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Episode 200: The Thing Every Youth Pastor Needs (But Can’t Afford)

Nick Clason — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:00:00 -0500

Most youth pastors don’t fail on social media because they lack passion…
They fail because they don’t have this one thing — and honestly, most can’t afford it.

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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Most Youth Pastors Miss This…
01:52 The Calendar Conundrum
07:06 My Hybrid Strategy Explained
09:54 What this Typically would cost
13:38 What I'll do for you
16:45 It's FREE!

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TRANSCRIPT
00;00;00;02 - 00;00;34;06
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
After 200 episodes and working with youth pastors from really all over, I've noticed one thing and I've noticed it's the same missing piece that happens with every single youth pastor. Sure, everyone's context is a little bit different, and everyone's individual responsibilities vary by position. However, it's the same thing that tends to fail, and it's the fact that either they don't have a plan or they do have a plan, but they're still not executing the plan that's laid out for them.

00;00;34;08 - 00;01;12;05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And part of the problem is we don't have a plan because it doesn't feel as urgent. If you don't post to social media. Yeah. What's going to happen? But if you don't plan your Wednesday night message, that's a bit of a bigger deal. Students are going to show up. They're not going to have anywhere to go. And so what I've seen and what I've noticed, and frankly, what I've also done and implemented in my own particular context is a full proof strategy that when life gets busy, in fact, I tested it right here, an episode linked right here where I was at a conference and I had no other time on my schedule, but I

00;01;12;07 - 00;01;33;20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
committed ahead of time during that week that I was going to post whatever my social media pack told me to post. And in that week, in less than 20 minutes, I was able to post all eight styles of posts. And that was me going above and beyond. Because what I recommend for most of you starting out is only to post three times per week.

00;01;33;20 - 00;02;01;29
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So I estimate that if you take what I lay out, all you have to do is spend anywhere from 5 to 7 minutes per week posting on social media. And the best news of all? I'm going to tell you how so here. Here's what you need. You're busy. And the fact is, like, you know, you want to reach students and maybe even further more, you know that you want to reach students digitally.

00;02;02;00 - 00;02;22;01
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Let me just explain why I think digital is so important. Obviously you're listening to the Hybrid Minister show, but in the last three years since I started in the context, I mean, we've doubled our in-person growth as a result, I believe, of this hybrid digital strategy. Furthermore, we've grown a YouTube channel from zero to well over a thousand subscribers.

00;02;22;03 - 00;02;42;20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And you probably the most important thing is that we've set record numbers of baptisms in this moment and woven within our hybrid strategy is a baptism course where we help walk students through the meaning of it, why they should do it, and then how then to take a next step. So it's hybrid ministry is not just for vanity metrics and dancing on TikTok.

00;02;42;21 - 00;03;05;28
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It really does help create and facilitate, moments of life change. And we've experienced, like I said, record in-person numerical growth as well as, record life changing markers such as baptism. And so this is why hybrid ministry is so important, and I can help walk you through it. And I believe that you as a youth pastor, you have what it takes.

00;03;05;28 - 00;03;27;17
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And more than having what it takes, I believe that you have the the requirement to do what it takes to figure this thing out. But here's the challenge, right? Like here's your schedule. Let's say this is your normal Monday Tuesday schedule. And of course, if I had space, you know, we'd extrapolate it out beyond that. And then let's say these are five kind of like core things that that you need to do.

00;03;27;17 - 00;03;58;03
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And, I'll just show you what it looks like in, in my world. Right. So your Wednesday programing, which includes everything from like planning the worship set to team and scheduling for volunteers and your message and your game and your announcements and your graphics. Like everything for that Wednesday that takes if we're if we're just being, like, honest and generous, let's say it takes a four hour block of time.

00;03;58;03 - 00;04;22;10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So here's your Wednesday programing and that's what you're doing and that. But let's say you maximize your lunch hour. And so for about an hour and a half you eat. But you also are hanging out with someone. So you're grabbing, let's say lunch with the volunteer. That's not nice for relational. Relational. You grab the lunch with the volunteer.

00;04;22;13 - 00;04;46;06
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Maybe a student. If it's like a spring break type week or whatever you have. Not yet. Once checked your emails, you have absolutely no time. You haven't done that yet. And so between travel time and all that, you get back and all your administrative work, we'll just call pink. We'll just call this admin. So you got to do emails, you got to do receipts.

00;04;46;06 - 00;05;06;19
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
You got to process your seat from the lunch or the coffee that you just had. Right. Well, now you're at 4 or 5 and maybe you know what you do. Maybe you go home. But then maybe to. Because, again, you're a good youth pastor, down here, maybe down there. So you went home for a little bit? Here.

00;05;06;19 - 00;05;31;17
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
You picked up your family and stuff like that. But then after dinner, you went back out and, you decided to go visit a student and watch them in the wrestling meet or whatever on a Monday night. Okay. So. So that's your day. That's your Monday. Okay. But then, it's fine because Tuesday rolls around, but you, you're doing like a a citywide disciple now, and so you have a meeting at ten for that.

00;05;31;19 - 00;05;53;05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so you get together with the youth pastors and you hang out and you do your thing. And then you haven't yet checked your email, so you gotta check your email again. And the secretary is upset at you because you did your C yesterday. You did it wrong. So now you got to go fix that. You got to put some finishing touches.

00;05;53;05 - 00;06;19;20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
You got to send, maybe some reminders, some emails. You got to make your slides for your Wednesday night program. Right. Once again. Oh. Your senior pastor, your senior pastor wants to meet with you. So, that takes up some more time, and then, well, you know, you want to be a good youth pastor, so on your way home, you can have coffee with that student who texted you this morning, and said, hey, can we get coffee?

00;06;19;20 - 00;06;46;29
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so there you are. You're now getting coffee with your student. This is the problem, right? This happens week after week, day after day. And if I were to add another category over here, and let's just say we were to call it social media, you're asking yourself where in the world am I putting social media? Am I putting it down here, which is now after five family time?

00;06;47;04 - 00;07;07;01
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Am I putting it up here? Which again? Now you're working greater than 40 hours per week? When in the world is this going to happen? And the problem, like I said, for most youth pastors is not vision, not excitement for the thing, but it's scheduling and it's figuring out where this goes. So I'm going to help you out.

00;07;07;03 - 00;07;27;12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Okay. So what is it? What is my hybrid strategy? Well, link down below is a completely free e-book. Anyone at any time can grab that. So I would recommend and ask that you do that. However, let me just break it down for you here on the whiteboard in social media, you're asking what exactly is your hybrid strategy?

00;07;27;13 - 00;07;53;01
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Well, for starters, the the step one of it is to become more regular on social media. My pack is basically like your fiber. Think about it. You'll get it. But what is it? It's posting more often to social media okay. Which everyone's down for that. And this is here for the end goal, right? Yeah. We want our student ministry or church social media to be a little bit more robust.

00;07;53;01 - 00;08;22;17
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
That's the what. Well the win right. And if we look back at our calendaring segment just a minute ago, that's the real question. When is this happening? But just to answer it for you, for me, my answer is three times per week. Okay. So we're going the what is just basically more more social. How often the result is three times per week.

00;08;22;17 - 00;08;48;10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And then again you're asking where and when am I going to find the time in my calendar to create 3 to 3 times more? Don't worry, I'm going to help you out with that. And then the how. Right. And this really is how like when is this getting done? Is we're going to do this thing together, right? I have this YouTube channel, I have this podcast, this is the free version of it, but I have an entire Patreon where I walk you through how to do it.

00;08;48;10 - 00;09;08;20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I give you the tools when, where to post, and I make it happen for you. And all you have to do is simply run the play and post when it tells you to do it. That way you get to be an amazing youth pastor, going to coffees and going to kids games and meeting with your senior pastor and planning your Wednesday night.

00;09;08;27 - 00;09;41;05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And I get to help build out your social media strategy and you get to simply follow the play. Now, you might be asking like, what if I have more creative bandwidth? And what if I have better ideas than you? I presume that you probably do. In that moment, instead of following my play, you simply post one of your ideas or one of your students ideas, or one of your volunteer's ideas, and you don't post one of mine because you do have creative energy, because you do have creative bandwidth, because you do have better ideas.

00;09;41;08 - 00;09;55;25
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But when you get busy, this is your fallback. It's here when you need it and because I'm giving it away, you don't even have to worry about the cost. Let's look in here to the next section.

00;09;55;27 - 00;10;21;11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So here's why. This is expensive. You see, sometimes a system like this can cost hundreds. I mean, maybe honestly, even depending on who you end up going with, it could cost even thousands. And then on top of it, there's months of frustration as you enter into a brand new learning curve, trying to kind of figure all this out yourself and you realize, like, man, I'm a youth pastor, I'm not social media manager, content creator, or like graphic design or any of these things.

00;10;21;11 - 00;10;40;09
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Right? So like, I broke some of this down for you because I believe that there's really like for costs. And if you're watching here on YouTube, you see them on screen. One of the costs is like if I want like a turnkey done for you social media pack in my personal opinion, one of the best on the market nucleus social done by Brady Shear himself a bet pro church tools.

00;10;40;12 - 00;11;05;25
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It's amazing. It's $49 a month for unlimited stock footage as well as a monthly social posting calendar. One of the problems, though, and I've said this a million times over with even my own pack, is that if it can be done for you, it can also be done for many. And so it's not that custom. But Brady, in my opinion, does the best job of offering something done for you that's also still good and leans into what matters on social media cost.

00;11;05;25 - 00;11;27;24
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
This is for like churches. This is $49 a month. Most youth ministry budgets can't sustain $49 a month, nearly $600 for the year. Or you could take a course. I found this video course here just by googling, and it turns out it's like $12 a month or $84 for the year. So now we're at, you know, at $684.

00;11;27;24 - 00;11;52;15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Now for your entire youth ministry budget, if you want to learn. And if you're like, well, I just figured out myself, well, then then comes in the time cost, right? And like, probably you putting in ten ish hours a week of of learning and trying something new and you're going to be doing and trying some new stuff. Of course, we're in a new era where students speak in this digital native tongue, and you're going to have to kind of learn to speak at least some of that.

00;11;52;15 - 00;12;14;20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And just at least become fluent with it. But if you're going completely from scratch with no help, like you're looking at probably ten plus hours a week to start, and then, of course, like if we look back at our calendar, where in the world is this going to go? I mean, like your calendar is already insanely full and so, like, you don't have ten plus hours.

00;12;14;20 - 00;12;42;08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so what again, always happens is a you're priced out from a cost standpoint and B, your time management isn't there anymore because you don't have the time to do it. This is where I believe I can provide value. So let's check this out okay. So let me prove to you how this works. So I'm going to give you a social media three month seasonal social media pack with a calendar and with the assets in order to create.

00;12;42;08 - 00;12;58;01
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Now here's the problem with most social media packs if it's done for you, it can be done for many. And so I want to also add a custom edge to yours. And so you are going to have to get your phone out. You are going to have to get some microphones, and you are gonna have to do a little bit of filming of yourself.

00;12;58;01 - 00;13;20;21
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Your face, your voice, or your students faces, your students voices, your volunteers voices. But some customization to your social media feeds. So it's not just a bunch of graphics. You see. That's where I think most social media packs fall short. Some designers cooking up amazing designs off in the lab that are better than anything you and I could create, but what mine does is mine helps coach you into the customization.

00;13;20;27 - 00;13;54;00
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so you're going to post three times per week. And one of my favorite posts is a very simple we're going to call it man on the Street style post. I've created the graphics that will overlay on top of your video. So you get your phone out, you film, you chop it up, you edit it, and all you got to do is use something like an in-app editor like Capco or TikTok simply on your phone, hand it over to a student, ask them to do it, and then you take my graphic, which had the would you rather question, and you just lay it over top of it, right.

00;13;54;02 - 00;14;27;08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I mapped this out back in November, and that particular post only took me five minutes and my Wi-Fi was lagging like absolute mad, crazy man. So in less than five minutes I had a edited, filmed and then posted custom video. Sometimes it's going to be custom, right? And so in this three times we have two styles. We have custom, but then other times it's just going to be done for you.

00;14;27;09 - 00;14;47;11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It's going to be plug and play. I got what to do. And you're feeling anxious. I got verse posts. I got I got other like spiritual practice type things. Those are the ones that are packs, right. That they can be done for anyone, anywhere in any context. But I also got some of these, and this is just an example of how this works.

00;14;47;11 - 00;15;08;08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And link down below is my full proof episode where like I said, I posted all eight styles. I have eight different styles. I have four custom, I have four done for you posted all eight of them and I let you know exactly how they performed. Here are the results actually on screen from my results episode. So this can work for you.

00;15;08;11 - 00;15;24;01
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And what's it going to do? It's going to accomplish this goal when your calendars overrun and busy, it's still going to give you. If you can commit to less than ten minutes, I would say ten minutes per week, then this is going to do it. And how are we going to do it? We're going to walk through this together.

00;15;24;01 - 00;15;54;03
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Because if you become a member of my Patreon every single Monday, I'm going to drop a recap episode. So I'm going to be there with you every single step of the way, coaching you through it. So let's check that part out. And here's the good news. To celebrate my 200th podcast episode, which is this one that you're listening to or watching, I'm giving the first 20 people free access to everything that I offer over, on, and inside my Patreon.

00;15;54;03 - 00;16;12;27
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Here's what's included. There is a weekly bonus podcast episode where I recap detail in outline my programing. And I'm not saying that I'm some creative genius, but I am saying that that is an attempt and that's something that we try to do. And so I explain some of the things that we offer and what we do in our programing.

00;16;12;27 - 00;16;47;02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Think of it as like your virtual assistant, someone just giving you ideas and then you filtering those through the lens of your ministry, your context and your programing. I will help level up your creative programing through that podcast. Additionally, I have a seasonal social media pack, so it's three months worth of posting content. Everything that we've been working through on this episode, and it is included as a part of the Patreon membership, as well as access to every post that I have and all of the shop items that are for sale over on my Patreon.

00;16;47;02 - 00;17;14;08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So if you're tired of trying to figure this out alone, then this is your moment. And here's how I'm going to do the first 20. You get this for free for the month of May. 2026. The rest of you, if you miss out on that first 20 moment, then I'm giving 50% off with this code. Same time frame h h standing for Hybrid Hero HH2 hundred 50% off to celebrate my 200th episode.

00;17;14;08 - 00;17;34;12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Like I said, this is open now for three weeks, so it's a strike while the iron is hot moment. You don't need a bigger budget to reach students, you just simply need the right system. And to celebrate my 200th episode, I'm giving you access to that. My friends cheering you on, rooting for you. And as always, don't forget stay hybrid.

Episode 182: I tried every youth ministry social media pack that exists.

Nick Clason — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0600

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.