<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" encoding="UTF-8" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:fireside="http://fireside.fm/modules/rss/fireside">
  <channel>
    <fireside:hostname>web02.fireside.fm</fireside:hostname>
    <fireside:genDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 12:39:35 -0500</fireside:genDate>
    <generator>Fireside (https://fireside.fm)</generator>
    <title>Hybrid Ministry - Episodes Tagged with “Random Generator”</title>
    <link>https://www.hybridministry.xyz/tags/random%20generator</link>
    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
    <description>Hybrid Ministry is complicated and hard. Or is it? 
How do pastors and youth pastors create a vibrant extension, not replacement, of what's already happening during their weekly church services? To cater in a digital ministry way to an online focused ministry audience. Reaching Millennials, Gen Z and even Gen Alpha is going to require us to rethink some of the ways we do church.
Follow along on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick
</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type>
    <itunes:subtitle>Digital Discipleship made easy</itunes:subtitle>
    <itunes:author>Nick Clason</itunes:author>
    <itunes:summary>Hybrid Ministry is complicated and hard. Or is it? 
How do pastors and youth pastors create a vibrant extension, not replacement, of what's already happening during their weekly church services? To cater in a digital ministry way to an online focused ministry audience. Reaching Millennials, Gen Z and even Gen Alpha is going to require us to rethink some of the ways we do church.
Follow along on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick
</itunes:summary>
    <itunes:image href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/e/e697b7b8-eaee-430b-9281-dfbd9f2d34d0/cover.jpg?v=5"/>
    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
    <itunes:keywords>Digital, Online Church, Hybrid Ministry, Church, Meta, Gen Z, Millennials, Digital Marketing, Church Marketing, Youth Ministry, Student Ministry, Nick Clason, Digital Ministry, Church Social Media, Youth Ministry Social Media, YouTube for Church, YouTube for Youth Ministry, TikTok for Churches, TikTok for Youth Ministry, Instagram for Churches, Instagram for Youth Ministry, Facebook for Church, Facebook for Youth Ministry, Cell Phone Usage at Church</itunes:keywords>
    <itunes:owner>
      <itunes:name>Nick Clason</itunes:name>
      <itunes:email>nickclason@hybridministry.xyz</itunes:email>
    </itunes:owner>
<itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality">
  <itunes:category text="Christianity"/>
</itunes:category>
<itunes:category text="Technology"/>
<itunes:category text="Business">
  <itunes:category text="Marketing"/>
</itunes:category>
<item>
  <title>Episode 127: More than a Random Name Generator</title>
  <link>https://www.hybridministry.xyz/127</link>
  <guid isPermaLink="false">d3cbd103-9219-46ef-bfee-603836a855ef</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
  <author>Nick Clason</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e697b7b8-eaee-430b-9281-dfbd9f2d34d0/d3cbd103-9219-46ef-bfee-603836a855ef.mp3" length="19455134" type="audio/mpeg"/>
  <itunes:episode>127</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>More than a Random Name Generator</itunes:title>
  <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
  <itunes:author>Nick Clason</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons and programming using the Random Name Generator from Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry programming!</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>13:30</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
  <itunes:image href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/e/e697b7b8-eaee-430b-9281-dfbd9f2d34d0/episodes/d/d3cbd103-9219-46ef-bfee-603836a855ef/cover.jpg?v=1"/>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;🎧 &lt;strong&gt;BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🖥️ &lt;strong&gt;SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons and programming using the Random Name Generator from Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry programming!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;📓 &lt;strong&gt;SHOWNOTES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/127" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;http://www.hybridministry.xyz/127&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//COLEADER PRICING&lt;br&gt;
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK&lt;br&gt;
YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Instagram: &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
TikTok: &lt;a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Facebook: &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Website: &lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!&lt;br&gt;
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
VIDIQ&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://vidiq.com/hybrid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BEST DYM RESOURCES&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp;amp; REELS&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🕰️&lt;strong&gt;TIMECODES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
00:00 The Most Personal Element of Sidekick to Date&lt;br&gt;
01:34 #1 Creative Name Generator Idea&lt;br&gt;
04:27 Operating "Pick Me"&lt;br&gt;
06:04 #2 Creative Name Generator Idea&lt;br&gt;
07:28 #3 Creative Name Generator Idea&lt;br&gt;
08:19 Different Sound Effect Options&lt;br&gt;
10:09 #4 Creative Name Generator Idea&lt;br&gt;
11:26 #5 Creative Name Generator Idea&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:00:00:00 - 00:00:11:26&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
As we've been exploring more engaging sermons through your presentations and specifically your presentation software, we're talking about sidekick in the play, this link right&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:00:11:26 - 00:00:16:59&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
here. And this is the fourth and final video, but this feature is the feature that when I saw this&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:00:16:59 - 00:00:23:59&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
feature rolled out at the Orange Conference and I believe it was 2016 when they&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:00:23:59 - 00:00:28:47&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
showed it to me, I instantly said, and then sign me up.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:00:28:51 - 00:00:50:23&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
What does it take? How much does it cost? Actually, I don't care. It doesn't matter. This is what I want. And this is the feature that sidekick still has rolled out to this day, in my personal opinion. It is my necklaces favorite feature, and it is one that I believe that you can and you should be using in your presentations.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:00:50:28 - 00:01:07:23&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Whether you're a youth pastor, whether you're a college minister, whether you're an adult pastor, or whether, frankly, you're a senior pastor, it is the random name picker and random name generator. And in this video and in this episode, I want to share five of my favorite ways&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:01:07:23 - 00:01:11:46&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
to creatively use the name picker. I'm going to drill deep down&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:01:11:46 - 00:01:16:51&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
into all of the features of how you can use it and utilize it, and what it has to offer.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:01:16:57 - 00:01:24:01&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So if you're watching here on YouTube, you're going to see a live demo and a live tutorial and a screen share of it. And don't forget, as always, there&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:01:24:01 - 00:01:35:31&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
are chapters down below at the bottom of this video so that you can skip around to the ones that make the most sense to you. Welcome everyone to the Hybrid Ministry Show.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:01:35:36 - 00:01:47:54&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So way. Number one, that I love to use the random name generator because as you know, when you're at church, you don't know which of your youth group kids are going to show up on any given week. And&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:01:47:54 - 00:02:04:52&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
so one of my favorite ways to use it is in our retreats or in our camps or within things that, that have a registration component to it, because, you know, every kid you're taking to camp, you should and you should definitely know that number because you better return with that many kids.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:02:04:53 - 00:02:20:39&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Give me a like if you've ever worried that you lost a kid, a youth camp, and, either way, one of the things I like to do is when we have a big event and listen, what I'm about to explain is one of the things I'm going to start doing on my Patreon show. By the way, if you didn't know, we're launching a Patreon show.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:02:20:39 - 00:02:45:03&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
If you're watching here on screen, you can see the slide. We are going to be offering bonus content, and that bonus content is going to drop once per week. And I'm very simply going to talk through all of the different ways that we are using and utilizing hybrid in our ministry, and I hope that as you sit in and as you listen, it helps you to get the creative juices going a little bit in your own brain and in your own ministry.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:02:45:03 - 00:03:06:34&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And as you pursue hybrid, not because it's cool and not because digital and all that stuff is important, but really we're taking our in-person and our digital and we're putting it together, intersecting in most cases, at students cell phones, which gives us an opportunity to impact and influence them beyond the one hour of programing that we have scheduled per week.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:03:06:34 - 00:03:26:52&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so that is what my Patreon is going to do, this bonus content. But when you have an event, if you have some sort of a check in system, which I know we do, I have our, church community builder, CBM, we have a, report that runs for anyone who's checked in within the last 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:03:26:57 - 00:03:29:54&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so what happens then is, basically&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:03:29:54 - 00:03:53:47&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
once an event has started, I can go into that report, I can download into an Excel sheet, so to speak, or like a dot CSV. I can know all the names of the students who are there. I don't have to guess about the kids who I think might be there, who I thought I saw, but I know for a fact they've checked in and then I can put their names into the random name generator, and then I can use that for raffle giveaways, prizes, and all sorts of things.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:03:53:47 - 00:04:18:27&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so say that that spits out into an Excel sheet. You're looking here at an Excel sheet, and you can just highlight an entire cell. Copy. Copy that. Go over here to your name picker. Click edit. Click edit. Pick me. Go to your book editor Payson, and boom, just in case you also wanted their numbers as well. And so now we got all of the names in here.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:04:18:32 - 00:04:42:00&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And and then when I go ahead and I get ready to roll this thing, you'll notice. Let me get this full screen here. If you're watching, pretend this is your projector, you're going to drag that window over to your projector. And then you are going to click present and you're good to go. And so now here I am, I want to play and I want to run this pick me game.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:04:42:00 - 00:05:07:27&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so, I'm going to turn it on to random. And we're going to get this thing rolling and I'm gonna see who's going to win. And it's Nikola to pitch the earbud. Believer himself. And so when you're running it right, you can do things like hide last item. So if I don't want to pitch to win, I can turn this on ahead of time so that it doesn't stop on him again, even though it did.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:05:07:27 - 00:05:27:33&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But now he's gone and now I'm going to get a new winner. Jacob Jalen Williams himself. Right. Here's the beautiful thing. If you don't trust your tech person, you can do this from your phone. You can do this remotely from an iPad. Or you can do this remotely from even a whole different computer. And you don't even have to be on the same network as that computer.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:05:27:37 - 00:05:28:42&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You're logged into sidekick&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:05:28:42 - 00:05:44:50&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
on your in your tech booth, and if you're logged in to sidekick from your phone or whatever device, you can run it from both. We are all in on sidekick in fact. Link down below if you want to see our setup of how we do it. To jump back and forth between pro presenter and sidekick, we haven't made the shift to be&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:05:44:50 - 00:05:47:41&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
all in with worship because that's a whole different department.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:05:47:46 - 00:06:02:42&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
I don't call the shots. If I did, we would be all in on sidekick, but since we're not, we have a video switcher. And if you want to be able to bounce back and forth between the two so that you can have the elements of purpose that you like, but all the interactive features of sidekick that you like, check that out down below.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:06:02:42 - 00:06:29:26&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Now, idea number two, one that I really like is rather than names. We've actually done this before in this presentation, and I'm going to show you how to set it up. I did like a series or a message on labels. And so I actually, what I did was, I think I have it in here. I brought in, like, a label, like a hello, my name is type of label, and I just got it loaded.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:06:29:40 - 00:06:56:34&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And very simply, when it was sitting there on screen and I was teaching, I used that teaching moment sort of as an opportunity to, to to cycle through and filter through some of the different types of labels that we face or that we think we face or that we see or that we feel or that we might even struggle with sometimes, as, you know, people, as teenagers, as followers of Jesus.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:06:56:39 - 00:07:22:56&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so you don't have to just let this be like a random name picker thing. Like you can also use and utilize this as an opportunity, within your teaching, within your teaching components. And so as you see here on screen, I have the hello, my name is name Tag right here. And then they are just simply filtering through, different types of labels that you or that students might struggle with.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:07:22:56 - 00:07:37:08&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And that's an opportunity then to go ahead and and use that as a part of your teaching point. Now my third favorite way to go ahead and use the random name generator is, to use a thing called a Volun told&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:07:37:08 - 00:07:50:43&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
generator. And we talked about this a little bit in the, we'll, video in the last video about how you can make a definitive or declarative statement, like the person with the tallest socks, that's only one person.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:07:50:45 - 00:08:10:03&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So the person with the tallest socks in your room, they come up in place. So if you don't have a set up or if you don't have check in, but you still want to use this kind of Volun told generator sort of thing, you can put generic statements about students, and then you can use that to get people to come on up as contestants for games and stuff like that.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:08:10:08 - 00:08:29:16&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And again, it's just a great way to not have to do the who wants to play? And you're like, how did I pick that kid or not? Like the the random name generator is king and the random name generator decides. And what's cool, even in its customization, right, is that you can create different sound effects, right? So like, there is like a thumbs up sound effect.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:08:29:16 - 00:08:48:58&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
There is a, kind of shrugging like middle of the road sound effect. And then there's like a party horn sound effect. So if you were playing this and you had the sort of like, like maybe a bad prize or something, you weren't so sure about that you didn't want, this is what the thumbs down sound effect sounds like.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:08:49:02 - 00:09:06:04&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
That. But, yeah, it's a bummer. No, no one wants is smudging. Like, that's how Thunder fans kind of feel right now anyway. But then you go ahead and you're like that. This guy's kind of mid tier. We're not not really sure if we have an, opinion yet of him or not. Really sure if winning this thing in our youth ministry, we really have an opinion of it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:09:06:04 - 00:09:27:42&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Yet Dugas. Yeah, okay. Whatever. You know, but then, like, you win something great or like it's a grand prize or something that people really actually want. I mean, he's a front runner for MVP. Let's just be honest. He's outpacing Luke does is the Thunder are the number one seed in the West. And they are the juggernaut that everyone should be afraid of.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:09:27:42 - 00:09:45:45&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And it's led by this guy. And so you should you should have that sound. Hey give me a like if you're a, Thunder fan and please don't unsubscribe if you, do you happen to be a mavericks fan? Because we are here trying to make this hybrid ministry thing. We're trying to make it helpful to you. In fact, right here on screen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:09:45:45 - 00:10:04:02&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Don't forget Code Hybrid Ministry ten. If you've never used you. I am. Or if you've never signed up for anything with do I am before for 10% off for a year of premium, Premium or Premium Plus? You can check out the pricing link down below. We also offer custom coaching. It's my free strategy guide. Go ahead and scan that QR code, check out our Patreon.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:10:04:02 - 00:10:25:49&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And hey, while you're here, go ahead and vote on which coffee shop is the best. My fourth idiom that I really like to do is kind of like the kind of like the the name tag one that I showed you a minute ago. So instead of it, I mean, like a teaching point, a lot of times I will create a welcome slide, right?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:10:25:49 - 00:10:41:58&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And these slides, just like all the other ones, they're, they're highly adaptable. So you can put any slides you want. You can, add an image, you can make a color, you can add a video background from something from YouTube. Even so like we've used this video before in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:10:41:58 - 00:10:48:42&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
previous videos here, even on this playlist. And so if you wanted it to be a video one, you could embed this YouTube video right here.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:10:48:47 - 00:11:09:10&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Or you could add one of these videos from a bank of other videos that you have used before using the past. But whatever the case might be, I'll do this where like, we have like, a leader lunch. And so people have volun, or have RSVP ahead of time. And so I will, put all of their names into the generator and I will say, leader, lunch welcome.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:11:09:10 - 00:11:27:14&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
With an arrow pointing to where their name is going to be here on People Picker and all the names are just filtering through. And then we may use that as a giveaway sort of feature in the, in the, you know, in the background or whatever, or not. We'll see. But those are sort of all just kind of different ways and different ideas that I like to use the name picker.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:11:27:14 - 00:11:47:40&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And then of course, number five, I'm going to share on my Patreon page. And don't forget, this is the last time that I'm going to do this. To those of you listening to the regular podcast or on YouTube, but I just, I, I'm so, so stoked and I'm so pumped about our Patreon because it is a dollar a week, $4 a month.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:11:47:44 - 00:12:05:54&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
I think it's less than the cost of a cup of coffee. But I want to get coffee with you. I want to sit down. I want to chat. Youth ministry. I want to chat. Creativity. I want to chat. How to make your programing more engaging? Because Gen Z and Gen Alpha, they want a more custom and personalized approach.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:12:05:54 - 00:12:33:09&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And I believe that sidekick not only in this beta version, but also in the future. Rolling out has the tools that it takes to do that. I'm challenging myself to use sidekick every single time we're in the room with our students, and I want to encourage you to try and lean into your creativity and do the same. And so I know when I hear a brainstorm that's helpful for me to just listen to someone else and then beg and borrow and steal and tweak and adapt and use different ideas.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:12:33:14 - 00:12:56:08&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so that's why I want my Patreon to be is just a place for you guys to get that weekly sort of bonus content, along with, as you see here, on screen, exclusive merch and exclusive sticker for everyone who signs up before the month of December. December 2nd, they'll be yours. I'll mail it to you. You can help me choose some show and segment topics, and also some shout outs special for those over there on my Patreon page.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:12:56:08 - 00:13:18:37&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But that number five idea that's over there going to be in this week's Patreon will drop on Monday of this week. So once again, my friends so excited that you here. Thank you for diving in deep with sidekick. The next episode we are going to be hopping into all things Christmas, Christmas parties, holiday planning, and everything that you need to know to round out the year.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:13:18:37 - 00:13:29:16&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Amazingly, in your ministry. Finish strong. The Lord is equipped you for what he has you doing. But don't forget and as always my friends, to stay hybrid. &lt;/p&gt;
</description>
  <itunes:keywords>download youth ministry, sidekick, youth ministry, hybrid ministry, youth pastor podcast, student ministry, youth ministry programming, name picker, wheel, Random Generator, Live voting, Youth ministry creativity, Creative Programming, ProPresenter, Youth Group, Youth Group Phones, How to handle phones in youth ministry, phones are so distracting in youth ministry, Nick Clason, Josh Boldman, Spinning Wheel</itunes:keywords>
  <content:encoded>
    <![CDATA[<p>🎧 <strong>BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry</a></p>

<p>🖥️ <strong>SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong><br>
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons and programming using the Random Name Generator from Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry programming!</p>

<p>📓 <strong>SHOWNOTES</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/127" rel="nofollow">http://www.hybridministry.xyz/127</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>//COLEADER PRICING<br>
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10<br>
<a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing</a></p>

<p>//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" rel="nofollow">https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book</a></p>

<p>//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching</a></p>

<p>//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms</a></p>

<p>👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK<br>
YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/</a><br>
TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry</a><br>
Website: <a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉</strong><br>
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!<br>
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!<br>
<a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!</strong><br>
<em><em>Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products</em></em><br>
VIDIQ<br>
<a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" rel="nofollow">https://vidiq.com/hybrid</a></p>

<p>BEST DYM RESOURCES<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym</a></p>

<p>OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp; REELS<br>
<a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" rel="nofollow">https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361</a></p>

<p>//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>🕰️<strong>TIMECODES</strong><br>
00:00 The Most Personal Element of Sidekick to Date<br>
01:34 #1 Creative Name Generator Idea<br>
04:27 Operating &quot;Pick Me&quot;<br>
06:04 #2 Creative Name Generator Idea<br>
07:28 #3 Creative Name Generator Idea<br>
08:19 Different Sound Effect Options<br>
10:09 #4 Creative Name Generator Idea<br>
11:26 #5 Creative Name Generator Idea</p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong></p>

<p>00:00:00:00 - 00:00:11:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
As we&#39;ve been exploring more engaging sermons through your presentations and specifically your presentation software, we&#39;re talking about sidekick in the play, this link right</p>

<p>00:00:11:26 - 00:00:16:59<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
here. And this is the fourth and final video, but this feature is the feature that when I saw this</p>

<p>00:00:16:59 - 00:00:23:59<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
feature rolled out at the Orange Conference and I believe it was 2016 when they</p>

<p>00:00:23:59 - 00:00:28:47<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
showed it to me, I instantly said, and then sign me up.</p>

<p>00:00:28:51 - 00:00:50:23<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
What does it take? How much does it cost? Actually, I don&#39;t care. It doesn&#39;t matter. This is what I want. And this is the feature that sidekick still has rolled out to this day, in my personal opinion. It is my necklaces favorite feature, and it is one that I believe that you can and you should be using in your presentations.</p>

<p>00:00:50:28 - 00:01:07:23<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Whether you&#39;re a youth pastor, whether you&#39;re a college minister, whether you&#39;re an adult pastor, or whether, frankly, you&#39;re a senior pastor, it is the random name picker and random name generator. And in this video and in this episode, I want to share five of my favorite ways</p>

<p>00:01:07:23 - 00:01:11:46<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
to creatively use the name picker. I&#39;m going to drill deep down</p>

<p>00:01:11:46 - 00:01:16:51<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
into all of the features of how you can use it and utilize it, and what it has to offer.</p>

<p>00:01:16:57 - 00:01:24:01<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So if you&#39;re watching here on YouTube, you&#39;re going to see a live demo and a live tutorial and a screen share of it. And don&#39;t forget, as always, there</p>

<p>00:01:24:01 - 00:01:35:31<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
are chapters down below at the bottom of this video so that you can skip around to the ones that make the most sense to you. Welcome everyone to the Hybrid Ministry Show.</p>

<p>00:01:35:36 - 00:01:47:54<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So way. Number one, that I love to use the random name generator because as you know, when you&#39;re at church, you don&#39;t know which of your youth group kids are going to show up on any given week. And</p>

<p>00:01:47:54 - 00:02:04:52<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
so one of my favorite ways to use it is in our retreats or in our camps or within things that, that have a registration component to it, because, you know, every kid you&#39;re taking to camp, you should and you should definitely know that number because you better return with that many kids.</p>

<p>00:02:04:53 - 00:02:20:39<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Give me a like if you&#39;ve ever worried that you lost a kid, a youth camp, and, either way, one of the things I like to do is when we have a big event and listen, what I&#39;m about to explain is one of the things I&#39;m going to start doing on my Patreon show. By the way, if you didn&#39;t know, we&#39;re launching a Patreon show.</p>

<p>00:02:20:39 - 00:02:45:03<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
If you&#39;re watching here on screen, you can see the slide. We are going to be offering bonus content, and that bonus content is going to drop once per week. And I&#39;m very simply going to talk through all of the different ways that we are using and utilizing hybrid in our ministry, and I hope that as you sit in and as you listen, it helps you to get the creative juices going a little bit in your own brain and in your own ministry.</p>

<p>00:02:45:03 - 00:03:06:34<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And as you pursue hybrid, not because it&#39;s cool and not because digital and all that stuff is important, but really we&#39;re taking our in-person and our digital and we&#39;re putting it together, intersecting in most cases, at students cell phones, which gives us an opportunity to impact and influence them beyond the one hour of programing that we have scheduled per week.</p>

<p>00:03:06:34 - 00:03:26:52<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so that is what my Patreon is going to do, this bonus content. But when you have an event, if you have some sort of a check in system, which I know we do, I have our, church community builder, CBM, we have a, report that runs for anyone who&#39;s checked in within the last 24 hours.</p>

<p>00:03:26:57 - 00:03:29:54<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so what happens then is, basically</p>

<p>00:03:29:54 - 00:03:53:47<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
once an event has started, I can go into that report, I can download into an Excel sheet, so to speak, or like a dot CSV. I can know all the names of the students who are there. I don&#39;t have to guess about the kids who I think might be there, who I thought I saw, but I know for a fact they&#39;ve checked in and then I can put their names into the random name generator, and then I can use that for raffle giveaways, prizes, and all sorts of things.</p>

<p>00:03:53:47 - 00:04:18:27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so say that that spits out into an Excel sheet. You&#39;re looking here at an Excel sheet, and you can just highlight an entire cell. Copy. Copy that. Go over here to your name picker. Click edit. Click edit. Pick me. Go to your book editor Payson, and boom, just in case you also wanted their numbers as well. And so now we got all of the names in here.</p>

<p>00:04:18:32 - 00:04:42:00<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And and then when I go ahead and I get ready to roll this thing, you&#39;ll notice. Let me get this full screen here. If you&#39;re watching, pretend this is your projector, you&#39;re going to drag that window over to your projector. And then you are going to click present and you&#39;re good to go. And so now here I am, I want to play and I want to run this pick me game.</p>

<p>00:04:42:00 - 00:05:07:27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so, I&#39;m going to turn it on to random. And we&#39;re going to get this thing rolling and I&#39;m gonna see who&#39;s going to win. And it&#39;s Nikola to pitch the earbud. Believer himself. And so when you&#39;re running it right, you can do things like hide last item. So if I don&#39;t want to pitch to win, I can turn this on ahead of time so that it doesn&#39;t stop on him again, even though it did.</p>

<p>00:05:07:27 - 00:05:27:33<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But now he&#39;s gone and now I&#39;m going to get a new winner. Jacob Jalen Williams himself. Right. Here&#39;s the beautiful thing. If you don&#39;t trust your tech person, you can do this from your phone. You can do this remotely from an iPad. Or you can do this remotely from even a whole different computer. And you don&#39;t even have to be on the same network as that computer.</p>

<p>00:05:27:37 - 00:05:28:42<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You&#39;re logged into sidekick</p>

<p>00:05:28:42 - 00:05:44:50<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
on your in your tech booth, and if you&#39;re logged in to sidekick from your phone or whatever device, you can run it from both. We are all in on sidekick in fact. Link down below if you want to see our setup of how we do it. To jump back and forth between pro presenter and sidekick, we haven&#39;t made the shift to be</p>

<p>00:05:44:50 - 00:05:47:41<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
all in with worship because that&#39;s a whole different department.</p>

<p>00:05:47:46 - 00:06:02:42<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
I don&#39;t call the shots. If I did, we would be all in on sidekick, but since we&#39;re not, we have a video switcher. And if you want to be able to bounce back and forth between the two so that you can have the elements of purpose that you like, but all the interactive features of sidekick that you like, check that out down below.</p>

<p>00:06:02:42 - 00:06:29:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now, idea number two, one that I really like is rather than names. We&#39;ve actually done this before in this presentation, and I&#39;m going to show you how to set it up. I did like a series or a message on labels. And so I actually, what I did was, I think I have it in here. I brought in, like, a label, like a hello, my name is type of label, and I just got it loaded.</p>

<p>00:06:29:40 - 00:06:56:34<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And very simply, when it was sitting there on screen and I was teaching, I used that teaching moment sort of as an opportunity to, to to cycle through and filter through some of the different types of labels that we face or that we think we face or that we see or that we feel or that we might even struggle with sometimes, as, you know, people, as teenagers, as followers of Jesus.</p>

<p>00:06:56:39 - 00:07:22:56<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so you don&#39;t have to just let this be like a random name picker thing. Like you can also use and utilize this as an opportunity, within your teaching, within your teaching components. And so as you see here on screen, I have the hello, my name is name Tag right here. And then they are just simply filtering through, different types of labels that you or that students might struggle with.</p>

<p>00:07:22:56 - 00:07:37:08<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And that&#39;s an opportunity then to go ahead and and use that as a part of your teaching point. Now my third favorite way to go ahead and use the random name generator is, to use a thing called a Volun told</p>

<p>00:07:37:08 - 00:07:50:43<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
generator. And we talked about this a little bit in the, we&#39;ll, video in the last video about how you can make a definitive or declarative statement, like the person with the tallest socks, that&#39;s only one person.</p>

<p>00:07:50:45 - 00:08:10:03<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So the person with the tallest socks in your room, they come up in place. So if you don&#39;t have a set up or if you don&#39;t have check in, but you still want to use this kind of Volun told generator sort of thing, you can put generic statements about students, and then you can use that to get people to come on up as contestants for games and stuff like that.</p>

<p>00:08:10:08 - 00:08:29:16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And again, it&#39;s just a great way to not have to do the who wants to play? And you&#39;re like, how did I pick that kid or not? Like the the random name generator is king and the random name generator decides. And what&#39;s cool, even in its customization, right, is that you can create different sound effects, right? So like, there is like a thumbs up sound effect.</p>

<p>00:08:29:16 - 00:08:48:58<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
There is a, kind of shrugging like middle of the road sound effect. And then there&#39;s like a party horn sound effect. So if you were playing this and you had the sort of like, like maybe a bad prize or something, you weren&#39;t so sure about that you didn&#39;t want, this is what the thumbs down sound effect sounds like.</p>

<p>00:08:49:02 - 00:09:06:04<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
That. But, yeah, it&#39;s a bummer. No, no one wants is smudging. Like, that&#39;s how Thunder fans kind of feel right now anyway. But then you go ahead and you&#39;re like that. This guy&#39;s kind of mid tier. We&#39;re not not really sure if we have an, opinion yet of him or not. Really sure if winning this thing in our youth ministry, we really have an opinion of it.</p>

<p>00:09:06:04 - 00:09:27:42<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Yet Dugas. Yeah, okay. Whatever. You know, but then, like, you win something great or like it&#39;s a grand prize or something that people really actually want. I mean, he&#39;s a front runner for MVP. Let&#39;s just be honest. He&#39;s outpacing Luke does is the Thunder are the number one seed in the West. And they are the juggernaut that everyone should be afraid of.</p>

<p>00:09:27:42 - 00:09:45:45<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And it&#39;s led by this guy. And so you should you should have that sound. Hey give me a like if you&#39;re a, Thunder fan and please don&#39;t unsubscribe if you, do you happen to be a mavericks fan? Because we are here trying to make this hybrid ministry thing. We&#39;re trying to make it helpful to you. In fact, right here on screen.</p>

<p>00:09:45:45 - 00:10:04:02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Don&#39;t forget Code Hybrid Ministry ten. If you&#39;ve never used you. I am. Or if you&#39;ve never signed up for anything with do I am before for 10% off for a year of premium, Premium or Premium Plus? You can check out the pricing link down below. We also offer custom coaching. It&#39;s my free strategy guide. Go ahead and scan that QR code, check out our Patreon.</p>

<p>00:10:04:02 - 00:10:25:49<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And hey, while you&#39;re here, go ahead and vote on which coffee shop is the best. My fourth idiom that I really like to do is kind of like the kind of like the the name tag one that I showed you a minute ago. So instead of it, I mean, like a teaching point, a lot of times I will create a welcome slide, right?</p>

<p>00:10:25:49 - 00:10:41:58<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And these slides, just like all the other ones, they&#39;re, they&#39;re highly adaptable. So you can put any slides you want. You can, add an image, you can make a color, you can add a video background from something from YouTube. Even so like we&#39;ve used this video before in</p>

<p>00:10:41:58 - 00:10:48:42<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
previous videos here, even on this playlist. And so if you wanted it to be a video one, you could embed this YouTube video right here.</p>

<p>00:10:48:47 - 00:11:09:10<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Or you could add one of these videos from a bank of other videos that you have used before using the past. But whatever the case might be, I&#39;ll do this where like, we have like, a leader lunch. And so people have volun, or have RSVP ahead of time. And so I will, put all of their names into the generator and I will say, leader, lunch welcome.</p>

<p>00:11:09:10 - 00:11:27:14<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
With an arrow pointing to where their name is going to be here on People Picker and all the names are just filtering through. And then we may use that as a giveaway sort of feature in the, in the, you know, in the background or whatever, or not. We&#39;ll see. But those are sort of all just kind of different ways and different ideas that I like to use the name picker.</p>

<p>00:11:27:14 - 00:11:47:40<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And then of course, number five, I&#39;m going to share on my Patreon page. And don&#39;t forget, this is the last time that I&#39;m going to do this. To those of you listening to the regular podcast or on YouTube, but I just, I, I&#39;m so, so stoked and I&#39;m so pumped about our Patreon because it is a dollar a week, $4 a month.</p>

<p>00:11:47:44 - 00:12:05:54<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
I think it&#39;s less than the cost of a cup of coffee. But I want to get coffee with you. I want to sit down. I want to chat. Youth ministry. I want to chat. Creativity. I want to chat. How to make your programing more engaging? Because Gen Z and Gen Alpha, they want a more custom and personalized approach.</p>

<p>00:12:05:54 - 00:12:33:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And I believe that sidekick not only in this beta version, but also in the future. Rolling out has the tools that it takes to do that. I&#39;m challenging myself to use sidekick every single time we&#39;re in the room with our students, and I want to encourage you to try and lean into your creativity and do the same. And so I know when I hear a brainstorm that&#39;s helpful for me to just listen to someone else and then beg and borrow and steal and tweak and adapt and use different ideas.</p>

<p>00:12:33:14 - 00:12:56:08<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so that&#39;s why I want my Patreon to be is just a place for you guys to get that weekly sort of bonus content, along with, as you see here, on screen, exclusive merch and exclusive sticker for everyone who signs up before the month of December. December 2nd, they&#39;ll be yours. I&#39;ll mail it to you. You can help me choose some show and segment topics, and also some shout outs special for those over there on my Patreon page.</p>

<p>00:12:56:08 - 00:13:18:37<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But that number five idea that&#39;s over there going to be in this week&#39;s Patreon will drop on Monday of this week. So once again, my friends so excited that you here. Thank you for diving in deep with sidekick. The next episode we are going to be hopping into all things Christmas, Christmas parties, holiday planning, and everything that you need to know to round out the year.</p>

<p>00:13:18:37 - 00:13:29:16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Amazingly, in your ministry. Finish strong. The Lord is equipped you for what he has you doing. But don&#39;t forget and as always my friends, to stay hybrid.</p>]]>
  </content:encoded>
  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>🎧 <strong>BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry</a></p>

<p>🖥️ <strong>SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong><br>
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons and programming using the Random Name Generator from Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry programming!</p>

<p>📓 <strong>SHOWNOTES</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/127" rel="nofollow">http://www.hybridministry.xyz/127</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>//COLEADER PRICING<br>
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10<br>
<a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing</a></p>

<p>//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" rel="nofollow">https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book</a></p>

<p>//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching</a></p>

<p>//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms</a></p>

<p>👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK<br>
YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/</a><br>
TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry</a><br>
Website: <a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉</strong><br>
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!<br>
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!<br>
<a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!</strong><br>
<em><em>Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products</em></em><br>
VIDIQ<br>
<a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" rel="nofollow">https://vidiq.com/hybrid</a></p>

<p>BEST DYM RESOURCES<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym</a></p>

<p>OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp; REELS<br>
<a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" rel="nofollow">https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361</a></p>

<p>//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>🕰️<strong>TIMECODES</strong><br>
00:00 The Most Personal Element of Sidekick to Date<br>
01:34 #1 Creative Name Generator Idea<br>
04:27 Operating &quot;Pick Me&quot;<br>
06:04 #2 Creative Name Generator Idea<br>
07:28 #3 Creative Name Generator Idea<br>
08:19 Different Sound Effect Options<br>
10:09 #4 Creative Name Generator Idea<br>
11:26 #5 Creative Name Generator Idea</p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong></p>

<p>00:00:00:00 - 00:00:11:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
As we&#39;ve been exploring more engaging sermons through your presentations and specifically your presentation software, we&#39;re talking about sidekick in the play, this link right</p>

<p>00:00:11:26 - 00:00:16:59<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
here. And this is the fourth and final video, but this feature is the feature that when I saw this</p>

<p>00:00:16:59 - 00:00:23:59<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
feature rolled out at the Orange Conference and I believe it was 2016 when they</p>

<p>00:00:23:59 - 00:00:28:47<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
showed it to me, I instantly said, and then sign me up.</p>

<p>00:00:28:51 - 00:00:50:23<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
What does it take? How much does it cost? Actually, I don&#39;t care. It doesn&#39;t matter. This is what I want. And this is the feature that sidekick still has rolled out to this day, in my personal opinion. It is my necklaces favorite feature, and it is one that I believe that you can and you should be using in your presentations.</p>

<p>00:00:50:28 - 00:01:07:23<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Whether you&#39;re a youth pastor, whether you&#39;re a college minister, whether you&#39;re an adult pastor, or whether, frankly, you&#39;re a senior pastor, it is the random name picker and random name generator. And in this video and in this episode, I want to share five of my favorite ways</p>

<p>00:01:07:23 - 00:01:11:46<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
to creatively use the name picker. I&#39;m going to drill deep down</p>

<p>00:01:11:46 - 00:01:16:51<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
into all of the features of how you can use it and utilize it, and what it has to offer.</p>

<p>00:01:16:57 - 00:01:24:01<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So if you&#39;re watching here on YouTube, you&#39;re going to see a live demo and a live tutorial and a screen share of it. And don&#39;t forget, as always, there</p>

<p>00:01:24:01 - 00:01:35:31<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
are chapters down below at the bottom of this video so that you can skip around to the ones that make the most sense to you. Welcome everyone to the Hybrid Ministry Show.</p>

<p>00:01:35:36 - 00:01:47:54<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So way. Number one, that I love to use the random name generator because as you know, when you&#39;re at church, you don&#39;t know which of your youth group kids are going to show up on any given week. And</p>

<p>00:01:47:54 - 00:02:04:52<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
so one of my favorite ways to use it is in our retreats or in our camps or within things that, that have a registration component to it, because, you know, every kid you&#39;re taking to camp, you should and you should definitely know that number because you better return with that many kids.</p>

<p>00:02:04:53 - 00:02:20:39<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Give me a like if you&#39;ve ever worried that you lost a kid, a youth camp, and, either way, one of the things I like to do is when we have a big event and listen, what I&#39;m about to explain is one of the things I&#39;m going to start doing on my Patreon show. By the way, if you didn&#39;t know, we&#39;re launching a Patreon show.</p>

<p>00:02:20:39 - 00:02:45:03<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
If you&#39;re watching here on screen, you can see the slide. We are going to be offering bonus content, and that bonus content is going to drop once per week. And I&#39;m very simply going to talk through all of the different ways that we are using and utilizing hybrid in our ministry, and I hope that as you sit in and as you listen, it helps you to get the creative juices going a little bit in your own brain and in your own ministry.</p>

<p>00:02:45:03 - 00:03:06:34<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And as you pursue hybrid, not because it&#39;s cool and not because digital and all that stuff is important, but really we&#39;re taking our in-person and our digital and we&#39;re putting it together, intersecting in most cases, at students cell phones, which gives us an opportunity to impact and influence them beyond the one hour of programing that we have scheduled per week.</p>

<p>00:03:06:34 - 00:03:26:52<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so that is what my Patreon is going to do, this bonus content. But when you have an event, if you have some sort of a check in system, which I know we do, I have our, church community builder, CBM, we have a, report that runs for anyone who&#39;s checked in within the last 24 hours.</p>

<p>00:03:26:57 - 00:03:29:54<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so what happens then is, basically</p>

<p>00:03:29:54 - 00:03:53:47<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
once an event has started, I can go into that report, I can download into an Excel sheet, so to speak, or like a dot CSV. I can know all the names of the students who are there. I don&#39;t have to guess about the kids who I think might be there, who I thought I saw, but I know for a fact they&#39;ve checked in and then I can put their names into the random name generator, and then I can use that for raffle giveaways, prizes, and all sorts of things.</p>

<p>00:03:53:47 - 00:04:18:27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so say that that spits out into an Excel sheet. You&#39;re looking here at an Excel sheet, and you can just highlight an entire cell. Copy. Copy that. Go over here to your name picker. Click edit. Click edit. Pick me. Go to your book editor Payson, and boom, just in case you also wanted their numbers as well. And so now we got all of the names in here.</p>

<p>00:04:18:32 - 00:04:42:00<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And and then when I go ahead and I get ready to roll this thing, you&#39;ll notice. Let me get this full screen here. If you&#39;re watching, pretend this is your projector, you&#39;re going to drag that window over to your projector. And then you are going to click present and you&#39;re good to go. And so now here I am, I want to play and I want to run this pick me game.</p>

<p>00:04:42:00 - 00:05:07:27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so, I&#39;m going to turn it on to random. And we&#39;re going to get this thing rolling and I&#39;m gonna see who&#39;s going to win. And it&#39;s Nikola to pitch the earbud. Believer himself. And so when you&#39;re running it right, you can do things like hide last item. So if I don&#39;t want to pitch to win, I can turn this on ahead of time so that it doesn&#39;t stop on him again, even though it did.</p>

<p>00:05:07:27 - 00:05:27:33<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But now he&#39;s gone and now I&#39;m going to get a new winner. Jacob Jalen Williams himself. Right. Here&#39;s the beautiful thing. If you don&#39;t trust your tech person, you can do this from your phone. You can do this remotely from an iPad. Or you can do this remotely from even a whole different computer. And you don&#39;t even have to be on the same network as that computer.</p>

<p>00:05:27:37 - 00:05:28:42<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You&#39;re logged into sidekick</p>

<p>00:05:28:42 - 00:05:44:50<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
on your in your tech booth, and if you&#39;re logged in to sidekick from your phone or whatever device, you can run it from both. We are all in on sidekick in fact. Link down below if you want to see our setup of how we do it. To jump back and forth between pro presenter and sidekick, we haven&#39;t made the shift to be</p>

<p>00:05:44:50 - 00:05:47:41<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
all in with worship because that&#39;s a whole different department.</p>

<p>00:05:47:46 - 00:06:02:42<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
I don&#39;t call the shots. If I did, we would be all in on sidekick, but since we&#39;re not, we have a video switcher. And if you want to be able to bounce back and forth between the two so that you can have the elements of purpose that you like, but all the interactive features of sidekick that you like, check that out down below.</p>

<p>00:06:02:42 - 00:06:29:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now, idea number two, one that I really like is rather than names. We&#39;ve actually done this before in this presentation, and I&#39;m going to show you how to set it up. I did like a series or a message on labels. And so I actually, what I did was, I think I have it in here. I brought in, like, a label, like a hello, my name is type of label, and I just got it loaded.</p>

<p>00:06:29:40 - 00:06:56:34<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And very simply, when it was sitting there on screen and I was teaching, I used that teaching moment sort of as an opportunity to, to to cycle through and filter through some of the different types of labels that we face or that we think we face or that we see or that we feel or that we might even struggle with sometimes, as, you know, people, as teenagers, as followers of Jesus.</p>

<p>00:06:56:39 - 00:07:22:56<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so you don&#39;t have to just let this be like a random name picker thing. Like you can also use and utilize this as an opportunity, within your teaching, within your teaching components. And so as you see here on screen, I have the hello, my name is name Tag right here. And then they are just simply filtering through, different types of labels that you or that students might struggle with.</p>

<p>00:07:22:56 - 00:07:37:08<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And that&#39;s an opportunity then to go ahead and and use that as a part of your teaching point. Now my third favorite way to go ahead and use the random name generator is, to use a thing called a Volun told</p>

<p>00:07:37:08 - 00:07:50:43<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
generator. And we talked about this a little bit in the, we&#39;ll, video in the last video about how you can make a definitive or declarative statement, like the person with the tallest socks, that&#39;s only one person.</p>

<p>00:07:50:45 - 00:08:10:03<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So the person with the tallest socks in your room, they come up in place. So if you don&#39;t have a set up or if you don&#39;t have check in, but you still want to use this kind of Volun told generator sort of thing, you can put generic statements about students, and then you can use that to get people to come on up as contestants for games and stuff like that.</p>

<p>00:08:10:08 - 00:08:29:16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And again, it&#39;s just a great way to not have to do the who wants to play? And you&#39;re like, how did I pick that kid or not? Like the the random name generator is king and the random name generator decides. And what&#39;s cool, even in its customization, right, is that you can create different sound effects, right? So like, there is like a thumbs up sound effect.</p>

<p>00:08:29:16 - 00:08:48:58<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
There is a, kind of shrugging like middle of the road sound effect. And then there&#39;s like a party horn sound effect. So if you were playing this and you had the sort of like, like maybe a bad prize or something, you weren&#39;t so sure about that you didn&#39;t want, this is what the thumbs down sound effect sounds like.</p>

<p>00:08:49:02 - 00:09:06:04<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
That. But, yeah, it&#39;s a bummer. No, no one wants is smudging. Like, that&#39;s how Thunder fans kind of feel right now anyway. But then you go ahead and you&#39;re like that. This guy&#39;s kind of mid tier. We&#39;re not not really sure if we have an, opinion yet of him or not. Really sure if winning this thing in our youth ministry, we really have an opinion of it.</p>

<p>00:09:06:04 - 00:09:27:42<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Yet Dugas. Yeah, okay. Whatever. You know, but then, like, you win something great or like it&#39;s a grand prize or something that people really actually want. I mean, he&#39;s a front runner for MVP. Let&#39;s just be honest. He&#39;s outpacing Luke does is the Thunder are the number one seed in the West. And they are the juggernaut that everyone should be afraid of.</p>

<p>00:09:27:42 - 00:09:45:45<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And it&#39;s led by this guy. And so you should you should have that sound. Hey give me a like if you&#39;re a, Thunder fan and please don&#39;t unsubscribe if you, do you happen to be a mavericks fan? Because we are here trying to make this hybrid ministry thing. We&#39;re trying to make it helpful to you. In fact, right here on screen.</p>

<p>00:09:45:45 - 00:10:04:02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Don&#39;t forget Code Hybrid Ministry ten. If you&#39;ve never used you. I am. Or if you&#39;ve never signed up for anything with do I am before for 10% off for a year of premium, Premium or Premium Plus? You can check out the pricing link down below. We also offer custom coaching. It&#39;s my free strategy guide. Go ahead and scan that QR code, check out our Patreon.</p>

<p>00:10:04:02 - 00:10:25:49<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And hey, while you&#39;re here, go ahead and vote on which coffee shop is the best. My fourth idiom that I really like to do is kind of like the kind of like the the name tag one that I showed you a minute ago. So instead of it, I mean, like a teaching point, a lot of times I will create a welcome slide, right?</p>

<p>00:10:25:49 - 00:10:41:58<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And these slides, just like all the other ones, they&#39;re, they&#39;re highly adaptable. So you can put any slides you want. You can, add an image, you can make a color, you can add a video background from something from YouTube. Even so like we&#39;ve used this video before in</p>

<p>00:10:41:58 - 00:10:48:42<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
previous videos here, even on this playlist. And so if you wanted it to be a video one, you could embed this YouTube video right here.</p>

<p>00:10:48:47 - 00:11:09:10<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Or you could add one of these videos from a bank of other videos that you have used before using the past. But whatever the case might be, I&#39;ll do this where like, we have like, a leader lunch. And so people have volun, or have RSVP ahead of time. And so I will, put all of their names into the generator and I will say, leader, lunch welcome.</p>

<p>00:11:09:10 - 00:11:27:14<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
With an arrow pointing to where their name is going to be here on People Picker and all the names are just filtering through. And then we may use that as a giveaway sort of feature in the, in the, you know, in the background or whatever, or not. We&#39;ll see. But those are sort of all just kind of different ways and different ideas that I like to use the name picker.</p>

<p>00:11:27:14 - 00:11:47:40<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And then of course, number five, I&#39;m going to share on my Patreon page. And don&#39;t forget, this is the last time that I&#39;m going to do this. To those of you listening to the regular podcast or on YouTube, but I just, I, I&#39;m so, so stoked and I&#39;m so pumped about our Patreon because it is a dollar a week, $4 a month.</p>

<p>00:11:47:44 - 00:12:05:54<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
I think it&#39;s less than the cost of a cup of coffee. But I want to get coffee with you. I want to sit down. I want to chat. Youth ministry. I want to chat. Creativity. I want to chat. How to make your programing more engaging? Because Gen Z and Gen Alpha, they want a more custom and personalized approach.</p>

<p>00:12:05:54 - 00:12:33:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And I believe that sidekick not only in this beta version, but also in the future. Rolling out has the tools that it takes to do that. I&#39;m challenging myself to use sidekick every single time we&#39;re in the room with our students, and I want to encourage you to try and lean into your creativity and do the same. And so I know when I hear a brainstorm that&#39;s helpful for me to just listen to someone else and then beg and borrow and steal and tweak and adapt and use different ideas.</p>

<p>00:12:33:14 - 00:12:56:08<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so that&#39;s why I want my Patreon to be is just a place for you guys to get that weekly sort of bonus content, along with, as you see here, on screen, exclusive merch and exclusive sticker for everyone who signs up before the month of December. December 2nd, they&#39;ll be yours. I&#39;ll mail it to you. You can help me choose some show and segment topics, and also some shout outs special for those over there on my Patreon page.</p>

<p>00:12:56:08 - 00:13:18:37<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But that number five idea that&#39;s over there going to be in this week&#39;s Patreon will drop on Monday of this week. So once again, my friends so excited that you here. Thank you for diving in deep with sidekick. The next episode we are going to be hopping into all things Christmas, Christmas parties, holiday planning, and everything that you need to know to round out the year.</p>

<p>00:13:18:37 - 00:13:29:16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Amazingly, in your ministry. Finish strong. The Lord is equipped you for what he has you doing. But don&#39;t forget and as always my friends, to stay hybrid.</p>]]>
  </itunes:summary>
</item>
<item>
  <title>Episode 125: Unlock the Customizable Wheel for your Programming</title>
  <link>https://www.hybridministry.xyz/125</link>
  <guid isPermaLink="false">89f02ea2-560d-45a1-8441-bedf2562dde3</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 04:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
  <author>Nick Clason</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e697b7b8-eaee-430b-9281-dfbd9f2d34d0/89f02ea2-560d-45a1-8441-bedf2562dde3.mp3" length="23205289" type="audio/mpeg"/>
  <itunes:episode>125</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>Unlock the Customizable Wheel for your Programming</itunes:title>
  <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
  <itunes:author>Nick Clason</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons and programming using Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>16:06</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
  <itunes:image href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/e/e697b7b8-eaee-430b-9281-dfbd9f2d34d0/episodes/8/89f02ea2-560d-45a1-8441-bedf2562dde3/cover.jpg?v=1"/>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;🎧 &lt;strong&gt;BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🖥️ &lt;strong&gt;SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons and programming using Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;📓 &lt;strong&gt;SHOWNOTES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/125" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;http://www.hybridministry.xyz/125&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//COLEADER PRICING&lt;br&gt;
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//ERIK W/A 'K'&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@practicalyouthministrytips" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/@practicalyouthministrytips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK&lt;br&gt;
YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Instagram: &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
TikTok: &lt;a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Facebook: &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Website: &lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!&lt;br&gt;
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
VIDIQ&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://vidiq.com/hybrid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BEST DYM RESOURCES&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp;amp; REELS&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🕰️&lt;strong&gt;TIMECODES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
00:00 Random Spinning Wheel&lt;br&gt;
01:39 Co-Leader Discount Code!&lt;br&gt;
03:05 The Power of Creativity&lt;br&gt;
5:00 Wheel Idea #1&lt;br&gt;
08:15 Wheel Idea #2&lt;br&gt;
09:22 Wheel Tech Booth Point of View&lt;br&gt;
11:38 Wheel Idea #3&lt;br&gt;
12:14 Customize your slide background&lt;br&gt;
15:10 Wheel Idea #4&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;00;00;00 - 00;00;27;13&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
What if I told you that you could have access to a customizable spinning wheel that is actually woven in and built into the fabric of your presentation software? Not just like from free wheel spinner.com, because, you know, if you're presenting or preaching in church that you want that wheel to come in and you want it to be seamless, you don't want to drag an ugly browser window in across your screen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;00;27;16 - 00;00;48;16&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so what if that presentation ability was available in your PowerPoint, in your profit center, on your church projector screens? Well, what if I told you that it was, you know, download and Youth Ministry has had the customizable spinning wheel available to youth pastors, but it is now available to all&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;00;48;16 - 00;00;53;01&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
people. It is woven into the new beta version of&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;00;53;01 - 00;00;54;03&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
sidekick.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;00;54;03 - 00;01;10;25&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And in this episode, not only are we going to explore how it's a little bit different than the legacy version of the sidekick, but we're going to look at all of the features. And so if you are watching here on YouTube, first of all, go ahead and give me a like because if you don't know, that incredibly helps us out.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;01;10;28 - 00;01;30;13&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But second, I would love it if you, are listening to Hop Over and you can watch a live demo as I not only build the wheel, but I show you all the different features and I want to talk through in this episode for of my most favorite ways to use and integrate the wheel into our programing, into&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;01;30;13 - 00;01;32;25&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
my lessons, into my messages.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;01;33;02 - 00;01;42;09&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so much more. Hey everyone! Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. Well, hey everyone, welcome to the Hybrid&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;01;42;09 - 00;02;10;01&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Ministry show. My name is Nicholas and I am a 14 year Youth ministry veteran. And welcome to our playlist where we explore the best features of sidekick. And as you see here on screen, rotating through on my pre-roll announcements for the Hybrid Ministry show, which you can replicate this by simply clicking the link right here at the top of the video to go back and watch some of the more miscellaneous features available here in this playlist.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;02;10;03 - 00;02;43;04&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But we are talking about sidekick, and in this particular episode, we're talking about the ways that you can use the wheel. But here's what you might not know is that if you've never jumped into anything dim or Co-Leader, which is our, curriculum software that does unlock access to sidekick, my listeners get an exclusive offer if you use the code hybrid Ministry ten, you'll get 10% off Premium or Premium plus of co-leader curriculum, which, like I said, is how you gain access to sidekick.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;02;43;11 - 00;03;04;09&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
There is a way to get sidekick ala carte as well. But if you are in youth ministry and you're looking for curriculum, I'm just telling you, Collider is the way to go. You get so much I don't even know how to download. Youth ministry is making money. But again, in addition to that, you get 10% off, if you use my code hybrid ministry ten.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;03;04;09 - 00;03;25;22&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So, we're going to get out of these looping announcements, and I want to show you what it looks like to have the customizable spinning wheel. Now here is the preview in the window over here. This little window down here, we're going to pretend, like I said, in the first, video in this playlist, this, sidekick is browser based.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;03;25;24 - 00;03;42;25&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So it's going to create a new window. You're going to drag that ugly window onto your projector screen, but then from there you're going to click full screen. It's going to be seamless. Now, if you are still using both sidekick and also pro presenter, go ahead and check the link down below in the show notes for how we have set up.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;03;42;25 - 00;03;47;04&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Because we are, we're all in on sidekick. And the reason that&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;03;47;04 - 00;04;10;02&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
I'm all in on sidekick is it forces me to be more creative in my programing, and I find that when I'm more creative, our students are more engaged and better engaged. And, I personally feel like that I'm doing a better job communicating and being a youth pastor and leaning in and showing up where students are, which that's one of the whole goals, is one viewer students are.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;04;10;02 - 00;04;31;16&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And that's what hybrid really affords us. The opportunity to do is to be where our people are. And so, if you didn't know this, we're actually starting a brand new Patreon page here on the Hybrid Ministry show, where I'm going to just rattle off what we did in youth group this week. And as I do, I'll explain all the ways we're using sidekick along with all the other things that we're doing in our youth ministry.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;04;31;16 - 00;04;50;06&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so I want you to go ahead and check that out. If you haven't, you can click right here. The, the QR code that you see here on screen. I'll, I'll make that a little bit bigger for you. You can click that or you can simply head to a patreon.com/hybrid ministry and join for only $4 a month.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;04;50;13 - 00;05;26;20&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
The bonus podcast I'm gonna release is a weekly podcast. So when you do $4 a month, that essentially nets out to $1 per week, which is crazy town. So I would love to invite you into that. But here's one of my favorite ways to use and utilize the wheel the random wheel. So in our student ministry not too long ago, we, used one of my friend Eric with a case games, and I'm not sure I don't think he got this game on to download youth ministry before the Halloween, but man, I loved the concept.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;05;26;20 - 00;05;47;12&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
It was like a digital, like, sort of escape room sort of thing. And what Eric did, which was just like, so incredible, was like, it was like you work through rooms in your space and you had different contestants kind of do that, right now getting contestants, man, that is one of the most difficult things in youth ministry, right?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;05;47;12 - 00;06;07;11&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Because you've been a real like, who wants to who wants to be a volunteer, who wants to be a volunteer? And so what we did was we created a wheel that would, basically volunteer certain people. So we had our, groups broken down by grade. And so we had like sixth grade, we had seventh and eighth grade, we had ninth and 10th grade, and then we had 11th and 12th grade.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;06;07;11 - 00;06;33;02&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So for total, sixth year, I was the only one that was standalone. And the other, you know, six remaining grades are grouped together seventh and eighth, ninth and 10th, 11th, 12th. You get the idea. But then we said we need the whatever the wheel says person from each of these grades. So again, this is something I would go over on my Patreon page and hopefully it might help you out helping me more creative and thus ultimately more engaging.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;06;33;06 - 00;06;53;23&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But what we did was we just added a wheel and we said, all right, I need the sixth grader who's the tallest, I need the seventh grader who's the shortest? I need the ninth 10th grader who has the tallest socks I need the 11th 12th grader has the lowest phone battery percentage. And so if you're watching here on screen, what you do is you simply click edit Slide and right at the top all you got to do is click wheel.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;06;53;25 - 00;07;15;02&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You want to add the wheel. And so in pops the wheel settings right here. And so this is where you can adjust the individual items in the wheel. So if you don't want cheese because it's not relevant to what you're doing you can say tallest. And if you want highest battery percentage you say highest battery percentage where's a percent.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;07;15;02 - 00;07;37;26&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So there it is. If you want to add another one, you simply click Add Item. Or better yet, you can do bulk add and you can just type them all in. And so you go, tallest socks, reddest hair, biggest mustache, or whatever your criteria are. There they are. You click add three items and boom, they are off and rolling.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;07;37;26 - 00;07;56;10&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Now once your wheel is on the screen, you notice it's kind of covering my face here if you don't want that. So you can go up to this little corner and just simply shrink it and put it right where you want it, maybe right underneath that finger where I'm pointing. Maybe you want it huge, right? So you can make it even bigger.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;07;56;14 - 00;08;24;23&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You can make it even smaller. And, there's all sorts of different ways that you can kind of mess around with and use the wheel, but that's way number one. We kind of like to use the wheel as a, contestant sort of generator. All right. The other thing that I love about the wheel is, or another way, way number two that we use the wheel is we will use it sometimes as a prize wheel.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;08;24;23 - 00;08;43;29&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So we have a winner of a game, a standalone winner or a group of winners. And then we let that winner go ahead and, spin the wheel for an opportunity to win. So let's just say that they won pizza. And so here, I've already input my different types of pizza that I want to let them win.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;08;44;03 - 00;09;07;00&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so when you go ahead and, get this thing launched, you will see that you can you have a lot of different access, right? You have a lot of different access once you get this thing up and rolling. So we're going to pretend this is our projector screen and your person, oh, your person back in your booth is going to be the one that sees this.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;09;07;00 - 00;09;30;04&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Or again, don't forget that. Now they have phone integration so you can run it like a remote phone, which is a pretty cool feature. So here we are. We are on our wheel right here. And this is what it looks like for the person in the booth. They'll have this start spin option. And they'll be able to see down here that the next winner is cheese.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;09;30;11 - 00;09;51;01&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But if I don't want it to be cheese, it can reroll and it can reroll it randomly. Or you can choose a pre-selected option so you can see all of your options here. And you can say, I don't have Hawaiian pizza, I don't have deep dish, I only have sausage. And so we're going to make them think that they have the opportunity to get sausage.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;09;51;02 - 00;10;13;06&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But really they don't. And so we're not doing random. We're going to do pre-selected. The pre-selected winner here is sausage. And now when we spin the wheel you're seeing it. You're hearing it. The winner is sausage right. Like I said I can now clear that. Now let's say I gave away sausage and so I don't want that anymore.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;10;13;09 - 00;10;33;01&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
This is where I can turn on this hide. Last item. And so now sausage, which was what I give away. Now I don't have it because I gave it to this group. And I need a new prize to give away to the next group. I can't give away sausage twice. It only had it once. If I click hide last item, it will go away and it won't be an option on the wheel anymore.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;10;33;01 - 00;10;57;16&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So now let's just simulate that again. So I did in fact go ahead. Giveaway sausage I'm hiding the last item. Consider the last item hidden. And then we're going to clear that it's gone. And now we're like oh it needs to be pepperoni. So here we go. Give a pepperoni to the winning group. Group number two. Congratulations you one pepperoni.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;10;57;16 - 00;11;17;12&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Now if you're listening here on screen or you it was able to be picked up through my microphone, you will notice that they have different sound effects. So when you do the little, cheery sound effect, that's the one that pepperoni just made you. Little shrug sound effect. That's just a little kind of simple, like click sound, like, and so you can change that.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;11;17;12 - 00;11;45;19&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Or if it's a negative consequence, you can also do the lose sound. And so cheese now has the lose sound. And so that sounds something like this. Now that no one wants cheese. All right. This is this is the bottom line. Okay. Here is another idea that I have is, we might, in our space, do something where, we have, like, rows.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;11;45;23 - 00;12;03;14&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
We have 16 tables. So there's four, 4x4, four tables across, four tables down 16 total. So we might do something when we have a passage of Scripture, you know, that we want people to look up. And so then we might use the wheel and say, all right, row one. You're going to look up this. Row two, you're going to look up that.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;12;03;16 - 00;12;22;06&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And here's what's cool is you saw my picture here. So you can also make your background custom. So right here let's say I want this slide right here to be where I put my wheel. First I got to give it a background right. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to make it an image background.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;12;22;09 - 00;12;48;13&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
I'm going to upload a file. And I'm going to go navigate to these different verses of this slide that I have already made. And so boom, there's my verse slides. And so now I don't want that. I want the wheel now. And so I can say row one, row two, row three and row four. We're going to add those.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;12;48;16 - 00;13;13;19&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
We're going to remove these. And now I can put this right here. Again don't forget Hybrid Ministry ten gets you 10% off of Premium or Premium Plus of Collider. But now I can put that right here. And I can say all right row one. You're going to go first. And then very simply right. Like as I am presenting this sucker, got to get down to it so I can show it to you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;13;13;19 - 00;13;42;15&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But as I'm presenting it, I'll say, all right, row one. Here you go. Or not? Row one. Luke one goes to row one, in fact. Right. And once again, I should have selected hide winner because I can't actually have row one. That's a bummer, I missed out. What am I supposed to do? Well, your purpose in in person can actually hop back over here to edit and just very simply, either hide them and now they're going to be off my wheel or delete them and they're off my wheel either way.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;13;42;18 - 00;14;01;14&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Now if I hide them right, I can add them back on very simply. If, I delete them, I do have to go back in here and I have to type it all back out and do all that stuff, which as you see, is not that difficult. But it it does take a little bit more of an additional step.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;14;01;14 - 00;14;21;22&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Now here's the other cool thing. You might be thinking like, I don't I don't want like that background. I want like I want a video background. Great. Check this out. I don't want this background anymore. I go back in here to edit slide. I don't want it going to go over here to my slide settings. And instead of it being an image background, I can do a color background.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;14;21;22 - 00;14;43;08&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
He's my color options right? Those are all the preloaded ones. Or I can say I want a video background. So I'm going to select video and I want it to be a YouTube embedded video, and I want it to be my video. So we're going to copy and paste that link here, paste embed that YouTube video and boom.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;14;43;10 - 00;15;00;25&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And I can put the wheel anywhere that I want. Now keep in mind that when it's a background, you saw it right here. Background videos will loop automatically and they do not play sounds. And so you can pull these directly off of the internet. And this is why I believe every single youth ministry should have a strong digital presence also.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;15;00;25 - 00;15;21;25&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Hey, why you're here, why don't you go ahead and grab my hybrid strategy guide with a little bit of a different name from this episode that I dropped a little bit over a year ago. So that was idea number three. You can give out passages for the we'll idea number four, I'm actually going to share with those of you that are on my Patreon page.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;15;21;25 - 00;15;44;13&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Now listen, don't forget that it's only about a dollar a week. And anyone who signs up before December 2nd, 2024 will get an exclusive free piece of merch. So you're going to get a piece of merch that's probably worth like $20. That's gonna like, pay for itself in the first five months. And I'm going to share my fourth favorite way that I&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;15;44;13 - 00;15;49;02&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
customize and use the wheel in my different teachings and in my different presentations.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;15;49;09 - 00;16;06;08&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Hey, my friends, as always, don't forget if you want to know how to use the name picker that is going to be here in the next episode, if you're watching on YouTube, that'll be right here on screen. Go hop over to Patreon page. But until next time, and as always, my friends stay hybrid. &lt;/p&gt;
</description>
  <itunes:keywords>download youth ministry, sidekick, youth ministry, hybrid ministry, youth pastor podcast, student ministry, youth ministry programming, name picker, wheel, Random Generator, Live voting, Youth ministry creativity, Creative Programming, ProPresenter, Youth Group, Youth Group Phones, How to handle phones in youth ministry, phones are so distracting in youth ministry, Nick Clason, Josh Boldman, Spinning Wheel</itunes:keywords>
  <content:encoded>
    <![CDATA[<p>🎧 <strong>BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry</a></p>

<p>🖥️ <strong>SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong><br>
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons and programming using Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry.</p>

<p>📓 <strong>SHOWNOTES</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/125" rel="nofollow">http://www.hybridministry.xyz/125</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>//COLEADER PRICING<br>
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10<br>
<a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing</a></p>

<p>//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" rel="nofollow">https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book</a></p>

<p>//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching</a></p>

<p>//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms</a></p>

<p>//ERIK W/A &#39;K&#39;<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@practicalyouthministrytips" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@practicalyouthministrytips</a></p>

<p>👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK<br>
YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/</a><br>
TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry</a><br>
Website: <a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉</strong><br>
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!<br>
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!<br>
<a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!</strong><br>
<em><em>Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products</em></em><br>
VIDIQ<br>
<a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" rel="nofollow">https://vidiq.com/hybrid</a></p>

<p>BEST DYM RESOURCES<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym</a></p>

<p>OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp; REELS<br>
<a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" rel="nofollow">https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361</a></p>

<p>//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>🕰️<strong>TIMECODES</strong><br>
00:00 Random Spinning Wheel<br>
01:39 Co-Leader Discount Code!<br>
03:05 The Power of Creativity<br>
5:00 Wheel Idea #1<br>
08:15 Wheel Idea #2<br>
09:22 Wheel Tech Booth Point of View<br>
11:38 Wheel Idea #3<br>
12:14 Customize your slide background<br>
15:10 Wheel Idea #4</p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong></p>

<p>00;00;00;00 - 00;00;27;13<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
What if I told you that you could have access to a customizable spinning wheel that is actually woven in and built into the fabric of your presentation software? Not just like from free wheel spinner.com, because, you know, if you&#39;re presenting or preaching in church that you want that wheel to come in and you want it to be seamless, you don&#39;t want to drag an ugly browser window in across your screen.</p>

<p>00;00;27;16 - 00;00;48;16<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so what if that presentation ability was available in your PowerPoint, in your profit center, on your church projector screens? Well, what if I told you that it was, you know, download and Youth Ministry has had the customizable spinning wheel available to youth pastors, but it is now available to all</p>

<p>00;00;48;16 - 00;00;53;01<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
people. It is woven into the new beta version of</p>

<p>00;00;53;01 - 00;00;54;03<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
sidekick.</p>

<p>00;00;54;03 - 00;01;10;25<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And in this episode, not only are we going to explore how it&#39;s a little bit different than the legacy version of the sidekick, but we&#39;re going to look at all of the features. And so if you are watching here on YouTube, first of all, go ahead and give me a like because if you don&#39;t know, that incredibly helps us out.</p>

<p>00;01;10;28 - 00;01;30;13<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But second, I would love it if you, are listening to Hop Over and you can watch a live demo as I not only build the wheel, but I show you all the different features and I want to talk through in this episode for of my most favorite ways to use and integrate the wheel into our programing, into</p>

<p>00;01;30;13 - 00;01;32;25<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
my lessons, into my messages.</p>

<p>00;01;33;02 - 00;01;42;09<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so much more. Hey everyone! Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. Well, hey everyone, welcome to the Hybrid</p>

<p>00;01;42;09 - 00;02;10;01<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Ministry show. My name is Nicholas and I am a 14 year Youth ministry veteran. And welcome to our playlist where we explore the best features of sidekick. And as you see here on screen, rotating through on my pre-roll announcements for the Hybrid Ministry show, which you can replicate this by simply clicking the link right here at the top of the video to go back and watch some of the more miscellaneous features available here in this playlist.</p>

<p>00;02;10;03 - 00;02;43;04<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But we are talking about sidekick, and in this particular episode, we&#39;re talking about the ways that you can use the wheel. But here&#39;s what you might not know is that if you&#39;ve never jumped into anything dim or Co-Leader, which is our, curriculum software that does unlock access to sidekick, my listeners get an exclusive offer if you use the code hybrid Ministry ten, you&#39;ll get 10% off Premium or Premium plus of co-leader curriculum, which, like I said, is how you gain access to sidekick.</p>

<p>00;02;43;11 - 00;03;04;09<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
There is a way to get sidekick ala carte as well. But if you are in youth ministry and you&#39;re looking for curriculum, I&#39;m just telling you, Collider is the way to go. You get so much I don&#39;t even know how to download. Youth ministry is making money. But again, in addition to that, you get 10% off, if you use my code hybrid ministry ten.</p>

<p>00;03;04;09 - 00;03;25;22<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So, we&#39;re going to get out of these looping announcements, and I want to show you what it looks like to have the customizable spinning wheel. Now here is the preview in the window over here. This little window down here, we&#39;re going to pretend, like I said, in the first, video in this playlist, this, sidekick is browser based.</p>

<p>00;03;25;24 - 00;03;42;25<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So it&#39;s going to create a new window. You&#39;re going to drag that ugly window onto your projector screen, but then from there you&#39;re going to click full screen. It&#39;s going to be seamless. Now, if you are still using both sidekick and also pro presenter, go ahead and check the link down below in the show notes for how we have set up.</p>

<p>00;03;42;25 - 00;03;47;04<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Because we are, we&#39;re all in on sidekick. And the reason that</p>

<p>00;03;47;04 - 00;04;10;02<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
I&#39;m all in on sidekick is it forces me to be more creative in my programing, and I find that when I&#39;m more creative, our students are more engaged and better engaged. And, I personally feel like that I&#39;m doing a better job communicating and being a youth pastor and leaning in and showing up where students are, which that&#39;s one of the whole goals, is one viewer students are.</p>

<p>00;04;10;02 - 00;04;31;16<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And that&#39;s what hybrid really affords us. The opportunity to do is to be where our people are. And so, if you didn&#39;t know this, we&#39;re actually starting a brand new Patreon page here on the Hybrid Ministry show, where I&#39;m going to just rattle off what we did in youth group this week. And as I do, I&#39;ll explain all the ways we&#39;re using sidekick along with all the other things that we&#39;re doing in our youth ministry.</p>

<p>00;04;31;16 - 00;04;50;06<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so I want you to go ahead and check that out. If you haven&#39;t, you can click right here. The, the QR code that you see here on screen. I&#39;ll, I&#39;ll make that a little bit bigger for you. You can click that or you can simply head to a patreon.com/hybrid ministry and join for only $4 a month.</p>

<p>00;04;50;13 - 00;05;26;20<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
The bonus podcast I&#39;m gonna release is a weekly podcast. So when you do $4 a month, that essentially nets out to $1 per week, which is crazy town. So I would love to invite you into that. But here&#39;s one of my favorite ways to use and utilize the wheel the random wheel. So in our student ministry not too long ago, we, used one of my friend Eric with a case games, and I&#39;m not sure I don&#39;t think he got this game on to download youth ministry before the Halloween, but man, I loved the concept.</p>

<p>00;05;26;20 - 00;05;47;12<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
It was like a digital, like, sort of escape room sort of thing. And what Eric did, which was just like, so incredible, was like, it was like you work through rooms in your space and you had different contestants kind of do that, right now getting contestants, man, that is one of the most difficult things in youth ministry, right?</p>

<p>00;05;47;12 - 00;06;07;11<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Because you&#39;ve been a real like, who wants to who wants to be a volunteer, who wants to be a volunteer? And so what we did was we created a wheel that would, basically volunteer certain people. So we had our, groups broken down by grade. And so we had like sixth grade, we had seventh and eighth grade, we had ninth and 10th grade, and then we had 11th and 12th grade.</p>

<p>00;06;07;11 - 00;06;33;02<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So for total, sixth year, I was the only one that was standalone. And the other, you know, six remaining grades are grouped together seventh and eighth, ninth and 10th, 11th, 12th. You get the idea. But then we said we need the whatever the wheel says person from each of these grades. So again, this is something I would go over on my Patreon page and hopefully it might help you out helping me more creative and thus ultimately more engaging.</p>

<p>00;06;33;06 - 00;06;53;23<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But what we did was we just added a wheel and we said, all right, I need the sixth grader who&#39;s the tallest, I need the seventh grader who&#39;s the shortest? I need the ninth 10th grader who has the tallest socks I need the 11th 12th grader has the lowest phone battery percentage. And so if you&#39;re watching here on screen, what you do is you simply click edit Slide and right at the top all you got to do is click wheel.</p>

<p>00;06;53;25 - 00;07;15;02<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
You want to add the wheel. And so in pops the wheel settings right here. And so this is where you can adjust the individual items in the wheel. So if you don&#39;t want cheese because it&#39;s not relevant to what you&#39;re doing you can say tallest. And if you want highest battery percentage you say highest battery percentage where&#39;s a percent.</p>

<p>00;07;15;02 - 00;07;37;26<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So there it is. If you want to add another one, you simply click Add Item. Or better yet, you can do bulk add and you can just type them all in. And so you go, tallest socks, reddest hair, biggest mustache, or whatever your criteria are. There they are. You click add three items and boom, they are off and rolling.</p>

<p>00;07;37;26 - 00;07;56;10<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now once your wheel is on the screen, you notice it&#39;s kind of covering my face here if you don&#39;t want that. So you can go up to this little corner and just simply shrink it and put it right where you want it, maybe right underneath that finger where I&#39;m pointing. Maybe you want it huge, right? So you can make it even bigger.</p>

<p>00;07;56;14 - 00;08;24;23<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
You can make it even smaller. And, there&#39;s all sorts of different ways that you can kind of mess around with and use the wheel, but that&#39;s way number one. We kind of like to use the wheel as a, contestant sort of generator. All right. The other thing that I love about the wheel is, or another way, way number two that we use the wheel is we will use it sometimes as a prize wheel.</p>

<p>00;08;24;23 - 00;08;43;29<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So we have a winner of a game, a standalone winner or a group of winners. And then we let that winner go ahead and, spin the wheel for an opportunity to win. So let&#39;s just say that they won pizza. And so here, I&#39;ve already input my different types of pizza that I want to let them win.</p>

<p>00;08;44;03 - 00;09;07;00<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so when you go ahead and, get this thing launched, you will see that you can you have a lot of different access, right? You have a lot of different access once you get this thing up and rolling. So we&#39;re going to pretend this is our projector screen and your person, oh, your person back in your booth is going to be the one that sees this.</p>

<p>00;09;07;00 - 00;09;30;04<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Or again, don&#39;t forget that. Now they have phone integration so you can run it like a remote phone, which is a pretty cool feature. So here we are. We are on our wheel right here. And this is what it looks like for the person in the booth. They&#39;ll have this start spin option. And they&#39;ll be able to see down here that the next winner is cheese.</p>

<p>00;09;30;11 - 00;09;51;01<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But if I don&#39;t want it to be cheese, it can reroll and it can reroll it randomly. Or you can choose a pre-selected option so you can see all of your options here. And you can say, I don&#39;t have Hawaiian pizza, I don&#39;t have deep dish, I only have sausage. And so we&#39;re going to make them think that they have the opportunity to get sausage.</p>

<p>00;09;51;02 - 00;10;13;06<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But really they don&#39;t. And so we&#39;re not doing random. We&#39;re going to do pre-selected. The pre-selected winner here is sausage. And now when we spin the wheel you&#39;re seeing it. You&#39;re hearing it. The winner is sausage right. Like I said I can now clear that. Now let&#39;s say I gave away sausage and so I don&#39;t want that anymore.</p>

<p>00;10;13;09 - 00;10;33;01<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
This is where I can turn on this hide. Last item. And so now sausage, which was what I give away. Now I don&#39;t have it because I gave it to this group. And I need a new prize to give away to the next group. I can&#39;t give away sausage twice. It only had it once. If I click hide last item, it will go away and it won&#39;t be an option on the wheel anymore.</p>

<p>00;10;33;01 - 00;10;57;16<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So now let&#39;s just simulate that again. So I did in fact go ahead. Giveaway sausage I&#39;m hiding the last item. Consider the last item hidden. And then we&#39;re going to clear that it&#39;s gone. And now we&#39;re like oh it needs to be pepperoni. So here we go. Give a pepperoni to the winning group. Group number two. Congratulations you one pepperoni.</p>

<p>00;10;57;16 - 00;11;17;12<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now if you&#39;re listening here on screen or you it was able to be picked up through my microphone, you will notice that they have different sound effects. So when you do the little, cheery sound effect, that&#39;s the one that pepperoni just made you. Little shrug sound effect. That&#39;s just a little kind of simple, like click sound, like, and so you can change that.</p>

<p>00;11;17;12 - 00;11;45;19<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Or if it&#39;s a negative consequence, you can also do the lose sound. And so cheese now has the lose sound. And so that sounds something like this. Now that no one wants cheese. All right. This is this is the bottom line. Okay. Here is another idea that I have is, we might, in our space, do something where, we have, like, rows.</p>

<p>00;11;45;23 - 00;12;03;14<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
We have 16 tables. So there&#39;s four, 4x4, four tables across, four tables down 16 total. So we might do something when we have a passage of Scripture, you know, that we want people to look up. And so then we might use the wheel and say, all right, row one. You&#39;re going to look up this. Row two, you&#39;re going to look up that.</p>

<p>00;12;03;16 - 00;12;22;06<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And here&#39;s what&#39;s cool is you saw my picture here. So you can also make your background custom. So right here let&#39;s say I want this slide right here to be where I put my wheel. First I got to give it a background right. So I&#39;m going to go ahead and I&#39;m going to make it an image background.</p>

<p>00;12;22;09 - 00;12;48;13<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
I&#39;m going to upload a file. And I&#39;m going to go navigate to these different verses of this slide that I have already made. And so boom, there&#39;s my verse slides. And so now I don&#39;t want that. I want the wheel now. And so I can say row one, row two, row three and row four. We&#39;re going to add those.</p>

<p>00;12;48;16 - 00;13;13;19<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
We&#39;re going to remove these. And now I can put this right here. Again don&#39;t forget Hybrid Ministry ten gets you 10% off of Premium or Premium Plus of Collider. But now I can put that right here. And I can say all right row one. You&#39;re going to go first. And then very simply right. Like as I am presenting this sucker, got to get down to it so I can show it to you.</p>

<p>00;13;13;19 - 00;13;42;15<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But as I&#39;m presenting it, I&#39;ll say, all right, row one. Here you go. Or not? Row one. Luke one goes to row one, in fact. Right. And once again, I should have selected hide winner because I can&#39;t actually have row one. That&#39;s a bummer, I missed out. What am I supposed to do? Well, your purpose in in person can actually hop back over here to edit and just very simply, either hide them and now they&#39;re going to be off my wheel or delete them and they&#39;re off my wheel either way.</p>

<p>00;13;42;18 - 00;14;01;14<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now if I hide them right, I can add them back on very simply. If, I delete them, I do have to go back in here and I have to type it all back out and do all that stuff, which as you see, is not that difficult. But it it does take a little bit more of an additional step.</p>

<p>00;14;01;14 - 00;14;21;22<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now here&#39;s the other cool thing. You might be thinking like, I don&#39;t I don&#39;t want like that background. I want like I want a video background. Great. Check this out. I don&#39;t want this background anymore. I go back in here to edit slide. I don&#39;t want it going to go over here to my slide settings. And instead of it being an image background, I can do a color background.</p>

<p>00;14;21;22 - 00;14;43;08<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
He&#39;s my color options right? Those are all the preloaded ones. Or I can say I want a video background. So I&#39;m going to select video and I want it to be a YouTube embedded video, and I want it to be my video. So we&#39;re going to copy and paste that link here, paste embed that YouTube video and boom.</p>

<p>00;14;43;10 - 00;15;00;25<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And I can put the wheel anywhere that I want. Now keep in mind that when it&#39;s a background, you saw it right here. Background videos will loop automatically and they do not play sounds. And so you can pull these directly off of the internet. And this is why I believe every single youth ministry should have a strong digital presence also.</p>

<p>00;15;00;25 - 00;15;21;25<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Hey, why you&#39;re here, why don&#39;t you go ahead and grab my hybrid strategy guide with a little bit of a different name from this episode that I dropped a little bit over a year ago. So that was idea number three. You can give out passages for the we&#39;ll idea number four, I&#39;m actually going to share with those of you that are on my Patreon page.</p>

<p>00;15;21;25 - 00;15;44;13<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now listen, don&#39;t forget that it&#39;s only about a dollar a week. And anyone who signs up before December 2nd, 2024 will get an exclusive free piece of merch. So you&#39;re going to get a piece of merch that&#39;s probably worth like $20. That&#39;s gonna like, pay for itself in the first five months. And I&#39;m going to share my fourth favorite way that I</p>

<p>00;15;44;13 - 00;15;49;02<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
customize and use the wheel in my different teachings and in my different presentations.</p>

<p>00;15;49;09 - 00;16;06;08<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Hey, my friends, as always, don&#39;t forget if you want to know how to use the name picker that is going to be here in the next episode, if you&#39;re watching on YouTube, that&#39;ll be right here on screen. Go hop over to Patreon page. But until next time, and as always, my friends stay hybrid.</p>]]>
  </content:encoded>
  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>🎧 <strong>BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry</a></p>

<p>🖥️ <strong>SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong><br>
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons and programming using Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry.</p>

<p>📓 <strong>SHOWNOTES</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/125" rel="nofollow">http://www.hybridministry.xyz/125</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>//COLEADER PRICING<br>
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10<br>
<a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing</a></p>

<p>//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" rel="nofollow">https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book</a></p>

<p>//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching</a></p>

<p>//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms</a></p>

<p>//ERIK W/A &#39;K&#39;<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@practicalyouthministrytips" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@practicalyouthministrytips</a></p>

<p>👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK<br>
YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/</a><br>
TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry</a><br>
Website: <a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉</strong><br>
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!<br>
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!<br>
<a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!</strong><br>
<em><em>Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products</em></em><br>
VIDIQ<br>
<a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" rel="nofollow">https://vidiq.com/hybrid</a></p>

<p>BEST DYM RESOURCES<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym</a></p>

<p>OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp; REELS<br>
<a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" rel="nofollow">https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361</a></p>

<p>//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>🕰️<strong>TIMECODES</strong><br>
00:00 Random Spinning Wheel<br>
01:39 Co-Leader Discount Code!<br>
03:05 The Power of Creativity<br>
5:00 Wheel Idea #1<br>
08:15 Wheel Idea #2<br>
09:22 Wheel Tech Booth Point of View<br>
11:38 Wheel Idea #3<br>
12:14 Customize your slide background<br>
15:10 Wheel Idea #4</p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong></p>

<p>00;00;00;00 - 00;00;27;13<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
What if I told you that you could have access to a customizable spinning wheel that is actually woven in and built into the fabric of your presentation software? Not just like from free wheel spinner.com, because, you know, if you&#39;re presenting or preaching in church that you want that wheel to come in and you want it to be seamless, you don&#39;t want to drag an ugly browser window in across your screen.</p>

<p>00;00;27;16 - 00;00;48;16<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so what if that presentation ability was available in your PowerPoint, in your profit center, on your church projector screens? Well, what if I told you that it was, you know, download and Youth Ministry has had the customizable spinning wheel available to youth pastors, but it is now available to all</p>

<p>00;00;48;16 - 00;00;53;01<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
people. It is woven into the new beta version of</p>

<p>00;00;53;01 - 00;00;54;03<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
sidekick.</p>

<p>00;00;54;03 - 00;01;10;25<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And in this episode, not only are we going to explore how it&#39;s a little bit different than the legacy version of the sidekick, but we&#39;re going to look at all of the features. And so if you are watching here on YouTube, first of all, go ahead and give me a like because if you don&#39;t know, that incredibly helps us out.</p>

<p>00;01;10;28 - 00;01;30;13<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But second, I would love it if you, are listening to Hop Over and you can watch a live demo as I not only build the wheel, but I show you all the different features and I want to talk through in this episode for of my most favorite ways to use and integrate the wheel into our programing, into</p>

<p>00;01;30;13 - 00;01;32;25<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
my lessons, into my messages.</p>

<p>00;01;33;02 - 00;01;42;09<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so much more. Hey everyone! Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. Well, hey everyone, welcome to the Hybrid</p>

<p>00;01;42;09 - 00;02;10;01<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Ministry show. My name is Nicholas and I am a 14 year Youth ministry veteran. And welcome to our playlist where we explore the best features of sidekick. And as you see here on screen, rotating through on my pre-roll announcements for the Hybrid Ministry show, which you can replicate this by simply clicking the link right here at the top of the video to go back and watch some of the more miscellaneous features available here in this playlist.</p>

<p>00;02;10;03 - 00;02;43;04<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But we are talking about sidekick, and in this particular episode, we&#39;re talking about the ways that you can use the wheel. But here&#39;s what you might not know is that if you&#39;ve never jumped into anything dim or Co-Leader, which is our, curriculum software that does unlock access to sidekick, my listeners get an exclusive offer if you use the code hybrid Ministry ten, you&#39;ll get 10% off Premium or Premium plus of co-leader curriculum, which, like I said, is how you gain access to sidekick.</p>

<p>00;02;43;11 - 00;03;04;09<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
There is a way to get sidekick ala carte as well. But if you are in youth ministry and you&#39;re looking for curriculum, I&#39;m just telling you, Collider is the way to go. You get so much I don&#39;t even know how to download. Youth ministry is making money. But again, in addition to that, you get 10% off, if you use my code hybrid ministry ten.</p>

<p>00;03;04;09 - 00;03;25;22<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So, we&#39;re going to get out of these looping announcements, and I want to show you what it looks like to have the customizable spinning wheel. Now here is the preview in the window over here. This little window down here, we&#39;re going to pretend, like I said, in the first, video in this playlist, this, sidekick is browser based.</p>

<p>00;03;25;24 - 00;03;42;25<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So it&#39;s going to create a new window. You&#39;re going to drag that ugly window onto your projector screen, but then from there you&#39;re going to click full screen. It&#39;s going to be seamless. Now, if you are still using both sidekick and also pro presenter, go ahead and check the link down below in the show notes for how we have set up.</p>

<p>00;03;42;25 - 00;03;47;04<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Because we are, we&#39;re all in on sidekick. And the reason that</p>

<p>00;03;47;04 - 00;04;10;02<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
I&#39;m all in on sidekick is it forces me to be more creative in my programing, and I find that when I&#39;m more creative, our students are more engaged and better engaged. And, I personally feel like that I&#39;m doing a better job communicating and being a youth pastor and leaning in and showing up where students are, which that&#39;s one of the whole goals, is one viewer students are.</p>

<p>00;04;10;02 - 00;04;31;16<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And that&#39;s what hybrid really affords us. The opportunity to do is to be where our people are. And so, if you didn&#39;t know this, we&#39;re actually starting a brand new Patreon page here on the Hybrid Ministry show, where I&#39;m going to just rattle off what we did in youth group this week. And as I do, I&#39;ll explain all the ways we&#39;re using sidekick along with all the other things that we&#39;re doing in our youth ministry.</p>

<p>00;04;31;16 - 00;04;50;06<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so I want you to go ahead and check that out. If you haven&#39;t, you can click right here. The, the QR code that you see here on screen. I&#39;ll, I&#39;ll make that a little bit bigger for you. You can click that or you can simply head to a patreon.com/hybrid ministry and join for only $4 a month.</p>

<p>00;04;50;13 - 00;05;26;20<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
The bonus podcast I&#39;m gonna release is a weekly podcast. So when you do $4 a month, that essentially nets out to $1 per week, which is crazy town. So I would love to invite you into that. But here&#39;s one of my favorite ways to use and utilize the wheel the random wheel. So in our student ministry not too long ago, we, used one of my friend Eric with a case games, and I&#39;m not sure I don&#39;t think he got this game on to download youth ministry before the Halloween, but man, I loved the concept.</p>

<p>00;05;26;20 - 00;05;47;12<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
It was like a digital, like, sort of escape room sort of thing. And what Eric did, which was just like, so incredible, was like, it was like you work through rooms in your space and you had different contestants kind of do that, right now getting contestants, man, that is one of the most difficult things in youth ministry, right?</p>

<p>00;05;47;12 - 00;06;07;11<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Because you&#39;ve been a real like, who wants to who wants to be a volunteer, who wants to be a volunteer? And so what we did was we created a wheel that would, basically volunteer certain people. So we had our, groups broken down by grade. And so we had like sixth grade, we had seventh and eighth grade, we had ninth and 10th grade, and then we had 11th and 12th grade.</p>

<p>00;06;07;11 - 00;06;33;02<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So for total, sixth year, I was the only one that was standalone. And the other, you know, six remaining grades are grouped together seventh and eighth, ninth and 10th, 11th, 12th. You get the idea. But then we said we need the whatever the wheel says person from each of these grades. So again, this is something I would go over on my Patreon page and hopefully it might help you out helping me more creative and thus ultimately more engaging.</p>

<p>00;06;33;06 - 00;06;53;23<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But what we did was we just added a wheel and we said, all right, I need the sixth grader who&#39;s the tallest, I need the seventh grader who&#39;s the shortest? I need the ninth 10th grader who has the tallest socks I need the 11th 12th grader has the lowest phone battery percentage. And so if you&#39;re watching here on screen, what you do is you simply click edit Slide and right at the top all you got to do is click wheel.</p>

<p>00;06;53;25 - 00;07;15;02<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
You want to add the wheel. And so in pops the wheel settings right here. And so this is where you can adjust the individual items in the wheel. So if you don&#39;t want cheese because it&#39;s not relevant to what you&#39;re doing you can say tallest. And if you want highest battery percentage you say highest battery percentage where&#39;s a percent.</p>

<p>00;07;15;02 - 00;07;37;26<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So there it is. If you want to add another one, you simply click Add Item. Or better yet, you can do bulk add and you can just type them all in. And so you go, tallest socks, reddest hair, biggest mustache, or whatever your criteria are. There they are. You click add three items and boom, they are off and rolling.</p>

<p>00;07;37;26 - 00;07;56;10<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now once your wheel is on the screen, you notice it&#39;s kind of covering my face here if you don&#39;t want that. So you can go up to this little corner and just simply shrink it and put it right where you want it, maybe right underneath that finger where I&#39;m pointing. Maybe you want it huge, right? So you can make it even bigger.</p>

<p>00;07;56;14 - 00;08;24;23<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
You can make it even smaller. And, there&#39;s all sorts of different ways that you can kind of mess around with and use the wheel, but that&#39;s way number one. We kind of like to use the wheel as a, contestant sort of generator. All right. The other thing that I love about the wheel is, or another way, way number two that we use the wheel is we will use it sometimes as a prize wheel.</p>

<p>00;08;24;23 - 00;08;43;29<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So we have a winner of a game, a standalone winner or a group of winners. And then we let that winner go ahead and, spin the wheel for an opportunity to win. So let&#39;s just say that they won pizza. And so here, I&#39;ve already input my different types of pizza that I want to let them win.</p>

<p>00;08;44;03 - 00;09;07;00<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so when you go ahead and, get this thing launched, you will see that you can you have a lot of different access, right? You have a lot of different access once you get this thing up and rolling. So we&#39;re going to pretend this is our projector screen and your person, oh, your person back in your booth is going to be the one that sees this.</p>

<p>00;09;07;00 - 00;09;30;04<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Or again, don&#39;t forget that. Now they have phone integration so you can run it like a remote phone, which is a pretty cool feature. So here we are. We are on our wheel right here. And this is what it looks like for the person in the booth. They&#39;ll have this start spin option. And they&#39;ll be able to see down here that the next winner is cheese.</p>

<p>00;09;30;11 - 00;09;51;01<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But if I don&#39;t want it to be cheese, it can reroll and it can reroll it randomly. Or you can choose a pre-selected option so you can see all of your options here. And you can say, I don&#39;t have Hawaiian pizza, I don&#39;t have deep dish, I only have sausage. And so we&#39;re going to make them think that they have the opportunity to get sausage.</p>

<p>00;09;51;02 - 00;10;13;06<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But really they don&#39;t. And so we&#39;re not doing random. We&#39;re going to do pre-selected. The pre-selected winner here is sausage. And now when we spin the wheel you&#39;re seeing it. You&#39;re hearing it. The winner is sausage right. Like I said I can now clear that. Now let&#39;s say I gave away sausage and so I don&#39;t want that anymore.</p>

<p>00;10;13;09 - 00;10;33;01<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
This is where I can turn on this hide. Last item. And so now sausage, which was what I give away. Now I don&#39;t have it because I gave it to this group. And I need a new prize to give away to the next group. I can&#39;t give away sausage twice. It only had it once. If I click hide last item, it will go away and it won&#39;t be an option on the wheel anymore.</p>

<p>00;10;33;01 - 00;10;57;16<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
So now let&#39;s just simulate that again. So I did in fact go ahead. Giveaway sausage I&#39;m hiding the last item. Consider the last item hidden. And then we&#39;re going to clear that it&#39;s gone. And now we&#39;re like oh it needs to be pepperoni. So here we go. Give a pepperoni to the winning group. Group number two. Congratulations you one pepperoni.</p>

<p>00;10;57;16 - 00;11;17;12<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now if you&#39;re listening here on screen or you it was able to be picked up through my microphone, you will notice that they have different sound effects. So when you do the little, cheery sound effect, that&#39;s the one that pepperoni just made you. Little shrug sound effect. That&#39;s just a little kind of simple, like click sound, like, and so you can change that.</p>

<p>00;11;17;12 - 00;11;45;19<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Or if it&#39;s a negative consequence, you can also do the lose sound. And so cheese now has the lose sound. And so that sounds something like this. Now that no one wants cheese. All right. This is this is the bottom line. Okay. Here is another idea that I have is, we might, in our space, do something where, we have, like, rows.</p>

<p>00;11;45;23 - 00;12;03;14<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
We have 16 tables. So there&#39;s four, 4x4, four tables across, four tables down 16 total. So we might do something when we have a passage of Scripture, you know, that we want people to look up. And so then we might use the wheel and say, all right, row one. You&#39;re going to look up this. Row two, you&#39;re going to look up that.</p>

<p>00;12;03;16 - 00;12;22;06<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And here&#39;s what&#39;s cool is you saw my picture here. So you can also make your background custom. So right here let&#39;s say I want this slide right here to be where I put my wheel. First I got to give it a background right. So I&#39;m going to go ahead and I&#39;m going to make it an image background.</p>

<p>00;12;22;09 - 00;12;48;13<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
I&#39;m going to upload a file. And I&#39;m going to go navigate to these different verses of this slide that I have already made. And so boom, there&#39;s my verse slides. And so now I don&#39;t want that. I want the wheel now. And so I can say row one, row two, row three and row four. We&#39;re going to add those.</p>

<p>00;12;48;16 - 00;13;13;19<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
We&#39;re going to remove these. And now I can put this right here. Again don&#39;t forget Hybrid Ministry ten gets you 10% off of Premium or Premium Plus of Collider. But now I can put that right here. And I can say all right row one. You&#39;re going to go first. And then very simply right. Like as I am presenting this sucker, got to get down to it so I can show it to you.</p>

<p>00;13;13;19 - 00;13;42;15<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
But as I&#39;m presenting it, I&#39;ll say, all right, row one. Here you go. Or not? Row one. Luke one goes to row one, in fact. Right. And once again, I should have selected hide winner because I can&#39;t actually have row one. That&#39;s a bummer, I missed out. What am I supposed to do? Well, your purpose in in person can actually hop back over here to edit and just very simply, either hide them and now they&#39;re going to be off my wheel or delete them and they&#39;re off my wheel either way.</p>

<p>00;13;42;18 - 00;14;01;14<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now if I hide them right, I can add them back on very simply. If, I delete them, I do have to go back in here and I have to type it all back out and do all that stuff, which as you see, is not that difficult. But it it does take a little bit more of an additional step.</p>

<p>00;14;01;14 - 00;14;21;22<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now here&#39;s the other cool thing. You might be thinking like, I don&#39;t I don&#39;t want like that background. I want like I want a video background. Great. Check this out. I don&#39;t want this background anymore. I go back in here to edit slide. I don&#39;t want it going to go over here to my slide settings. And instead of it being an image background, I can do a color background.</p>

<p>00;14;21;22 - 00;14;43;08<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
He&#39;s my color options right? Those are all the preloaded ones. Or I can say I want a video background. So I&#39;m going to select video and I want it to be a YouTube embedded video, and I want it to be my video. So we&#39;re going to copy and paste that link here, paste embed that YouTube video and boom.</p>

<p>00;14;43;10 - 00;15;00;25<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
And I can put the wheel anywhere that I want. Now keep in mind that when it&#39;s a background, you saw it right here. Background videos will loop automatically and they do not play sounds. And so you can pull these directly off of the internet. And this is why I believe every single youth ministry should have a strong digital presence also.</p>

<p>00;15;00;25 - 00;15;21;25<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Hey, why you&#39;re here, why don&#39;t you go ahead and grab my hybrid strategy guide with a little bit of a different name from this episode that I dropped a little bit over a year ago. So that was idea number three. You can give out passages for the we&#39;ll idea number four, I&#39;m actually going to share with those of you that are on my Patreon page.</p>

<p>00;15;21;25 - 00;15;44;13<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now listen, don&#39;t forget that it&#39;s only about a dollar a week. And anyone who signs up before December 2nd, 2024 will get an exclusive free piece of merch. So you&#39;re going to get a piece of merch that&#39;s probably worth like $20. That&#39;s gonna like, pay for itself in the first five months. And I&#39;m going to share my fourth favorite way that I</p>

<p>00;15;44;13 - 00;15;49;02<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
customize and use the wheel in my different teachings and in my different presentations.</p>

<p>00;15;49;09 - 00;16;06;08<br>
Nick Clason| Hybrid Ministry<br>
Hey, my friends, as always, don&#39;t forget if you want to know how to use the name picker that is going to be here in the next episode, if you&#39;re watching on YouTube, that&#39;ll be right here on screen. Go hop over to Patreon page. But until next time, and as always, my friends stay hybrid.</p>]]>
  </itunes:summary>
</item>
<item>
  <title>Episode 124: Truly Interactive Sermons | How I use Sidekick</title>
  <link>https://www.hybridministry.xyz/124</link>
  <guid isPermaLink="false">09add7a8-1440-4524-8ccf-34388a19df60</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
  <author>Nick Clason</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e697b7b8-eaee-430b-9281-dfbd9f2d34d0/09add7a8-1440-4524-8ccf-34388a19df60.mp3" length="26294389" type="audio/mpeg"/>
  <itunes:episode>124</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>Truly Interactive Sermons | How I use Sidekick</itunes:title>
  <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
  <itunes:author>Nick Clason</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons using Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>18:15</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
  <itunes:image href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/e/e697b7b8-eaee-430b-9281-dfbd9f2d34d0/episodes/0/09add7a8-1440-4524-8ccf-34388a19df60/cover.jpg?v=1"/>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;🎧 &lt;strong&gt;BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🖥️ &lt;strong&gt;SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons using Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;📓 &lt;strong&gt;SHOWNOTES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/124" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;http://www.hybridministry.xyz/124&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//COLEADER PRICING&lt;br&gt;
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//FINISH THE DRAWING - HELP DERRY BUY PRESENTS!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/finish-the-drawing/games/icebreakers-8666.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/finish-the-drawing/games/icebreakers-8666.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK&lt;br&gt;
YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Instagram: &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
TikTok: &lt;a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Facebook: &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Website: &lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!&lt;br&gt;
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
VIDIQ&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://vidiq.com/hybrid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BEST DYM RESOURCES&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp;amp; REELS&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🕰️&lt;strong&gt;TIMECODES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
00:00 Phone Voting in Sidekick&lt;br&gt;
01:53 The Creativity Challenge&lt;br&gt;
02:36 BIG Announcement!!&lt;br&gt;
04:06 Voting During Pre-Roll&lt;br&gt;
07:13 #1 Game Style&lt;br&gt;
09:39 #2 Game Style&lt;br&gt;
12:10 #3 Game Style&lt;br&gt;
15:56 Voting During Sermons&lt;br&gt;
17:29 The Wheel&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;TRANSCRIPT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:28:27&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Pastor. We all know the struggle that all of us in ministry face with online church and streaming and the tension between will people come and be a part of our church? Or will they just simply listen to us online? I mean, hey, listen, give me a like if anytime in the last week you have listened to another pastor sermon or any podcast of any sort, religion or otherwise, or if you've listened to a worship song on Spotify, Apple Music or on YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:00:29:00 - 00:00:51:12&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You see, the fact is we live now in a digital world where, content and sermons and music and worship music and all those things are available for our consumption at the touch and at the click of a finger. So how can we utilize technology in your ministry to make your programing in your service a little bit more hybrid?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:00:51:19 - 00:01:11:08&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You know, hybrid I talked about this. It's the intersection of your in-person and your digital right. It's not forsaking one for the other, but it's simply finding a way to intersect them and to meld them together in the two. And we're going to look at my favorite feature in sidekick, which I believe makes you as hybrid as it can get in today's world.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:01:11:13 - 00:01:31:15&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
If you are new to this playlist, we have been simply talking in the playlist linked up right here about different features of sidekick, and in the last video I kind of introduced sidekick and I showed some of the miscellaneous features, but there are three kind of core pillars and core, feature principles about sidekick that are just simply fantastic.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:01:31:15 - 00:01:51:13&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And the first one is the feature of vote. And you can pull your phone out and you can vote via QR codes. So that is what we're going to talk about today and in this video. But don't forget, if you're over here on YouTube that we do have chapters down at the bottom so that you can skip around, jump around to different sections and elements that pertain the most to you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:01:51:13 - 00:02:10:25&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But I was talking to a friend of mine at a conference of several years back, and who's leading a workshop, and it was so well done and it was so creative. And frankly, it was pre-COVID, but it was before, and I was thinking like, man, this is more than just him getting up and talking. This is him actually engaging and interacting with his audience and drawing them in.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:02:10:25 - 00:02:31:05&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And I asked him, like, how do you do it? And he said, honestly, I challenged myself to try and use at least once per message, a feature from sidekick that I couldn't use with something simple like a PowerPoint or Pro presenter presentation software. And in our student ministry we have gone all in on sidekick. And so I want to share that with you in this playlist.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:02:31:05 - 00:02:52:25&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But I also want to let you know that launching on December 2nd, I am going to be launching a bonus weekly podcast simply called like what have I Done this week? And talking about all the ways that our youth ministry is trying to go hybrid, utilize digital, utilize YouTube, utilize sidekick. And so that is linked down below. Or you can scan the QR code that you see here on screen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:02:52:27 - 00:03:16:19&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
That is going to give you that bonus weekly podcast. But there's also going to be other perks for Patreon members. And the cost, my friends, it's only a dollar per episode per week. And so jump in on that if you find that helpful. If you're looking to, turn the dial up on your creativity, on your hybrid, on your digital, I just want to simply walk you through what we are doing on a week by week basis.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:03:16:19 - 00:03:39:04&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And as you hear what I'm doing, hopefully that just gives you other creative ideas and listen. I would love if you then would also shoot back what you're doing, because anytime I hear what someone else is doing, it causes my brain and my juices to get going and get creative. But anyone who signs up before December 2nd, which is the official launch of the Patreon show, will get an exclusive free piece of merch.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:03:39:04 - 00:03:58:16&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
I will mail it to you and so that will be just my token of appreciation. So literally, that piece of merch will pay for itself for like six months worth of you being signed up for the, hybrid, Patreon experience. And so jump on and honestly, take my money. Can't wait to get you guys going on that.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:03:58:16 - 00:04:18:25&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But in this video, I want to talk about the different areas that you can use the voting in side. So you can include the voting slides in your pre-roll. So for example here on screen you'll see I'm going to click present. And we got a full screen window. And boom we're in our pre-roll slides. And these will rotate if you are not with us.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:04:18:25 - 00:04:35:07&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Last video is a rotate every few seconds. We set that up ahead of time. You can go check out how to do that there. Rotating here pretty quickly. You can slow those down, but if you wanted to add here, to that, first of all, you got to get out of your presentation window and you got to end your presentation to make your edit.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:04:35:09 - 00:04:54:18&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But then right here, if I just wanted to be like, all right, let's include a voting thing here. All you got to do is just click this voting option. Boom. And it kind of overtakes the design of the screen. And while you're here, you could use this example. Which super power would you choose? Or you could say, which kind of coffee shop is best?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:04:54:20 - 00:05:23:27&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And you can get people debating on the old Dunkin versus Starbucks versus, main, what else is out there? Whatever, whatever it is, like your local home town hipster coffee vibe. And then over here, it's, the checkmarks on the side. These are indicating correct answers. So if you don't want there to be a correct answer, even though Dunkin in this particular, case is probably the correct answer, there is no correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:05:23:27 - 00:05:42:04&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And then over here you can, you can offer this like, hey, do you want to show the QR code? So sometimes people can, scan it ahead of time and just have it on their phone, and their phone becomes like a game remote, or you can leave it being shown here on screen. You can indicate and show the live results.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:05:42:04 - 00:05:59:18&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You can also reorder the, the votes like, the as the votes are coming in, whichever one's highest, we'll, we'll kind of jump to the top. You can either leave that or not. And then down here in the advanced settings, if you do have a correct answer, this this text here will be displayed on screen about whether it was correct or whether it wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:05:59:18 - 00:06:18:18&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so now if we look back over here at our pre-roll slides, if we get this presentation up and going, we're going to make it a little smaller. So you just pretend that this little, window here is like your, it's your it's your your your screen. Right. It's your, projector screen. You drag this over or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:06:18:21 - 00:06:38:11&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So now it's rotating through. Rotating through. Boom. Here's a poll question. You can engage and hybridize and interact with your audience during your pre-roll session there. So that's one of my favorite ways to use it. I have a poll question of every single week during our pre-roll. The the hack to that is you do got to keep the slides.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:06:38:11 - 00:06:44:07&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
They can't be going this fast. I make mine a 14 second rotation that gives people enough&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:06:44:07 - 00:06:59:09&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
time to read the question, realize it, go scan it and vote and maybe get it in. Because once this q QR code is off the screen, voting is closed. And so once it goes to the next slide, they can't vote anymore. So they kind of got to wait for it to rotate back around.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:06:59:15 - 00:07:22:29&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes if I noticed people trying to do it though, what I will do is I will pull my phone up and I will just go back using the the phone remote kind of feature. Right. So that's one way that you can utilize and use it in your ministry. The pre-roll, voting option. You can also use it probably most commonly, probably the ways that we think about the most is with your games.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:07:22:29 - 00:07:38:26&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Right. And so, I told you in the last video of our playlist linked right up here, if I haven't already done that. I have already done that. If you're watching here on YouTube, when you buy a game, you can, bring it in. And so we bought this game, finished the drawing in our youth ministry by my friend Derek.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:07:38:26 - 00:07:55:24&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Print it. I'll drop the link to that game down below in the show notes. Go buy it, hook his family up, give him some royalties. He needs Christmas presents. But, this is what it looks like when I import it in. And so in this particular game, what you would do is I'll go ahead and show it to you here on screen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:07:55:26 - 00:08:17:09&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
What you would do is you would, put one of these slides up. And a student would then have to finish the the drawing of this bus. Okay. So the way that we utilize this in our ministry was we actually probably use random name generator, which is going to be coming up here in one of these future videos.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:08:17:11 - 00:08:38:09&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Put some students up on stage. We got four different students. And so then, we gave them this picture. We gave them a minute countdown timer on the screen, and then they drew they finished the drawing. Now, then we used a camera. We just plugged it in via our stage, portal. We use our video switcher and we switch to the camera view.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:08:38:09 - 00:08:58:25&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So that up on the screen, everyone could see the finished drawing. So all four contestants were holding their drawing up. And then we said, scan this QR code. And so students would scan the QR code. Once they scanned it, once it was on their phone for good and they could vote. Whoo hoo! One person, one person, two person to person four.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:08:58:27 - 00:09:28:12&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Based on that, that was a winner. You can utilize this for anything that has a subjective winner, right? Like, who do you think won this person? This person. You draw something, you build a sculpture you like, who was the loudest. You can vote it right. And once you get that QR code shown on screen and there's another thing you know, it's showing right here, or you click this little button down here in the sidekick window, show QR code and look, it makes it full and big and so everyone can gain access to it, no matter how big or how far away they are from the screen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:09:28:15 - 00:09:53:26&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes you kind of got to zoom in with your phone and stuff like that. So we use that to then kind of declare a winner. All right. Another game option. I want to show you this one that is, sitting in here if you already, a member or a subscriber of sidekick, which if you're not, let me remind you that for my podcast listeners only, you can try out co-leader, which will be what gives you access to sidekick is a presentation software.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:09:53:29 - 00:10:19:09&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
If you have never signed up for anything on game before by using the code Hybrid Ministry ten, and you can get an access to Premium or Premium Plus of Collider. I will put the link down below at sidekick.tv/pricing for you to compare the differences, but they'll give you either 260 Collider credits versus 520 Collider credits, along with either 25 or 75 sidekick phone voting connections.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:10:19:13 - 00:10:36:16&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So go check that out if that's something that you want to do, that's something that you want to learn. But if you sign up and you are a member, then in your completely free section here, I'm going to end this thing so that I can edit again. Right? So you'll notice controls change a little bit, but it's free thing.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:10:36:18 - 00:10:56:21&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
There's a game, that Josh Griffin did over at Mariner's called Zombie Apocalypse. So I hit that and, I imported it. And so here's what it is. So this is the instructions given to us by the sidekick team. It says, hey, watch Josh play this game and how he use it. Here's the instructions. Here's his supply list here to do all this thing.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:10:56:26 - 00:11:16:25&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But so if we just ran this, this is another way to utilize the voting and play game. Make this small so that we can we can see everything. But. So here we are. We're playing this zombie apocalypse apocalypse game. And, you got the the plot and all these things, and this is like super next level, right?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:11:16:25 - 00:11:37:14&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So this question here is which weapon will you choose? You let the students decide if they want a hammer, a lightsaber, a rubber chicken or the impossible shot bow. Okay. And then here it is. Boom. Zombie approach is good news. Live separation and anxiety and will only go to one area at a time. And one big group of survivors should split up to have a better chance of survival.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:11:37:14 - 00:11:59:02&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Each one has an either A, the baptismal, the tech booth, the playground, or the welcome booth. And then you let them vote, okay, crowd votes. And then, on one area, it kills the contestants who are there in that area. Then here's some more instructions. And they even incorporated the wheel. And so as you go through this is a a choose your own kind of adventure of a game.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:11:59:02 - 00:12:17:02&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so that's another really fun, really creative way to use and utilize sidekick to your advantage. And then there's one last way that I want to show you. And I'll go ahead I'll get it presented once again. And this is with, another game that's free in the free section, if you sign up again, don't forget Hybrid Ministry ten.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:12:17:05 - 00:12:32:21&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
It's called Where's the ball. And so in this particular game, this is the example of what I was kind of saying earlier about you can use your phone as a remote. And so this game is it got a right and wrong answer to it. Right. So like the the other ones were like more subjective. What do you think.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:12:32:21 - 00:12:52:18&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
What do you think this one is like? Here's a question. Here's the right answer. And so in this one your question that you must decide is is it a or is it be all right. And like I said in this particular case, you got to get that QR code live so that everyone can scan it on their phones, scans, skin scan, and then their phone becomes a remote.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:12:52:18 - 00:13:12:16&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so now the question on their phone, A or B, their phone as they're holding it, it says is it A or is it B they vote I in the booth or your booth person clicks right here, this end voting thing. And then when you click reveal correct answer, it shows the slide with the correct answer. And then it also reveals it on everyone's phones at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:13:12:19 - 00:13:28:26&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
All right. It's pretty cool. Here we go to the next one. This is which of these pickleball, balls is the correct answer? They would vote A, B, C, or D, you'd end the voting, you'd reveal the correct answer. And of course, the answer is a the phone would say correct. If they got it wrong, it would say incorrect or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:13:28:26 - 00:13:46:27&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You said the advanced settings to be ahead of time. And I can show you how that works, because this one is a little bit more tricky to actually set up. You don't just simply click right like in this one right here. If I added a new slide and I wanted them to vote on who's the drawing, I simply click voting and then boom, I right I right to answer like who won?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:13:46:27 - 00:14:02:19&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And then I go down here and I do, you know, one, two three, four I unchecked the winner and we're off to the races and where's the ball. Like I said it's a little bit more intricate. So let me show you how it works. So you click edit Slide and this is voting right. So I clicked on that, I clicked Edit voting.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:14:02:19 - 00:14:24:05&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But if it weren't there I would turn into voting. And right here at the top you got this little toggle switch that says, is this an image based question when it's not now it went away. When I turn it back on, it's this image based question. So like I said, question side answer slide. And so if I remove this you'll see that I can upload the question slide.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:14:24:05 - 00:14:42:26&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And then I can upload the answer slide. Now if you're just getting this free where's the ball. It's already included in sidekick. Go get it. Go play it. It's super fun. But if you're creating it yourself, you'll have to upload this from somewhere just on your computer, right? And you also upload the answer and then you're going to correct or select which answer is truly correct.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:14:43:03 - 00:14:58:01&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And then down here in the advanced settings you can either say correct or you can say sorry, or you can flame them like you're an idiot. I wouldn't necessarily recommend that if you want to keep your job, but hey, go for it. It's up to you, right? You can also add right? So here's where you would add or subtract answers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:14:58:01 - 00:15:13:23&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So if there's three multiple choice or four multiple choice, or if you need to take one away and make it three again, that's where you do that. And then you just simply click which of the answers is correct. This is one of my favorite ways. We did this one time and again. This is the type of stuff you get on the Patreon.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:15:14:00 - 00:15:28:17&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Like I'll share this idea and maybe you can use it. We did like a pet day. We were celebrating National Kitten Day, and we had people texting via our text groups to this picture of your pet, and then we put pictures of pets on screens. Then we said, who do you think? Whose pet do you think this is?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:15:28:17 - 00:15:46:09&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Is it you know Jake's? Is it Brie's? Is it Adam's or is it, Gracie's? And then they would just vote, like, it was a fun way to use our students and to get them and let them be kind of the heroes and the superstars of our day and of our our game. And so that was a fun way.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:15:46:09 - 00:16:15:20&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And we used this image based question kind of voting option here on sidekick. The last way, of course, that you can use it is very obviously in your messages. And so once again, this is an example of what I'll be going on going on over in our Patreon. But in this particular week, actually tonight I'm preaching on, masks, and I got just a couple of different questions, on that, I'm talking about being judgmental.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:16:15:22 - 00:16:33:04&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And, in that I'm asking questions like, you know, are you ever judgmental? Yes or no? Scan it and let me know. Another one I'm using, like, hey, so, finish the phrase sticks and stones. What? And then I put a bunch of different ridiculous answers. And of course, the answer's six. And stones may break my bones.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:16:33:04 - 00:16:48:02&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But words will never hurt. Give me a like if you knew that. Because, that means you're old, like me, and you're, in your 30s as a youth pastor. Give me a sub. If not, because that means that you're younger and that means that you're actually on YouTube. And so give me subs so that you will see some of these future videos.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:16:48:02 - 00:17:08:06&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But the point is, previously before sidekick, I would just say raise your hand if you know what this phrase means. Sticks and stones may break my bones, and that's an engagement. But now, in a way, to go hybrid, taking my in-person and my digital and putting at the intersection of my students phones, I say, hey, scan this QR code and finish this phrase.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:17:08:09 - 00:17:30:13&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And again, like my friend Anthony said back at that conference, I challenged myself to try and use sidekick in my message as I create at least one time per week. And so voting is a fantastic way to to utilize that and to use that. Now the another really fun custom way that sidekick, has to offer this was just voting.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:17:30:13 - 00:17:48:09&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
The last video was just some of its miscellaneous features. The next video, which is going to be linked right here on screen. You can see it if you're watching on YouTube. Go ahead and tap that and go check that out. Is the random wheel and how you can customize it and generate it with customized, sounds and punishments and all sorts of different things.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:17:48:09 - 00:18:06:17&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So I want to chat through different creative ways. You can use that, perhaps in pre-roll and games, in messages and announcements, all sorts of different ways. I can't wait for you to see that. I hope that this helps you and your youth. Minutes to become more engaging, more interactive. Don't forget that's all at the Patreon is going to be about.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00:18:06:17 - 00:18:10:01&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But as always, don't forget my friends to stay hybrid. &lt;/p&gt;
</description>
  <itunes:keywords>download youth ministry, sidekick, youth ministry, hybrid ministry, youth pastor podcast, student ministry, youth ministry programming, name picker, wheel, Random Generator, Live voting, Youth ministry creativity, Creative Programming, ProPresenter, Youth Group, Youth Group Phones, How to handle phones in youth ministry, phones are so distracting in youth ministry, Nick Clason, Josh Boldman</itunes:keywords>
  <content:encoded>
    <![CDATA[<p>🎧 <strong>BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry</a></p>

<p>🖥️ <strong>SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong><br>
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons using Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry.</p>

<p>📓 <strong>SHOWNOTES</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/124" rel="nofollow">http://www.hybridministry.xyz/124</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>//COLEADER PRICING<br>
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10<br>
<a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing</a></p>

<p>//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" rel="nofollow">https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book</a></p>

<p>//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching</a></p>

<p>//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms</a></p>

<p>//FINISH THE DRAWING - HELP DERRY BUY PRESENTS!<br>
<a href="https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/finish-the-drawing/games/icebreakers-8666.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/finish-the-drawing/games/icebreakers-8666.html</a></p>

<p>👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK<br>
YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/</a><br>
TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry</a><br>
Website: <a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉</strong><br>
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!<br>
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!<br>
<a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!</strong><br>
<em><em>Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products</em></em><br>
VIDIQ<br>
<a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" rel="nofollow">https://vidiq.com/hybrid</a></p>

<p>BEST DYM RESOURCES<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym</a></p>

<p>OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp; REELS<br>
<a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" rel="nofollow">https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361</a></p>

<p>//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>🕰️<strong>TIMECODES</strong><br>
00:00 Phone Voting in Sidekick<br>
01:53 The Creativity Challenge<br>
02:36 BIG Announcement!!<br>
04:06 Voting During Pre-Roll<br>
07:13 #1 Game Style<br>
09:39 #2 Game Style<br>
12:10 #3 Game Style<br>
15:56 Voting During Sermons<br>
17:29 The Wheel</p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong><br>
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:28:27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Pastor. We all know the struggle that all of us in ministry face with online church and streaming and the tension between will people come and be a part of our church? Or will they just simply listen to us online? I mean, hey, listen, give me a like if anytime in the last week you have listened to another pastor sermon or any podcast of any sort, religion or otherwise, or if you&#39;ve listened to a worship song on Spotify, Apple Music or on YouTube.</p>

<p>00:00:29:00 - 00:00:51:12<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You see, the fact is we live now in a digital world where, content and sermons and music and worship music and all those things are available for our consumption at the touch and at the click of a finger. So how can we utilize technology in your ministry to make your programing in your service a little bit more hybrid?</p>

<p>00:00:51:19 - 00:01:11:08<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You know, hybrid I talked about this. It&#39;s the intersection of your in-person and your digital right. It&#39;s not forsaking one for the other, but it&#39;s simply finding a way to intersect them and to meld them together in the two. And we&#39;re going to look at my favorite feature in sidekick, which I believe makes you as hybrid as it can get in today&#39;s world.</p>

<p>00:01:11:13 - 00:01:31:15<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
If you are new to this playlist, we have been simply talking in the playlist linked up right here about different features of sidekick, and in the last video I kind of introduced sidekick and I showed some of the miscellaneous features, but there are three kind of core pillars and core, feature principles about sidekick that are just simply fantastic.</p>

<p>00:01:31:15 - 00:01:51:13<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And the first one is the feature of vote. And you can pull your phone out and you can vote via QR codes. So that is what we&#39;re going to talk about today and in this video. But don&#39;t forget, if you&#39;re over here on YouTube that we do have chapters down at the bottom so that you can skip around, jump around to different sections and elements that pertain the most to you.</p>

<p>00:01:51:13 - 00:02:10:25<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But I was talking to a friend of mine at a conference of several years back, and who&#39;s leading a workshop, and it was so well done and it was so creative. And frankly, it was pre-COVID, but it was before, and I was thinking like, man, this is more than just him getting up and talking. This is him actually engaging and interacting with his audience and drawing them in.</p>

<p>00:02:10:25 - 00:02:31:05<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And I asked him, like, how do you do it? And he said, honestly, I challenged myself to try and use at least once per message, a feature from sidekick that I couldn&#39;t use with something simple like a PowerPoint or Pro presenter presentation software. And in our student ministry we have gone all in on sidekick. And so I want to share that with you in this playlist.</p>

<p>00:02:31:05 - 00:02:52:25<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But I also want to let you know that launching on December 2nd, I am going to be launching a bonus weekly podcast simply called like what have I Done this week? And talking about all the ways that our youth ministry is trying to go hybrid, utilize digital, utilize YouTube, utilize sidekick. And so that is linked down below. Or you can scan the QR code that you see here on screen.</p>

<p>00:02:52:27 - 00:03:16:19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
That is going to give you that bonus weekly podcast. But there&#39;s also going to be other perks for Patreon members. And the cost, my friends, it&#39;s only a dollar per episode per week. And so jump in on that if you find that helpful. If you&#39;re looking to, turn the dial up on your creativity, on your hybrid, on your digital, I just want to simply walk you through what we are doing on a week by week basis.</p>

<p>00:03:16:19 - 00:03:39:04<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And as you hear what I&#39;m doing, hopefully that just gives you other creative ideas and listen. I would love if you then would also shoot back what you&#39;re doing, because anytime I hear what someone else is doing, it causes my brain and my juices to get going and get creative. But anyone who signs up before December 2nd, which is the official launch of the Patreon show, will get an exclusive free piece of merch.</p>

<p>00:03:39:04 - 00:03:58:16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
I will mail it to you and so that will be just my token of appreciation. So literally, that piece of merch will pay for itself for like six months worth of you being signed up for the, hybrid, Patreon experience. And so jump on and honestly, take my money. Can&#39;t wait to get you guys going on that.</p>

<p>00:03:58:16 - 00:04:18:25<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But in this video, I want to talk about the different areas that you can use the voting in side. So you can include the voting slides in your pre-roll. So for example here on screen you&#39;ll see I&#39;m going to click present. And we got a full screen window. And boom we&#39;re in our pre-roll slides. And these will rotate if you are not with us.</p>

<p>00:04:18:25 - 00:04:35:07<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Last video is a rotate every few seconds. We set that up ahead of time. You can go check out how to do that there. Rotating here pretty quickly. You can slow those down, but if you wanted to add here, to that, first of all, you got to get out of your presentation window and you got to end your presentation to make your edit.</p>

<p>00:04:35:09 - 00:04:54:18<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But then right here, if I just wanted to be like, all right, let&#39;s include a voting thing here. All you got to do is just click this voting option. Boom. And it kind of overtakes the design of the screen. And while you&#39;re here, you could use this example. Which super power would you choose? Or you could say, which kind of coffee shop is best?</p>

<p>00:04:54:20 - 00:05:23:27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And you can get people debating on the old Dunkin versus Starbucks versus, main, what else is out there? Whatever, whatever it is, like your local home town hipster coffee vibe. And then over here, it&#39;s, the checkmarks on the side. These are indicating correct answers. So if you don&#39;t want there to be a correct answer, even though Dunkin in this particular, case is probably the correct answer, there is no correct answer.</p>

<p>00:05:23:27 - 00:05:42:04<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And then over here you can, you can offer this like, hey, do you want to show the QR code? So sometimes people can, scan it ahead of time and just have it on their phone, and their phone becomes like a game remote, or you can leave it being shown here on screen. You can indicate and show the live results.</p>

<p>00:05:42:04 - 00:05:59:18<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You can also reorder the, the votes like, the as the votes are coming in, whichever one&#39;s highest, we&#39;ll, we&#39;ll kind of jump to the top. You can either leave that or not. And then down here in the advanced settings, if you do have a correct answer, this this text here will be displayed on screen about whether it was correct or whether it wasn&#39;t.</p>

<p>00:05:59:18 - 00:06:18:18<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so now if we look back over here at our pre-roll slides, if we get this presentation up and going, we&#39;re going to make it a little smaller. So you just pretend that this little, window here is like your, it&#39;s your it&#39;s your your your screen. Right. It&#39;s your, projector screen. You drag this over or whatever.</p>

<p>00:06:18:21 - 00:06:38:11<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So now it&#39;s rotating through. Rotating through. Boom. Here&#39;s a poll question. You can engage and hybridize and interact with your audience during your pre-roll session there. So that&#39;s one of my favorite ways to use it. I have a poll question of every single week during our pre-roll. The the hack to that is you do got to keep the slides.</p>

<p>00:06:38:11 - 00:06:44:07<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
They can&#39;t be going this fast. I make mine a 14 second rotation that gives people enough</p>

<p>00:06:44:07 - 00:06:59:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
time to read the question, realize it, go scan it and vote and maybe get it in. Because once this q QR code is off the screen, voting is closed. And so once it goes to the next slide, they can&#39;t vote anymore. So they kind of got to wait for it to rotate back around.</p>

<p>00:06:59:15 - 00:07:22:29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Sometimes if I noticed people trying to do it though, what I will do is I will pull my phone up and I will just go back using the the phone remote kind of feature. Right. So that&#39;s one way that you can utilize and use it in your ministry. The pre-roll, voting option. You can also use it probably most commonly, probably the ways that we think about the most is with your games.</p>

<p>00:07:22:29 - 00:07:38:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Right. And so, I told you in the last video of our playlist linked right up here, if I haven&#39;t already done that. I have already done that. If you&#39;re watching here on YouTube, when you buy a game, you can, bring it in. And so we bought this game, finished the drawing in our youth ministry by my friend Derek.</p>

<p>00:07:38:26 - 00:07:55:24<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Print it. I&#39;ll drop the link to that game down below in the show notes. Go buy it, hook his family up, give him some royalties. He needs Christmas presents. But, this is what it looks like when I import it in. And so in this particular game, what you would do is I&#39;ll go ahead and show it to you here on screen.</p>

<p>00:07:55:26 - 00:08:17:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
What you would do is you would, put one of these slides up. And a student would then have to finish the the drawing of this bus. Okay. So the way that we utilize this in our ministry was we actually probably use random name generator, which is going to be coming up here in one of these future videos.</p>

<p>00:08:17:11 - 00:08:38:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Put some students up on stage. We got four different students. And so then, we gave them this picture. We gave them a minute countdown timer on the screen, and then they drew they finished the drawing. Now, then we used a camera. We just plugged it in via our stage, portal. We use our video switcher and we switch to the camera view.</p>

<p>00:08:38:09 - 00:08:58:25<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So that up on the screen, everyone could see the finished drawing. So all four contestants were holding their drawing up. And then we said, scan this QR code. And so students would scan the QR code. Once they scanned it, once it was on their phone for good and they could vote. Whoo hoo! One person, one person, two person to person four.</p>

<p>00:08:58:27 - 00:09:28:12<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Based on that, that was a winner. You can utilize this for anything that has a subjective winner, right? Like, who do you think won this person? This person. You draw something, you build a sculpture you like, who was the loudest. You can vote it right. And once you get that QR code shown on screen and there&#39;s another thing you know, it&#39;s showing right here, or you click this little button down here in the sidekick window, show QR code and look, it makes it full and big and so everyone can gain access to it, no matter how big or how far away they are from the screen.</p>

<p>00:09:28:15 - 00:09:53:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Sometimes you kind of got to zoom in with your phone and stuff like that. So we use that to then kind of declare a winner. All right. Another game option. I want to show you this one that is, sitting in here if you already, a member or a subscriber of sidekick, which if you&#39;re not, let me remind you that for my podcast listeners only, you can try out co-leader, which will be what gives you access to sidekick is a presentation software.</p>

<p>00:09:53:29 - 00:10:19:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
If you have never signed up for anything on game before by using the code Hybrid Ministry ten, and you can get an access to Premium or Premium Plus of Collider. I will put the link down below at sidekick.tv/pricing for you to compare the differences, but they&#39;ll give you either 260 Collider credits versus 520 Collider credits, along with either 25 or 75 sidekick phone voting connections.</p>

<p>00:10:19:13 - 00:10:36:16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So go check that out if that&#39;s something that you want to do, that&#39;s something that you want to learn. But if you sign up and you are a member, then in your completely free section here, I&#39;m going to end this thing so that I can edit again. Right? So you&#39;ll notice controls change a little bit, but it&#39;s free thing.</p>

<p>00:10:36:18 - 00:10:56:21<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
There&#39;s a game, that Josh Griffin did over at Mariner&#39;s called Zombie Apocalypse. So I hit that and, I imported it. And so here&#39;s what it is. So this is the instructions given to us by the sidekick team. It says, hey, watch Josh play this game and how he use it. Here&#39;s the instructions. Here&#39;s his supply list here to do all this thing.</p>

<p>00:10:56:26 - 00:11:16:25<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But so if we just ran this, this is another way to utilize the voting and play game. Make this small so that we can we can see everything. But. So here we are. We&#39;re playing this zombie apocalypse apocalypse game. And, you got the the plot and all these things, and this is like super next level, right?</p>

<p>00:11:16:25 - 00:11:37:14<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So this question here is which weapon will you choose? You let the students decide if they want a hammer, a lightsaber, a rubber chicken or the impossible shot bow. Okay. And then here it is. Boom. Zombie approach is good news. Live separation and anxiety and will only go to one area at a time. And one big group of survivors should split up to have a better chance of survival.</p>

<p>00:11:37:14 - 00:11:59:02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Each one has an either A, the baptismal, the tech booth, the playground, or the welcome booth. And then you let them vote, okay, crowd votes. And then, on one area, it kills the contestants who are there in that area. Then here&#39;s some more instructions. And they even incorporated the wheel. And so as you go through this is a a choose your own kind of adventure of a game.</p>

<p>00:11:59:02 - 00:12:17:02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so that&#39;s another really fun, really creative way to use and utilize sidekick to your advantage. And then there&#39;s one last way that I want to show you. And I&#39;ll go ahead I&#39;ll get it presented once again. And this is with, another game that&#39;s free in the free section, if you sign up again, don&#39;t forget Hybrid Ministry ten.</p>

<p>00:12:17:05 - 00:12:32:21<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
It&#39;s called Where&#39;s the ball. And so in this particular game, this is the example of what I was kind of saying earlier about you can use your phone as a remote. And so this game is it got a right and wrong answer to it. Right. So like the the other ones were like more subjective. What do you think.</p>

<p>00:12:32:21 - 00:12:52:18<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
What do you think this one is like? Here&#39;s a question. Here&#39;s the right answer. And so in this one your question that you must decide is is it a or is it be all right. And like I said in this particular case, you got to get that QR code live so that everyone can scan it on their phones, scans, skin scan, and then their phone becomes a remote.</p>

<p>00:12:52:18 - 00:13:12:16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so now the question on their phone, A or B, their phone as they&#39;re holding it, it says is it A or is it B they vote I in the booth or your booth person clicks right here, this end voting thing. And then when you click reveal correct answer, it shows the slide with the correct answer. And then it also reveals it on everyone&#39;s phones at the same time.</p>

<p>00:13:12:19 - 00:13:28:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
All right. It&#39;s pretty cool. Here we go to the next one. This is which of these pickleball, balls is the correct answer? They would vote A, B, C, or D, you&#39;d end the voting, you&#39;d reveal the correct answer. And of course, the answer is a the phone would say correct. If they got it wrong, it would say incorrect or whatever.</p>

<p>00:13:28:26 - 00:13:46:27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You said the advanced settings to be ahead of time. And I can show you how that works, because this one is a little bit more tricky to actually set up. You don&#39;t just simply click right like in this one right here. If I added a new slide and I wanted them to vote on who&#39;s the drawing, I simply click voting and then boom, I right I right to answer like who won?</p>

<p>00:13:46:27 - 00:14:02:19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And then I go down here and I do, you know, one, two three, four I unchecked the winner and we&#39;re off to the races and where&#39;s the ball. Like I said it&#39;s a little bit more intricate. So let me show you how it works. So you click edit Slide and this is voting right. So I clicked on that, I clicked Edit voting.</p>

<p>00:14:02:19 - 00:14:24:05<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But if it weren&#39;t there I would turn into voting. And right here at the top you got this little toggle switch that says, is this an image based question when it&#39;s not now it went away. When I turn it back on, it&#39;s this image based question. So like I said, question side answer slide. And so if I remove this you&#39;ll see that I can upload the question slide.</p>

<p>00:14:24:05 - 00:14:42:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And then I can upload the answer slide. Now if you&#39;re just getting this free where&#39;s the ball. It&#39;s already included in sidekick. Go get it. Go play it. It&#39;s super fun. But if you&#39;re creating it yourself, you&#39;ll have to upload this from somewhere just on your computer, right? And you also upload the answer and then you&#39;re going to correct or select which answer is truly correct.</p>

<p>00:14:43:03 - 00:14:58:01<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And then down here in the advanced settings you can either say correct or you can say sorry, or you can flame them like you&#39;re an idiot. I wouldn&#39;t necessarily recommend that if you want to keep your job, but hey, go for it. It&#39;s up to you, right? You can also add right? So here&#39;s where you would add or subtract answers.</p>

<p>00:14:58:01 - 00:15:13:23<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So if there&#39;s three multiple choice or four multiple choice, or if you need to take one away and make it three again, that&#39;s where you do that. And then you just simply click which of the answers is correct. This is one of my favorite ways. We did this one time and again. This is the type of stuff you get on the Patreon.</p>

<p>00:15:14:00 - 00:15:28:17<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Like I&#39;ll share this idea and maybe you can use it. We did like a pet day. We were celebrating National Kitten Day, and we had people texting via our text groups to this picture of your pet, and then we put pictures of pets on screens. Then we said, who do you think? Whose pet do you think this is?</p>

<p>00:15:28:17 - 00:15:46:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Is it you know Jake&#39;s? Is it Brie&#39;s? Is it Adam&#39;s or is it, Gracie&#39;s? And then they would just vote, like, it was a fun way to use our students and to get them and let them be kind of the heroes and the superstars of our day and of our our game. And so that was a fun way.</p>

<p>00:15:46:09 - 00:16:15:20<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And we used this image based question kind of voting option here on sidekick. The last way, of course, that you can use it is very obviously in your messages. And so once again, this is an example of what I&#39;ll be going on going on over in our Patreon. But in this particular week, actually tonight I&#39;m preaching on, masks, and I got just a couple of different questions, on that, I&#39;m talking about being judgmental.</p>

<p>00:16:15:22 - 00:16:33:04<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And, in that I&#39;m asking questions like, you know, are you ever judgmental? Yes or no? Scan it and let me know. Another one I&#39;m using, like, hey, so, finish the phrase sticks and stones. What? And then I put a bunch of different ridiculous answers. And of course, the answer&#39;s six. And stones may break my bones.</p>

<p>00:16:33:04 - 00:16:48:02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But words will never hurt. Give me a like if you knew that. Because, that means you&#39;re old, like me, and you&#39;re, in your 30s as a youth pastor. Give me a sub. If not, because that means that you&#39;re younger and that means that you&#39;re actually on YouTube. And so give me subs so that you will see some of these future videos.</p>

<p>00:16:48:02 - 00:17:08:06<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But the point is, previously before sidekick, I would just say raise your hand if you know what this phrase means. Sticks and stones may break my bones, and that&#39;s an engagement. But now, in a way, to go hybrid, taking my in-person and my digital and putting at the intersection of my students phones, I say, hey, scan this QR code and finish this phrase.</p>

<p>00:17:08:09 - 00:17:30:13<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And again, like my friend Anthony said back at that conference, I challenged myself to try and use sidekick in my message as I create at least one time per week. And so voting is a fantastic way to to utilize that and to use that. Now the another really fun custom way that sidekick, has to offer this was just voting.</p>

<p>00:17:30:13 - 00:17:48:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
The last video was just some of its miscellaneous features. The next video, which is going to be linked right here on screen. You can see it if you&#39;re watching on YouTube. Go ahead and tap that and go check that out. Is the random wheel and how you can customize it and generate it with customized, sounds and punishments and all sorts of different things.</p>

<p>00:17:48:09 - 00:18:06:17<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So I want to chat through different creative ways. You can use that, perhaps in pre-roll and games, in messages and announcements, all sorts of different ways. I can&#39;t wait for you to see that. I hope that this helps you and your youth. Minutes to become more engaging, more interactive. Don&#39;t forget that&#39;s all at the Patreon is going to be about.</p>

<p>00:18:06:17 - 00:18:10:01<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But as always, don&#39;t forget my friends to stay hybrid.</p>]]>
  </content:encoded>
  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>🎧 <strong>BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/hybridministry</a></p>

<p>🖥️ <strong>SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong><br>
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, discover how to create truly interactive sermons using Sidekick made by Download Youth Ministry to engage students like never before! We’ll explore practical ways to blend creativity with technology, making your youth ministry sermons more dynamic and memorable. Ideal for leaders aiming to elevate their hybrid ministry approach in their student ministry, this episode offers key strategies to transform your youth ministry.</p>

<p>📓 <strong>SHOWNOTES</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/124" rel="nofollow">http://www.hybridministry.xyz/124</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>//COLEADER PRICING<br>
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10<br>
<a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing</a></p>

<p>//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" rel="nofollow">https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book</a></p>

<p>//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching</a></p>

<p>//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms</a></p>

<p>//FINISH THE DRAWING - HELP DERRY BUY PRESENTS!<br>
<a href="https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/finish-the-drawing/games/icebreakers-8666.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/finish-the-drawing/games/icebreakers-8666.html</a></p>

<p>👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK<br>
YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/</a><br>
TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry</a><br>
Website: <a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉</strong><br>
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!<br>
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!<br>
<a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!</strong><br>
<em><em>Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products</em></em><br>
VIDIQ<br>
<a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" rel="nofollow">https://vidiq.com/hybrid</a></p>

<p>BEST DYM RESOURCES<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym</a></p>

<p>OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp; REELS<br>
<a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" rel="nofollow">https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361</a></p>

<p>//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>🕰️<strong>TIMECODES</strong><br>
00:00 Phone Voting in Sidekick<br>
01:53 The Creativity Challenge<br>
02:36 BIG Announcement!!<br>
04:06 Voting During Pre-Roll<br>
07:13 #1 Game Style<br>
09:39 #2 Game Style<br>
12:10 #3 Game Style<br>
15:56 Voting During Sermons<br>
17:29 The Wheel</p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong><br>
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:28:27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Pastor. We all know the struggle that all of us in ministry face with online church and streaming and the tension between will people come and be a part of our church? Or will they just simply listen to us online? I mean, hey, listen, give me a like if anytime in the last week you have listened to another pastor sermon or any podcast of any sort, religion or otherwise, or if you&#39;ve listened to a worship song on Spotify, Apple Music or on YouTube.</p>

<p>00:00:29:00 - 00:00:51:12<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You see, the fact is we live now in a digital world where, content and sermons and music and worship music and all those things are available for our consumption at the touch and at the click of a finger. So how can we utilize technology in your ministry to make your programing in your service a little bit more hybrid?</p>

<p>00:00:51:19 - 00:01:11:08<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You know, hybrid I talked about this. It&#39;s the intersection of your in-person and your digital right. It&#39;s not forsaking one for the other, but it&#39;s simply finding a way to intersect them and to meld them together in the two. And we&#39;re going to look at my favorite feature in sidekick, which I believe makes you as hybrid as it can get in today&#39;s world.</p>

<p>00:01:11:13 - 00:01:31:15<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
If you are new to this playlist, we have been simply talking in the playlist linked up right here about different features of sidekick, and in the last video I kind of introduced sidekick and I showed some of the miscellaneous features, but there are three kind of core pillars and core, feature principles about sidekick that are just simply fantastic.</p>

<p>00:01:31:15 - 00:01:51:13<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And the first one is the feature of vote. And you can pull your phone out and you can vote via QR codes. So that is what we&#39;re going to talk about today and in this video. But don&#39;t forget, if you&#39;re over here on YouTube that we do have chapters down at the bottom so that you can skip around, jump around to different sections and elements that pertain the most to you.</p>

<p>00:01:51:13 - 00:02:10:25<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But I was talking to a friend of mine at a conference of several years back, and who&#39;s leading a workshop, and it was so well done and it was so creative. And frankly, it was pre-COVID, but it was before, and I was thinking like, man, this is more than just him getting up and talking. This is him actually engaging and interacting with his audience and drawing them in.</p>

<p>00:02:10:25 - 00:02:31:05<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And I asked him, like, how do you do it? And he said, honestly, I challenged myself to try and use at least once per message, a feature from sidekick that I couldn&#39;t use with something simple like a PowerPoint or Pro presenter presentation software. And in our student ministry we have gone all in on sidekick. And so I want to share that with you in this playlist.</p>

<p>00:02:31:05 - 00:02:52:25<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But I also want to let you know that launching on December 2nd, I am going to be launching a bonus weekly podcast simply called like what have I Done this week? And talking about all the ways that our youth ministry is trying to go hybrid, utilize digital, utilize YouTube, utilize sidekick. And so that is linked down below. Or you can scan the QR code that you see here on screen.</p>

<p>00:02:52:27 - 00:03:16:19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
That is going to give you that bonus weekly podcast. But there&#39;s also going to be other perks for Patreon members. And the cost, my friends, it&#39;s only a dollar per episode per week. And so jump in on that if you find that helpful. If you&#39;re looking to, turn the dial up on your creativity, on your hybrid, on your digital, I just want to simply walk you through what we are doing on a week by week basis.</p>

<p>00:03:16:19 - 00:03:39:04<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And as you hear what I&#39;m doing, hopefully that just gives you other creative ideas and listen. I would love if you then would also shoot back what you&#39;re doing, because anytime I hear what someone else is doing, it causes my brain and my juices to get going and get creative. But anyone who signs up before December 2nd, which is the official launch of the Patreon show, will get an exclusive free piece of merch.</p>

<p>00:03:39:04 - 00:03:58:16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
I will mail it to you and so that will be just my token of appreciation. So literally, that piece of merch will pay for itself for like six months worth of you being signed up for the, hybrid, Patreon experience. And so jump on and honestly, take my money. Can&#39;t wait to get you guys going on that.</p>

<p>00:03:58:16 - 00:04:18:25<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But in this video, I want to talk about the different areas that you can use the voting in side. So you can include the voting slides in your pre-roll. So for example here on screen you&#39;ll see I&#39;m going to click present. And we got a full screen window. And boom we&#39;re in our pre-roll slides. And these will rotate if you are not with us.</p>

<p>00:04:18:25 - 00:04:35:07<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Last video is a rotate every few seconds. We set that up ahead of time. You can go check out how to do that there. Rotating here pretty quickly. You can slow those down, but if you wanted to add here, to that, first of all, you got to get out of your presentation window and you got to end your presentation to make your edit.</p>

<p>00:04:35:09 - 00:04:54:18<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But then right here, if I just wanted to be like, all right, let&#39;s include a voting thing here. All you got to do is just click this voting option. Boom. And it kind of overtakes the design of the screen. And while you&#39;re here, you could use this example. Which super power would you choose? Or you could say, which kind of coffee shop is best?</p>

<p>00:04:54:20 - 00:05:23:27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And you can get people debating on the old Dunkin versus Starbucks versus, main, what else is out there? Whatever, whatever it is, like your local home town hipster coffee vibe. And then over here, it&#39;s, the checkmarks on the side. These are indicating correct answers. So if you don&#39;t want there to be a correct answer, even though Dunkin in this particular, case is probably the correct answer, there is no correct answer.</p>

<p>00:05:23:27 - 00:05:42:04<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And then over here you can, you can offer this like, hey, do you want to show the QR code? So sometimes people can, scan it ahead of time and just have it on their phone, and their phone becomes like a game remote, or you can leave it being shown here on screen. You can indicate and show the live results.</p>

<p>00:05:42:04 - 00:05:59:18<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You can also reorder the, the votes like, the as the votes are coming in, whichever one&#39;s highest, we&#39;ll, we&#39;ll kind of jump to the top. You can either leave that or not. And then down here in the advanced settings, if you do have a correct answer, this this text here will be displayed on screen about whether it was correct or whether it wasn&#39;t.</p>

<p>00:05:59:18 - 00:06:18:18<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so now if we look back over here at our pre-roll slides, if we get this presentation up and going, we&#39;re going to make it a little smaller. So you just pretend that this little, window here is like your, it&#39;s your it&#39;s your your your screen. Right. It&#39;s your, projector screen. You drag this over or whatever.</p>

<p>00:06:18:21 - 00:06:38:11<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So now it&#39;s rotating through. Rotating through. Boom. Here&#39;s a poll question. You can engage and hybridize and interact with your audience during your pre-roll session there. So that&#39;s one of my favorite ways to use it. I have a poll question of every single week during our pre-roll. The the hack to that is you do got to keep the slides.</p>

<p>00:06:38:11 - 00:06:44:07<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
They can&#39;t be going this fast. I make mine a 14 second rotation that gives people enough</p>

<p>00:06:44:07 - 00:06:59:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
time to read the question, realize it, go scan it and vote and maybe get it in. Because once this q QR code is off the screen, voting is closed. And so once it goes to the next slide, they can&#39;t vote anymore. So they kind of got to wait for it to rotate back around.</p>

<p>00:06:59:15 - 00:07:22:29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Sometimes if I noticed people trying to do it though, what I will do is I will pull my phone up and I will just go back using the the phone remote kind of feature. Right. So that&#39;s one way that you can utilize and use it in your ministry. The pre-roll, voting option. You can also use it probably most commonly, probably the ways that we think about the most is with your games.</p>

<p>00:07:22:29 - 00:07:38:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Right. And so, I told you in the last video of our playlist linked right up here, if I haven&#39;t already done that. I have already done that. If you&#39;re watching here on YouTube, when you buy a game, you can, bring it in. And so we bought this game, finished the drawing in our youth ministry by my friend Derek.</p>

<p>00:07:38:26 - 00:07:55:24<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Print it. I&#39;ll drop the link to that game down below in the show notes. Go buy it, hook his family up, give him some royalties. He needs Christmas presents. But, this is what it looks like when I import it in. And so in this particular game, what you would do is I&#39;ll go ahead and show it to you here on screen.</p>

<p>00:07:55:26 - 00:08:17:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
What you would do is you would, put one of these slides up. And a student would then have to finish the the drawing of this bus. Okay. So the way that we utilize this in our ministry was we actually probably use random name generator, which is going to be coming up here in one of these future videos.</p>

<p>00:08:17:11 - 00:08:38:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Put some students up on stage. We got four different students. And so then, we gave them this picture. We gave them a minute countdown timer on the screen, and then they drew they finished the drawing. Now, then we used a camera. We just plugged it in via our stage, portal. We use our video switcher and we switch to the camera view.</p>

<p>00:08:38:09 - 00:08:58:25<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So that up on the screen, everyone could see the finished drawing. So all four contestants were holding their drawing up. And then we said, scan this QR code. And so students would scan the QR code. Once they scanned it, once it was on their phone for good and they could vote. Whoo hoo! One person, one person, two person to person four.</p>

<p>00:08:58:27 - 00:09:28:12<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Based on that, that was a winner. You can utilize this for anything that has a subjective winner, right? Like, who do you think won this person? This person. You draw something, you build a sculpture you like, who was the loudest. You can vote it right. And once you get that QR code shown on screen and there&#39;s another thing you know, it&#39;s showing right here, or you click this little button down here in the sidekick window, show QR code and look, it makes it full and big and so everyone can gain access to it, no matter how big or how far away they are from the screen.</p>

<p>00:09:28:15 - 00:09:53:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Sometimes you kind of got to zoom in with your phone and stuff like that. So we use that to then kind of declare a winner. All right. Another game option. I want to show you this one that is, sitting in here if you already, a member or a subscriber of sidekick, which if you&#39;re not, let me remind you that for my podcast listeners only, you can try out co-leader, which will be what gives you access to sidekick is a presentation software.</p>

<p>00:09:53:29 - 00:10:19:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
If you have never signed up for anything on game before by using the code Hybrid Ministry ten, and you can get an access to Premium or Premium Plus of Collider. I will put the link down below at sidekick.tv/pricing for you to compare the differences, but they&#39;ll give you either 260 Collider credits versus 520 Collider credits, along with either 25 or 75 sidekick phone voting connections.</p>

<p>00:10:19:13 - 00:10:36:16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So go check that out if that&#39;s something that you want to do, that&#39;s something that you want to learn. But if you sign up and you are a member, then in your completely free section here, I&#39;m going to end this thing so that I can edit again. Right? So you&#39;ll notice controls change a little bit, but it&#39;s free thing.</p>

<p>00:10:36:18 - 00:10:56:21<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
There&#39;s a game, that Josh Griffin did over at Mariner&#39;s called Zombie Apocalypse. So I hit that and, I imported it. And so here&#39;s what it is. So this is the instructions given to us by the sidekick team. It says, hey, watch Josh play this game and how he use it. Here&#39;s the instructions. Here&#39;s his supply list here to do all this thing.</p>

<p>00:10:56:26 - 00:11:16:25<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But so if we just ran this, this is another way to utilize the voting and play game. Make this small so that we can we can see everything. But. So here we are. We&#39;re playing this zombie apocalypse apocalypse game. And, you got the the plot and all these things, and this is like super next level, right?</p>

<p>00:11:16:25 - 00:11:37:14<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So this question here is which weapon will you choose? You let the students decide if they want a hammer, a lightsaber, a rubber chicken or the impossible shot bow. Okay. And then here it is. Boom. Zombie approach is good news. Live separation and anxiety and will only go to one area at a time. And one big group of survivors should split up to have a better chance of survival.</p>

<p>00:11:37:14 - 00:11:59:02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Each one has an either A, the baptismal, the tech booth, the playground, or the welcome booth. And then you let them vote, okay, crowd votes. And then, on one area, it kills the contestants who are there in that area. Then here&#39;s some more instructions. And they even incorporated the wheel. And so as you go through this is a a choose your own kind of adventure of a game.</p>

<p>00:11:59:02 - 00:12:17:02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so that&#39;s another really fun, really creative way to use and utilize sidekick to your advantage. And then there&#39;s one last way that I want to show you. And I&#39;ll go ahead I&#39;ll get it presented once again. And this is with, another game that&#39;s free in the free section, if you sign up again, don&#39;t forget Hybrid Ministry ten.</p>

<p>00:12:17:05 - 00:12:32:21<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
It&#39;s called Where&#39;s the ball. And so in this particular game, this is the example of what I was kind of saying earlier about you can use your phone as a remote. And so this game is it got a right and wrong answer to it. Right. So like the the other ones were like more subjective. What do you think.</p>

<p>00:12:32:21 - 00:12:52:18<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
What do you think this one is like? Here&#39;s a question. Here&#39;s the right answer. And so in this one your question that you must decide is is it a or is it be all right. And like I said in this particular case, you got to get that QR code live so that everyone can scan it on their phones, scans, skin scan, and then their phone becomes a remote.</p>

<p>00:12:52:18 - 00:13:12:16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so now the question on their phone, A or B, their phone as they&#39;re holding it, it says is it A or is it B they vote I in the booth or your booth person clicks right here, this end voting thing. And then when you click reveal correct answer, it shows the slide with the correct answer. And then it also reveals it on everyone&#39;s phones at the same time.</p>

<p>00:13:12:19 - 00:13:28:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
All right. It&#39;s pretty cool. Here we go to the next one. This is which of these pickleball, balls is the correct answer? They would vote A, B, C, or D, you&#39;d end the voting, you&#39;d reveal the correct answer. And of course, the answer is a the phone would say correct. If they got it wrong, it would say incorrect or whatever.</p>

<p>00:13:28:26 - 00:13:46:27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You said the advanced settings to be ahead of time. And I can show you how that works, because this one is a little bit more tricky to actually set up. You don&#39;t just simply click right like in this one right here. If I added a new slide and I wanted them to vote on who&#39;s the drawing, I simply click voting and then boom, I right I right to answer like who won?</p>

<p>00:13:46:27 - 00:14:02:19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And then I go down here and I do, you know, one, two three, four I unchecked the winner and we&#39;re off to the races and where&#39;s the ball. Like I said it&#39;s a little bit more intricate. So let me show you how it works. So you click edit Slide and this is voting right. So I clicked on that, I clicked Edit voting.</p>

<p>00:14:02:19 - 00:14:24:05<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But if it weren&#39;t there I would turn into voting. And right here at the top you got this little toggle switch that says, is this an image based question when it&#39;s not now it went away. When I turn it back on, it&#39;s this image based question. So like I said, question side answer slide. And so if I remove this you&#39;ll see that I can upload the question slide.</p>

<p>00:14:24:05 - 00:14:42:26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And then I can upload the answer slide. Now if you&#39;re just getting this free where&#39;s the ball. It&#39;s already included in sidekick. Go get it. Go play it. It&#39;s super fun. But if you&#39;re creating it yourself, you&#39;ll have to upload this from somewhere just on your computer, right? And you also upload the answer and then you&#39;re going to correct or select which answer is truly correct.</p>

<p>00:14:43:03 - 00:14:58:01<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And then down here in the advanced settings you can either say correct or you can say sorry, or you can flame them like you&#39;re an idiot. I wouldn&#39;t necessarily recommend that if you want to keep your job, but hey, go for it. It&#39;s up to you, right? You can also add right? So here&#39;s where you would add or subtract answers.</p>

<p>00:14:58:01 - 00:15:13:23<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So if there&#39;s three multiple choice or four multiple choice, or if you need to take one away and make it three again, that&#39;s where you do that. And then you just simply click which of the answers is correct. This is one of my favorite ways. We did this one time and again. This is the type of stuff you get on the Patreon.</p>

<p>00:15:14:00 - 00:15:28:17<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Like I&#39;ll share this idea and maybe you can use it. We did like a pet day. We were celebrating National Kitten Day, and we had people texting via our text groups to this picture of your pet, and then we put pictures of pets on screens. Then we said, who do you think? Whose pet do you think this is?</p>

<p>00:15:28:17 - 00:15:46:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Is it you know Jake&#39;s? Is it Brie&#39;s? Is it Adam&#39;s or is it, Gracie&#39;s? And then they would just vote, like, it was a fun way to use our students and to get them and let them be kind of the heroes and the superstars of our day and of our our game. And so that was a fun way.</p>

<p>00:15:46:09 - 00:16:15:20<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And we used this image based question kind of voting option here on sidekick. The last way, of course, that you can use it is very obviously in your messages. And so once again, this is an example of what I&#39;ll be going on going on over in our Patreon. But in this particular week, actually tonight I&#39;m preaching on, masks, and I got just a couple of different questions, on that, I&#39;m talking about being judgmental.</p>

<p>00:16:15:22 - 00:16:33:04<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And, in that I&#39;m asking questions like, you know, are you ever judgmental? Yes or no? Scan it and let me know. Another one I&#39;m using, like, hey, so, finish the phrase sticks and stones. What? And then I put a bunch of different ridiculous answers. And of course, the answer&#39;s six. And stones may break my bones.</p>

<p>00:16:33:04 - 00:16:48:02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But words will never hurt. Give me a like if you knew that. Because, that means you&#39;re old, like me, and you&#39;re, in your 30s as a youth pastor. Give me a sub. If not, because that means that you&#39;re younger and that means that you&#39;re actually on YouTube. And so give me subs so that you will see some of these future videos.</p>

<p>00:16:48:02 - 00:17:08:06<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But the point is, previously before sidekick, I would just say raise your hand if you know what this phrase means. Sticks and stones may break my bones, and that&#39;s an engagement. But now, in a way, to go hybrid, taking my in-person and my digital and putting at the intersection of my students phones, I say, hey, scan this QR code and finish this phrase.</p>

<p>00:17:08:09 - 00:17:30:13<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And again, like my friend Anthony said back at that conference, I challenged myself to try and use sidekick in my message as I create at least one time per week. And so voting is a fantastic way to to utilize that and to use that. Now the another really fun custom way that sidekick, has to offer this was just voting.</p>

<p>00:17:30:13 - 00:17:48:09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
The last video was just some of its miscellaneous features. The next video, which is going to be linked right here on screen. You can see it if you&#39;re watching on YouTube. Go ahead and tap that and go check that out. Is the random wheel and how you can customize it and generate it with customized, sounds and punishments and all sorts of different things.</p>

<p>00:17:48:09 - 00:18:06:17<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So I want to chat through different creative ways. You can use that, perhaps in pre-roll and games, in messages and announcements, all sorts of different ways. I can&#39;t wait for you to see that. I hope that this helps you and your youth. Minutes to become more engaging, more interactive. Don&#39;t forget that&#39;s all at the Patreon is going to be about.</p>

<p>00:18:06:17 - 00:18:10:01<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But as always, don&#39;t forget my friends to stay hybrid.</p>]]>
  </itunes:summary>
</item>
<item>
  <title>Episode 123: LIVE Sidekick Demo and Review! Youth Ministry Turned Interactive</title>
  <link>https://www.hybridministry.xyz/123</link>
  <guid isPermaLink="false">8b9a811b-d7a2-4708-951d-ed02b9f41afb</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
  <author>Nick Clason</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e697b7b8-eaee-430b-9281-dfbd9f2d34d0/8b9a811b-d7a2-4708-951d-ed02b9f41afb.mp3" length="23544945" type="audio/mpeg"/>
  <itunes:episode>123</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>LIVE Sidekick Demo and Review! Youth Ministry Turned Interactive</itunes:title>
  <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
  <itunes:author>Nick Clason</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, we’re diving into a live demo and review of Sidekick – a powerful tool for youth ministry and interactive programming! See how Sidekick can transform your youth group experience by adding a dynamic, creative edge to your student ministry. Sidekick from Download Youth Ministry is perfect for leaders looking to engage students in fresh ways, this episode is packed with insights to level up your student ministry service!</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>16:20</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
  <itunes:image href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/e/e697b7b8-eaee-430b-9281-dfbd9f2d34d0/episodes/8/8b9a811b-d7a2-4708-951d-ed02b9f41afb/cover.jpg?v=1"/>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;🎧 &lt;strong&gt;BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://patreon.com/hybridministry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://patreon.com/hybridministry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🖥️ &lt;strong&gt;SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DESCRIPTION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, we’re diving into a live demo and review of Sidekick – a powerful tool for youth ministry and interactive programming! See how Sidekick can transform your youth group experience by adding a dynamic, creative edge to your student ministry. Sidekick from Download Youth Ministry is perfect for leaders looking to engage students in fresh ways, this episode is packed with insights to level up your student ministry service!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;📓 &lt;strong&gt;SHOWNOTES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/123" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;http://www.hybridministry.xyz/123&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//COLEADER PRICING&lt;br&gt;
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK&lt;br&gt;
YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Instagram: &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
TikTok: &lt;a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Facebook: &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Website: &lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!&lt;br&gt;
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
VIDIQ&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://vidiq.com/hybrid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BEST DYM RESOURCES&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp;amp; REELS&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🕰️&lt;strong&gt;TIMECODES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
00:00 More Engaging Services with Sidekick&lt;br&gt;
02:26 New Patreon Show Starting!&lt;br&gt;
04:08 Feature #1&lt;br&gt;
06:48 Co-Leader Promo Code&lt;br&gt;
08:23 Feature #2&lt;br&gt;
11:39 Feature #3&lt;br&gt;
12:12 Feature #4&lt;br&gt;
13:44 Feature #5&lt;br&gt;
14:07 Feature #6&lt;br&gt;
14:40 Feature #7&lt;br&gt;
15:35 Feature #8&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--------------&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;TRANSCRIPT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
00;00;00;00 - 00;00;04;17&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Youth pastor. Collegiate minister. Senior pastor. What if I told you&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;00;04;17 - 00;00;12;28&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
that there was a better presentation software out there than pro presenter PowerPoint, or whatever else you use?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;00;12;28 - 00;00;30;19&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
It sounded too good to be true. Well, listen, it is made by youth pastors and is made for youth pastors. Give me a like if you think you already know what I'm talking about, because I am talking about my favorite presentation software and it's called sidekick.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;00;30;19 - 00;01;01;29&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And here's why. This is great, regardless of if you're in youth ministry or not, because it is made for interaction and it is made for customization. But there is so much more. And in this video and in this upcoming playlist, I want to share with you what those features are. This video in particular, I'm going to drop my top eight different miscellaneous features because everyone knows that sidekick has things like the voting and the wheel picker and the name picker.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;01;01;29 - 00;01;23;20&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But in this video, I'm going to share the other things that sidekick has to offer besides those obvious kind of milestone landmark, features built in woven into the presentation software. And if you're here on YouTube, as always, don't forget that there are chapters listed down below at the bottom so that you can jump ahead to what matters most to you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;01;23;20 - 00;01;50;02&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But here's the thing in the context in which I'm currently working, we are all in on sidekick. What we've done is we have two computers now, one for pro presenter and one for sidekick. Because if you know, if you've used sidekick in the new beta version at all, you know that it runs through Google Chrome and in the previous versions, what you could do with running a software like, pro presenters, you'd have pro presenter up and running and then back behind it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;01;50;02 - 00;02;19;03&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You could have the sidekick window and you could just toggle off the display. But now Chrome is actually more powerful than Pro Presenter. Most people I tell that they find that actually incredibly surprising. And so as a result of that, it makes switching between Chrome and Pro Presenter a little bit tricky. And so the way in which we have sort of circumvented or navigated that is we have just built two computers and we have a black magic video switcher where we can go from computer one to computer two.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;02;19;09 - 00;02;44;24&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And essentially we use Pro Presenter for just worship and lyrics, and then we use sidekick for every thing else. You know, I'm actually launching here during the course of this playlist, starting officially on December 2nd, a brand new bonus podcast. I'm going to be releasing it one time per week, going to be over on my Patreon page. And listen, Patreon, takes a little bit of a fee.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;02;45;01 - 00;03;10;21&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so the reason that I'm doing that is to just, invest back into the podcast. But I am only charging $4 per month. I think it is a small, modest fee. Essentially it is going to break down to $1 per week per additional bonus. Podcast. What I want to do with that podcast, I just simply want to share with you the creative ways that we are running our youth ministry programing and how we're making it hybrid.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;03;10;21 - 00;03;35;24&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so if you want more hybrid information, I would love to share that with you. This podcast and this YouTube video is meant to sort of like give a big broad strokes overview of what Hybrid Ministry is. But on my Patreon page, what I want to do is I just want to share an extra bonus podcast and simply chat through everything that I've done for the week and talk through the ways that we've tried to make it creative and talk through the ways in which we have tried to sort of hybridize our ministry.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;03;35;24 - 00;04;01;29&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so that podcast is starting December 2nd. And for everyone who signs up during now, if you're watching live through December 2nd, I am going to send and mail you an exclusive free piece of merch. For all who sign up between now and December 2nd. Like I said, and it basically breaks down to $1 a month. So, either scan the QR code that you see here on screen or hit the link down below in the description.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;04;01;29 - 00;04;25;02&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But let's dive in to my eight favorite features of sidekick. Let's check it out. So my first favorite feature of sidekick is its co-leader integration. And if you're watching here on screen, you might be surprised to know that you're not looking at sidekick. What you're actually going to look at when we're we're actually going to start is here on co-leader and so on.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;04;25;02 - 00;04;50;07&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Co-Leader. What you can do is, if you are a subscriber, a co-leader is a, curriculum roadmaps and, like, I guess almost, not pro presenter. What am I trying to say? Planning center replacement thing for youth pastors and for youth ministries. So here on co-leader, you can explore sort of all the different, series and topics and even, events that they have.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;04;50;14 - 00;05;16;11&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Co-Leader has a roadmap series and so sort of like their proposed curriculum. And so you can explore their you're one of roadmaps and then you can also explore their your two here of roadmaps. And but essentially on co-leader what's so cool about it. And I like co-leader it is actually become it's new is only in year two of development but it's actually become my favorite curriculum resource, because it literally does everything for you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;05;16;11 - 00;05;33;27&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So you see here on our dashboard, these are series that we have redeemed our credits for. So Co-Leader works on sort of a credit system. And so we've redeemed, this credit series, this credit on this series here called masks. And so, for example, if you're in, session one of masks, you click view session here.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;05;34;05 - 00;05;54;29&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And if you look right off to the side here, sidekick, you can open in sidekick. Boom. Click that little button and it will automatically import your entire sessions. So here's our session flow. They got your graphics and all that stuff. But starting here you got your countdown. You're welcome. Your icebreaker, your game, some songs, videos and then the teaching slides.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;05;54;29 - 00;06;13;22&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And so I want to show you what that looks like over here in sidekick. So if you're here in sidekick you'll see. Let's actually do a, side by side so that you can see them in comparison. Right. So from the top we have, countdown. There's your countdown. You got your, game right there. You got another game.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;06;13;22 - 00;06;38;29&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Masked celebrity. And all of this is included in your co-leader subscription. You got your, bumper video for your masks, and then you got your masks. Chameleon is the title of the message. Chameleon teaching slides right there, and you can see how all of that works together. And so by a simple click of the button, your entire youth ministry night is planned.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;06;38;29 - 00;07;03;19&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And it is absolutely crazy. Now if you're a download Youth Ministry member, the co-leader is slightly different than do you? I am, but if you've never done anything in with download youth ministry before or co-leader, then I want to let my podcast listeners know that exclusively here on this podcast. I'll give you 10% off, of co-leader, so you can use the code Hybrid Ministry ten.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;07;03;19 - 00;07;26;03&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And what that includes is not only will that give you access to co-leader, but that also sort of will unlock access to this presentation software called sidekick. And so included is sidekick for a year. It allows you to do the one click presentations for everything that's in co-leader. Both year one and year two of the roadmaps, and you can get an access to co-leader premium or Premium Plus.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;07;26;03 - 00;07;48;15&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Okay. And so premium includes 260 co-leader credits. Like I said, it's kind of built off that credit system. And then you get 25 sidekick phone connections. That's for voting. We'll get to that in a minute. Or the premium class which is Premium Plus, which is 520 co-leader credits and 75 sidekick phone connections. So you can explore the differences between those two plans at this link here.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;07;48;15 - 00;08;05;27&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
On screen sidekick TV pricing don't forget, if you've never used or never done anything before with sidekick or with co-leader, then if you're signing up for the first time, Hybrid Ministry ten, I'll give you 10% off. Go ahead and check that out. And so I love that&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;08;05;27 - 00;08;10;00&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
about sidekick. I love that about, co-leader I love that, but it's integration.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;08;10;01 - 00;08;10;11&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So boom.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;08;10;11 - 00;08;22;28&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Right here. Here's my full like rundown, my full run sheet for everything going on here in this masks series. Now that's my first favorite thing about sidekick the co-leader integration.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;08;22;28 - 00;08;37;19&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So my second favorite feature about sidekick is the YouTube video integration. Now, the thing I like about the YouTube video integration is it takes a while in sidekicks to to upload videos.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;08;37;19 - 00;09;02;05&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You can drag and drop JPEGs easily, but when you go to upload a video, just it takes a minute and it's a little clunky to do, like a video, next video, next video, because you got to kind of do it one by one. So here's how it look like. So if I wanted to put a video on this slide, I'd click Edit Media videos, go browse, go find the video, upload it, wait for it to upload, and then it's it's in its spot as opposed to just a quick and easy drag and drop.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;09;02;05 - 00;09;23;29&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
However, if, I wanted to just embed a YouTube video, that's very simple, and I've actually already done that right here on this one, you'll notice here's one of my YouTube videos embedded. So if I go to present this thing, remember it's browser based. So just very simply,&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;09;24;01 - 00;09;46;10&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
So just very simply, opens up a new window and you started hearing even the, the, what's it called? The countdown right there. But here's this video that I embedded social media right there into sidekick. I have all this functionality over here. I can pause the video, I can mute the video, I can restart the video.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;09;46;10 - 00;10;10;05&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
I can do all those sort of things. Let me get this smaller so that we can see both of them together. So this is my presentation window that will just go full screen. Right. But very simply, when I'm, when I'm wanting to include a video, I can embed a video. And this is embedded small, but I can also just, you know, very, very simply, very easily embed that video full screen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;10;10;05 - 00;10;44;00&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Right, as well. Now, the other thing like that we use in our youth ministry as we go hybrid taking our our in-person and our digital, we teach live messages. But then we also prefilled them for multiple reasons, because we use that as a springboard for our Sunday morning small group content. And so every Sunday morning we play a clip off of one of our message clips, even though the message was delivered live, we play the filmed version, in our room, just like a 2 to 3 minute clip to remind everyone what was said.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;10;44;02 - 00;11;03;11&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Our our leaders can look at it ahead of time. Our students who missed on Wednesday can also look at it ahead of time on YouTube. It's evergreen content. It's meant to reach students who, might be asking questions about faith, God, whatever the case might be. And so we do that. And if you're interested in exploring more about what that might look like, link down.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;11;03;11 - 00;11;38;27&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Below is a link to some custom coaching. I would love to help kind of level that game up for you, or even get you started from scratch if that's something that you're interested in. But it has been a hugely beneficial piece to us and our student ministry, having the ability to just simply embed our YouTube videos. And so for things like countdowns or for things that are like bigger files, I will actually upload those to YouTube, host them there, put them on just like a private unlisted link, and then embed that video into my sidekick presentation, as opposed to have to upload it every single time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;11;39;00 - 00;11;57;26&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Now here's the other thing I love about sidekick. It's easy to build. So let me show you very quickly. Like, while, you know, while the videos might be a little more tricky to, to pull in or builder upload, they're easy to do. They're just a little bit time consuming. That's why it's easy to just drop a YouTube video in there.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;11;57;26 - 00;12;09;26&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Right. But if I just want to like, add one of these JPEGs in here, all I gotta do is drag it and drop it and boom, it's uploaded and is ready to go. There it is. Okay, super simple, super easy to&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;12;09;26 - 00;12;17;19&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
build. I love things like, these looping announcements. So right here, here's a bunch of different looping announcements.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;12;17;19 - 00;12;39;04&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You know, don't forget that the, here's the here's the countdown video again. But, you know, as always, like, don't forget Hybrid Ministry ten. Don't forget about that. That's going to be used to your advantage. If you want to check out Collider, you want to check out sidekick. Don't forget we got custom social media coaching. Scan the QR code that you see here on screen here.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;12;39;04 - 00;12;58;09&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
I'll make it bigger so you can go and check out my completely free e-book about how to go hybrid. Or hey, don't forget about our Patreon. We got that going on $4 a month exclusive free merch along with all these other things that you see here. Listed out exclusive sticker help to show and segment topics, super chats and shout outs.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;12;58;09 - 00;13;22;02&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
Right? But you can turn this right here. You can turn these announcements to be looping announcements. We use those every single week in our ministry. So you'll see right over here. If you're watching here on screen, you see this little, loop icon. That means that this, this set of announcements in this little, pocket of, of slides here is set to, rotate.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;13;22;05 - 00;13;41;14&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
This one right here is not. So let me show you how you do it. Click this little gear icon. You click loop slides. You say how long you want the slides to loop for seven seconds or 10s or however long you want it to. And then you simply click close and then boom. When you click present, those will then be on a looper, which is a fantastic resource.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;13;41;14 - 00;14;03;16&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
We use that every single week in our student ministry. I also want to let you know just about a couple of other things that are awesome. You have the, free option up here. So if you're co-leader, sidekick, person, these are all free different resources that you can get just like and quickly and simply, you got countdowns and games and videos and all sorts of things.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;14;03;18 - 00;14;21;28&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You can embed or import any of these into your presentation. The other thing that's really cool is when you buy something on demand, look, I've bought these things before, they will automatically upload them. So as I was saying, kind of the video thing was a little clunky to upload and maybe you don't want to upload every single one of these to a YouTube playlist and then embed those via YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;14;22;00 - 00;14;55;19&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
No sweat. No problem. Check it out. You can very simply buy something on gram and then boom, it'll be there in just a second and then you can quickly import it. Just like I did down here with this, finish the drawing game back to school. And there it is. Boom. Imported. All right, and then the other thing, man, the other thing that is so cool about, sidekick is that the you can control it from your phone simply by logging into app that sidekick.tv on your mobile device, and you can control it from anywhere in the room, including teaching.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;14;55;24 - 00;15;19;28&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
You can control it from any other device, including like our, sound booth, computer, maybe running sidekick. I can go into my office, and I can control sidekick from my office. And so my office actually sits where I can see in through some glass doors into our auditorium. And so if it's on the wrong side or whatever, I can pull open on my, on my laptop home from the app, that sidekick, that TV type in and change it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;15;20;04 - 00;15;45;15&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And I've had other like staff members and volunteers to be like, are you are you controlling that right now? And that part is so stinking cool. The last thing the eighth and final piece about sidekick that I love is the voting. The voting option is the the single greatest advent. This is what makes this presentation and software so unique and so customizable.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;15;45;21 - 00;16;13;15&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
And that's what we're going to talk about. Additional creative ways to use it in your games, in your countdowns, in your teaching, in all sorts of different ways to deploy and use the voting feature in sidekick. You can't do this on any other presentation software. That video is going to be linked right here on screen. Go check out our Patreon as we'll talk about multiple creative ways to deploy voting and to deploy sidekick, and simply what I am doing to lean in and be more hybrid.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;00;16;13;19 - 00;16;20;00&lt;br&gt;
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry&lt;br&gt;
But check that video out on screen. And don't forget, and as always, my friends, to stay hybrid.&lt;/p&gt;
</description>
  <itunes:keywords>download youth ministry,sidekick,youth ministry,hybrid ministry,nick clason,youth pastor podcast,student ministry,youth ministry programming,name picker,wheel,Random Generator,Live voting,Youth ministry creativity,Creative Programming,ProPresenter,Youth Group,Youth Group Phones,How to handle phones in youth ministry,phones are so distracting in youth ministry</itunes:keywords>
  <content:encoded>
    <![CDATA[<p>🎧 <strong>BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST</strong><br>
<a href="https://patreon.com/hybridministry" rel="nofollow">https://patreon.com/hybridministry</a></p>

<p>🖥️ <strong>SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong><br>
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, we’re diving into a live demo and review of Sidekick – a powerful tool for youth ministry and interactive programming! See how Sidekick can transform your youth group experience by adding a dynamic, creative edge to your student ministry. Sidekick from Download Youth Ministry is perfect for leaders looking to engage students in fresh ways, this episode is packed with insights to level up your student ministry service!</p>

<p>📓 <strong>SHOWNOTES</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/123" rel="nofollow">http://www.hybridministry.xyz/123</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>//COLEADER PRICING<br>
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10<br>
<a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing</a></p>

<p>//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" rel="nofollow">https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book</a></p>

<p>//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching</a></p>

<p>//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms</a></p>

<p>👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK<br>
YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/</a><br>
TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry</a><br>
Website: <a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉</strong><br>
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!<br>
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!<br>
<a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!</strong><br>
<em><em>Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products</em></em><br>
VIDIQ<br>
<a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" rel="nofollow">https://vidiq.com/hybrid</a></p>

<p>BEST DYM RESOURCES<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym</a></p>

<p>OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp; REELS<br>
<a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" rel="nofollow">https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361</a></p>

<p>//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>🕰️<strong>TIMECODES</strong><br>
00:00 More Engaging Services with Sidekick<br>
02:26 New Patreon Show Starting!<br>
04:08 Feature #1<br>
06:48 Co-Leader Promo Code<br>
08:23 Feature #2<br>
11:39 Feature #3<br>
12:12 Feature #4<br>
13:44 Feature #5<br>
14:07 Feature #6<br>
14:40 Feature #7<br>
15:35 Feature #8</p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong><br>
00;00;00;00 - 00;00;04;17<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Youth pastor. Collegiate minister. Senior pastor. What if I told you</p>

<p>00;00;04;17 - 00;00;12;28<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
that there was a better presentation software out there than pro presenter PowerPoint, or whatever else you use?</p>

<p>00;00;12;28 - 00;00;30;19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
It sounded too good to be true. Well, listen, it is made by youth pastors and is made for youth pastors. Give me a like if you think you already know what I&#39;m talking about, because I am talking about my favorite presentation software and it&#39;s called sidekick.</p>

<p>00;00;30;19 - 00;01;01;29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And here&#39;s why. This is great, regardless of if you&#39;re in youth ministry or not, because it is made for interaction and it is made for customization. But there is so much more. And in this video and in this upcoming playlist, I want to share with you what those features are. This video in particular, I&#39;m going to drop my top eight different miscellaneous features because everyone knows that sidekick has things like the voting and the wheel picker and the name picker.</p>

<p>00;01;01;29 - 00;01;23;20<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But in this video, I&#39;m going to share the other things that sidekick has to offer besides those obvious kind of milestone landmark, features built in woven into the presentation software. And if you&#39;re here on YouTube, as always, don&#39;t forget that there are chapters listed down below at the bottom so that you can jump ahead to what matters most to you.</p>

<p>00;01;23;20 - 00;01;50;02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But here&#39;s the thing in the context in which I&#39;m currently working, we are all in on sidekick. What we&#39;ve done is we have two computers now, one for pro presenter and one for sidekick. Because if you know, if you&#39;ve used sidekick in the new beta version at all, you know that it runs through Google Chrome and in the previous versions, what you could do with running a software like, pro presenters, you&#39;d have pro presenter up and running and then back behind it.</p>

<p>00;01;50;02 - 00;02;19;03<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You could have the sidekick window and you could just toggle off the display. But now Chrome is actually more powerful than Pro Presenter. Most people I tell that they find that actually incredibly surprising. And so as a result of that, it makes switching between Chrome and Pro Presenter a little bit tricky. And so the way in which we have sort of circumvented or navigated that is we have just built two computers and we have a black magic video switcher where we can go from computer one to computer two.</p>

<p>00;02;19;09 - 00;02;44;24<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And essentially we use Pro Presenter for just worship and lyrics, and then we use sidekick for every thing else. You know, I&#39;m actually launching here during the course of this playlist, starting officially on December 2nd, a brand new bonus podcast. I&#39;m going to be releasing it one time per week, going to be over on my Patreon page. And listen, Patreon, takes a little bit of a fee.</p>

<p>00;02;45;01 - 00;03;10;21<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so the reason that I&#39;m doing that is to just, invest back into the podcast. But I am only charging $4 per month. I think it is a small, modest fee. Essentially it is going to break down to $1 per week per additional bonus. Podcast. What I want to do with that podcast, I just simply want to share with you the creative ways that we are running our youth ministry programing and how we&#39;re making it hybrid.</p>

<p>00;03;10;21 - 00;03;35;24<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so if you want more hybrid information, I would love to share that with you. This podcast and this YouTube video is meant to sort of like give a big broad strokes overview of what Hybrid Ministry is. But on my Patreon page, what I want to do is I just want to share an extra bonus podcast and simply chat through everything that I&#39;ve done for the week and talk through the ways that we&#39;ve tried to make it creative and talk through the ways in which we have tried to sort of hybridize our ministry.</p>

<p>00;03;35;24 - 00;04;01;29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so that podcast is starting December 2nd. And for everyone who signs up during now, if you&#39;re watching live through December 2nd, I am going to send and mail you an exclusive free piece of merch. For all who sign up between now and December 2nd. Like I said, and it basically breaks down to $1 a month. So, either scan the QR code that you see here on screen or hit the link down below in the description.</p>

<p>00;04;01;29 - 00;04;25;02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But let&#39;s dive in to my eight favorite features of sidekick. Let&#39;s check it out. So my first favorite feature of sidekick is its co-leader integration. And if you&#39;re watching here on screen, you might be surprised to know that you&#39;re not looking at sidekick. What you&#39;re actually going to look at when we&#39;re we&#39;re actually going to start is here on co-leader and so on.</p>

<p>00;04;25;02 - 00;04;50;07<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Co-Leader. What you can do is, if you are a subscriber, a co-leader is a, curriculum roadmaps and, like, I guess almost, not pro presenter. What am I trying to say? Planning center replacement thing for youth pastors and for youth ministries. So here on co-leader, you can explore sort of all the different, series and topics and even, events that they have.</p>

<p>00;04;50;14 - 00;05;16;11<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Co-Leader has a roadmap series and so sort of like their proposed curriculum. And so you can explore their you&#39;re one of roadmaps and then you can also explore their your two here of roadmaps. And but essentially on co-leader what&#39;s so cool about it. And I like co-leader it is actually become it&#39;s new is only in year two of development but it&#39;s actually become my favorite curriculum resource, because it literally does everything for you.</p>

<p>00;05;16;11 - 00;05;33;27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So you see here on our dashboard, these are series that we have redeemed our credits for. So Co-Leader works on sort of a credit system. And so we&#39;ve redeemed, this credit series, this credit on this series here called masks. And so, for example, if you&#39;re in, session one of masks, you click view session here.</p>

<p>00;05;34;05 - 00;05;54;29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And if you look right off to the side here, sidekick, you can open in sidekick. Boom. Click that little button and it will automatically import your entire sessions. So here&#39;s our session flow. They got your graphics and all that stuff. But starting here you got your countdown. You&#39;re welcome. Your icebreaker, your game, some songs, videos and then the teaching slides.</p>

<p>00;05;54;29 - 00;06;13;22<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so I want to show you what that looks like over here in sidekick. So if you&#39;re here in sidekick you&#39;ll see. Let&#39;s actually do a, side by side so that you can see them in comparison. Right. So from the top we have, countdown. There&#39;s your countdown. You got your, game right there. You got another game.</p>

<p>00;06;13;22 - 00;06;38;29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Masked celebrity. And all of this is included in your co-leader subscription. You got your, bumper video for your masks, and then you got your masks. Chameleon is the title of the message. Chameleon teaching slides right there, and you can see how all of that works together. And so by a simple click of the button, your entire youth ministry night is planned.</p>

<p>00;06;38;29 - 00;07;03;19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And it is absolutely crazy. Now if you&#39;re a download Youth Ministry member, the co-leader is slightly different than do you? I am, but if you&#39;ve never done anything in with download youth ministry before or co-leader, then I want to let my podcast listeners know that exclusively here on this podcast. I&#39;ll give you 10% off, of co-leader, so you can use the code Hybrid Ministry ten.</p>

<p>00;07;03;19 - 00;07;26;03<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And what that includes is not only will that give you access to co-leader, but that also sort of will unlock access to this presentation software called sidekick. And so included is sidekick for a year. It allows you to do the one click presentations for everything that&#39;s in co-leader. Both year one and year two of the roadmaps, and you can get an access to co-leader premium or Premium Plus.</p>

<p>00;07;26;03 - 00;07;48;15<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Okay. And so premium includes 260 co-leader credits. Like I said, it&#39;s kind of built off that credit system. And then you get 25 sidekick phone connections. That&#39;s for voting. We&#39;ll get to that in a minute. Or the premium class which is Premium Plus, which is 520 co-leader credits and 75 sidekick phone connections. So you can explore the differences between those two plans at this link here.</p>

<p>00;07;48;15 - 00;08;05;27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
On screen sidekick TV pricing don&#39;t forget, if you&#39;ve never used or never done anything before with sidekick or with co-leader, then if you&#39;re signing up for the first time, Hybrid Ministry ten, I&#39;ll give you 10% off. Go ahead and check that out. And so I love that</p>

<p>00;08;05;27 - 00;08;10;00<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
about sidekick. I love that about, co-leader I love that, but it&#39;s integration.</p>

<p>00;08;10;01 - 00;08;10;11<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So boom.</p>

<p>00;08;10;11 - 00;08;22;28<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Right here. Here&#39;s my full like rundown, my full run sheet for everything going on here in this masks series. Now that&#39;s my first favorite thing about sidekick the co-leader integration.</p>

<p>00;08;22;28 - 00;08;37;19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So my second favorite feature about sidekick is the YouTube video integration. Now, the thing I like about the YouTube video integration is it takes a while in sidekicks to to upload videos.</p>

<p>00;08;37;19 - 00;09;02;05<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You can drag and drop JPEGs easily, but when you go to upload a video, just it takes a minute and it&#39;s a little clunky to do, like a video, next video, next video, because you got to kind of do it one by one. So here&#39;s how it look like. So if I wanted to put a video on this slide, I&#39;d click Edit Media videos, go browse, go find the video, upload it, wait for it to upload, and then it&#39;s it&#39;s in its spot as opposed to just a quick and easy drag and drop.</p>

<p>00;09;02;05 - 00;09;23;29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
However, if, I wanted to just embed a YouTube video, that&#39;s very simple, and I&#39;ve actually already done that right here on this one, you&#39;ll notice here&#39;s one of my YouTube videos embedded. So if I go to present this thing, remember it&#39;s browser based. So just very simply,</p>

<p>00;09;24;01 - 00;09;46;10<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So just very simply, opens up a new window and you started hearing even the, the, what&#39;s it called? The countdown right there. But here&#39;s this video that I embedded social media right there into sidekick. I have all this functionality over here. I can pause the video, I can mute the video, I can restart the video.</p>

<p>00;09;46;10 - 00;10;10;05<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
I can do all those sort of things. Let me get this smaller so that we can see both of them together. So this is my presentation window that will just go full screen. Right. But very simply, when I&#39;m, when I&#39;m wanting to include a video, I can embed a video. And this is embedded small, but I can also just, you know, very, very simply, very easily embed that video full screen.</p>

<p>00;10;10;05 - 00;10;44;00<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Right, as well. Now, the other thing like that we use in our youth ministry as we go hybrid taking our our in-person and our digital, we teach live messages. But then we also prefilled them for multiple reasons, because we use that as a springboard for our Sunday morning small group content. And so every Sunday morning we play a clip off of one of our message clips, even though the message was delivered live, we play the filmed version, in our room, just like a 2 to 3 minute clip to remind everyone what was said.</p>

<p>00;10;44;02 - 00;11;03;11<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Our our leaders can look at it ahead of time. Our students who missed on Wednesday can also look at it ahead of time on YouTube. It&#39;s evergreen content. It&#39;s meant to reach students who, might be asking questions about faith, God, whatever the case might be. And so we do that. And if you&#39;re interested in exploring more about what that might look like, link down.</p>

<p>00;11;03;11 - 00;11;38;27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Below is a link to some custom coaching. I would love to help kind of level that game up for you, or even get you started from scratch if that&#39;s something that you&#39;re interested in. But it has been a hugely beneficial piece to us and our student ministry, having the ability to just simply embed our YouTube videos. And so for things like countdowns or for things that are like bigger files, I will actually upload those to YouTube, host them there, put them on just like a private unlisted link, and then embed that video into my sidekick presentation, as opposed to have to upload it every single time.</p>

<p>00;11;39;00 - 00;11;57;26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now here&#39;s the other thing I love about sidekick. It&#39;s easy to build. So let me show you very quickly. Like, while, you know, while the videos might be a little more tricky to, to pull in or builder upload, they&#39;re easy to do. They&#39;re just a little bit time consuming. That&#39;s why it&#39;s easy to just drop a YouTube video in there.</p>

<p>00;11;57;26 - 00;12;09;26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Right. But if I just want to like, add one of these JPEGs in here, all I gotta do is drag it and drop it and boom, it&#39;s uploaded and is ready to go. There it is. Okay, super simple, super easy to</p>

<p>00;12;09;26 - 00;12;17;19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
build. I love things like, these looping announcements. So right here, here&#39;s a bunch of different looping announcements.</p>

<p>00;12;17;19 - 00;12;39;04<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You know, don&#39;t forget that the, here&#39;s the here&#39;s the countdown video again. But, you know, as always, like, don&#39;t forget Hybrid Ministry ten. Don&#39;t forget about that. That&#39;s going to be used to your advantage. If you want to check out Collider, you want to check out sidekick. Don&#39;t forget we got custom social media coaching. Scan the QR code that you see here on screen here.</p>

<p>00;12;39;04 - 00;12;58;09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
I&#39;ll make it bigger so you can go and check out my completely free e-book about how to go hybrid. Or hey, don&#39;t forget about our Patreon. We got that going on $4 a month exclusive free merch along with all these other things that you see here. Listed out exclusive sticker help to show and segment topics, super chats and shout outs.</p>

<p>00;12;58;09 - 00;13;22;02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Right? But you can turn this right here. You can turn these announcements to be looping announcements. We use those every single week in our ministry. So you&#39;ll see right over here. If you&#39;re watching here on screen, you see this little, loop icon. That means that this, this set of announcements in this little, pocket of, of slides here is set to, rotate.</p>

<p>00;13;22;05 - 00;13;41;14<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
This one right here is not. So let me show you how you do it. Click this little gear icon. You click loop slides. You say how long you want the slides to loop for seven seconds or 10s or however long you want it to. And then you simply click close and then boom. When you click present, those will then be on a looper, which is a fantastic resource.</p>

<p>00;13;41;14 - 00;14;03;16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
We use that every single week in our student ministry. I also want to let you know just about a couple of other things that are awesome. You have the, free option up here. So if you&#39;re co-leader, sidekick, person, these are all free different resources that you can get just like and quickly and simply, you got countdowns and games and videos and all sorts of things.</p>

<p>00;14;03;18 - 00;14;21;28<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You can embed or import any of these into your presentation. The other thing that&#39;s really cool is when you buy something on demand, look, I&#39;ve bought these things before, they will automatically upload them. So as I was saying, kind of the video thing was a little clunky to upload and maybe you don&#39;t want to upload every single one of these to a YouTube playlist and then embed those via YouTube.</p>

<p>00;14;22;00 - 00;14;55;19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
No sweat. No problem. Check it out. You can very simply buy something on gram and then boom, it&#39;ll be there in just a second and then you can quickly import it. Just like I did down here with this, finish the drawing game back to school. And there it is. Boom. Imported. All right, and then the other thing, man, the other thing that is so cool about, sidekick is that the you can control it from your phone simply by logging into app that sidekick.tv on your mobile device, and you can control it from anywhere in the room, including teaching.</p>

<p>00;14;55;24 - 00;15;19;28<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You can control it from any other device, including like our, sound booth, computer, maybe running sidekick. I can go into my office, and I can control sidekick from my office. And so my office actually sits where I can see in through some glass doors into our auditorium. And so if it&#39;s on the wrong side or whatever, I can pull open on my, on my laptop home from the app, that sidekick, that TV type in and change it.</p>

<p>00;15;20;04 - 00;15;45;15<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And I&#39;ve had other like staff members and volunteers to be like, are you are you controlling that right now? And that part is so stinking cool. The last thing the eighth and final piece about sidekick that I love is the voting. The voting option is the the single greatest advent. This is what makes this presentation and software so unique and so customizable.</p>

<p>00;15;45;21 - 00;16;13;15<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And that&#39;s what we&#39;re going to talk about. Additional creative ways to use it in your games, in your countdowns, in your teaching, in all sorts of different ways to deploy and use the voting feature in sidekick. You can&#39;t do this on any other presentation software. That video is going to be linked right here on screen. Go check out our Patreon as we&#39;ll talk about multiple creative ways to deploy voting and to deploy sidekick, and simply what I am doing to lean in and be more hybrid.</p>

<p>00;16;13;19 - 00;16;20;00<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But check that video out on screen. And don&#39;t forget, and as always, my friends, to stay hybrid.</p>]]>
  </content:encoded>
  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>🎧 <strong>BONUS WEEKLY PODCAST</strong><br>
<a href="https://patreon.com/hybridministry" rel="nofollow">https://patreon.com/hybridministry</a></p>

<p>🖥️ <strong>SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE</strong><br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong><br>
In this episode of the Hybrid Ministry Show, we’re diving into a live demo and review of Sidekick – a powerful tool for youth ministry and interactive programming! See how Sidekick can transform your youth group experience by adding a dynamic, creative edge to your student ministry. Sidekick from Download Youth Ministry is perfect for leaders looking to engage students in fresh ways, this episode is packed with insights to level up your student ministry service!</p>

<p>📓 <strong>SHOWNOTES</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.hybridministry.xyz/123" rel="nofollow">http://www.hybridministry.xyz/123</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>//COLEADER PRICING<br>
CODE: HYBRIDMINISTRY10<br>
<a href="https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://www.sidekick.tv/pricing</a></p>

<p>//[FREE] STRATEGY GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book" rel="nofollow">https://hybrid-ministry-40060036.hubspotpagebuilder.com/free-hybrid-ministry-e-book</a></p>

<p>//CUSTOM HYBRID COACHING<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/coaching</a></p>

<p>//CHURCH COMMUNICATIONS DONE FOR YOU!<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/comms</a></p>

<p>👉 STAY CONNECTED WITH NICK<br>
YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/hybridministry/</a><br>
TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick</a><br>
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/HybridMinistry</a><br>
Website: <a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🎉 FREE STUFF 🎉</strong><br>
We have all kinds of FREE Things that you can use in your context!<br>
The best way to pay us back is a review or a YouTube Subscribe!<br>
<a href="https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick" rel="nofollow">https://www.linktr.ee/clasonnick</a></p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>🛠️TOOLS I USE THAT CAN HELP YOU!</strong><br>
<em><em>Some of the below links are affiliate links in which we do recieve a small commission based on your purchase or use of products</em></em><br>
VIDIQ<br>
<a href="https://vidiq.com/hybrid" rel="nofollow">https://vidiq.com/hybrid</a></p>

<p>BEST DYM RESOURCES<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/dym</a></p>

<p>OPUS.PRO FOR AI SHORTS &amp; REELS<br>
<a href="https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361" rel="nofollow">https://www.opus.pro/?via=a5d361</a></p>

<p>//YOUTUBE STARTER KIT FOR UNDER $100<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/youtubestarterkit</a></p>

<p>//SIDEKICK SETUP GUIDE<br>
<a href="https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup" rel="nofollow">https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/setup</a></p>

<p>🕰️<strong>TIMECODES</strong><br>
00:00 More Engaging Services with Sidekick<br>
02:26 New Patreon Show Starting!<br>
04:08 Feature #1<br>
06:48 Co-Leader Promo Code<br>
08:23 Feature #2<br>
11:39 Feature #3<br>
12:12 Feature #4<br>
13:44 Feature #5<br>
14:07 Feature #6<br>
14:40 Feature #7<br>
15:35 Feature #8</p>

<p><strong>--------------</strong><br>
<strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong><br>
00;00;00;00 - 00;00;04;17<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Youth pastor. Collegiate minister. Senior pastor. What if I told you</p>

<p>00;00;04;17 - 00;00;12;28<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
that there was a better presentation software out there than pro presenter PowerPoint, or whatever else you use?</p>

<p>00;00;12;28 - 00;00;30;19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
It sounded too good to be true. Well, listen, it is made by youth pastors and is made for youth pastors. Give me a like if you think you already know what I&#39;m talking about, because I am talking about my favorite presentation software and it&#39;s called sidekick.</p>

<p>00;00;30;19 - 00;01;01;29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And here&#39;s why. This is great, regardless of if you&#39;re in youth ministry or not, because it is made for interaction and it is made for customization. But there is so much more. And in this video and in this upcoming playlist, I want to share with you what those features are. This video in particular, I&#39;m going to drop my top eight different miscellaneous features because everyone knows that sidekick has things like the voting and the wheel picker and the name picker.</p>

<p>00;01;01;29 - 00;01;23;20<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But in this video, I&#39;m going to share the other things that sidekick has to offer besides those obvious kind of milestone landmark, features built in woven into the presentation software. And if you&#39;re here on YouTube, as always, don&#39;t forget that there are chapters listed down below at the bottom so that you can jump ahead to what matters most to you.</p>

<p>00;01;23;20 - 00;01;50;02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But here&#39;s the thing in the context in which I&#39;m currently working, we are all in on sidekick. What we&#39;ve done is we have two computers now, one for pro presenter and one for sidekick. Because if you know, if you&#39;ve used sidekick in the new beta version at all, you know that it runs through Google Chrome and in the previous versions, what you could do with running a software like, pro presenters, you&#39;d have pro presenter up and running and then back behind it.</p>

<p>00;01;50;02 - 00;02;19;03<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You could have the sidekick window and you could just toggle off the display. But now Chrome is actually more powerful than Pro Presenter. Most people I tell that they find that actually incredibly surprising. And so as a result of that, it makes switching between Chrome and Pro Presenter a little bit tricky. And so the way in which we have sort of circumvented or navigated that is we have just built two computers and we have a black magic video switcher where we can go from computer one to computer two.</p>

<p>00;02;19;09 - 00;02;44;24<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And essentially we use Pro Presenter for just worship and lyrics, and then we use sidekick for every thing else. You know, I&#39;m actually launching here during the course of this playlist, starting officially on December 2nd, a brand new bonus podcast. I&#39;m going to be releasing it one time per week, going to be over on my Patreon page. And listen, Patreon, takes a little bit of a fee.</p>

<p>00;02;45;01 - 00;03;10;21<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so the reason that I&#39;m doing that is to just, invest back into the podcast. But I am only charging $4 per month. I think it is a small, modest fee. Essentially it is going to break down to $1 per week per additional bonus. Podcast. What I want to do with that podcast, I just simply want to share with you the creative ways that we are running our youth ministry programing and how we&#39;re making it hybrid.</p>

<p>00;03;10;21 - 00;03;35;24<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so if you want more hybrid information, I would love to share that with you. This podcast and this YouTube video is meant to sort of like give a big broad strokes overview of what Hybrid Ministry is. But on my Patreon page, what I want to do is I just want to share an extra bonus podcast and simply chat through everything that I&#39;ve done for the week and talk through the ways that we&#39;ve tried to make it creative and talk through the ways in which we have tried to sort of hybridize our ministry.</p>

<p>00;03;35;24 - 00;04;01;29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so that podcast is starting December 2nd. And for everyone who signs up during now, if you&#39;re watching live through December 2nd, I am going to send and mail you an exclusive free piece of merch. For all who sign up between now and December 2nd. Like I said, and it basically breaks down to $1 a month. So, either scan the QR code that you see here on screen or hit the link down below in the description.</p>

<p>00;04;01;29 - 00;04;25;02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But let&#39;s dive in to my eight favorite features of sidekick. Let&#39;s check it out. So my first favorite feature of sidekick is its co-leader integration. And if you&#39;re watching here on screen, you might be surprised to know that you&#39;re not looking at sidekick. What you&#39;re actually going to look at when we&#39;re we&#39;re actually going to start is here on co-leader and so on.</p>

<p>00;04;25;02 - 00;04;50;07<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Co-Leader. What you can do is, if you are a subscriber, a co-leader is a, curriculum roadmaps and, like, I guess almost, not pro presenter. What am I trying to say? Planning center replacement thing for youth pastors and for youth ministries. So here on co-leader, you can explore sort of all the different, series and topics and even, events that they have.</p>

<p>00;04;50;14 - 00;05;16;11<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Co-Leader has a roadmap series and so sort of like their proposed curriculum. And so you can explore their you&#39;re one of roadmaps and then you can also explore their your two here of roadmaps. And but essentially on co-leader what&#39;s so cool about it. And I like co-leader it is actually become it&#39;s new is only in year two of development but it&#39;s actually become my favorite curriculum resource, because it literally does everything for you.</p>

<p>00;05;16;11 - 00;05;33;27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So you see here on our dashboard, these are series that we have redeemed our credits for. So Co-Leader works on sort of a credit system. And so we&#39;ve redeemed, this credit series, this credit on this series here called masks. And so, for example, if you&#39;re in, session one of masks, you click view session here.</p>

<p>00;05;34;05 - 00;05;54;29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And if you look right off to the side here, sidekick, you can open in sidekick. Boom. Click that little button and it will automatically import your entire sessions. So here&#39;s our session flow. They got your graphics and all that stuff. But starting here you got your countdown. You&#39;re welcome. Your icebreaker, your game, some songs, videos and then the teaching slides.</p>

<p>00;05;54;29 - 00;06;13;22<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And so I want to show you what that looks like over here in sidekick. So if you&#39;re here in sidekick you&#39;ll see. Let&#39;s actually do a, side by side so that you can see them in comparison. Right. So from the top we have, countdown. There&#39;s your countdown. You got your, game right there. You got another game.</p>

<p>00;06;13;22 - 00;06;38;29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Masked celebrity. And all of this is included in your co-leader subscription. You got your, bumper video for your masks, and then you got your masks. Chameleon is the title of the message. Chameleon teaching slides right there, and you can see how all of that works together. And so by a simple click of the button, your entire youth ministry night is planned.</p>

<p>00;06;38;29 - 00;07;03;19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And it is absolutely crazy. Now if you&#39;re a download Youth Ministry member, the co-leader is slightly different than do you? I am, but if you&#39;ve never done anything in with download youth ministry before or co-leader, then I want to let my podcast listeners know that exclusively here on this podcast. I&#39;ll give you 10% off, of co-leader, so you can use the code Hybrid Ministry ten.</p>

<p>00;07;03;19 - 00;07;26;03<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And what that includes is not only will that give you access to co-leader, but that also sort of will unlock access to this presentation software called sidekick. And so included is sidekick for a year. It allows you to do the one click presentations for everything that&#39;s in co-leader. Both year one and year two of the roadmaps, and you can get an access to co-leader premium or Premium Plus.</p>

<p>00;07;26;03 - 00;07;48;15<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Okay. And so premium includes 260 co-leader credits. Like I said, it&#39;s kind of built off that credit system. And then you get 25 sidekick phone connections. That&#39;s for voting. We&#39;ll get to that in a minute. Or the premium class which is Premium Plus, which is 520 co-leader credits and 75 sidekick phone connections. So you can explore the differences between those two plans at this link here.</p>

<p>00;07;48;15 - 00;08;05;27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
On screen sidekick TV pricing don&#39;t forget, if you&#39;ve never used or never done anything before with sidekick or with co-leader, then if you&#39;re signing up for the first time, Hybrid Ministry ten, I&#39;ll give you 10% off. Go ahead and check that out. And so I love that</p>

<p>00;08;05;27 - 00;08;10;00<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
about sidekick. I love that about, co-leader I love that, but it&#39;s integration.</p>

<p>00;08;10;01 - 00;08;10;11<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So boom.</p>

<p>00;08;10;11 - 00;08;22;28<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Right here. Here&#39;s my full like rundown, my full run sheet for everything going on here in this masks series. Now that&#39;s my first favorite thing about sidekick the co-leader integration.</p>

<p>00;08;22;28 - 00;08;37;19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So my second favorite feature about sidekick is the YouTube video integration. Now, the thing I like about the YouTube video integration is it takes a while in sidekicks to to upload videos.</p>

<p>00;08;37;19 - 00;09;02;05<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You can drag and drop JPEGs easily, but when you go to upload a video, just it takes a minute and it&#39;s a little clunky to do, like a video, next video, next video, because you got to kind of do it one by one. So here&#39;s how it look like. So if I wanted to put a video on this slide, I&#39;d click Edit Media videos, go browse, go find the video, upload it, wait for it to upload, and then it&#39;s it&#39;s in its spot as opposed to just a quick and easy drag and drop.</p>

<p>00;09;02;05 - 00;09;23;29<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
However, if, I wanted to just embed a YouTube video, that&#39;s very simple, and I&#39;ve actually already done that right here on this one, you&#39;ll notice here&#39;s one of my YouTube videos embedded. So if I go to present this thing, remember it&#39;s browser based. So just very simply,</p>

<p>00;09;24;01 - 00;09;46;10<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
So just very simply, opens up a new window and you started hearing even the, the, what&#39;s it called? The countdown right there. But here&#39;s this video that I embedded social media right there into sidekick. I have all this functionality over here. I can pause the video, I can mute the video, I can restart the video.</p>

<p>00;09;46;10 - 00;10;10;05<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
I can do all those sort of things. Let me get this smaller so that we can see both of them together. So this is my presentation window that will just go full screen. Right. But very simply, when I&#39;m, when I&#39;m wanting to include a video, I can embed a video. And this is embedded small, but I can also just, you know, very, very simply, very easily embed that video full screen.</p>

<p>00;10;10;05 - 00;10;44;00<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Right, as well. Now, the other thing like that we use in our youth ministry as we go hybrid taking our our in-person and our digital, we teach live messages. But then we also prefilled them for multiple reasons, because we use that as a springboard for our Sunday morning small group content. And so every Sunday morning we play a clip off of one of our message clips, even though the message was delivered live, we play the filmed version, in our room, just like a 2 to 3 minute clip to remind everyone what was said.</p>

<p>00;10;44;02 - 00;11;03;11<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Our our leaders can look at it ahead of time. Our students who missed on Wednesday can also look at it ahead of time on YouTube. It&#39;s evergreen content. It&#39;s meant to reach students who, might be asking questions about faith, God, whatever the case might be. And so we do that. And if you&#39;re interested in exploring more about what that might look like, link down.</p>

<p>00;11;03;11 - 00;11;38;27<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Below is a link to some custom coaching. I would love to help kind of level that game up for you, or even get you started from scratch if that&#39;s something that you&#39;re interested in. But it has been a hugely beneficial piece to us and our student ministry, having the ability to just simply embed our YouTube videos. And so for things like countdowns or for things that are like bigger files, I will actually upload those to YouTube, host them there, put them on just like a private unlisted link, and then embed that video into my sidekick presentation, as opposed to have to upload it every single time.</p>

<p>00;11;39;00 - 00;11;57;26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Now here&#39;s the other thing I love about sidekick. It&#39;s easy to build. So let me show you very quickly. Like, while, you know, while the videos might be a little more tricky to, to pull in or builder upload, they&#39;re easy to do. They&#39;re just a little bit time consuming. That&#39;s why it&#39;s easy to just drop a YouTube video in there.</p>

<p>00;11;57;26 - 00;12;09;26<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Right. But if I just want to like, add one of these JPEGs in here, all I gotta do is drag it and drop it and boom, it&#39;s uploaded and is ready to go. There it is. Okay, super simple, super easy to</p>

<p>00;12;09;26 - 00;12;17;19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
build. I love things like, these looping announcements. So right here, here&#39;s a bunch of different looping announcements.</p>

<p>00;12;17;19 - 00;12;39;04<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You know, don&#39;t forget that the, here&#39;s the here&#39;s the countdown video again. But, you know, as always, like, don&#39;t forget Hybrid Ministry ten. Don&#39;t forget about that. That&#39;s going to be used to your advantage. If you want to check out Collider, you want to check out sidekick. Don&#39;t forget we got custom social media coaching. Scan the QR code that you see here on screen here.</p>

<p>00;12;39;04 - 00;12;58;09<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
I&#39;ll make it bigger so you can go and check out my completely free e-book about how to go hybrid. Or hey, don&#39;t forget about our Patreon. We got that going on $4 a month exclusive free merch along with all these other things that you see here. Listed out exclusive sticker help to show and segment topics, super chats and shout outs.</p>

<p>00;12;58;09 - 00;13;22;02<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
Right? But you can turn this right here. You can turn these announcements to be looping announcements. We use those every single week in our ministry. So you&#39;ll see right over here. If you&#39;re watching here on screen, you see this little, loop icon. That means that this, this set of announcements in this little, pocket of, of slides here is set to, rotate.</p>

<p>00;13;22;05 - 00;13;41;14<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
This one right here is not. So let me show you how you do it. Click this little gear icon. You click loop slides. You say how long you want the slides to loop for seven seconds or 10s or however long you want it to. And then you simply click close and then boom. When you click present, those will then be on a looper, which is a fantastic resource.</p>

<p>00;13;41;14 - 00;14;03;16<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
We use that every single week in our student ministry. I also want to let you know just about a couple of other things that are awesome. You have the, free option up here. So if you&#39;re co-leader, sidekick, person, these are all free different resources that you can get just like and quickly and simply, you got countdowns and games and videos and all sorts of things.</p>

<p>00;14;03;18 - 00;14;21;28<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You can embed or import any of these into your presentation. The other thing that&#39;s really cool is when you buy something on demand, look, I&#39;ve bought these things before, they will automatically upload them. So as I was saying, kind of the video thing was a little clunky to upload and maybe you don&#39;t want to upload every single one of these to a YouTube playlist and then embed those via YouTube.</p>

<p>00;14;22;00 - 00;14;55;19<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
No sweat. No problem. Check it out. You can very simply buy something on gram and then boom, it&#39;ll be there in just a second and then you can quickly import it. Just like I did down here with this, finish the drawing game back to school. And there it is. Boom. Imported. All right, and then the other thing, man, the other thing that is so cool about, sidekick is that the you can control it from your phone simply by logging into app that sidekick.tv on your mobile device, and you can control it from anywhere in the room, including teaching.</p>

<p>00;14;55;24 - 00;15;19;28<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
You can control it from any other device, including like our, sound booth, computer, maybe running sidekick. I can go into my office, and I can control sidekick from my office. And so my office actually sits where I can see in through some glass doors into our auditorium. And so if it&#39;s on the wrong side or whatever, I can pull open on my, on my laptop home from the app, that sidekick, that TV type in and change it.</p>

<p>00;15;20;04 - 00;15;45;15<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And I&#39;ve had other like staff members and volunteers to be like, are you are you controlling that right now? And that part is so stinking cool. The last thing the eighth and final piece about sidekick that I love is the voting. The voting option is the the single greatest advent. This is what makes this presentation and software so unique and so customizable.</p>

<p>00;15;45;21 - 00;16;13;15<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
And that&#39;s what we&#39;re going to talk about. Additional creative ways to use it in your games, in your countdowns, in your teaching, in all sorts of different ways to deploy and use the voting feature in sidekick. You can&#39;t do this on any other presentation software. That video is going to be linked right here on screen. Go check out our Patreon as we&#39;ll talk about multiple creative ways to deploy voting and to deploy sidekick, and simply what I am doing to lean in and be more hybrid.</p>

<p>00;16;13;19 - 00;16;20;00<br>
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry<br>
But check that video out on screen. And don&#39;t forget, and as always, my friends, to stay hybrid.</p>]]>
  </itunes:summary>
</item>
  </channel>
</rss>
