they know what you're talking about when they enter into it. And so both that text on screen and or I voice is hopefully getting their attention, but also filling in and giving them context.
00:09:34:28 - 00:10:12:17
Nick Clason
And whoever you are, youth pastor, social media person, just person on YouTube, person on the internet, whoever is listening to this, please all, no matter what you do, put captions on your videos. That is framework thing number three. If you don't have captions, you will lose out on a segment of your audience. A wide majority of people watch, reels, watch TikToks, watch shorts in places where they can't have their headphones in in order to have their audio turned on, or you're just like, mean your wife is asleep next to you in bed and you are watching reels.
00:10:12:17 - 00:10:33:02
Nick Clason
But you I don't watch it if it doesn't have captions on it. Why? Because she's asleep and I'm not turning my sound on. So put captions on your videos so that anyone and everyone can access them. Number four, you need to have some sort of relevant hook. Now, if you're just pulling out clips from YouTube, that's going to be trickier, right?
00:10:33:02 - 00:11:09:06
Nick Clason
Because you're not speaking in such a way that has a relevant hook. And maybe as you begin to start speaking more and more direct camera, you may just weave in naturally. Things like this is one of the seven most surprising things about following Jesus, or whatever the case may be. But if you're not natural at that because it's not a natural skill to do, nor a thing that's easy to figure out, then as you are editing it and or as you, start to clip it up for social, that's where the context is important, because the context piece can actually serve as a little bit of your hook, and then may also serve as a
00:11:09:06 - 00:11:38:05
Nick Clason
way to kind of garner and gather and capture your viewers attention. And then the fifth one is sound effects. If you have editing ability and you're able to offer your reel with some sound effects, sound effects make a big deal. You can do animated text, you can do things on screen. I have some presets down below. If you're using a thing like Adobe Premiere Pro, I got some some presets that'll make you look like a professional, but if you can pair it with some sound effects.
00:11:38:12 - 00:11:41:21
Nick Clason
Now that right there, my friend, that's next level.
00:11:41:21 - 00:11:59:13
Nick Clason
So I get it. You're like, dude, okay, cool. Yeah, let me get started right on that with attention grabbing context and captions and some relevant hooks and sound effects. did you know me? Youth pastor? Did you know that I have other things I have to do in my job?
00:11:59:14 - 00:12:21:10
Nick Clason
Yeah, I do, I look, I do mean, and it's that's the thing 95% of teenagers find themselves on YouTube. We need to find a way to get over that. We need to prioritize putting ourselves over there. Which is why I want to start editing videos for youth pastors to help them out. I want to help take some of that burden, some of that load off of their plate when they don't have the time to do it.
00:12:21:10 - 00:12:28:23
Nick Clason
But some of that stuff, it just does. It comes a little bit at a cost, either a time cost or a financial cost. So this is what I want
00:12:28:23 - 00:12:47:01
Nick Clason
to offer for you two mind. Mind blowing, life changing, life changing maybe. Resources. The first one, definitely not life changing because I created it, but it is my 100% completely free e-book, and I'm actually thinking about changing the name of it to my fully fleshed out hybrid strategy.
00:12:47:04 - 00:13:13:25
Nick Clason
Either way, this is a framework for not only how to build, edit, capture, and post done for you, but done for you ideas. But things that are or are relevant and contextual and personal. You, your students, your leaders. You are the heroes. You are the people on these social platforms. I'm telling you to use social media to help get the word out.
00:13:13:28 - 00:13:33:25
Nick Clason
Yes, for your YouTube video, but also just for additional content above and beyond that. And my e-book will detail that in outline. How to do all of it, not only how to film it, but also how to edit it and how to schedule it so that you are staying relevant and current with stuff that is going on. So go ahead and check that out.
00:13:34:02 - 00:13:55:03
Nick Clason
But then my second tool that I want to let you know about is that in all the things we're talking about, relevant hooks, text on screen, like all these types of things, you can use opus clip. It's free. It's free for a time up to a certain number of credits. And then if you want to add some more credits to the cost, you can go ahead and do it.
00:13:55:03 - 00:14:16:20
Nick Clason
I think, I got it when I was still kind of in beta, but I paid like a hundred and like $12 or something like that for the year. and like, you see right here, it's for 31 hours and five minutes. what happens is like our videos are, you know, 10 to 15 minutes long. And so I calculated that out and it's enough for a year.
00:14:16:20 - 00:14:37:24
Nick Clason
It's more than enough for a year. So I can use it for some other things too. We film the playlist and I use it for some of those as well. But what you do is you, you drop either a YouTube link in here or a zoom link, or just the actual full file. and then when you're in it once, it's already like kind of process it through whatever, it creates it and puts it down here and all these different projects.
00:14:37:29 - 00:14:59:12
Nick Clason
So you see, these are all old projects that I've used before in the past. And so in this particular one of I'm just going to click on it. You'll notice it scroll all the way down to the bottom. That has given me 15 different shorts that I can use, 15 different videos that are clipped up vertically based with captions, all the things we talked about and that you can use.
00:14:59:14 - 00:15:18:12
Nick Clason
then once it gives it, once it gives it to you, it it ranks it with some of these things. I don't really use those. I write my own headlines and taglines, but you can use that if you want. you can download it, in Adobe Premiere Pro. You can download it in, in high definition. or you can go in here and edit it, which I recommend doing.
00:15:18:14 - 00:15:33:28
Nick Clason
it'll, it has a full video transcribe. But so in this particular clip it has it transcribed right here. And so you can select the start spot like if you like I don't want it to turn the word Android or you want to send the word student. You can just change it to just select the start spot there.
00:15:34:00 - 00:15:49:14
Nick Clason
and then you can have it end in a different spot. you look over here, you see how long it is. A YouTube short needs to be under a minutes of. It's greater than a minute. You need to find places to shave it down. then over here in design, I like to generate B-Roll with some stock footage.
00:15:49:20 - 00:16:05:08
Nick Clason
And so all these little spots are. Here are places that the video decides to generate some B-roll. So this one is generating B-roll based off of the word process. And so if I don't like the word process right there, or if I don't like the video that they chose for the word process, I can research the word process.
00:16:05:11 - 00:16:25:23
Nick Clason
And, these ones right here are Shutterstock images, which I don't pay for, so I can't use. But these other ones right here without a Shutterstock watermark are, from pexels.com, which are free. So the free for me, they would be free for you to use. and then if I'm like, I don't like any of those words, I can research a new word and just say, like, I don't know, computers.
00:16:25:26 - 00:16:40:29
Nick Clason
and then search that, and I can see what kind of words I'm going to get for computers, and then I can just swap it out right there. And now it goes from my iPad thing to this little computer based thing, when I'm done with it. by the way, it also has, auto emojis over here.
00:16:40:29 - 00:16:58:14
Nick Clason
So like, as it, as it's talking, you might see moments where emojis pop up on screen just like that. just as another, like, visual stimulant on the screen. you can choose your caption style. You can also create your own brand kind of template. I'll show you how to do that here in just a minute. Caption lines per page.
00:16:58:14 - 00:17:16:29
Nick Clason
Three lines or one line. How do you want the captions to transition with the bounce and underline box? you can select your underline color. You can figure out where you want your captions to go. You can change fonts, all these types of things font, color, font stroke, font shadow, keyword highlighter and then screen overlay. So let me show you that to so.
00:17:16:29 - 00:17:34:19
Nick Clason
So when you're done you can click click save and compile. And I'll just put right here. It'll need a minute to process. And then boom you're done. And you're downloading. if you want to create a brand template, which is what I like to do, in my brand template, I have created this little guy right here as a watermark on the top of my video.
00:17:34:21 - 00:17:58:24
Nick Clason
on our student Mr.. Have something similar, which points people back to our YouTube channel. Now, when you're on YouTube and uploading it to shorts, you can click related video. And on shorts you can actually link your YouTube video, which is my favorite feature of all. But if I'm using this over on TikTok, Instagram or Facebook, I use this little watermark as sort of my way to like, encourage them to go check us out on YouTube.
00:17:58:24 - 00:18:19:04
Nick Clason
But, here here are my caption preferences. Here is my brand kind of template. and I have it all saved. I have it all. Whatever. I made this little I made this little watermark thing, and then this is where I uploaded it. Right here. I just built this in, like, a thing, like Photoshop with a clear background, and I uploaded it in,
00:18:19:06 - 00:18:36:18
Nick Clason
And then I saved it. And so this is my pre preset template number one. But I could go to preset template number two. And I could create a whole different look, a whole different flow a whole different feel. Now when I'm done I download them all. I save them in a folder and I post them, I save them in a folder to be posted later.
00:18:36:18 - 00:18:57:27
Nick Clason
And so you can use Opus clip, you can use my e-book, both of which to help you level up your social media game and get the word out. Once you've shot your video, once you've edited your video, and now it will help you create in a matter of minutes, social media content for you and for your youth.
00:18:57:27 - 00:19:25:09
Nick Clason
Ministry, But. Now, now you've done all these things. Okay, now it's ready to go on YouTube and post like you're going to click the plus button and create. And then it's going to give you the YouTube dialog box. So you have to put in titles and descriptions and tags. One the world you even post on there. I'm glad you asked, because we're actually going to be unpacking that fully in the next video, which is linked right here on screen.
00:19:25:16 - 00:19:35:17
Nick Clason
We're helping you take digital discipleship and make it easy. And don't forget and as always, stay hybrid.
20 min
April 18, 2024 Episode 093: 📹 LiveStream vs. Pre-Filming: Editing for Youth Ministries
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Should Churches Quit Live-Streaming their videos to YouTube?
If YouTube is as relevant and powerful of a platform, it seems as though we should be making it a top priority
How can youth pastors grow as video editors and make the maximum impact on their students and teenagers?
Follow along as we unpack how to grow on YouTube for Youth Ministries
FULL PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLngXlSr64YaLHMhNNfqmmmAsKRJ1VCBJl
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📓SHOWNOTES
//SHOWNOTES & TRANSCRIPTS
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//YOUTUBE VIDEO
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//SONY ZVE-10
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//CAPCUT
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//ADOBE PREMIERE PRO
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html
//FINAL CUT PRO
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https://www.finalcutforwindows.com/
GROWING AS A VIDEO EDITOR
//TIME MANAGEMENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlS1kWcQBS8&t=190s
//ADOBE TUTORIALS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLngXlSr64YaKVpQBDSQV6Q9hFeXCptHSu
//LIMITED TIME OFFER
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 How to Show Up Digitally for your Students
01:40 Livestream or Pre-Film: The Power of Editing
07:43 Video Editing Platforms
10:28 Growing as a Video Editor
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✍️TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:30:01
Nick Clason
Youth pastors My guess is that you would like to be there for hurting and struggling teenagers and be able to ultimately point them to Jesus. What if I told you that you could show up in a place where 95% of them have been will go or plan to go? You would probably do whatever it took to find your way there and help point those kids
00:00:30:04 - 00:00:55:19
Nick Clason
to Jesus, what if I also told you that that place was YouTube? Well, it's true. According to Pew Research, 95% of teens are on or have been on YouTube. Here's the good news. We are currently in the middle of a playlist linked right here at the top of the video about YouTube for Youth Ministries, Everything you need to know from the philosophy to the tactile, getting it done and getting it posted.
00:00:55:19 - 00:01:26:04
Nick Clason
And today we're talking about the dreaded editing, editing of videos like Subscribe and Turn On the Bell, because I want to help you show up where 95% of your teenagers are. And I'm doing it on YouTube 100% completely for free in this video. I want to explore the debate of livestream versus pre shooting and pre filming. Your messages how you as a youth pastor can grow as a video editor and designer.
00:01:26:06 - 00:01:53:15
Nick Clason
We're also going to talk about how you can get professional YouTube videos edited for completely free by somebody else. Sound too good to be true? Stick around to find out. So should we livestream our services and post them online or should we pre film our messages? Well, for me, as a youth pastor, that was a debate that I had when I started at the church that I'm working at right now.
00:01:53:17 - 00:02:16:22
Nick Clason
Started here in September of 2022. And I wanted because we were a in-person church, I wanted to livestream our messages. I wanted to livestream our messages mostly so that I could take the livestream long form video, clip it up into shorts and post it on social media throughout the week. I didn't want to do double work, and pre filming feels a little bit like double work.
00:02:16:22 - 00:02:46:20
Nick Clason
And so eventually I landed on pre filming our messages. Not from a strategy standpoint, but honestly from a needs standpoint. We weren't going to retrofit or make the the room have the accommodations to livestream. We weren't going to put the budget resources behind livestreaming our services. And frankly, I didn't even want to livestream as much as I just wanted to live capture the message via video more than just a cell phone on a tripod in the back of the room, on the sound booth.
00:02:46:21 - 00:03:09:20
Nick Clason
And so we started pre filming our messages out of necessity. But one of the things that I noticed and have discovered and come to now, so that was out of necessity, but now out of preference, I would say I will probably forever and always pre film my messages because think about it when you're on YouTube, this is often what us as churches are going up against this on screen.
00:03:09:20 - 00:03:47:29
Nick Clason
If you're not watching, if you're just listening, you can head to the link in the show notes, watch the YouTube video. Mr. Beast and his thumbnail and his 15 minute YouTube video is a type of content that most people are going on to YouTube to watch in an entertaining sort of manner, entertaining sort of fashion. Meanwhile, churches are an hour and 37 minute service with all of the pre-roll announcements and all of their worship services and songs and pastor and announcement and everything is dropped on YouTube without any sort of custom work on a thumbnail or titling or description.
00:03:48:00 - 00:04:20:08
Nick Clason
So all the the, the livestream with the way that we're approaching livestream on the back end, setting it up uploading, and we're going to get into all of that in this playlist as well. So make sure that you are subscribed, but all of that type of stuff matters as well, because as I mentioned in our most recent video, when a student is hurting, you want to be able for them to you want to be able to send them content and videos and resources and things that can help them make sense of the pain that they're experiencing.
00:04:20:11 - 00:04:39:09
Nick Clason
But you also want people to find it. So maybe a student you don't know or student doesn't feel comfortable, whatever the case might be coming to you and asking you that they need help, but you want them to stumble on your YouTube channel and you want them to be able to make sense of the pain and the suffering that they're that they're facing.
00:04:39:09 - 00:05:05:16
Nick Clason
And they're not going to be able to find that. If you have, like your youth group. March 13th, 2024 service. Like they don't know that the topic was on, you know, the problem of evil and how to attach yourself to Jesus when you're going through hard times. So actually, let me do this. This is if you're watching and you're going to probably want to watch this part or at least go back and check it out.
00:05:05:19 - 00:05:20:01
Nick Clason
If you're watching this, right here is a video that I have shot and have done no editing to, now, you can do that and you could post that to YouTube. And so let me just show you what the first like 10 seconds of this video look like.
00:05:20:01 - 00:05:30:13
Nick Clason
this video, we're going to explore the value of the final word. Final words are meaningful, right? Whether they're good or whether they're bad. Think about it.
00:05:30:13 - 00:05:36:26
Nick Clason
All right. And then let me show you what an edited version of this video looks like.
00:05:36:27 - 00:05:42:03
Nick Clason
Same video, same content, but now there's editing on top of it. Let's check it out.
00:05:42:03 - 00:05:49:21
Nick Clason
video, we're going to explore the value of the final word. Final words are meaningful, right? Whether they're good or
00:05:49:21 - 00:05:51:13
Nick Clason
whether they're bad. Think about it. If you've
00:05:51:13 - 00:06:08:19
Nick Clason
You see. And when we simply just drop our our non edited, unfiltered teaching on YouTube, the content can still be delivered and it can still get to the end user. Correct. Is it optimized and is it optimal?
00:06:08:19 - 00:06:17:19
Nick Clason
Right. Like like you wouldn't show up to an expensive White House gala dressed as if you're going to a football game?
00:06:17:26 - 00:06:42:14
Nick Clason
Right. And a lot of times that's what we as churches are doing on YouTube. And and YouTube is a great platform to capture and even post videos. But a lot of times we don't play the part where we don't go into it with the expectation or ability of of attaching ourselves to the appropriate, culturally appropriate kind of moment out there.
00:06:42:14 - 00:07:05:02
Nick Clason
And that's what's going on when we're just simply livestreaming and just dropping the live stream without any sort of other work or editing or titling or tags or a thumbnail or anything on to YouTube. And so you wouldn't go to a gala dressed like you're going to a football game. So don't just drop your on edited unfiltered services on YouTube, right?
00:07:05:03 - 00:07:24:15
Nick Clason
Because once you pre film your message once you capture your teaching somehow, someway on phone on a on a more expensive camera linked down below Sony ZVE-10 the camera that I recommend if you do want to go to the next level or if you want to start using your phone on YouTube, all of that is laid out 100% completely free e-book.
00:07:24:22 - 00:07:58:05
Nick Clason
But once you start posting those things, right, once you start crafting and capturing your messages, you can then off of that dovetail into more of a robust and holistic social media strategy for youth ministries and for churches, one that has your voice and your face and your messaging woven all throughout your social media and your leaders and your students on camera.
00:07:58:07 - 00:08:23:28
Nick Clason
So what platforms can you use to edit? I mean, very simply, if you are looking for a budget or more value engineered experience, there are two platforms that I recommend that are Free CapCut is a web based editor, and if as long as TikTok doesn't get banned, hopefully CapCut will be safe. CapCut and TikTok
00:08:23:29 - 00:08:45:20
Nick Clason
are partners or CapCut was even created by TikTok.. And so it's definitely optimized for short form vertical based video which by the way, side note is good for your short form, vertical based video, but you can also drop in a full length teaching and you can do and have edits and animations and lower thirds and text on screen.
00:08:45:23 - 00:09:02:21
Nick Clason
And so it's web based and so you don't have to download anything like new to your device or your computer or your program. So that might work. Well, if you have a really basic computer and don't have a lot of hard drive space, memory or RAM available to you, the next kind of layer up, I guess I would say, is Da Vinci Resolve.
00:09:02:21 - 00:09:29:15
Nick Clason
They do have a free version of it as well as, of course, as most things do, a paid sort of tier. Beyond that, full disclosure, I have never edited a full length video in cap cut, nor have I ever even opened Da Vinci Resolve because what I use and I'm not trying to sound boujee or anything like that, but I do use Adobe Premiere Pro out of the Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Suite.
00:09:29:18 - 00:09:55:09
Nick Clason
It is probably one of the more expensive options, but the good news is that our church has a creative cloud license and so I'm able to be added in to that. And so you may check and see if as a youth pastor, your church is willing to to dig deep and spring for a more powerful program. And and all I'll say is this is while CapCut is a great free editing tool and DaVinci Resolve, I've heard amazing things.
00:09:55:11 - 00:10:16:24
Nick Clason
You often get what you pay for or are willing to pay for. And so I can do just about anything. I have a vision for in Adobe Premiere Pro. And sometimes when you're using value or free software, you're really only going to get what you know, what you pay for an honorable mention. Of course, I also don't want to leave out Final Cut Pro.
00:10:16:26 - 00:10:40:21
Nick Clason
It's a favorite of many people. Again, I've never used it, but these are just different options, suggestions and things that you can check out. Now. The the thing right. The question at hand is if you're a youth pastor and you have no design, no editing skills, how do you grow as an editor? Is that even necessary? Well, let's talk about it.
00:10:40:24 - 00:11:06:12
Nick Clason
So how did you learn to ride a bike? Hopefully you learned how to ride a bike dropdown in the comments below when you learned how to ride a bike. But probably my guess is that you just did it a bunch. You practiced and in a lot of the same ways. Linked down below is my time management strategy. If you want to grow as an editor, create time time block for yourself.
00:11:06:12 - 00:11:32:00
Nick Clason
Tell yourself when you're going to learn this and then go learn it. I also have a link to below three different Adobe Photoshop in Adobe Premiere Pro. So if there is a platform that you do decide to go with editing videos, how to edit long form video, long form teaching videos, short form teaching videos and create graphics for them using Adobe Photoshop, all of that is available for you, but you simply just got to put in the work.
00:11:32:03 - 00:11:51:11
Nick Clason
Like we live in a microwave culture where we want a quick fix, quick answer, immediate results. Right now that looks great and is professional, but the God honest truth in all of this is like if we want to get better at something, we have to start investing in it. And so
00:11:51:11 - 00:11:55:22
Nick Clason
if editing your videos is important, then you should put the time in.
00:11:55:22 - 00:12:31:17
Nick Clason
Now, here's another little thing, and I have a limited time offer, very, very limited time offer. I have currently opened up three free spaces for you or anyone as a youth pastor to get a series edited by me completely for free. That info is going to be linked on the screen or down below, but I will do your video for free as I am trying to grow in my ability for editing as well as my offerings for youth pastors.
00:12:31:17 - 00:13:01:28
Nick Clason
And so if it's something that you're interested in, reach out to see if it's still available. If not, I do have a budget version of it as well. If those three free spaces are not available, but reach out to me because you might not be an editor and you may not have the time to learn it, but I would be more than willing and more than happy to help you take your editing to the next level and not not in like a coaching type of thing.
00:13:01:28 - 00:13:39:17
Nick Clason
Like, I'll just I'll do it for you. Like, I will take your videos, I will edit them, I will make them look professional, and then I will post them on YouTube for you, or at least show you how to post them. Because once you have edited long form videos, that is going to help you lay out, dish out and flesh out a full social media strategy where everything on your social media is focused on the message that you're teaching live in youth group that week, which is actually what we're going to talk about in the next video in this YouTube playlist linked right here on screen.
00:13:39:19 - 00:13:51:30
Nick Clason
I hope you watch that. I hope you check it out. And I hope that you continue to make digital discipleship easy, possible and accessible. As always, stay hybrid.
14 min
April 11, 2024Episode 092: 🖐️ 5 Secret Benefits of Filming YouTube Videos for Youth Ministries
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DESCRIPTION
📹YouTube is the perfect platform for youth pastors and youth ministries.
Why?
95% of youth group teenagers are on YouTube
YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine, powered by Google
YouTube plays to the skillset of all youth pastors
In this video, let's help you start sitting down in front of the camera and filming messages and content for your youth group!
Follow along as we unpack the best practices guide of YouTube for Youth Pastors:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLngXlSr64YaLHMhNNfqmmmAsKRJ1VCBJl
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//YOUVERSION LIVE EVENTS
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//TELEPROMPTER
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//TOP 5 YOUTH CURRICULUMS: RANKED!
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//WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN
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//SIDEKICK
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Why Youth Pastors should Pre-Film their Messages
02:10 Leveling Up Your YouTube Gear
06:54 Adding Shownotes to your YouTube Videos
10:31 Top 5 Benefits of Pre-Filming Your Messages to YouTube
TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:31:03
Nick Clason
Youth Pastor, Let me guess, you have a desire for the students that you have been entrusted to in your care to come, to learn, know, love and follow Jesus. And let me guess, part of that strategy, part of that way that you hope students do that is to show up for them and to be there when they have difficult and tough questions to help them answer and make sense of life which is around them.
00:00:31:04 - 00:00:57:13
Nick Clason
Well, according to Pew Research, 95% of teenagers have used will use or plan to use the platform of YouTube. And so from the most conservative parents in your church who would never even imagine letting their kids enter the World Wide Web to all the way to the least restrictive parents who gave their kids a phone and let them have wild access to the Internet.
00:00:57:15 - 00:01:21:28
Nick Clason
YouTube is a great strategy and a great platform for students and student ministry. Like if in your youth ministry context, you're using YouTube, subscribe if you're not and hey, either way, hit the bell because we're in a playlist called YouTube for Youth Ministries. But how do we start posting content to YouTube? Like you might know these stats, You might know it's important.
00:01:21:28 - 00:01:44:06
Nick Clason
You might know students are on the you might know it's a really accessible platform, but how do you actually begin filming editing, recording and posting videos to YouTube? Well, this is the perfect video because in it I want to share with you what gear you can use to start leveling up your YouTube game with simply just shooting on your cell phone.
00:01:44:06 - 00:02:07:27
Nick Clason
I also want to talk about how you can manage your time to fit in the process of filming YouTube videos and posting it. I'm also going to give you some next steps directly out of this video so that you can start doing some side benefits for you. And then finally, how to actually edit your video so that it looks good and professional and fits the vibe that's going on YouTube.
00:02:08:03 - 00:02:33:28
Nick Clason
Welcome to the Hybrid ministry show. So if you're anything like me and you work at church, you look around your youth room and you compare it to the auditorium or the main church room that the rest of the or the rest of your, you know, big church is using where your pastors preaching on Sunday morning and you probably look and think, man, I don't have the gear to capture my services and post them on YouTube.
00:02:34:00 - 00:03:05:24
Nick Clason
And the answer to that is probably unequivocally 100% accurate. You probably don't. Right. But I actually have linked right here on screen my 100% completely free e-book, which is called 40 done for you posting tools, which really, honestly maybe needs a new title because what it ultimately is, is my complete philosophy as well as strategy guide for leveling up your YouTube and your social media game.
00:03:05:24 - 00:03:32:00
Nick Clason
It's all about creating custom content for YouTube. And so one of the elements in that e-book, if you click it and if you download it, is a link to a blog that I have created called YouTube Gear on a Budget. And simply what it is is it will help you level up your YouTube gear if you choose to shoot video on your phone that is of course the most expensive piece is that camera piece.
00:03:32:03 - 00:04:04:25
Nick Clason
But you can level up your game for less than $100 by adding in some external microphones. I have linked on in the e-book. Bluetooth wireless microphones, a shotgun style microphone for Android. The same thing's for for iPhones as well. Also, just like a phone based tripod, you can get a tabletop one that's a little shorter or you can get a full, full length standing tripod as well as a basic ring light that so, you know, your videos look decent with lighting.
00:04:05:01 - 00:04:27:25
Nick Clason
You can also take care of most of that by just filming in a space that has some good lighting. And then if you do want to go the next layer beyond just $100 or less, if you want to stop shooting on your phone and you want to start shooting on a good camera, the one that I recommend that was recommended to me by Sean Cannell via his YouTube channel, check out and Think Media.
00:04:27:27 - 00:04:50:29
Nick Clason
If you haven't had a chance. He is a YouTube guru, but the Sony ZVE-10. It’s a Great camera. We bought it along with the lens for about $700 in our student ministry space one time purchase. But now we're using it and we're using it for everything. We're using it for long form videos as well as vertically shot and vertically based videos.
00:04:51:04 - 00:05:15:19
Nick Clason
But one of the pieces, one of the challenges for most youth pastors is that we're running from fire to fire to fire to fire and meeting to meeting to me and to meeting this kid, kid who needs counseling, counseling, counseling, counseling, all the different things, all the different demands of our space and our time. We're linked right here at the top of this video is my 100% completely free, foolproof strategy for good time management.
00:05:15:19 - 00:05:38:26
Nick Clason
And here's the honest truth that frankly, like there are always going to be issues, are always going to be struggles, are always going to be fires and things that pop up on your calendar. But if you manage your time and just a little sneak peek like you are 100% completely in charge of your time and your time management.
00:05:38:26 - 00:06:02:17
Nick Clason
And so if you don't make a priority and a space in your calendar to sit down and pre film your messages, just like we're talking about here, like you are not going to be able to to start posting content to YouTube, you have to make it a priority just like you make sitting down and crafting a Wednesday night program a priority.
00:06:02:23 - 00:06:25:04
Nick Clason
You also have to make sitting down and pre filming your messages a priority. So you're probably going to have to get several weeks in advance on this, both on your teaching scope and curriculum, which link down below. I have link to my five favorite teaching curriculum, so go check that out. And in a video that we've dropped not too long ago, you can check that out if you're interested in something like that.
00:06:25:06 - 00:06:58:24
Nick Clason
But your plan, your curriculum, and then you'll write out your teaching and then you'll sit down and you'll deliver the message direct to camera, all because you told your time what was going to happen to it. And I'm not saying that you shouldn't counsel students and mute their senior pastor and plan for your Wednesday night, but if pre filming your message is if getting the message of Jesus and the message of hope out on the Internet, on YouTube is important to you, then you need to determine when you're going to place that that thing on your calendar to do it.
00:06:58:26 - 00:07:21:11
Nick Clason
Now, just like this YouTube video, all YouTube videos have a description section. And so when you are preaching or teaching or delivering some piece of content direct to camera on screen, you can always say down below in the description are links. And so for every single video that I post on my student Ministry's YouTube channel, we post two links.
00:07:21:11 - 00:07:45:00
Nick Clason
The first link is a next steps digital type connect card. And I think about if you live in the room and you want to challenge students to take the next step of getting baptized, or if you're alive in the room and they prayed to receive Christ or they just need some sort of prayer, you might point them to a physical connect card in the seatback in front of them, or at the middle of like a table or something like that.
00:07:45:00 - 00:08:07:07
Nick Clason
If you're sitting around tables in your space on the same way, you can offer a digital version. And I mean, let's be honest, if they fill out a physical connect card, probably you are taking that caption that information digitally somehow, whether that be in your church management system, in software, or if it's just by tracking that information via something more basic like Excel.
00:08:07:08 - 00:08:31:29
Nick Clason
Nonetheless, you take it from a physical moment to digital. And so if you can offer a digital based connect card, then you know that you are going to be getting that information and you're going to be cutting out that middleman portion. The other thing that I offer in our digital are link in our description in most of our YouTube videos is what we call our digital Notes platform.
00:08:31:29 - 00:08:53:20
Nick Clason
And our digital notes is simply using the free, by the way, free YouVersion live events. And so if you've ever used that before, it's a thing that you can create. And on the back end on you version of the Bible app, you create a live service. And so I set our digital notes to go quote unquote live.
00:08:53:20 - 00:09:24:27
Nick Clason
So it's discovered in the live kind of panel of your you you version Bible app. It's when you discover when your church is live. And so I set that for when we're teaching our message live same day same time. However it does at the end give you a small URL. And so then the play, the digital notes plan, the live event can be clicked on and accessed at any time, regardless of if it is quote unquote live in the version Bible app.
00:09:24:29 - 00:09:45:16
Nick Clason
And so you can put text, you can put images, you can put Bible passages, and then they, the followers along, they can create private notes based off of all of those things. They can save them so that they can kind of archive them and come back later. But one of my favorite pieces to the digital notes is that you can create an external link.
00:09:45:16 - 00:10:09:01
Nick Clason
And so again, if a student is following along, live in the room or on YouTube at the end, they can they can have a live link to go out to Digital Connect card. They can have a live link to go out to camp signups. They can have a live link to go out to whatever you want it to be, whatever sort of call to action, whatever sort of next step your message may be pointing students toward.
00:10:09:03 - 00:10:38:21
Nick Clason
The other thing is, of course, it is on you version. And so you can also link Bible reading plans directly in there as well. And so think about it. What if you had a whole message on the importance of reading the Bible and getting in God's Word? And then what if you actually had a Bible reading plan that they could start reading that night or the next morning that they could start enjoying and begin reading to help them follow through on what you were talking about?
00:10:38:23 - 00:11:04:15
Nick Clason
So obviously, in addition, right, like in addition to posting videos to YouTube to reach more students for 95% of teenagers have or will plan to spend some of their time or at least use the app in some way, shape or form. There are, I think, five additional like benefits to sitting down and pre filming your talks direct to camera benefit number one is more practice.
00:11:04:15 - 00:11:22:23
Nick Clason
It gives you an opportunity to engage with your content more frequently than just getting up and teaching it live on a Wednesday night or Sunday morning or whenever that might be. And so by the time you do actually get around on Wednesday night or Sunday morning to deliver your content, direct camera, you've already delivered it at least once.
00:11:22:23 - 00:11:56:02
Nick Clason
And if you need more takes, maybe two or three, and so you're much more familiar with the content and the concepts that you were teaching. Benefit number two is, of course, you're going to be forced to get ahead. You're going to be forced to to be working ahead in your delivery of of this content and preparation. So my workflow goes, I sit down and I write it all out and not linked in my $100 or less leveling up guide.
00:11:56:05 - 00:12:17:19
Nick Clason
But one that is recommended potentially you may have to get a beefier tripod is using a using a teleprompter holder. And so you can get a teleprompter and you can use an iPad with the free teleprompter app. But so I sit down, I prep my message and I script it out and I may script it word for word.
00:12:17:22 - 00:12:48:25
Nick Clason
2000 or 2500 words is usually a good length for YouTube. It helps me hopefully shoot in under the 15 minute mark. That's always my goal on time. Write it all out and then deliver it Direct camera. That's where I include things like subscribe and cards linked up at the top and end screens like I write and spell every single thing out word for word, so that then the teleprompter will just kind of do its thing and flow right in front of me and I just read it directly there.
00:12:48:28 - 00:13:17:08
Nick Clason
It does take a little bit of work to get used to it. It is a skill that's not exactly natural. You can do it. But, you know, I'm just letting you know, get get used to it. Then also I have I then take the the manuscript, the full YouTube manuscript, and I use Google Drive. And so I create a new copy of that an in a different folder, and I rename it live talk notes.
00:13:17:12 - 00:13:50:08
Nick Clason
And so then I go back through that and I add highlights and I add all of those types of things, like, you know, yellow is, is like on screen or slide. Green is like any scripture or whatever, any video clips because like I may not actually like show a video clip on when I'm filming it to YouTube. If I do, it might just be some B-roll over top of the background as opposed to like showing a full on like video clip, like stop, pause the room, watch screen, come back type of thing, video clips and interactive elements.
00:13:50:08 - 00:14:09:00
Nick Clason
I add all those things, but I do it in a completely different document. I adapt it from the manuscript to more of like an outline type style. And then as I'm doing that, I'm also building slides and putting it into a thing like Sidekick, where I can use integrated tools like the wheel and name Picker and the live voting elements and all those types of things.
00:14:09:00 - 00:14:34:10
Nick Clason
More info link down below on Sidekick Sidekick.tv And so my workflow is my head. I write it, I deliver it, direct camera, and then I also readapt it to be taught in the room in between. When I shoot it and readapt it is when we're editing it or posting it, we're adding thumbnails or adding time codes, all the YouTube type things that need to take place.
00:14:34:10 - 00:15:05:04
Nick Clason
So that is live. Usually the Monday before what we we posted on Monday and then deliver it live in the room on Wednesday. And then our students discuss it again on the following Sunday morning. So that whole week on social, our focus is, you know, Monday it drops, Wednesdays are live teaching and then Sunday they discuss it and then woven all throughout there are you know several different like kind of teaching videos social media type clips.
00:15:05:06 - 00:15:32:29
Nick Clason
Benefit number three is it will help you create evergreen type content. Evergreen content is just a marketing word for content that is always relevant. In fact, last night I had a student from a former ministry and a former church that's going through a difficult and tough time. So hey, like I'm having a hard time. Like things are rough, you know, and some have had some some bad news and some kind of tragedy hit their family.
00:15:32:29 - 00:16:07:10
Nick Clason
And so we don't even have this live yet. Like we're getting these back right now from our editor. But we are about to launch into a series called When Bad Things Happen. I have a link actually down below if you're interested in that series that is available on ym360 curriculum site. But we taught it as a student ministry team and like I said, it's not live on YouTube yet, but I was sending her the links to our direct drop box like videos so or Google Drive videos so that she could watch it.
00:16:07:12 - 00:16:32:07
Nick Clason
And that's again like that's one of the benefits of filming your content is that when someone's going through a hard time who lives a thousand miles away, you can send them stuff like this that might be able to help them get through it and navigate through life. You see, this isn't just a vanity thing. Like you can help students, you can help care for students, shepherds, students, disciple students, teach students.
00:16:32:07 - 00:16:55:16
Nick Clason
When you film, you're content. That's what you want to do. Live in the room, right? The difference is church is often built like a organization that's trying to capture people through a cable TV style of of marketing as opposed to an OnDemand style of marketing. And when you preach from your messages, you can start to wade into that quote unquote, on demand type of messaging.
00:16:55:16 - 00:17:13:11
Nick Clason
So when someone's going through a hard time or when someone needs a guide to how to use the Bible or whatever it is that you have taught that you know is valuable, you can send them to your YouTube channel for a link to evergreen content, to content that matters. And so benefit number four, of course, is it's the antidote.
00:17:13:11 - 00:17:37:02
Nick Clason
It is the cure to travel sports. Not entirely like that. Kids still traveling to baseball, but if you film your messages while they're still going to be traveling to baseball, would you rather them travel to baseball, miss out on church altogether, or would you rather them travel to baseball and still have the opportunity to catch up on the series, to hear the message to learn the thing?
00:17:37:02 - 00:18:03:04
Nick Clason
Like I think we would all take option two. I mean, maybe we all like option three, which is like nuking travel baseball so that it never happens again. But since that's probably not going to be an option, we'll settle for option number two and options are an option. But side benefit number five of pre filming your messages is Sean Cannell the guru of YouTube, has a strategy called Ask specific questions.
00:18:03:04 - 00:18:32:06
Nick Clason
ASQ or actually not ask answer specific questions. So think about it, right? You can answer your students specific questions. For example, how do I respond when bad things happen? Boom, That's a teaching series. Answer that question posted to YouTube. The goal is not necessarily to go viral and be caught and seen by other students in other states and other student ministries, though that can be something that happens.
00:18:32:06 - 00:18:54:22
Nick Clason
But that's not the goal, right? The goal is to create content that is going to be helpful and beneficial to answer specific questions about God, about faith, about theology to the students that God has entrusted into you and into your care. Once you've shot the content, you now move into the hardest space of all of this process, probably, which is editing.
00:18:54:25 - 00:19:19:10
Nick Clason
And there are some three different ways that you can do it. Cap Cut, DaVinci Resolve. Those are linked down below in the description, but also linked right here on screen is the best editing tools in the best editing apps, how to edit, how to level up your editing and why editing on videos does actually matter. So go ahead.
00:19:19:10 - 00:19:35:04
Nick Clason
Take a look at that video. We love to catch you over there as we're continuing on our YouTube for Youth Ministry playlist. But don't forget and as always, stay hybrid.
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📹 YouTube is an incredible platform for reaching teenagers with the message and hope of the gospel.
🖥️ It's Clear that YouTube is (or should be) the most used platform for Youth Ministries
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 You Want to Reach More Students, Right?
01:15 The Statistics that Prove YouTube is a Perfect Strategy to Reaching Teenagers
04:22 The Reasons to Use YouTube
07:14 Youth Pastors are YouTubers
09:30 Exclusive Free Offer!
10:05 Answer Student's Questions
11:20 Other Features of YouTube that I Love!
14:35 It's time to make content on YouTube that's made for YouTube
TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:02 - 00:00:28:05
Nick Clason
Youth pastor. Let me guess. You want to reach more students and Youth Pastor, let me also guess that you care about pastoring and developing the students that God has already entrusted to you. Let me guess. You pour a lot of time, energy and effort into your teaching messages because you care about the students that God has given you and you want them to grasp the truth that's found in God's Word.
00:00:28:07 - 00:00:56:14
Nick Clason
Listen, I agree with you, and I think that you work too hard to craft and pour over and study and pray and agonize over your messages only for them to die on your hard drive the moment that they're delivered. And so I think that we and all youth ministries should be leaning into the digital presence. That's why I've built this podcast, Hybrid Ministry.
00:00:56:14 - 00:01:24:26
Nick Clason
So in this episode, we are going to talk about why youth ministries need to be on YouTube, why you should be on YouTube, and how you can get started and yeah, maybe even not add more work to your plate. Welcome to the hybrid ministry show. My name is Nick Clason and I'm absolutely pumped and fired up to talk to you about this because in my over a year journey on this podcast, I have grown to love YouTube.
00:01:25:02 - 00:01:54:22
Nick Clason
When I started with social media and when I started trying to reach students on the Internet, YouTube was a distant kind of far strategy that was on my radar. Like it was like, I'll post some videos over there, but in my time since that, which was probably five, six, seven years ago, I have come to love YouTube and I am more and more convinced that YouTube in addition to all other digital and social mediums that we can effectively reach students with.
00:01:54:24 - 00:02:16:21
Nick Clason
But YouTube is one of the best resources out there, and Gen Z, right? Gen Z, I'm not Gen Z, but the students are. We as youth pastors trying to reach they use their mobile device more than any other device combined. I've actually posted a clip that said that exact stat on my Tik tok, all my socials link down below in the description.
00:02:16:21 - 00:02:34:17
Nick Clason
If you're interested in that, if you are watching via a podcast catcher I am and have some graphs and charts on screen via YouTube. The YouTube link is down below in the description as well, but they use their mobile device. Any other device combined. And one of the comments that I got was like, Well, no duh, what do you want us to do?
00:02:34:17 - 00:02:53:16
Nick Clason
Use a portable DVD player? And I thought it was a hilarious comment because while they were sort of coming at me, it's an it's a fair question, like, yeah, what do we want Gen Z to do? Like use the archaic technology that we as millennials and Gen Xers and and older had to and were forced to use before the invention of the cell phone.
00:02:53:19 - 00:03:21:07
Nick Clason
The cell phone is amazing. Additionally, 45% of teenagers claim to be online get this almost constantly and finally people say that they are two times double as likely to share video based content rather than text based posts. I am in a youth ministry leader cohort is based on Zoom. It's a national thing all across country. More information if you're interested in that down below in the show notes.
00:03:21:07 - 00:03:38:25
Nick Clason
But I recently got tapped and asked in my cohort if I would be willing to workshop this idea of social media, and I was thrilled and honored with the opportunity. And so part of what I'm going to share with you today is actually from that presentation, but I'm going to expound upon it a little bit more because I think about like this.
00:03:38:25 - 00:04:09:21
Nick Clason
If an alien were to come down and were to see these statistics that Gen Z uses their mobile device more than any phone, and 45% of teenagers, 45, almost half claimed to be online constantly and video based content is two times more likely to be shared. Then an alien would come down and be like, Dang, if you people are trying to actively reach young people with the most important message, the message that you have has been laid on your heart and that God has placed on you and said, Go preach the Gospel to all nations.
00:04:09:22 - 00:04:34:09
Nick Clason
And by all means that part of our nations mean that must mean that youth ministries are crushing social media. Well, in the famous words of Lee Corso, Not so fast, my friend. And here's why I actually posted back in July 2019 the download Youth Ministry Facebook Community group linked to that. If you're not in that already on Facebook, it's a great community of ideas and questions and answers.
00:04:34:09 - 00:04:56:24
Nick Clason
It's a really great place. But I my question was this and I think I have like 100 to 200 responses. So not a massive sample size, but also not small either. And I said, Hey, how would you rate your web and social presence right now? And many people said, okay, 49% said okay and 48% said really, really bad.
00:04:56:26 - 00:05:16:23
Nick Clason
And only 3% said it was good, which I don't get how that math adds up, but feel free to double check me on that. Hey, if you are in the okay category, get going. Give me like like we're glad you're here. If you're in the bad category, then you probably only subscribe because this next playlist that we're in, I mean, honestly, it's for you.
00:05:16:23 - 00:05:47:25
Nick Clason
And even if you're in the great category, turn the bell on because I want to help. Level up your YouTube game in this playlist that we are finding ourselves in. Talking about the importance and value of YouTube and why YouTube, right? Pew Research actually have some statistics. Again, if you're listening, you may want to scrub over to the YouTube section of this video where 20 in 2022, 95% of teenagers say that they have used the following apps or sites, the app that 95% of them said they use was YouTube.
00:05:47:28 - 00:06:12:11
Nick Clason
The next highest was Tik Tok at 67%, a massive drop, Instagram at 62 and Snapchat 59 and Facebook at 32, which is down from 71% in this comparative study from 2014. And so actually we debated the topic Instagram versus Tik Tok versus YouTube right here. The video that you'll see if you're on YouTube right now, you can click on that and go watch that video.
00:06:12:11 - 00:06:50:19
Nick Clason
As we explored the pros and cons of each of those categories. And then actually left a final verdict about which of those platforms you should be using. Hint Side note Spoiler alert it was YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world behind Google. Some may classify it as third, but even if you do buy into that third largest search engine in the world, think it's behind Google, Google images and then YouTube, which so Google and Google images kind of are one and the same, which is I think why people debate between second and third, nonetheless, is the only platform backed by the power of Google and the Google search engine.
00:06:50:24 - 00:07:12:27
Nick Clason
So think about it. Why do you use YouTube? You jump on there to ask questions, how to change your oil and how to rewire a ceiling fan into your house and and how to, you know, get fastpass is that Disney, which unfortunately they don't have them anymore. But if you or anyone has connections down in Orlando and you want to give me a ticket, my family or come in in September, so send that on my way.
00:07:12:27 - 00:07:47:00
Nick Clason
But nonetheless, we get on YouTube to get answers to questions. Guess what? What do we do As youth pastors? We answer students questions. YouTube and youth ministry are a match made in absolute heaven. Think about it. You're actually already doing this. Your series that you have planned for next month. You are planning it in response to answering a student's question, or you are planning it because you think that your students need this particular message or this particular topic or this particular book study.
00:07:47:00 - 00:08:15:27
Nick Clason
Right. And the good news is all four social networks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, all of them have a short form, vertical based video component right now that is taking the social media landscape by fire. So what that means for you and what that means for me is we can create one type of content, short form, vertical based video, which by the way, remember video posts two times more likely to be shared, and then we can post them across all of the platforms.
00:08:15:29 - 00:08:45:19
Nick Clason
We no longer have to create content that's specifically curated for each platform. We can create one piece, one type of content to get that message out and spread it across all four of the social networks. I've done this before. A link down below some of my statistics to the particular section in the video where I did it, but I pulled like just four pieces of social media content across all four platforms and I added it up and you know, none of them were like amazingly high in their view rate.
00:08:45:19 - 00:09:21:04
Nick Clason
But when you strung all four of them together, we reached over 500 students on a really badly performing post. And so my question to you and all youth pastors, like I said back at the beginning, is do you want to reach more students? Social media may in fact be the door in which you can reach more students, not because you're looking for vanity metrics, not because you want to become a famous influencer, but because you believe as a youth pastor that you have been given the burden to help carry out the Great Commission from Jesus Christ himself, to reach the world with the message of the Gospel and the message of hope.
00:09:21:07 - 00:09:49:28
Nick Clason
And you can look directly into a camera and share that message with your students. And you, like I said, you're already answering their questions. What if you just started capturing those answers via video? I'm actually opening up a limited amount of spots, three in particular. In fact, they may already be filled up from some of my cohort friends where I am going to offer done for you editing you film your teaching message, you send me the footage, I will send it back to you edited.
00:09:50:05 - 00:10:09:24
Nick Clason
I'll give you three short form, vertical based videos that you can post on whatever platforms you have, and I'll create a YouTube thumbnail for you to go ahead and get that thing started if you're interested. More information link down below in the show notes, in the description or in the podcast catcher wherever you are. But I love what Sean Cannell actually says.
00:10:09:24 - 00:10:30:01
Nick Clason
He says what you should do on YouTube is answer specific questions. He calls it his ASQ strategy. And like I said, you're doing that when you're creating your teaching series. So like for example, in our student ministry, we just got done answering the specific question, How do you use the Bible? How do you use the Bible? Right?
00:10:30:03 - 00:10:43:26
Nick Clason
Answer that question for your students and then when you have a student who comes to you two or three months later that says, Hey, can you help me get started on how to use my Bible? You don't have to be like, dog, we just did a series on that. Three months ago. I wish you would have been here.
00:10:43:28 - 00:11:06:02
Nick Clason
You can give them the link to that content, right? And even your most strict homeschool best parents, which by the way, that's me. I have an eight year old, the five year old. We're probably going to homeschool our kids next year. They love YouTube and they watch YouTube, but they only are allowed to watch it. When we my wife and I are in the room with them on the big screen in our main living room.
00:11:06:04 - 00:11:27:10
Nick Clason
And so you can you can deliver your content via YouTube to even the strictest parents and you can, you know, wave all the way up to the kids with absolutely no parental supervision on the Internet because all students, 95%, are on YouTube. Now, they may not be hungry for your content, and that's why you have to help kind of build and grow that audience.
00:11:27:10 - 00:11:53:11
Nick Clason
And that's why I love that YouTube offers the shorts section. They have the kind of TikTok, discovery based algorithm stuff. We've gained a lot of subscribers just organically, both on this personal channel here and also on my student ministry channel, far more on my student ministry channel, by the way, because we're shooting and producing content with our students and we're also shooting and producing content with our student staff, that's fun, engaging and entertaining.
00:11:53:11 - 00:12:17:21
Nick Clason
And then hopefully they follow us there and then maybe they get a little sneak peek of one of our short teaching reels or videos or whatever, and then that will link to a longer form, more elaborated, fleshed out answer to something that we're answering their specific question. I also love on YouTube. They have now the community tab with like polls and you can ask questions and you can post pictures and all kinds of stuff.
00:12:17:21 - 00:12:45:23
Nick Clason
It mirrors a more traditional sort of social media experience that wasn't there before for YouTube. I also love, love, Love their playlist feature. It is both a great place to dump any and all of your series You can any like three, four, five, six, seven week series can be a three, four, five, six, seven video playlist. And additionally, we're going to get deeper into this in this particular how to use YouTube playlist on this channel.
00:12:45:23 - 00:13:04:03
Nick Clason
It's very meta if you think about it. My playlist helping you create playlists on YouTube for your student ministry. But nonetheless, like you can also offer free courses to things that are necessary and need to be answered by your students. For example, we did one on baptism, but whenever you get up and preach on baptism, think about it.
00:13:04:03 - 00:13:27:24
Nick Clason
A wide and vast majority of those students have already been baptized. And so in a lot of ways, what's a good message and a good reminder? It's also not always like pressing more relevant to every single student in your room. However, if you have a playlist, you can send that information to students and links and descriptions, subscribes, likes, all those types of things where you can help them move on into that next step.
00:13:27:24 - 00:13:53:19
Nick Clason
You can meld the in-person and the digital and use it to work together, just like we all do in our own lives. We're using technology to to weave into an intersect, into the main and real parts of our lives. And also it's got the live kind of portion of the of YouTube that you can put a camera in the room and and livestream and you may be thinking, Dude, I can't livestream.
00:13:53:19 - 00:14:18:18
Nick Clason
I don't have that capability in my youth room. Truth be told, neither do I. And that's actually why I propose that we as youth pastor should film videos very much like I'm doing right now on a camera and so on. This right here on screen is my e-book. It's 100% completely free, and in there is a link to my buyer's guide on getting YouTube gear set up for under $100.
00:14:18:25 - 00:14:52:18
Nick Clason
You buy things like a tripod, a microphone and some lighting. You can do all that for under $100 and then use the cell phone that you already own that's in your pocket. And if you don't have a smartphone, find somebody in your life who does. You probably know someone would be my guess and then start filming pre filming your messages and we can get you started for under $100 and like I said, a limited run right now where I'm offering three people into my kind of beta trial course of I will edit your videos for you on social media, but live streaming is probably what most of us do.
00:14:52:18 - 00:15:19:14
Nick Clason
It's probably how most of us post our church's content onto the internet, but that's not made for YouTube, that's made for church, which is why I actually, you know, I recommend pre filming the messages because you don't have live streaming capabilities, but I also recommend pre filling messages because it's what's made and optimized for YouTube. Would you rather watch a video that's made for YouTube or would you rather watch a video that's made for another experience?
00:15:19:14 - 00:15:44:15
Nick Clason
Or are you sort of just in the back of the room and you're not the focal point? And the speaker, the presenter, they're not focused on you. They're focused on what's in front of them and they should be right. That's why I recommend pre filming your messages. It's not going to be that much more work. All you have to do is find time to sit down for 20 to 30 minutes per week, deliver your message, direct to camera, and potentially send it on to me to edit.
00:15:44:15 - 00:16:14:23
Nick Clason
If not, you can do some basic editing. We're going to get into that in this playlist, but that's why I recommend pre filming because the most dynamic content, if you go to the YouTube home screen on your YouTube account, probably the content that is being delivered to you and fed to you through the algorithm is content that is made for the medium of YouTube and you can create content like that by pre filming your messages that you're already doing the study and work to produce and make.
00:16:14:23 - 00:16:45:18
Nick Clason
And with a few small tweaks, we can get you up and running and launch a YouTube channel where you can reach students with the hope and the message of the gospel with a content that is made for the medium in which you're posting and we're going to get into all of that linked right here on the screen. Make sure that you subscribe so that you don't miss a single other video here in this playlist we here at the hybrid ministry show want to make digital discipleship easy, possible and accessible for you.
00:16:45:21 - 00:16:48:04
Nick Clason
So as always, stay hybrid.
17 min
March 28, 2024 Episode 090: 🐿️ When to Split High School and Middle School Youth Group
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🐿️ Middle School and High School Students
What are the factors that need to be considered when deciding whether or not you’re ready to split them?
And what are some creative hacks to getting around it, if you’re not ready or able yet?
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Sharing Youth Rooms with Outside Groups
01:08 3 Factors to Consider Before Splitting Middle and High School
03:54 The Pros to Making the Split
05:23 The Cons of Making the Split
06:59 Four Creative Hacks to Reimagining the Split
TRANSCRIPT
00;00;00;00 - 00;00;01;28
Nick Clason
Youth pastors.
00;00;01;28 - 00;00;28;59
Nick Clason
Have you ever had a high school student say to you, “I don't want to come to youth group with that middle schooler!” Give us a like if you know, a high school student who has done that and maybe subscribe if you've actually never heard that. And then the rest of us who have liked the video because we've had high school students do that will either know that you're lying or we're going to be super jealous because you and me all know that in the back of our heads, right?
00;00;29;00 - 00;00;56;35
Nick Clason
Like we may or may not have the bandwidth or the time to split up the middle school and the high school students. And so, in today's video. We're going to explore the best, most premium and optimal time and way to split up your middle school and your high school students. We’ll talk about the three factors to consider. We will ask two clarifying questions in each of the sections.
00;00;56;40 - 00;01;20;09
Nick Clason
The top two pros, the top two cons, and finally, some creative hacks to get around making the big switch. If you know you're not ready for or don't have the time for it, factor number one is your size. Like you have to consider how big is your group? What is your average group's critical mass. That’s question number one?
00;01;20;12 - 00;01;49;42
Nick Clason
Then number two in the sized question is what momentum will be lost by splitting up your students? The other factor you have to consider is your bandwidth. For example, like do you have the bandwidth to split middle school and high school? When I was working at church early on in my ministry, I determined that we had a big enough critical mass and that we could withstand this switch.
00;01;49;47 - 00;02;06;55
Nick Clason
But then we had to switch and I had to add to my calendar and my schedule another night to meet. And I ended up deciding to make that decision. In that season of life. It was the right move and it was the right call. So we did middle school on Wednesday night and we did high school on Sunday night.
00;02;06;56 - 00;02;30;02
Nick Clason
Prior to that, we did both of them together on Wednesday night. So Sunday night was a new addition. And looking back, I don't know actually, cause I only ended up running it for a year prior to then me moving on to a different church. I don't know if it was the right decision. You have to measure and know what your bandwidth is and if you have the bandwidth to split.
00;02;30;02 - 00;02;53;35
Nick Clason
And I would recommend right here the top of this video is a video where we talked about time management and go through that. And that little exercise might actually help give you some clarification on do you truly have the bandwidth. Also, the second question under bandwidth is do you potentially have a volunteer to help you own that other piece, the other split piece as you navigate?
00;02;53;35 - 00;03;19;25
Nick Clason
And then the third factor, of course, is space. Does your space in your church, does it accommodate it? And the second question is what constraints is this going to put on your space? So, for example, I worked at a church that didn't have a lot of space, even though it was a big church, big a big multi-site church in in Chicago area.
00;03;19;29 - 00;03;45;36
Nick Clason
But other ministries had other nights of the week that they had things going on, like our groups ministry met and our junior home ministry met and are like grief share. I can't remember all the different ones, but there's always a different ministry on a different night of the week. And so our decision to either have junior high and high school together or split up was going to either demand two nights a week for our space or just one.
00;03;45;36 - 00;04;10;57
Nick Clason
And then that that dictated how and when the other ministries in your space met. So a couple of pros for splitting up middle school and high school. Again, if if your size, if your bandwidth and if your space will all kind of accommodate it and if all those factors that you asked this question swirl around are working together, pro number one, of course, is like developmentally
00;04;11;51 - 00;04;28;39
Nick Clason
splitting middle school and high school seems to be appropriate. I mean, you just think about it. I think of that sixth grade boy in your group and then think of that 12th grade girl, like developmentally speaking. They're just in two different spots and this is no shade thrown on that sixth grade boy or that 12th grade girl.
00;04;28;44 - 00;05;13;44
Nick Clason
But, you know, they each need different things, their need. They need to be challenged in a different way. And so splitting them up will help you as a youth pastor, be able to navigate that well, to be able to really, truly give and provide for each of those people individually what they need and what they're looking for. Pro Number two is that probably the high school students preference, it may not be the middle school students preference on the top, but underneath that it may actually be the best thing for a middle school student to give them their own space, to just simply be a middle schooler and not have high schoolers looking over frustratedly
00;05;13;45 - 00;05;37;36
Nick Clason
or condemningly or even just being annoyed. And the high school students may want their own space to kind of lean into and be uniquely high school students. But the cons, of course, are it is more taxing on you as the individual or on you in your time or on you and your space. And so you may be in a context that has multiple staff and so that may be the solution.
00;05;37;36 - 00;06;03;36
Nick Clason
One of you runs one night and run one of you runs another night. But if you are your own person and if you do not have the staff to accommodate something like this, then it is going to be more taxing and another con I honestly would say is that it's not necessarily it doesn't necessarily give students a realistic view and or picture of the rest of life in the rest of the world.
00;06;03;36 - 00;06;27;24
Nick Clason
Like right now, I am a 34 year old youth pastor at a church and there is not one other 34 year old on my staff. As far as I know, I could be wrong and I might not be thinking about a certain person, but the fact of the matter is like I interact with Boomers and Xers and us another Millennials that is now my exact age and also some people that are Gen Z and so on.
00;06;27;24 - 00;06;57;17
Nick Clason
Our staff, we have an age range all the way from 20 up to like 60, 65 ish, right? Like we have a big span of age. And so sometimes like segmenting down our ministries, while they may be developmentally good or they may also be like preferences of certain ages at the high school students and middle school students, it may not be what is best for them, and it may not give them the most realistic picture of what their future life is going to be.
00;06;57;22 - 00;07;27;11
Nick Clason
Which leads me to my third idea three creative hacks to kind of get around this. If you don't have the bandwidth and if you're not quite yet ready to split middle school and high school, the first one is stagger your programing. So maybe you have your students meet all within the same time block Which I would probably recommend for like parent’s sake, If they have a middle school student and a high school student, they don't have to drop off and pick up at different time.
00;07;27;11 - 00;07;54;21
Nick Clason
So if it's like 6 to 8, they drop off both students. But then inside the building, middle schoolers are in this element of your service and high schoolers are in this element of the service, and then they switch and then high school switch to this element while middle schoolers then switch to that element. That is a way for you to lean into a good volunteer, to be able to run the additional space so that you can be teaching or running the game or wherever you need to be in those moments.
00;07;54;26 - 00;08;17;15
Nick Clason
But it will also give middle school and high school students their own unique difference set up and their own unique, different space. Another creative hack answer that I have is consider the idea of going hybrid and you're like, Wait a minute, that doesn't do anything for the space. And in some ways you're 100% right, but leaves right here in mind 100% completely free e-book.
00;08;17;15 - 00;08;41;53
Nick Clason
I will lead you through how to develop out a hybrid strategy and the bedrock. The baseline for my hybrid strategy is begin pre filming your talks ahead of time, pre film talks, and then post them to YouTube. And then from there, as you maybe clip up a few of those using a service link down below like Opus.Pro to give you AI generated shorts, reels and TikToks
00;08;42;07 - 00;09;03;08
Nick Clason
You can sprinkle those in throughout your week. And then the last piece of it is you can then add in and then use an element of fun into your social media and you can use your students to do that. And so perhaps an element of your creative staggered programing is creating a space for your students. Come together and get on video and make content with you.
00;09;03;08 - 00;09;29;31
Nick Clason
And you might be thinking like, Wait a minute, do they want to do that? And the answer to those yes, Generation Z and Generation Alpha, they live in a a publisher type of generation with a publisher type of mindset. And most of us have been raised in an industrial age where we create content and or we create an environment that we then sit down and we produce it and or deliver it to people.
00;09;29;31 - 00;09;52;08
Nick Clason
And then we assume that they want to just sit and consume it. And the tables are turned in that day and age. And so the advantage is, while digital is the language of teenagers, you can include them in your strategy. Another hack I have for you is that you can make your small groups like more age and more gender graded.
00;09;52;08 - 00;10;14;09
Nick Clason
And so if you don't have the bandwidth yet to split apart your big middle school and high school group, when you break them down into small groups, whether that be on a different night of the week or even the same night that they're all together. When you do that, you then give them that space. And so maybe you teach to a large room and you do have to sort of hit the middle somewhere between that sixth grade and that 12th grader.
00;10;14;14 - 00;10;52;16
Nick Clason
But when they break down into their small groups, they're more age appropriate and they're more age and grade and gender graded. And then finally, an idea could be simply to just lean in to the age discrepancy. You know, there's an age discrepancy. You know, it may not be ideal and or it may not be everyone's preference, but if you lean into it and if you let the middle schoolers have the high schoolers have a little bit more fun, and then if you lean into the high schoolers and allow them to see that they have an opportunity to step up and be leaders to these middle school students, it can be a win win for you
00;10;52;16 - 00;11;15;30
Nick Clason
and for your youth ministry, which is why I have linked right here on the screen youth group Growth. How do we reach Generation Alpha and Generation Z in this new world that we find our selves in? So go ahead. Take a look at that video. And don't forget that we trying to make digital discipleship easy, possible and accessible.
00;11;15;42 - 00;11;19;04
Nick Clason
So as always, stay hybrid.
12 min
March 21, 2024 Episode 089: ⚠️ Sharing your Youth Room with other Church Ministries
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🗑️ Have you ever walked into your youth room after another church ministry had an event in there?
Was it clean?
Probably not.
🫧 Was it put back how you preferred it to be?
Probably, also, not.
⚠️ But you don’t have the authority to tell people not to use it.
How do you share a space well?
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Sharing Youth Rooms with Outside Groups
01:26 Three Hacks to Using Shared Church Space
07:08 3 Hacks to Letting Others Borrow Your Space
10:30 1 Idea that doesn't need space!
TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:25:13
Nick Clason
Youth Pastor, have you ever walked back into your youth room after a church ministry or just an outside group? Use your space? Was it clean? Probably not. If this has ever happened to you, if you're watching on YouTube, give us a like and well, was your room put back to the way that you preferred it to be? Probably also, no.
00:00:25:15 - 00:00:45:30
Nick Clason
So if you've ever had to pick up after a messy group, then give me a subscribe. And if you don't have the authority to tell people how to use you youth group or not, and if you've ever been put in this position, well then turn the bell on, because we're right now in a playlist called Youth Pastor Problems.
00:00:46:00 - 00:01:09:08
Nick Clason
So how do you share your space well? We're going to give you three hacks for how you as a youth pastor can share a space that is a shared space in your church. It's not your youth room. It is the church's room, and the youth just use it. We're also then going to give three hacks for when you do have a youth room that you actually have to share your space with or allow guest groups to come on in.
00:01:09:08 - 00:01:39:13
Nick Clason
What are some three hacks to make sure that you don't come into a wild mess disaster the next time? And then I'm going to give you one final idea and one final hack that actually negates the need for space altogether. Welcome to the hybrid ministry show. Well, hey, everybody. Welcome to the hybrid ministry show. My name is Nick Clason and I've been a youth pastor for 13 years in full time, part time and vocational ministry all together.
00:01:39:13 - 00:01:58:03
Nick Clason
And early on, one of the churches I worked in, we were given a place to meet is our very own. It was disconnected from the building. It was actually attached to the maintenance garage, and so we called it the shed. What teenager doesn't want to be meeting in a place called the Shed? But eventually we outgrew that space.
00:01:58:03 - 00:02:20:10
Nick Clason
And so when I started we had just a handful of kids. And then towards the middle of my tenure there, we were running a good 30, 40, 50 something kids, and they just couldn't cram into this small shed anymore. And so we actually had to start using the church's main auditorium, the main sanctuary area, and we had to set up in there every single Wednesday night and tear it down.
00:02:20:12 - 00:02:37:15
Nick Clason
But the sanctuary was too big for us. And so we sort of had to pivot and adapt and we had to make this thing work for us in a way right there. Like it wasn't optimized to work for, it was optimized for a Sunday morning main church service. And now we, the youth, are coming in and were using it.
00:02:37:15 - 00:02:55:17
Nick Clason
So I have three hacks for what to do. If you are borrowing or sharing a space within the church that's also being used. But other places in the church hack number one is set up as early as you can. In fact, linked right here at the very top of my video is my full proof 100% completely free time management technique.
00:02:55:23 - 00:03:10:17
Nick Clason
Go ahead and take a look at that if that's something you're interested or navigating. But if you manage your time in such a way that like let's say you meet on Wednesday night, Wednesday morning, this is what I would do, I would come on in and I would set the room up first thing 9 a.m. I work for a little bit.
00:03:10:17 - 00:03:33:06
Nick Clason
And then honestly, I would go home and I would take a break a gap in the middle of the day from like lunchtime until about 330 or 4:00 in the afternoon before I would come back and start to get the final touches ready for youth. But if I had set the room up early and if I did it first thing in the morning, then I was never running out of time to really get the room all the way set up.
00:03:33:06 - 00:03:57:00
Nick Clason
If it was taking me longer than expected or if I was adding another element into it, like I would know that because I was working on it first thing in the morning. The second idea that I have for you is use portable things linked down below in description are some links to a few different things, like a portable Gaga pit that you can inflate and deflate.
00:03:57:00 - 00:04:17:26
Nick Clason
And so if you're using a space that you can't keep it set up all week long, this is perfect for you. And if even if you are using a space that you can that you do set up and tear down, this is also a really great place number, really great thing. Number two is a portable nine square and it's not like super duper portable, but it's called Castle Squares.
00:04:17:28 - 00:04:41:20
Nick Clason
And so instead of having the downspouts in every single spot, you just have the four kind of the base four that go up and then across you just have some straps. You can get it set up in under 10 minutes and torn down and even less time links to both of those things down below in description, or if you're in a podcast, catch your head to the show notes HybridMinistry.xyz/089
00:04:41:28 - 00:05:01:17
Nick Clason
Another thing that I did in my church where I was borrowing the sanctuary was we had those portable retractable accordion walls. I did put a few portable wall descriptions down below. They're not exactly the same thing, but they could work in your space, just check them out. And then we bought a lot of banners and so we would use a vinyl banners.
00:05:01:17 - 00:05:25:24
Nick Clason
I'm pretty sure we just used them off of like Vistaprint or something like that. But we would hang those with just like thumbtacks into those portable walls. And they had like our high school logo and our middle school logo and our student ministry logo and just some like other phrases and things that we would use. And so we would line the sanctuary because it had three seating sections, so we'd line the two aisles with those walls.
00:05:25:24 - 00:05:42:30
Nick Clason
So we would we would block off the seating in the wing, so it would forced everyone into the middle. And then those walls we put some of like our logos and our graphics and stuff like that to sort of liven the space up and just make it feel a little bit more youth ministry specific hack number three.
00:05:42:30 - 00:06:10:24
Nick Clason
So one was set up early. Two is use portable things. Three is be respectful full, right? Like I have this picture right here if you're watching on YouTube, a bunch of Nerf guns in a French press coffee maker. And the reason for that along with the rubber duck is that all of these things sort of encapsulate a church that I used to work at and I worked at this church and the Duck was our mascot, and a friend gave me this coffee pot.
00:06:10:24 - 00:06:32:26
Nick Clason
But the reason for the Nerf guns was because every single Thursday morning when I would come back into my office after youth night had happened the night before, on Wednesday night was a handful of Nerf darts laying on my desk because one of the junior high boys groups would meet in the lobby and they would do their discussion for about seven and a half minutes.
00:06:32:29 - 00:06:57:04
Nick Clason
And then as soon as the discussion was over, they would play Nerf and the facilities people would always find like anywhere from 3 to 8 Nerf darts. And so any given week I'd walk into my office and boom, on my desk. Right were just a handful of Nerf guns, be respectful, not gun darts. Be respectful, clean up as best as you can.
00:06:57:04 - 00:07:22:03
Nick Clason
In my defense, I was trying to clean up, but I just wasn't seeing them and make sure that the space that you were using looks as good or better. I know it's cliche then the way that you got it when you got there. So what do you do if you are letting others borrow your space? Let's say you have your very own dedicated youth room space, but you're letting other groups, other ministries come in and borrow it.
00:07:22:04 - 00:07:50:19
Nick Clason
Well, one space that once we outgrew even the sanctuary, we actually bought a small Baptist church on the other side of the road. So we had to different buildings and the church across the road. The difference in their like main auditorium, main meeting space, was that they had chairs so we could take the chairs down and get that whole space completely wide open where in our main building the the pews were bolted down to the floor.
00:07:50:27 - 00:08:11:19
Nick Clason
So all that meant was that our area was incredibly desirable, so people wanted to use it. And so what I actually did was I created just like a manual. You'll see it right here linked on screen. If you're watching on YouTube, if you're listening to the podcast, hit the link on the YouTube description there in the description of the podcast and go check this part out.
00:08:11:19 - 00:08:34:25
Nick Clason
But it was basically a how to step by step with photos to replace and put back the room the way that it needed to be. So that it was ready for us when we got back together. You see, what I have noticed in most of my time in ministry is that people that don't set the room back up, they're not doing it because they're frustrated or they're mad at you.
00:08:34:25 - 00:08:51:24
Nick Clason
They're just they're just putting it back how they think. Because people guest groups often come into your space and they immediately start making it ready for their thing or their event or their birthday party. And then when it's time to clean up, they're like, shoot, where was this basket? and Oh shoot. How did it look over there in that corner?
00:08:51:24 - 00:09:09:11
Nick Clason
Because they don't remember, because they're so focused on their thing, and rightfully so. Like, I'm not I'm not angry at them for doing that. Right. But what the manual does is it tells them exactly, this is how I want it set up. This is how it was when you came in or this is how it should have been set up.
00:09:09:14 - 00:09:34:25
Nick Clason
And so when there's a group, they have the exact right replica for how to put it back together. The problem is, if you've changed any of your minds since you've made that manual, it's going back the way the manual is, right, even if you've adjusted some stuff. And so if you do make changes, if you do like, you know, move the ping pong table or the foosball table, make sure you update that also in the manual that you hand off to guest groups.
00:09:34:26 - 00:09:57:28
Nick Clason
Number two is have a clear cut cleaning policies and or potential rental fees. One of the tricky things about sharing space, especially in church, is that you are going to need to have custodial support for said event for said space when you give it away, especially for groups coming in on a Saturday and the custodian had already planned and had it cleaned.
00:09:57:30 - 00:10:20:21
Nick Clason
And so you're going to need to figure out like who is paying for it. The custodian is the guest you're going to pay for and what is that going rate going to be? And the third and final hack for letting others use your space is be respectful and be understanding back. Right. Just like I said, they're not thinking about your space and that, but they're also probably not doing it intentionally.
00:10:20:24 - 00:10:43:05
Nick Clason
If they are being disrespectful, then that may be time to have a conversation. But in most cases they're just doing their best. And so also try to have a understanding of grace and respectfulness for them. What is an idea that you might never need to use space ever again? Well, that idea, of course, is go hybrid and listen, I'm not saying to completely abandon your in-person meetings.
00:10:43:05 - 00:11:10:25
Nick Clason
In fact, that would go completely against the hybrid strategy, because hybrid is melding together of your digital presence in your in-person presence and making it one in the same, but linked right here on the screen and down in the description or wherever you're getting this or hybridministry.xyz/089 is my 100% completely free strategy Guide it is my e-book on how I build out a full fledged digital strategy.
00:11:10:30 - 00:11:47:08
Nick Clason
It's mostly focusing on a done for use social media strategy, but it's anchored by the long form teaching video, which takes place and is posted weekly every time we teach pre filmed messages on YouTube direct to camera, I tell you and explain how to do all of it in this e-book. And so I would love to encourage you to grab it, take a look and try at least implementing some pieces of it, because what it will do is it will allow your youth ministry to to not be tied and not be tethered to a physical location.
00:11:47:08 - 00:12:13:00
Nick Clason
And it won't be tied or tethered to events and attendance. Only you will be able to start reaching students with the hope and with the message of the Gospel far beyond just your in-person events and far beyond just your in-person physical locations and gatherings. In fact, my entire strategy in this episode links right here on the screen for how to go hybrid, how to implement it, what to do is right here.
00:12:13:00 - 00:12:20:29
Nick Clason
I would love to encourage you to take a look at that. Give us a subscribe. And don't forget and as always, stay hybrid.
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🤔 What is the best day to meet with our youth group students
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BEST TIME TO MEET?
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Programming Your Youth Service
00:54 The Pros and Cons of different Youth Group Meeting Days and Times
05:04 Three Questions to Ask when deciding when to meet for Youth Group
07:51 The Top 5 Youth Ministry Curriculum Resource Sites
13:44 3 Creative Youth Group Programming Hacks
TRANSCRIPT
00;00;00;00 - 00;00;20;40
Nick Clason
Last summer I had a leader say I thought that was a stupid idea. However, I later realized how genius it really was. What was it? I want you to stick around to the end, because this is actually one of my favorite youth group programing hacks. In addition to that, we're going to be talking about selecting the optimal youth.
00;00;20;40 - 00;00;44;48
Nick Clason
Time for you, your church and your youth group is at Wednesday night. Is it Sunday Night? Is it Sunday morning? Subscribe. If it's Wednesday night for you. Like if it's Sunday night and hey, hit the bell. If you have to be at your church on Sunday morning, I think that pretty much covers all of us. I also want to rank my top five five youth group curriculum providers and resources links down below in the show notes.
00;00;44;50 - 00;01;10;49
Nick Clason
And finally, I'm going to share with you my three favorite creative and potentially hybrid creative programing hacks. Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show and the best time to meet. Like I remember when I started as a youth pastor, I was working at a church and I was inheriting a youth ministry that was run by volunteers. And so high school was on Tuesday night, middle school was on Wednesday night.
00;01;10;49 - 00;01;31;23
Nick Clason
And I met with my pastor early on, like my very first week on the job. And he told me, he said, Hey, listen, you can do whatever you want, which is an absolute dream for a youth pastor. But as a young youth pastor, the decision was actually agonizing. Do I meet Wednesday night? Do I keep meeting Tuesday night, which is when the high school are meeting?
00;01;31;23 - 00;01;53;35
Nick Clason
Do I switch to like a Sunday night vibe? And so Wednesday night, Sunday night, Sunday morning, like and I did have a Sunday morning component and so like you have to, you know, kind of navigate and know like what is going on within your church. But I had an advantage at that church because the youth ministry pretty much ran the place during midweek.
00;01;53;49 - 00;02;21;05
Nick Clason
There was no midweek kids, kids ministry programing. Kids ministry did AWANA on Sunday night at like 4:15 or something. And it was kind of an odd time, which I did end up way down the road years later, jump into Sunday night. But early on I made a decision to just stick with Wednesday. So let's chat through the pros and cons of Wednesday night, Sunday night and Sunday morning, and then maybe another day of the week in there for you.
00;02;21;10 - 00;02;42;41
Nick Clason
But the pro of of Wednesday night to me is probably your most traditional youth night. It's been a lot of churches, a lot of youth groups have done for years. And like down here where I live in DFW, Dallas, Fort Worth area a lot of churches do. Wednesday night and I came from Chicago. Not many churches did did Wednesday night.
00;02;42;41 - 00;03;03;20
Nick Clason
And that's just kind of a cultural thing, right? But the pro to me is it's like a midweek kind of jolt of energy, a mid-week connection point from if you're typically meeting on Sunday morning, you get back together in the middle of the week. That's helpful. The con of it, however, and we talked about it here in the last video, is youth sports and extracurricular activities.
00;03;03;20 - 00;03;31;44
Nick Clason
People are just getting busy. And so it makes attendance and it makes the accessibility, I believe, of a Wednesday night trickier, Sunday Night, however, the pro, I would say is probably one of the most unscheduled night for teens. Like more and more extracurricular activities, more and more sports are invading Sunday night, but it is probably the most free night that your teens have when you're looking at it from a vantage point of the majority of the availability.
00;03;31;49 - 00;03;50;55
Nick Clason
The kind of it, however, is not only for you, but for you and your teens and your leaders. It makes for a long day. You were at church Sunday morning and you've got a little gap in the middle and then you have to come back. And that returning to church like that's that is always a hard hurdle to jump I’ve found.
00;03;50;59 - 00;04;09;17
Nick Clason
If you have a kid who's not regularly planning on being at church, you say, hey, come back tonight, do like I got homework and all the things and families kind of have Sunday dinners. And so Sunday nights do tend to kind of make for a long day and then in a lot of our cases, we all have to be at church on Sunday morning.
00;04;09;22 - 00;04;35;00
Nick Clason
Some of us do our youth service on Sunday morning. Some of us have more of like a Sunday school kind of curriculum, them that we have to adhere to or carry out. The pro of Sunday morning is it's probably the easiest to gather crowd. You're going to have your most captive audience. In fact, in a video that I talked about, the decline of church attendance, most teens are attending church because they're coming with their parents.
00;04;35;00 - 00;04;52;19
Nick Clason
And so if their parents are coming to church, they're coming to church. And so Sunday morning is a great time for that to happen. The con of it is, while it may be the most captive audience, you may have the most amount of people the teenagers tend to be and feel and the environment just feels a little more tame.
00;04;52;19 - 00;05;18;29
Nick Clason
It's not a youth ministry. It's more like we are a ministry of the overall church here on a Sunday morning. But when you're making these decisions, okay, because in my case, I was talking about when I started that job, I really could decide whatever I wanted. But in a lot of cases, you don't have that that luxury. And the reason might be because you're coming into a more established church, you're coming into a more established youth group.
00;05;18;29 - 00;05;43;15
Nick Clason
And so the other like three questions to ask in this setting are, number one, what is expected of you? For example, are you even allowed to not have Sunday morning as an option? Like what is the expectation of your church and do you have the freedom to pull certain programs, pull certain time slots that you meet? So you need to make sure you know that before you make a decision and get yourself potentially in trouble.
00;05;43;20 - 00;06;13;35
Nick Clason
Question number two is what's the rest of your church doing? For example, I went to a church and and my pastor told me that this is different. I had the the freedom to make this decision. I did not have to meet on Wednesday night and I made that decision. However, once programing started in the fall, I realized that I had made a pretty big mistake because the entire church, adults, kids, preschool, everyone came back to church on Wednesday night and the only group not there, the only group not meeting ended up being middle schoolers.
00;06;13;35 - 00;06;34;06
Nick Clason
And so I had parents of middle schoolers really, really upset because they felt like their kid was not being cared for and that their kid didn't matter. In the life cycle of the church. So what is the rest of your church doing? You need to weigh that out. And if the whole church coming together for midweek, then you probably should have something there for the youth as well.
00;06;34;06 - 00;06;55;37
Nick Clason
And the third question is where do you have natural momentum? Like I said, the church, I made a decision between Wednesday night and Tuesday night and all that. I ended up landing on Wednesday night, but then years later I switched over to Sunday night and I split apart middle school and I split apart high school. And when I did that, I pulled away a little bit of momentum as well.
00;06;55;38 - 00;07;20;44
Nick Clason
Middle school was fine because it stayed on the night that it was on Wednesday night. But high school struggled because we tried to move on the Sunday night to become more adaptable to their schedules. However, at that church I was in, my students had become used to a certain rhythm and so moving, making that decision that made them have to adjust their schedule and adjust the way that they attached and that they connected to our church.
00;07;20;48 - 00;07;46;22
Nick Clason
And here's thing none of that matters, right? In your youth ministry. If you don't have students who feel connected and don't feel like they have a piece of ownership in helping growing your youth ministry into a vibrant community, which we talked about in a previous video, how to actually teach well, course you need those two components before your teaching is really going to matter.
00;07;46;22 - 00;08;08;55
Nick Clason
So let's talk about the five best curriculum resource sites, which we talked about. Students want to feel a sense of ownership and they want to feel a sense of belonging. And those two things need to exist in your youth ministry before your teaching is really going to start to matter. Wherever teaching and youth ministry, they're not going anywhere.
00;08;08;55 - 00;08;33;15
Nick Clason
It's part of what we do in youth ministry. And the fact is, you work too hard to let your messages die on your hard drive after you've delivered it to a full or maybe even potentially full or half full or less full or not as full as you'd like. Room of teenagers. And so that's why I recommend linked right here down below in description, my completely free hybrid strategy.
00;08;33;15 - 00;08;53;22
Nick Clason
If you're a youth pastor, you need to start posting your entire full length messages to YouTube. And I hear you're thinking like, I don't have livestreaming capabilities. I don't have livestreaming equipment. Hey, listen, most youth ministries don't. I certainly don't. But what we do is we actually do a YouTube video, sit down direct to camera. Honestly, very similar to what you're probably watching here.
00;08;53;27 - 00;09;14;23
Nick Clason
You can watch it on a phone, a tablet, TV, a computer, whatever it is, but you post a full length video to YouTube, you get it down to 10 to 15 minutes in length, post it. You can do some basic after editing if you like. If not, just post it on up there. But then what that does is it also helps give you an anchor for your social media curriculum.
00;09;14;33 - 00;09;33;43
Nick Clason
And so the message doesn't have to just die on a Wednesday night, on a Sunday night, on a Thursday night, whatever night of the week is your youth night, but it can live on in perpetuity. And as you teach certain series, you know how it is when it's like a students like I have a question about a particular topic and you just wrapped up a series, but they weren't there.
00;09;33;48 - 00;09;51;04
Nick Clason
Now guess what? You can share them that link and be like, Hey, I actually just talked about I'd love for you to take a watch and then let's get back together and let's, let's chat about it. But that, that bedrock of that YouTube video that can that sort of establishes the framework for all your social media throughout the week.
00;09;51;04 - 00;10;12;20
Nick Clason
You can post fun content and you can also post teaching clips now because you have a fully filmed wide screen based video that you can then clip up. You can use a service like Opus AI or Opus.Pro link down below. Description Check that out if that’s something you want AI will clip up your messages for you and do all the editing.
00;10;12;20 - 00;10;35;33
Nick Clason
And it looks masterful. It looks it looks great. But let's talk about my five favorite curriculum resources. You may be creating your own curriculum as a youth pastor, but you don't have to. And if you don't have time for you don't want to do it, this these five resources will all save you tons of time. But they may not save you tons of money because they each have a different price tag attached to them.
00;10;35;38 - 00;10;58;37
Nick Clason
So my number one favorite resource curriculum provider right now is coleader.co. That is from Download Youth Ministry and they have three sort of different tiers of billing. You can get a free version where they'll just give you access to it and you'll get 40 free credits to begin and to explore. The good thing about coleader is it plans your whole program.
00;10;58;37 - 00;11;29;41
Nick Clason
It doesn't just give you a teaching script. Then they're premium version. It's about $249 a year billed annually, which breaks down to about $10 a week, again, including all of your programing and messages and songs and small group questions that gives you about 26 or so weeks of programing. So maybe this would be good if if you're doing like school year Wednesday night from like September through May, but you're not meeting in the summer and you have a lot of like gaps and Christmas parties and Thanksgivings off and stuff like that.
00;11;29;46 - 00;11;49;45
Nick Clason
And maybe you do actually teach some of your own content and you sort of supplement in there, but you need something to pull from when you're in a pinch. And then premium plus is about $399 a year. Billed annually breaks down to about $8 or so per week. And premium plus also gives you access to the new sidekick Beta, which is amazing.
00;11;49;56 - 00;12;10;39
Nick Clason
My number two on the list is the YM 360 sermon library is just a website which has kind of like an ala carte vibe. Where you go, you can grab different lessons three and four week series that have been taught by and taught by different youth. Pastors usually break it down to about $35 per series. So check that out.
00;12;10;39 - 00;12;38;33
Nick Clason
Link down below in the description. My third favorite one is the Grow curriculum. And it is. It looks great this week. It is modern. Have full disclosure. I've never used it. Mostly price tag reasons. And in most churches that I’ve been at, we've had some other provider already. But I love the what they guys what the guys over at stuff you can use do what they stand for and so you can check that out link down below in the description.
00;12;38;33 - 00;13;08;22
Nick Clason
My fourth is XP3, orange. It is probably the Cadillac of all youth ministry curriculums is also probably the most expensive on their website. Their annual license for it is anywhere from $449 a year all the way up to 2700 per year. And that's going to be based on your average youth group size. And then number five, my fifth resource is honestly just DYM library, similar to the YM360 model.
00;13;08;33 - 00;13;27;23
Nick Clason
You can just go get a DYM membership. They've started at $12 a month, gold at $26.99 a month, and then gold plus at $40 a month. Gold plus gives you sidekick phone connections so you can scan the code on screen. Do live poll voting. One of my favorite hybrid ways to do youth ministry these days. But you can just hop on there.
00;13;27;28 - 00;13;49;10
Nick Clason
They also gives you store credit when you have the membership. So whether you have a membership or not, you can ahead of time and you can find series there typically for anywhere from $5 to $12 per series for anywhere from like 3 to 4 week teaching series. So now here we are. What is my favorite youth group programing hack?
00;13;49;15 - 00;14;05;24
Nick Clason
Well, number one link the times that you meet by purpose, right? In a lot of cases, you may not be making a decision for youth ministry. You have like one singular time to me. Is it Wednesday? Is it Sunday? Right. Like you may already have to meet Sunday morning and then you're having to figure out when else to meet.
00;14;05;28 - 00;14;24;59
Nick Clason
And so instead of having to channel like supply curriculum for each and every one of those things, what we do in our current setting, I'll just tell you is Sunday morning is connect groups. And that's for the entire church adults, kids, students, everyone. And when I got here, we were like supplying curriculum for connect groups. And then on Wednesday nights we taught out of a different curriculum.
00;14;25;13 - 00;14;50;10
Nick Clason
And so on Wednesday nights now we teach a message and then on Sunday morning they discuss the message. We have more students on Sunday morning and a lot of our students on Sunday morning don't attend back over here on Wednesday night. So because we pre film our curriculum, we will play a little clip, a teaser, also a reminder for those students who did actually come on Wednesday night to help the Sunday morning people be able to have the discussion.
00;14;50;15 - 00;15;11;12
Nick Clason
All of our leaders are able to then watch the videos in full to be able to teach the lesson. If they didn't make it on Wednesday night and you're able to have that discussion. But also, if you did come Wednesday Night, it doesn't feel like a retread or a repeat. I can't remember who said this, but I remember someone someone saying at a a conference is something like think about all the times you meet.
00;15;11;12 - 00;15;37;35
Nick Clason
If you have especially in student ministry of like main church service, you have youth Sunday morning and then you have youth Wednesday Night. And if every-- if a student comes every single week, 52 different times per year, then that is 52 times that they are taught a sermon and challenged to make an adjustment in their life and change. That is another 52 times when they come to the Youth night that they are taught a sermon and challenged 52 different times to change.
00;15;37;40 - 00;16;06;52
Nick Clason
And then the third time they come to the youth other thing and they are challenged 52 different times per year and preach a sermon with some content and challenged to change their life. I don't do math on the fly very well, but that's like well over 150 times that they're supposed to do something different with their life. And just think that when you tie these to Wednesday night, Sunday morning, whatever your thing is, when you tie them together with purpose, if you have to have both meeting slots, that helps you, right?
00;16;06;52 - 00;16;33;58
Nick Clason
Streamline your teaching. But that's also helpful to the students. It's not a laziness thing, right? In my opinion. It's not like you're just trying to get out of doing more. It's stewarding your budget, but it's also helping like most like disciple your students. Because then when your teaching is in alignment, everything can be in alignment. Your social media for that week, whatever you taught on Wednesday, that's the topic on your your social media, that's a topic on all of your digital hybrid resources.
00;16;34;03 - 00;16;55;42
Nick Clason
Right? Number two, my favorite hack is interactive teaching. Let me just share with you right here on screen tonight. I am teaching live in the room at my church and we are in a series called How to use the Bible. And in that we have been giving them like, you know, reasons for why the Bible is reliable, reasons for why we can know that we can trust the Bible.
00;16;55;47 - 00;17;19;41
Nick Clason
But then we're also like helping share them, like actual hands on tactical, like guides on how to use the Bible. But tonight I'm talking about filtering God's Word or filtering culture through the lens of God's Word in everything that we do. So what I am doing tonight is I'm starting out with a Pawn Stars video clip talking about someone who brought in a fake Babe Ruth baseball card.
00;17;19;46 - 00;17;36;13
Nick Clason
And then from there, I'm telling them the hook straight away. I'm like, Are you a Biblical Christian or are you a Cultural Christian? And then we have tables in our space. And so I'm letting them talk about the difference between a Biblical Christian and a Cultural Christian. And how can you tell me give them a few minutes to chat that out.
00;17;36;18 - 00;17;59;10
Nick Clason
Then I'm going to have a poll on the screen with Sidekick. We're asking them this question that says, Do we agree or disagree? Do we? Do we view everything in our life through a filter? Right? And then I'm going to give them three filters I view my life through Dad filter, Colts Fan filter, coffee filter, Shout out to coffee.
00;17;59;10 - 00;18;23;51
Nick Clason
My brand new Valentine's gift, the Moca-master coffee maker first cup out of it this morning. Delicious. Ten out of ten would recommend. Then from there I am going to show them a picture of like a one of my kids watches for Christmas that they got. And talk about how scientists say that the same process that happens when you learn a new language is also what's happening when we're spending time on our screens.
00;18;23;56 - 00;18;55;17
Nick Clason
And then I'm going to give them the definition of a cultural Christian versus a biblical Christian. And then I'm going to build a poll asking them what their favorite drink is like caramel macchiato, coffee, chocolate, milk, and they're going to have a chance to vote on that. All the while, all of my notes are in a thing that we call digital notes, and we use the YouVersion Live events plan that is a completely free tool that you can use, but your church can set up live events and so kids can have their phones and they can be following along with the scriptures and taking notes.
00;18;55;17 - 00;19;19;03
Nick Clason
But then we're going to take them to Daniel. Chapter one. I got one more poll in there from Sidekick. I got another turn n talk. I got a map of where they go from Babylon to to from from Jerusalem to Babylon. Let's see, then I got some reasons why you oppose the food in Daniel Chapter one. I say what scholars think the age of this Daniel was, which is 11 to 17.
00;19;19;03 - 00;19;37;09
Nick Clason
And so my question is, how does a teenage boy end up in a foreign land? His parents are likely killed and he's opposing the king. How do you think he did that? How does he have enough wisdom to know what to do and what to oppose? And then I'm going to bring a coffee pot on stage and talk about how what we put in the pod there is what we filter.
00;19;37;09 - 00;19;57;18
Nick Clason
What spits out right, is a true form of of Christianity or it's not. But the Bible has to be the filter through which we do that. But the only way that matters if we truly have a desire to follow Jesus. Now, I don't like my whole reason for sharing All that is simply just for you to see all the different like I have sent them off to, to take questions.
00;19;57;18 - 00;20;26;54
Nick Clason
And then we have digital notes for them to follow along with. And we have polls on the screen and then we have a break in between. My first part of my teaching and my last part of my teaching, which is my third hack, and that's the one the leader said. I thought that was the most stupid idea because what I would do at summer camp last year is I teach for a little bit, share a little story in opening illustration, and then I would open it to a question and then I'd send them off in their small groups right there in that space in audio auditorium style seating at camp and say, Find your small
00;20;26;54 - 00;20;44;26
Nick Clason
group and your small group leader and answer these two questions and it would break for 10 minutes. And he said, I thought we were going to lose them. Like I thought like, man, that's dumb. Like, we are going to lose. These kids are going to go crazy. But what it actually did was it helped us have longer sessions and deeper teaching because we gave a break.
00;20;44;37 - 00;21;05;56
Nick Clason
I wasn't just sitting and teaching for 20 straight minutes, 30 straight minutes, 40 heaven forbid, straight minutes, because I gave them a break and I let them contribute to the conversation, which is what Gen Z is looking to do. Right? And so that one of the challenges to good creative teaching, because like I said, we use tables in our space most Wednesday Nights.
00;21;06;00 - 00;21;30;02
Nick Clason
It's one of the challenges to that right is navigating shared space, shared space in youth ministries, which is actually the next video it's going to be linked to right here on the screen. It’s a huge challenge and a problem facing youth pastors. How do you navigate it? What are best practices linked right here? Take a look at that, because we're here to try and make digital discipleship easy, possible and accessible.
00;21;30;02 - 00;21;32;26
Nick Clason
So as always, stay hybrid.
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