I tried every youth ministry social media pack that exists.

I tried and evaluated every "Youth Ministry Social Media" Pack I could find on the internet.
I evaluated on 4 criteria, and the verdict is in!
I discovered the pack you should be using at your church in 2026 and beyond!

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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 The 4 Part Grading Scale
00:41 Pack 1 - Life.Church
02:14 Pack 2 - Pack 2 - DYM Monthly Member Pack
05:23 Pack 3 - Youth Ministry Drop
07:03 Pack 4 - Sunday Social
08:59 Pack 5 - Brady Shearer & Nucleus
12:22 Pack 6 - Sermon Multiplier
14:44 Pack 7 - Seasonal Social Media

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TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:05 - 00:00:26:28
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I tried every youth ministry social media pack that exists or or at least that I could find through a quick Google search. And this is what I found out. Now, here's the thing. I'm going to be evaluating based on these personalization reels and shorts and cost. And we're going to see who goes and takes the cake. So I have seven different social media packs.

00:00:26:28 - 00:00:49:05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And I want you to stick around to the end because I do believe I have uncovered and I've found the best social media pack for youth ministries in the world. Let's go. Okay, so this first one here that I found again, just remember a quick, simple Google search. I found a life church, which is, their open platform.

00:00:49:07 - 00:01:12:20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It is free, which is amazing. But one of the things I noticed when I actually clicked in on it was that it just very simply was a, a standard quick graphic pack. So this isn't even really a social media pack as much as it is some social media images to post to your social media. So is it's a ten like it's free and you can grab it.

00:01:12:20 - 00:01:34:13
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But if you want to edit it, like if you want to put your actual student ministry like students and pictures on there, like it's maybe like a one because it's just JPEGs. Like there's not even a Photoshop file or a Canva graphic that you can swap out their pictures with your own pictures. So, let's if you want to just post what they have, we'll give it a ten.

00:01:34:13 - 00:01:52:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But like, let's just put it out of five and then, the personalization touch because you can't edit it. It's, it's a one like you can't it's not your youth ministry at all. Unless maybe you put your like youth ministry logo just in the corner somewhere. So we're just going to stick that one. Reels and shorts. It's a zero.

00:01:52:08 - 00:02:16:15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It's there's no reels and shorts. Here is, it's, graphic. It's, picture. And then finally cost, we're going to give it a ten on cost, which means it's cheap. So, high on the cost meter, which means that it was free. So the total score for Life Church is 15 out of 40. The next one is the dim monthly pack.

00:02:16:15 - 00:02:37:15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so kind of the story of how I found this is I've been a dim member now for probably going on ten years. And dim, like, I actually just yesterday was on a video called Four Different People, who all essentially said something along the lines of the DIY membership is the best thing that you the best youth ministry, value that exists on the internet.

00:02:37:15 - 00:03:02:16
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And you know what? There. Right? Gold. Gold plus and platinum. They are all incredible deals. I myself am a platinum member and a part of the do I am monthly pack is, a social media pack that they give out every single month. And so from an EAS standpoint, I'm going to give it like an eight. It gives you, a post for every single day of, of the month and it gives you a monthly posting calendar.

00:03:02:16 - 00:03:21:18
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So if you just follow their posting calendar, it's easy to go. Now you do have to schedule it yourself or post it yourself. So that's why it's not a ten on ease, because you do have to have at least a little bit of infrastructure and tools to be able to post it. Personalization. I'm going to give it a three and here's why.

00:03:21:21 - 00:03:42:29
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Any of the just like kind of like standard graphics, like they there's not really personalized. However, they do include some story graphics where you can post like stickers with, polls or questions or comments or multiple choice. And so therefore you are at least able to do a little bit of interaction and engagement. So there is a personalization.

00:03:43:02 - 00:04:09:05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It did go to zero though on reels and shorts because it's it's not a reels and shorts base package. It is a graphics based package. And this this is really important. And out of the four this might be one of the most important ones from a social media standpoint, not from a youth pastor standpoint. Maybe ease or maybe cost is the most important, but reels and shorts videos, that is really, really important on social media in 2026 and then also cost.

00:04:09:05 - 00:04:32:06
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I'm going to give it like a six. And and it's a complicated one because you can't actually get this pack standalone. You have to be a member. So the membership is expensive and I wouldn't get the membership. If you're only goal is to get this social media like, but I would get the membership because there's a million other amazing opportunities and a million other amazing resources found in there.

00:04:32:06 - 00:04:56:05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So it's behind the gold, gold plus or platinum paywall. So to be completely fair, that is, like I said, the best deal in the history of youth ministry. It's 24, 70 for a month. If you pay on the annualized version of gold or it's 2999 if you pay monthly, platinum is 8325 a month, or $1,000 a year, and again thousand dollars a year for this social media pack.

00:04:56:08 - 00:05:17:26
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Not the best deal in youth ministry, but when you throw in national day events, youth ministry training, free ticket to doing 100 roundtables, a whole year of co-leader and their annual curriculum like bro. Yes, games, store credit, mystery items, parent resources. Now we're talking. It really is the best year in the history of youth ministry. So total score for the youth ministry doing, monthly social pack.

00:05:17:26 - 00:05:37:00
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I'm going to give it like a 17 out of 40, the youth ministry job. This is a new one. And shout out to the youth ministry drop. You're CEO is cooking. Your email like I'm getting emails from you. Like, that is amazing. Here's what I noticed, though. This is, this this is behind a paywall.

00:05:37:00 - 00:05:54:13
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
All right. So, I'm going to give it the cost. I'm going to give it an eight. It's $15 a month. You get more than just a social media pack. The ease I'm going to give it an eight as well. It's got ready to go graphics and videos. The personalization, is like a two.

00:05:54:15 - 00:06:11:07
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
You can probably add some, like, stickers and stuff like that, just like the DUI impact to, like, stories. But I am this is the first one now that I am going to give a five. So more than zero on reels and shorts, because if you look in the description here, it offers not just graphics but also videos.

00:06:11:07 - 00:06:30:23
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And this is the first pack that does include some videos so far that we've looked at. And so $15 a month is a great deal. Also you get more, like I said in this than just the social media pack. And so I didn't pay for it because I don't have any money for these videos. And so you can subscribe to this video for me.

00:06:30:25 - 00:06:51:16
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And that will actually help a lot or give it a like, or, show some love down in the comments. Or better yet, head on over to my Patreon where I give a, weekly bonus podcast episode recapping my night in youth ministry. So I can't be like Ryan Trahan and pay for all the bits in my video, but hopefully soon I can.

00:06:51:16 - 00:07:10:00
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So, go ahead, do those things. Subscribe, head over to Patreon. That'd be amazing. Total score for this. I'm going to give it a 23 out of 40. Moving on to the fourth one, we have the Sunday Social. Now here's how I found it. Because when I Google Search Sunday Social didn't come up. This is a church wide platform.

00:07:10:00 - 00:07:27:05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It's not just built for student ministry. The last ones were all just kind of built for student ministry. But this one, this one is a little bit different. This is made kind of for the rest of the church. And so therefore, I knew about it and I went and I found it, it didn't find me on my search.

00:07:27:05 - 00:07:43:25
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But here's what I notice. Like ease. I'm going to give it a nine. It looks like it has more powerful tools than the other ones that we've used so far. The other ones, like here is a graphic. And then this has like a scheduler and like an editable, template and like it's all kind of like web based.

00:07:43:25 - 00:08:01:25
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so this looks like it's got like some real, some real meat, some real, effort behind some of these tools. The personalization I'm going to give it like a three. If you look here like there are three different kind of tiers. So there's just the standard pack. Then there's the editable, add on. And so that's going to be a little bit more expensive.

00:08:01:25 - 00:08:18:24
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So it exists but it's not in at the base package. And then same thing with the reels and shorts. I'm going to go ahead and give it a five. It does have an option there to add in the reels and shorts add on. But again now with the personalization plus the reels and shorts. Now, we've added on quite a bit.

00:08:18:24 - 00:08:42:05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
That ends up getting it to be I'm going to give it a six on cost because it's about $50 a month. And so if you are a church, church wide, social media manager, $50 a month might be within your wheelhouse in a youth ministry context where it's just social media and it's just these graphics and still the personalization doesn't necessarily mean your face, your voice, your people and your pictures.

00:08:42:11 - 00:09:00:29
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It only if you're able to do that in an editable software like Canva or Photoshop. But it's not your actual like, pastor, you know, coming on and doing devotionals and stuff like that. So we're going to go ahead and give this a 23 out of 40. The next one I noticed were some videos here, which, oh, hey, look at that one.

00:09:00:29 - 00:09:25:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I know that guy. But Brady Shear and, Alexander Mills on their Pro Church Tools podcast and also nucleus, which is their, their brand for like websites and media. They have, social media and, options. And then we're going to get into that in just a minute. But I found Brady back in 2016, back when the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the, Warriors in the NBA finals.

00:09:25:08 - 00:09:47:10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I just remember that year because my son was born, and apparently when I found Brady. But what I notice is that Brady is he's goaded on this stuff like he is the man, and I trust everything he says. And to be completely fair, I really started this podcast because I believe so much in what Brady said, and I wanted to make that clear and available for youth ministries, who he talks about youth ministries.

00:09:47:10 - 00:10:06:02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
In fact, this video right here that I discovered, is a video that he talks about how to do social media for youth ministry, but he does it like once a year, and I talk about it every single week. And so the I've listened to this podcast before and there's a bunch of different chapters, and he had a few, a couple philosophies behind what to do.

00:10:06:02 - 00:10:27:18
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So the first thing is he wants it to be student driven, which, by the way, I actually have an entire checklist and episode link down below about how you can have a student driven and student run social media where you don't actually have to lift much of a finger. And the second is, show, don't tell. Right. So, like, get on there and actually show them what it's like to be in your youth ministry.

00:10:27:18 - 00:11:00:00
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Don't just tell them what it's like to be a part of your youth ministry. And then these were all ideas that he had. So, make up a kid, which, by the way, he gave this idea and I went ahead and stole it. And so you can see the video of we when we mocked up a kid in our youth ministry, talked about, using disposable cameras and kind of that vintage look, creating broadcast channels for communication and just community and conversation, doing like a live performance, using like, the live feature, natively woven into some of these social media platforms and then finally Bible trivia, which sneak peek my winter season social

00:11:00:00 - 00:11:24:15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
media pack has a Bible Trivia one, but then you got to know that he has. Like I said, he has a a platform, called Nucleus Social. So this is what I'm going to be though. That was just his video. Like here's some ideas how to run it. But his actual social media pack, once again similar to Sunday Social made for big church, like social media is not just youth ministry, social medias ease.

00:11:24:15 - 00:11:41:11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I'm going to give it a nine. It has some more powerful tools and some of the other ones that we've looked at. Personalization. I'm going to go ahead and give it a five. There's some edited, edited ability. And some of these is especially if you know how to use things like, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Reels and Shorts.

00:11:41:11 - 00:12:01:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I'm going to give this a seven. This is the highest, this is a higher score than the Sunday social one because it's baked into the cost, not just an add on. However, you'll notice that it's about the same cost as Sunday socials. So this is Brady's like, base package. It's just it is 49. Where Sunday social. It's like it jumps up on you as you add it on.

00:12:01:08 - 00:12:20:26
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so we're gonna go ahead and give the cost factor about a six which brings his out to 2740 which is this is probably and this one is Sunday social are probably the most beautiful like of all the packs. Like they just have professional designers on their team and they just do an amazing, amazing job with their stuff.

00:12:20:29 - 00:12:49:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
This one's a new one that I just came across. I got an email from Download Youth Ministry as a part of my platinum membership that a service called The Seer. The sermon multiplier, is giving platinum members a free trial for three months, some different credits to use their platform. And so this is got a lot of some social media, components woven into it, but it's also got some other, things like AI devotionals that it can, it can create and develop for us.

00:12:49:08 - 00:13:10:22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so this is the most personalized option so far. What you do is you upload a video of yourself teaching, and then it creates and spits out for you devotionals, graphics and real. So is I'm going to give it a six on these like the actual platforms. Easy. You click upload, it uploads. But here's why I didn't make it a ten.

00:13:10:22 - 00:13:30:20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
On ease is because you must have a video of yourself, and not every youth pastor has a video of themselves teaching. And so I happen to that's part of our strategy. We we post all of our long form videos, to YouTube. So I had one that I could use as a test that was clean and didn't have any lower thirds that were going to get chopped off on the sides if I uploaded it.

00:13:30:22 - 00:13:45:22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And I also it needed to be under five megabytes, which one of my videos is like 5.8. And so that was kind of a bummer because I was like, well, I have to compress this in order to get it. And like, that's a whole nother like step. And there was no option to to do that. Woven into the dashboard, there.

00:13:45:25 - 00:14:11:00
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
The personalization factor, I'm giving this one a ten. Like my face, my voice, my sermon clipped into social media, my quotes, that it spits out for you. Like you can't get more personalized in that reusing shorts. They do it. They give you four custom ones based off and clipped up from that video and then finally cost, I'm going to give it a seven because, if you're a platinum member, it's like a one.

00:14:11:00 - 00:14:38:01
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And if it's just a little random added perk to it, like you weren't getting the platinum membership for this. Fantastic. But if not, it's it is a little bit expensive because it's sitting there behind the platinum membership. Now, you realize this is another feature from Download Youth Ministry. So you can pair this with the graphics pack. And now now we might be talking melding kind of these two scores together because it's a couple of different angles of social media.

00:14:38:01 - 00:15:00:29
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So just something to consider there. That ends up being 33 out of 40. And then the final one is the winter seasonal social media pack. Here's how I found it I actually made this one. But I do need a better SEO engineer. It. Listen, it's me. I'm the SEO engineer, which means it's not that good, but I actually got this text yesterday from a friend who said that I showed up in a ChatGPT search, so maybe something I'm doing is working.

00:15:01:04 - 00:15:20:25
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But here's what I noticed. Mine did pretty well versus some of these professionals. Reminder I'm not a professional. I'm a professional and paid youth pastor. But that's it. Like this whole social media thing, this is a side gig. This is my guest bedroom, before a dentist appointment that I have on a Friday on my day off. So, like, that's, you know, this is the back of my phone I'm talking into.

00:15:20:25 - 00:15:40:09
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But here's the thing. Here's my score. I'm going to give it a nine for ease. And I'm not just saying that because it's mine. Like I give you everything. I give you the videos and you take them and you post them, okay? However, I'm going to give it a nine because you still have to get your camera out and film yourself at some points, because I care about the personalization side of it.

00:15:40:09 - 00:15:58:19
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I can't just give you the graphics. If I were doing just a graphics pack, I would make it as easy as all the other ones, but I I'm asking you and your your voice as a youth pastor or your students or your volunteers to become some of the faces and some of the personalities on your social media. But that's what makes it a ten, personalization.

00:15:58:19 - 00:16:19:17
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Like you look at my pack across my grid and my feed here, like it's not just a bunch of, like, unfazed and unnamed graphics like it is my self, my people, our student ministry. The reels and shorts. It's a ten. It is based on reels and shorts. There are more reels and static graphics. There's only one post type that is a graphic or a carousel post type.

00:16:19:17 - 00:16:50:17
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
The rest are all based on short form vertical video, TikTok reels, YouTube shorts, and then finally the cost. I'm going to say a nine, bro. It's only $4 per month. Like we had $15. We had completely free. But all it was is like one like set of graphics, but with $4 per month, for three months of social media or you get this pack, if you don't want to become a hybrid hero member at $4 per month, this pack standalone is 1799 and $18 for three months once again.

00:16:50:17 - 00:17:11:17
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So my total score is 38 out of 40. And so this is how I rank the social media packs for student ministries. These are the four things that matter to me. And the ease and personalization reels and shorts and cost. And these are the four things that I tried to lean in on my pack and so if you found this video helpful, a like a subscribe, a comment, a share would be amazing.

00:17:11:24 - 00:17:25:11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And if you think that the Winter season social media pack would help be a game changer for you and your social media and your church's student ministry, encourage you to go check it out and grab it right now. But until next time my friends. And as always, don't forget stay hybrid.