New Youth Pastor Resources

Hey guys I am going to start putting up weekly updates of new resources that are available to help those who are serving the local church students. I will continue to write my thoughts on this blog but will also be mixing in new resources. Check back often as I will post things as I find them. Also if you come across any good tools email them to me and I will post them up for others to see and use. You can email me at seantmi@earthlink.net. God bless you as you continue to serve.
Great Free Resources:
http://www.simplyyouthministry.com/freebies.html - One of the most valuable resources on the internet for youth ministry. Go through and look at all the free stuff here. You will find sermon outline, powerpoint games, motion backgrounds and more. Best of all it is all free. You can also purchase great resources from them.
http://www.worshiphousemedia.com/motions/17496/Easter-2 – Free Easter Motion Background for powerpoint or media shout. Worship House Media also has a lot of really great backgrounds for sale.
http://keepvid.com/ – Ever wish you could get a video off of youtube to show to your students but don’t have internet access in your youth room, this is the way to go. This site allows you to download youtube videos into a format that will let you play them on your computer for your students. On the main page there is a place where you can paste a website address, simply go to youtube and copy the URL of the website and then paste it into that toolbar on the keepvid website. After you paste it there is a download button beside that, click that button and it will take you to a page that will allow you to download the video. Click on the link that says MP4 and it will save you a useable file for your computer.
http://www.skitguys.com – Needs some creative skits for your youth to do? These guys are the best in all of Christendom. The skit that we did this weekend was theirs. Their skits are hilarious but always bring round a great point. You can buy DVD’s with lots of skits, download individual videos from their website (they also let you preview the videos first which is a great tool to make sure the skit fits what you want to talk about), or you can also just purchase pdf copies of the skit.
http://www.freemotionbackgrounds.com/ – Free Motion Backgrounds for your powerpoint or media shout for worship services. These are pretty good especially since they are free. Worship HouseMedia definitely has better ones but these are free.
http://www.ignitemotion.com/ – Ignite Motion Backgrounds. This is another place to download free backgrounds. This has several free backgrounds, a couple of them are really good.