Don't be scared of Social Media with Nate Clason

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In this video, youth pastor, Nate Clason shares his journey to posting on social media more regularly.
He also shares the one key secret that has brought his group more closely together.
And be sure to stick around to the very end, because live on the podcast, Nate and Nick discover one additional benefit to social media that will help youth pastors win with parents, pastors and even elders at your church!

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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:51 How did you end up as a youth pastor?
02:29 What was your original relationship with digital?
04:45 What would you say to a "regular" youth pastor?
12:10 What wins have come from social media?
19:27 What in your context has been most effective?
23:20 Additional benefits of Social
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✍️TRANSCRIPT
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What is up everybody?

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Welcome back to another episode

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of the Hybrid Ministry Show

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I am your host, Nick Clason

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here with you as always

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and if you’ve been here the last couple of weeks

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you know that we’ve been doing some different interviews

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It is with my brother, Nate Clason

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Good morning, Nate, how you doing bro?

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I'm doing pretty good.

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Probably not better than

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your wife, though, right?

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Don't say that to

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in front of anyone.

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You know, True.

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Well, I’ve known you longer

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That is true.

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But not too much longer, so.

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That’s probably what I’m thinking

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when I say that

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Nate, give us all

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a little bit of background

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what’s been your church

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youth ministry, student ministry

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experience and story

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kinda get that conversation

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out of the way

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set a little bit of a baseline

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as we dive into this

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social media discussion

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Yeah.

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So I felt called

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to, ministry at a Mexico

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missions trip.

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when I was in high school,

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a late high school,

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and actually kind of fell off.

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my journey a little bit.

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my journey a little bit.

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Kind of started

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serving, working

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in, like,

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the public work, you know,

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the secular work environment

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and just kind of saw

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I wasn't called

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the ministry anymore

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and got connected

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one day at my custodian

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job at a school

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with, a pastor's wife

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who was subbing at the school.

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And I told her,

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we were talking about music,

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and she found out

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that I could play

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a little bit of guitar,

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and she asked if I could

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help with her church worship

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and got connected that way.

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And through that,

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got connected

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with a, leader

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in that denomination

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who eventually got me ordained

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and got me connected

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with other pastors.

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Eventually,

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where I became a youth pastor.

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And now I'm

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serving in a little bit

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of a bigger church

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in the Taylorville area

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as the associate pastor

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of student

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ministry and worship ministry.

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So it started

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with worship ministry

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and kind of

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evolved into youth.

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And I never kind of

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saw that coming,

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but praise

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God that he got me to kind of

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where I felt

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called to years ago, you know?

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So that's cool.

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Yeah, so

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the gateway drug

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to your youth ministry

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was worship

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Yeah

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That’s where you started

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as you can tell

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by the man bun.

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Right?

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Yeah

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Or something about that manbun

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We won’t talk about that

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But

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You started doing youth ministry

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When you jumped into

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youth ministry

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What at that point

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was your like understanding

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or your relationship

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with digital and social media

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and all that type of stuff?

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I've always kind of

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been, like.

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I've always been aware

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of social media.

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Never knew how important

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it was to student ministry.

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I didn't really,

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it was actually post Covid

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when I really.

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Well,

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in the middle of Covid

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that I started

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getting involved

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in student ministry.

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And,

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I didn't have

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too many platforms.

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And my first church

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was social media,

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mostly through Facebook.

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I had that's pretty

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much it for my first church.

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And I mostly connected

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with parents on that platform.

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and I realized

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that probably wasn't

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a strength.

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so here, though,

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I would say that I've,

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I've kind of adapted, adopted,

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Instagram, Facebook.

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I created a TikTok.

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And Nick,

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I know you're so passionate

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about YouTube,

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me and Jessica have been

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talking recently,

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my wife,

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about the idea

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of getting on YouTube here

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soon,

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just because I feel like

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that'd be a bigger,

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overall

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reach for our students

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to, to have us on YouTube.

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But I'm not super connect.

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I wasn't super connected

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initially to social media.

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I would say that.

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So what was the

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What would you say was

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the driving force

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or the catalyst

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to get you connected

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to some of those things?

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Like what was your “aha” moment?

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If there was one?

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well, I think seeing you,

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like, super

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passionate about it

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and watching your podcast

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really, honestly like,

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and your

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different videos and clips

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on like TikTok and stuff

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on like TikTok and stuff

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of how important

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social media is

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kind of drives me

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to make sure I have that.

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And like really,

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a lot of that

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is truly

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from like your passion for it.

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And I'm seeing other leaders

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saying, hey, you know, like,

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this is a new era.

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It's no longer like

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you're not going

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to meet in person

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as naturally and as, as,

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as often as you like.

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And there's going to be kids

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that don't make it every week.

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So it's like

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it's good for them

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to have

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some sort of

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avenue of seeing,

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some of the stuff

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that we're talking about,

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even if it's just like a recap

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or whatever,

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just to kind of give them

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a basis of

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what we're talking about. So.

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Yeah, no doubt

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I would agree

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But that feels obvious, maybe

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So tell people

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I think it was helpful

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Because you’re a guy

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Who is like

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What I would deem as

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like a lot of other youth pastors in America

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You’re just kinda like

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jumping from week to week

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program to program

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like making sure you got a game

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making sure you got a message

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making sure you got a small group

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making sure you got enough leaders

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making sure you got enough leaders

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like all the things

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all the like whirlwind

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elements of just being a youth pastor

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and then

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you got someone like me

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who’s telling you

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“you need to get on social media”

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“you need to get on social media”

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speak to somebody

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who’s in the space that you were

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a year, year and a half ago

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that’s like

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“Yeah that sounds awesome”

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“I would love to”

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“There’s no way I could ever do it!”

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“It’s too hard”

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“It’s too much”

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It’s too...

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Whatever. Fill in whatever

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blank of why it’s

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why it’s not

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gonna be achievable or possible

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talk to somebody who’s in that

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in that sorta space

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like you were not too long ago

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Yeah.

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Well, there is a way to

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connect all your

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social media platforms

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so that when you post on

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it, posts on all of them,

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I think that's

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a big part of it.

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And honestly,

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I don't even

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like for some things.

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Like for my pictures,

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it goes from Instagram

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to Facebook.

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They're connected.

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But for some reason

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whenever I do a reel or video,

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they're not.

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So I have to go in

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and do it myself.

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Somehow.

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I'll have to

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figure all that stuff out.

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But,

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that's a part of

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it is like,

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if you haven't connected in

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some way to the same email

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and to the same connection,

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like you can link it

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so that when you post on one,

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it goes to all of them.

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And honestly,

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like not

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everyone sees each platform

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and sometimes they do.

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And that's okay.

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But I think it's

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just so important to know

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that kids are on,

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students are on

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these platforms,

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and they're

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looking for inspiration,

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they're looking for hope,

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and it's our way

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to kind of minister to people

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through the social

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media platforms

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that God has

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really entrusted us

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with as youth pastors,

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if we're on them,

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to do

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the right things on their

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not just not just,

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and it's

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good to have fun things

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and different activities

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and different

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like kind of goofy

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things for kids to kind of,

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you know, be by.

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But it's also good to have,

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you know,

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content

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that could inspire

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and change lives.

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and I, I've seen,

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aspects of both,

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you know, so it's good.

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Yep.

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So like that’s like the big

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picture reason.

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Students are on it...

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We should be on there...

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helping redeem those moments

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I like to think about

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in the Bible

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the Apostle Paul was using like

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pen and paper

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and then like mail carriers

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to like get his message across

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today I would envision that

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He would be using something like digital

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Exactly.

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Pretty vigorously

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to get his message across

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So that’s the big picture, “why”

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Yeah, Yeah

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Students are there, It’s important

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Talk about like

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What it took from just like time management

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Talk about what it took from like

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platform understanding

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You, I feel like

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correct me if I’m wrong, but

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I feel like you had to

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get to know how to use

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a lot of these tools

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talk to someone who may be

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in the space

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“I want to- I don’t even know what

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to do. Or how to do it.”

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Or like what’s even

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possible

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Or what ever I should do.

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Like get real practical

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You know,

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I think

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it doesn't take as much time

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as you think.

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I mean, yes,

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creating the video.

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I mean, you never,

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I think, was like

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creating a short

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or like a reel.

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You never want to make a reel

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any longer than a minute

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or so like that.

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So you really

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it doesn't take that long

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to create that video.

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If you could do it in

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1 or 2 takes, like it's

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not a big deal with that.

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And then

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that's a big part of,

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what students look at.

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They don't watch

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like long videos.

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They're not going to watch

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a 20 minute video.

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But if you can keep it

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a minute, you know,

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that's more realistic

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for them to kind of,

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you know, dive into it

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and interact with it.

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and I think

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a lot of

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it is like interaction,

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like if you, you know,

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what did you learn from

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this video?

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You know, make comment in the

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in the comments, tell us who

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who won this in this game or

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and I don't think it's

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I don't think it's,

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it's as much it's not as time

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consuming as you think.

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It's I mean,

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some people are

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slower than others

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and some people

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are faster than others

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at getting stuff done.

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But once you kind of

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get the bearings

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and the grip

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on, on different

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like ways of doing things,

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and you're in

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kind of your groove on things,

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it becomes pretty natural

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and second nature

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and pretty fast stuff done.

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I do a kind of a good amount

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of social media stuff,

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with even both worship

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and youth a little bit.

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Not as much with worship,

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but some.

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And it's like

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it's really

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it doesn't take that much time

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to, to post stuff, I think.

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yeah, that's that's

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an encouraging thing

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to think about.

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It's like

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it's not going to take

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you forever

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to get a couple posts

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out, a day

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or maybe several week.

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I think it's good to have

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at least one a day or,

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you know, multiple a week.

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So you can kind of

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get keep interacting

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with your students.

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So I don't know,

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is that what kind of answering

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your question? Okay.

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Yeah, for sure.

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I mean there’s like...

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I can’t remember, exactly

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I’m trying to look it up right now

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But there’s a book, the concept

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is called like “1,000 Hours”

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Maybe it’s 100 hours

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I’ll put the link in the

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shownotes if you’re interested

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I’ll figure it out

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But the concept

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is like

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No one is gonna be good at anything

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until they spend

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some time on it.

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And so if you feel intimidated

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by something

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of course you’re gonna

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feel intimidated by something

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new. It’s new!

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That’s what new stuff does

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None of us are good

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at new stuff right away

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And I think it’s really telling

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to your point

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You were in that boat

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And you were like:

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“I don’t know”

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Just to shed a little bit of light

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When I was telling you

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you should

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dive into some of this stuff

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You were like:

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“I don’t know man...”

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“I don’t really do that type of st-”

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“I don’t really do TikTok”

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“I don’t really do any videos”

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And I was just like:

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“Hey just try it. It’s not that hard.”

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Yeah.

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And so to hear you say now

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a year and something later

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“It’s not

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doesn’t take as much time.

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as you might think.”

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Yeah.

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That’s a good word on that

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The more time you

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spend on something

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the better you’re gonna get with it.

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Yeah.

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And so like

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I had one of our

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interns yesterday, say

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something about

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like video editing

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She was like

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“I wanna help you edit video”

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“I wanna do more video editing.”

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cuz she also wants to learn

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And I just looked at her

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I was like:

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“You just gotta do it.”

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Yeah.

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Like doing it is the key

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Sit down with it

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And the more you like

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sit down with it, spend time on it.

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The more you can get it done

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Yeah.

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I've learned on my phone

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cap cut.

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The free version.

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Even like it does wonders

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for a lot of things.

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Like there's

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there's a pro version

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that probably costs,

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but, like,

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even the free version

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has given me, like, a lot of,

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you know, help.

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And there's not a lot

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there's really

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not a lot to it.

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There's a lot of little things

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you have to kind of figure out

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what does what,

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but once you do,

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it's pretty easy to kind of

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get the gist of it

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pretty quickly.

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So.

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And ya know

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what’s even fun

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Yesterday, I had a

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student

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a 6th grader come in

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and I taught him how to edit

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videos for social media

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Awesome,

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And he edited two

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cool.

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In a 3 hour

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period of time

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He’d never used

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Adobe Premiere Pro

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It turned out pretty good?

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The videos?

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Yeah. I’ll post the link down below

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You can see the student’s

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edit

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Awesome

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Man, it was crispy

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It was a crispy edit

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Cool.

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Shout out to him

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Alright, so let’s...

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Shift gears a little bit, Nate

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And, umm

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Talk about

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what

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Advantages

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or what wins

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you have seen

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out of social media

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in your group?

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Right, what has

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having a camera around

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What has doing different like

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Challenges

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Your little like

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devotional thoughts

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Take it any direction you want

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But what has

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having these

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having just a presence

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on social media

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what has it done in your mind

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to your youth group?

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you know, I'm

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going to say something

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that may be a little bit off

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the track of this little bit,

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but it's related to this.

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I think I've noticed

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a lot more people

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outside of my ministry

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are being reached

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than just my students.

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There's people

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that see my videos

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that that are like,

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not from our ministry,

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that are like, inspired

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and like asking questions

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and like, where is CSM at?

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And all this stuff.

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And they

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may not

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even be from around the area,

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but they're like curious

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and finding things.

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And we're starting

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to get more students now

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and like seeing my videos

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and being in

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and following things.

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And actually,

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we copied off

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your guy's church

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one time you did this thing

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where you went up

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to students and go,

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hey, you know,

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do you follow Cross Creek,

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your church?

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And I go, hey,

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do you follow

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CSM on on TikTok

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or do you follow CSM

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on, you know, Instagram?

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And they're always scrambling

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and they show their phone

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and they either know

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who they do

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or because of that,

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they start following.

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You know,

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I think it's just

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so important to be present

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there.

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and, give them an avenue

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where they can

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if they missed a week

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and I, I don't always do it,

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but I try to do a recap video

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from the week before

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and talk

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more about different messages.

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And, I think they need that

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to kind of

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if they're not there, like,

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hey, they can

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they can see what's going on.

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So that's, that's really good.

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Yeah.

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Well and it’s even like

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Ya know

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you even said it

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there, like

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just by doing like something

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some little like

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challenge thing

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like it created like

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a fun

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Yeah.

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moment.

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Yeah.

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And then if

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you do go around

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and you’re kinda like

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doing man on the street-style videos

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and you’re

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interviewing people and tryina

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catch em not following you,

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or prove to

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people that they are following you.

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Then later, they’re gonna look

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for that online.

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Right? And then that’s gonna create

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and organic moment

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an organic shareable moment

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that they might

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show their friends

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“Hey, check this video out!”

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or something like that, right?

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like something that they could even

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then be proud of

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Ya know, and so there’s

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I think, opportunity

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Not

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just with people who don’t go to your church

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But also,

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with students that are

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Yeah.

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in your youth ministry.

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that can, ya know

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help them feel

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like some sort of sense of ownership

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and some sort of like, win

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in and through your social media

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it’s in the

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it’s a really low

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hanging fruit there, ya know?

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Yeah.

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And I

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feel like a lot of people.

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A lot of students,

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specifically students

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want to see other students.

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Sorry.

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On videos

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and, like, in things

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instead of just me.

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Just Jessica.

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That's the leader.

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They want to see students.

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And when they see students,

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they're more attentive

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to watch

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and kind of

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participate with it

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when when they're there

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instead of

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just adults

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kind of sharing recaps

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or whatever

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that may look like, you know?

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So I've learned that

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kind of the hard way

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a little bit, you know, so.

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Yeah, for sure.

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And we’re all just trying stuff, right?

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Like what I did, when I moved here

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I guess just about two years ago, now

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when I moved here like

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my strategy that I brought in is

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not the same strategy that I have today

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So, as you get going

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and I think that’s a good encouragement too

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back to the question a minute ago

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like just get started

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Yeah.

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and once you get started

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you’ll start to like uncover things

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that you didn’t know

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Right? Like

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a great example

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in our context is

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we had a resident, Caleb

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two videos ago

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I’ll link it right here

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Caleb

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But he

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had this idea

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about this thing called the Social Challenge

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and we would do a film

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a filming of it every single Wednesday night

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and he wanted that to be like

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a long form version of a YouTube video

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and so

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we did that for a semester

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and I mean, that, that

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project would eat his lunch

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cuz he would do it on a Wednesday night

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and then he would work all day

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on a Thursday on it

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and he didn’t work on Fridays

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so like his whole Thursday

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was eaten up by getting this social challenge edited

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posted

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up and live on YouTube

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and. But we, so we

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killed the long-form version of it

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because it was like the

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time factor. Like the immediacy of it

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But we shifted it to more short style

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more challenge style

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and what that’s done

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is that has like

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you said, that has put so many more

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students on our

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platform

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so we’ve taken the same block of time

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that we would have taken to shoot

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one big long video

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and we’ll just shoot like 5

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Okay.

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Five shorts.

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And then we can just bank them

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And so we got em

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Like I got in my

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folder right now, I got like

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5 or 6

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of like a certain style of game

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we call them drafts

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and then I got 5 or 6

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of another certain style of game

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we call it 7 Questions

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Yeah.

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And so like I have

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Some pretty like set

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what I post every day

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and when I post certain things

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but like

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when I don’t have something

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or when I need something to kinda

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fill the gaps

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like I got those

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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They’re just sitting

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right there. And so

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we stumbled into that

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Right? Like what we started with

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the idea of the social challenge

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what we started with

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is not what it is now

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Yeah.

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And what’s cool, is like

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it, in the room

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like in our programming

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it’s still called the same thing

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from when it started

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to what it is today

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we still call it the “Social Challenge”

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so students know what it is

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and students know there’s an opportunity

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for them to compete

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and get on camera

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and they love that stuff

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That's awesome.

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And it’s opt-in-able

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though, ya know?

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and that’s the nice part

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is like we say, “Hey”

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“During free time, if anyone wants

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to come do the Social Challenge

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we’ll be back here in this room.”

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And so it’s not forced

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Yeah.

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We’re not making anyone

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who is shy or whatever

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have to get on it

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But then you know

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there’s definitely kids who DO want to be on it

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Yeah.

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And they’re like banging down the door

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to get in there

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Do you have, like,

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the same, like,

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smaller, kind of smaller

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group of students

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that always

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want to be on videos?

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Or do you have a pretty good

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variety of students?

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I want to be on videos

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because I feel like it's

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kind of slim for me.

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of kids that actually

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want to be on video.

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Yeah, I mean it’s

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Yeah, I think it’s

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the same kinda group

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Yeah.

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the same like middle school

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boys

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Yeah.

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like the kid who edited

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is the kid who’s always on ‘em, too.

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Yeah yeah

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yeah yeah.

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Like he’s a

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he’s very camera hungry

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Yeah yeah.

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And that’s ok

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everyone’s gonna go through waves

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this kid doesn’t

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he’s a 6th grade-7th grade boy

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he’s not insecure about anything

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That's awesome

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But like one day he will be

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He probably won’t be that kid

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for his entire youth ministry career

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Right?

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And so like, you just

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that’s the nice part is you can offer that

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and if you got kids

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The other fun thing we’ve started to do

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Beyond just

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being on camera

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is like helping run the camera

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And so like maybe they don’t wanna be on the camera

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but maybe they can be like behind the scenes

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or edit

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Yeah.

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And that- students love

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getting a chance to do that

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And the more, I guess the older I’m getting

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the more I’m trying to figure out, like “How can I

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not just do student ministry

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for students,

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but how can I

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let students do student ministry for students?”

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That's good.

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So that’s one of the things we’re trying to pursue

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But Nate, tell me what

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in your context has

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been the most fun, or most effective thing?

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that you’ve done

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just with regard to digital

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it doesn’t have to be

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social media- anything, it can be anything

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any sort of thing in the digital space

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Well, I'll be honest.

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I've really recently

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kind of started a. And this.

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I don't even know

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if you consider this

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what you're looking at,

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but I started a Snapchat,

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group with our students,

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and I go, hey, invite.

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And that's a it's

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me social media

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invite

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anyone that is

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that is not that

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I don't have access to

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into this group chat.

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And people are just adding

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people as we go.

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And as soon as I add

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someone else

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and they have friends

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that are from CSM, I'm them.

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And it's like

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the group is grown,

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but the more people

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that are in there,

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the more it gets blown up.

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It's been fun to

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just kind of see it

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expand slowly

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throughout

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the last couple weeks.

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That's

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something that

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I'm excited about

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because it's like it's

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a different way of connecting.

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We have GroupMe

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and we connect through

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GroupMe mainly,

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but I think Snapchat

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should have a funner,

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like fun, fun way to like

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send funny pictures

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and whatever.

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Like you can best group

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like this

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kid was blown it up

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with with like

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filters of people's faces

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being all distorted and stuff.

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And just as he's being goofy

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and I don't know

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if that answers your question

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the way you wanted me to,

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but it's just, you know.

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Yeah, no, it’s great!

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I mean it’s

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that’s the thing, like

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every church is different, right?

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So I’m not going into this with any sorta

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like agenda

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I’m just tryina get

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to know what real youth pastors

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and real churches are doing

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like to connect with students

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and that’s a great example, because

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youth ministry 15 years ago

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like you don’t have that

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opportunity

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Whether

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Cuz like our church

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doesn’t let us use Snapchat

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Oh, really?

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Whether it’s Snapchat

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or whether it’s GroupMe

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or whether it’s a Group Message

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or whether it’s an Instagram DM Group

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The concept

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is a group message

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Yeah.

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You and I, if we were youth pastors

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fifteen years ago

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we don’t have that opportunity

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Yeah.

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That doesn’t exist

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And so, that’s why I say

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it’s so important for youth pastors to just

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figure something out, because

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look at that opportunity

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like you have a chance to

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message your students

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on like a Tuesday morning

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Yeah.

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like otherwise you would have

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had to wait for them to

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Yeah.

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come to you

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to be a captive audience

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Yeah.

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But now we have the ability to

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And there’s like

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there’s checks and balances within that

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and there’s times where that can get abused

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but at the end of the day, like

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The opportunity that we have is fantastic

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Yeah.

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So, it’s

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Important I think to lean into that

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We should ask our dad

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how he did that

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when he was a youth pastor.

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You know, just to see for him.

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Fifteen years ago?

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What?

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Because he was doing it. What?

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It was like not many.

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There wasn't cell phones,

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you know.

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So how do you.

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Well yeah, you just didn’t

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do a group chat

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Yeah.

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It was all about the in-person

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It was.

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Yeah.

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And that’s the struggle

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Right? Like the struggle now

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sometimes when

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you introduce an idea of digital

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there may be an older

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generation or demographic

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that remembers it done a different way

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And no shade on that or them

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but the fact is we just

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live in a different day

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And so

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and whatever

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And so however they were doing things before

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teenagers have zero concept of that today

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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They are digital natives

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and digital dependents

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And so to

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not have something

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Right? And that’s the thing when I hear arguments

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from youth pastors who say:

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“Well, I don’t use social”

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“Well do you have a group chat?”

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“Well yeah we have a group chat!”

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“Well, you’re doing something!”

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You’re not doing nothing

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And so there’s

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That’s the thing I love, I love that

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the sky is legitimately the limit

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Wherever your creativity will lead you

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in today’s day-in-age

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you can do

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you can do anything

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Right? And it can be

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as robust of a strategy as you want

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or it can be as like

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paired down and focused on your kids

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Both are great, I think

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Yeah.

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So last thing, Nate

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How do you

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know something’s working?

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Like when you post something

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Or- how do you know when like

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that was good. That was a win?

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What are some of the things that

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you look for, whether it be

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like metrics, like number type things

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Or even just like

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the word on the street

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or the scuttlebutt that you might hear like

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in the hallways of church

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I think I see

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people share things.

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Even if it's not a lot of shares.

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Like, there's, like, adult,

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like adults that are in our

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our ministry

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that kind of see this stuff,

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and they'll share it.

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Or student

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and multiple students like it.

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We have a good amount of like

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we have a good

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amount of views.

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If there's a good

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amount of views,

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it means that it's

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kind of catching on.

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Honestly,

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I do a lot more reels,

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even for like picture

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on new picture reels.

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And they they're,

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they're ones

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that kind of

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just to kind of show

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like what

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we've done

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in the night of CSM.

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I like to do like

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recap videos of

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like what we did

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that last night

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at CSM or today or whatever,

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just kind of show people

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kind of quickly and pictures

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of what we've been up to you.

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And I think I don't

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I think our adults

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like parents and,

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and the adults in the church

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want to see what's going on

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with the students.

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And when the adults

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are encouraged

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and and feel

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uplifted by students,

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inspire inspiring others

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to come and and lead

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and leading their friends

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to Christ and

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and getting on stage on Sunday

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morning

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and leading worship and

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and when they get on

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stage on Sunday morning

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and and share

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the announcements

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in front of the whole church.

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that's just

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I think

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they're inspired by that

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and all that.

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You know, I,

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I, I capture that stuff and,

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and then I go on

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and share it

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with their friends.

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Hey, this is something that

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that happened in our church.

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Our students are doing things.

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So it's all related

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in the social media

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because you captured

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the images and then

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and then you,

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share it on

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like your platforms

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to kind of show

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the world and people

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that God's up

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to something

00:25:08:06 - 00:25:08:24
at Calvary Student

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Ministries and, and just,

00:25:10:20 - 00:25:12:11
yeah, that's mainly it,

00:25:12:11 - 00:25:13:01
I think, is

00:25:13:01 - 00:25:14:22
just seeing people inspire

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by what's going on. You know.

00:25:17:08 - 00:25:18:21
Well and think about it

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if you didn’t have some sort of creative outlet

00:25:20:24 - 00:25:21:22
to share stuff like that

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like how would people know?

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cuz if they’re not

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They would have no idea.

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If they’re not in the room

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they don’t know

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Exactly.

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There’s another

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You just stepped in another benefit

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Right, like?

00:25:32:24 - 00:25:35:22
People, adults, parents

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Pastors, elders

00:25:38:18 - 00:25:40:22
who are not coming to youth group

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on Wednesday nights or Sunday nights

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Especially not frequently

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You can help them

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Ya know, that’s a win for you

00:25:48:17 - 00:25:49:23
Maybe as a youth pastor too

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Just putting some of that stuff out there

00:25:52:01 - 00:25:53:02
Yeah.

00:25:53:02 - 00:25:54:13
Like Nate said

00:25:54:13 - 00:25:57:17
“It’s not as hard as you think it might be.”

00:25:57:17 - 00:25:59:01
Yeah.

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So last word

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last final bit of encouragement

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What would you say to someone who

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is on the fence

00:26:04:20 - 00:26:05:20
Who’s

00:26:05:20 - 00:26:08:00
maybe like you a year and a half ago, is like

00:26:08:00 - 00:26:09:14
“I’m not sure about all this stuff.”

00:26:09:14 - 00:26:11:05
What’s one thing

00:26:11:05 - 00:26:12:19
That you would say like, “Hey, do this”

00:26:12:19 - 00:26:15:18
Just. Just do this one thing

00:26:15:18 - 00:26:18:14
This week?

00:26:18:14 - 00:26:19:23
Yeah, that's a tough question.

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I would say like.

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Like kind of

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like what you said.

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Give it a shot

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and see if it see

00:26:26:23 - 00:26:27:14
what happens.

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I mean,

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you're not going to get.

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And don't be discouraged

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if you don't get

00:26:30:20 - 00:26:31:23
a hundred followers

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in the first,

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you know,

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couple days

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or weeks or months even, like,

00:26:36:15 - 00:26:37:07
it takes some time

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sometimes and sometimes slowly

00:26:39:07 - 00:26:40:16
growing thing.

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But,

00:26:42:01 - 00:26:43:03
I say give it a shot

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and just

00:26:43:19 - 00:26:45:08
try it out for a little bit.

00:26:45:08 - 00:26:46:20
And like I said, please

00:26:46:20 - 00:26:48:13
do not be afraid of the time.

00:26:48:13 - 00:26:50:03
Just like engaging it with it.

00:26:50:03 - 00:26:51:17
It's not as bad as you think.

00:26:51:17 - 00:26:52:22
And honestly, like,

00:26:52:22 - 00:26:54:02
I feel like youth

00:26:54:02 - 00:26:56:12
pastors are really called

00:26:56:12 - 00:26:58:00
to this generation

00:26:58:00 - 00:26:58:20
of reaching people

00:26:58:20 - 00:26:59:11
through social media.

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That's just where we're at

00:27:00:09 - 00:27:01:06
and in society

00:27:01:06 - 00:27:02:16
where we need to be

00:27:02:16 - 00:27:04:16
on social media in some way.

00:27:04:16 - 00:27:05:10
And I don't even think

00:27:05:10 - 00:27:06:05
that Facebook's really

00:27:06:05 - 00:27:07:11
that platform for students.

00:27:07:11 - 00:27:08:09
It's more for adults

00:27:08:09 - 00:27:09:03
at this at,

00:27:09:03 - 00:27:10:04
you know, Facebook's

00:27:10:04 - 00:27:12:03
more of an adult thing.

00:27:12:03 - 00:27:14:00
And so just find that avenue

00:27:14:00 - 00:27:14:22
that you can,

00:27:14:22 - 00:27:15:24
get started

00:27:15:24 - 00:27:16:17
with and connect them

00:27:16:17 - 00:27:17:16
together, connect your

00:27:17:16 - 00:27:18:08
link, your,

00:27:18:08 - 00:27:18:22
you know, your

00:27:18:22 - 00:27:19:16
platforms together

00:27:19:16 - 00:27:20:11
so it's easier for you

00:27:20:11 - 00:27:21:17
to post multiple things.

00:27:21:17 - 00:27:23:03
You got this.

00:27:23:03 - 00:27:24:04
The church needs you.

00:27:24:04 - 00:27:24:19
You know.

00:27:24:19 - 00:27:25:08
Yeah

00:27:25:08 - 00:27:26:05
Love it

00:27:26:05 - 00:27:27:08
Love it, well hey

00:27:27:08 - 00:27:29:04
thanks for being on this morning

00:27:29:04 - 00:27:30:08
Thanks for getting up early

00:27:30:08 - 00:27:30:12
Yeah.

00:27:30:12 - 00:27:31:03
I mean, I.

00:27:31:03 - 00:27:34:06
And uh- and yeah

00:27:34:06 - 00:27:34:21
Love you, brother.

00:27:34:21 - 00:27:36:07
Hey, we'll stay in touch.

00:27:36:07 - 00:27:37:19
You too!

00:27:37:19 - 00:27:40:12
Hey! Stay Hybrid!