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Episode 199: 25 Youth Group Game Prize Ideas (Cheap & Fun) | FREE DOWNLOAD

Nick Clason — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0500

I’ve given away every one of these prizes for youth group game winners over my last 15 years of youth ministry.

I’m going to share 7 full-proof ideas.
Then to round out the 25 claim, I’m going to live react on how to fill this bookshelf prize idea using ChatGPT. Which, in fairness, I’m 100% stealing the shelf idea from my friend over at DYM, Josh Boldman.

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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Youth Ministry Prize Game Ideas
00:38 Prize Idea #1
01:24 Prize Idea #2
02:04 Your Creative Programming Hacks
03:10 Prize Idea #3
04:55 Prize Idea #4
05:46 Prize Idea #5
06:59 Prize Idea #6
07:21 Prize Idea #7
07:39 Box of Prizes (#8-25)

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TRANSCRIPT
00;00;00;04 - 00;00;25;00
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I've given away every single one of these prizes over my 15 years of youth ministry, during youth ministry and student ministry game time. And I'm going to share with you seven of my favorite and foolproof ideas. And then to round out the claim that the video, which says 25 youth Group Game Ideas. I am going to fill a bookshelf, which is, full disclosure 100%.

00;00;25;00 - 00;00;48;12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
My friend Josh Bowman over at I Am His Idea. We're going to actually start doing this in our student ministry this fall. You get an opportunity to use the well, let me share how that works. All of this on this week's episode of the Hybrid Ministry show. And the first game idea that is foolproof is whichever team, whichever group, whichever table we set around tables in our context, whichever one of those wins, give them pizza.

00;00;48;12 - 00;01;09;14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
The pro. It is always clutch, right? Nobody has ever said about winning pizza for the group of people that just that just won. The kind of pizza for the group is that it's expensive. And so over time, if you give away pizza every single week to every single game winner, it's not always the most sustainable strategy for your budget.

00;01;09;14 - 00;01;33;18
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so while it's an amazing thing to win, nobody, as you pastors maybe have the margin in their budget to give away pizza every single week, but as a one off for an elevated game, for something kind of fun, different pizza is always clutch. People who win are always pumped for it. Number two, foolproof idea that you can give away is a signed photo of one of your staff members, or yourself as the youth pastor.

00;01;33;18 - 00;01;50;25
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
The pro is free. It cost you nothing besides ink, which if you work in a church, you know printing things off the printer is basically the one perk of getting to work as a youth pastor with in office type perks. And so use that church ink, print it off, and then sign it and give it away. That's the pro.

00;01;50;25 - 00;02;15;19
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It's completely free. The con well, I literally had a student one time say, I wish I would have one pizza like they did last week instead of this picture that you just gave me. So you do definitely run that risk. Hey, don't go anywhere. This is actually the type of stuff that I talk about over on my bonus podcast that drops every single Monday, every single week on my Patreon.

00;02;15;19 - 00;02;33;12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Because what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to make programing more fun and more creative. I'm trying to break it every single week in a way that's different, though. We don't run the exact same service order time after time, and sometimes you just need someone else giving you ideas that you can hear, listen, and filter through into your own context.

00;02;33;14 - 00;02;58;12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so for only $4 a month, a month, literally less than the cost of this cup of coffee, you can become a member of my hybrid Hero Patreon tier, which also gives you access to my three months Done for You seasonal social media pack, which will help you show up on social media. Because 95% of our teenagers 13 to 17 years of age are on social media, and so you get the opportunity to show up.

00;02;58;12 - 00;03;19;02
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We're 1 in 3 of those teenagers say that they're on social media constantly to make an impact and make a difference in their lives. So head on over link in the description to my Patreon. Check it out today because that makes it the third full proof idea is a game winner card. So think like credit card. Like plastic credit card material.

00;03;19;05 - 00;03;43;10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
You print those out and so you pay for that through like a printing agency. And actually, I have designed five different designs. And then I've put a bat so they're either like completely white or I've put them on a background. And so link down below. I have an entire guide to this episode, and included in that guide for free is a download with these ten different card, options and ideas.

00;03;43;16 - 00;03;59;27
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Grab them, print them. And then here's what we did. Anytime someone won, they got one of these cards. And then we created a little, currency. And so we said, if you have five of these, you get a free item at your cafe. Now, if you have if you don't have a cafe, you may have to figure out what the exchange rate is for something like that.

00;03;59;29 - 00;04;18;02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But they were a great motivator, right? Like they could hang onto those cards, they could collect them. They could save them. So the pro is it's like a one time costs. Right. But the other pro is that if you do use them, it's like a cafe redemption token sort of thing is that they're completely recyclable, like you'll get them back.

00;04;18;02 - 00;04;37;26
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so once you get them back in the cafe, then you turn around, you give them to your next game winner, you know, and then there's also like a hidden cost moment. So like you pay for them once and then out of the cafe proceeds is where the true like money exchange happens, but you don't feel it quite as much if you're giving it away as a member of your cafe.

00;04;38;01 - 00;04;57;13
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
The kind. Of course, if you spam this and you only ever do this, it can grow a little bit old. So, like, it might be something to keep in your back pocket as a go to when you don't have an idea. But then still, we've in some of these other, maybe more big ticket items like pizza for the entire group, or this fourth idea, which is the best seats in the house.

00;04;57;18 - 00;05;16;07
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
The pro this is it's incredibly easy and also pretty cheap. What you do is if you have normal rows, you create a couch and a VIP type section in your, ministry and you make more comfortable seats. And so the winning person gets to bring their friends, or the winning group gets to all go sit in best seats in the house.

00;05;16;10 - 00;05;35;12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And if you have a way to, like, get a mini fridge or stocked with some snacks, or even give them pizza in that that best seats in the house. It's a really great way to make those people feel like VIPs for winning the night. The only con really is, just requires like a weekly setup. And so we don't do this every week, but we do reserve it every once in a while, occasionally for winners.

00;05;35;12 - 00;05;51;15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so that way if you have those, like cards, for example, you give those three weeks out of the month and then the fourth week out of the month, you do like, let's say like a best seat in the house or something like that. The fifth option I have is give some sort of like money currency. Okay. The pro is similar to the card thing.

00;05;51;15 - 00;06;08;21
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It's easy and it's cheap for us. We use a thing called a platypus book. The reason being that was the mascot voted on by our students over three years ago when I started here at this church. And so we put it on a dollar bill and the. You know, it's funny, I actually went to Canva to try and find a dollar template, and they won't even let you do it.

00;06;08;21 - 00;06;26;04
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It's probably some, like, federal regulations. So I created a template. It looks like this. You can go get it over on my guide along with those cards as well. And then you can put whatever you want here in the middle for us, our mascot is a platypus. Maybe you, have like, a different mascot. Use whatever mascot you have.

00;06;26;09 - 00;06;42;08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Maybe you want to put yourself in there. Go ahead, put yourself and you know, you could make it kind of like an office reference, like a Schrute book. And once again, you can figure out the currency. In our current context, a platypus book equals one free item from the cafe. So it's a worse exchange rate than those cards.

00;06;42;10 - 00;07;02;04
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But again, it's just another like, another way, another idea. The con. Similar to the card game, it can grow tired. However, I will say students are motivated because they can win those and then they can redeem them instantly at the cafe that exact night or the exact time when they win the platypus book. The six idea is you can give away leftover merch or leftover swag that you have.

00;07;02;04 - 00;07;19;21
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Maybe from a camp, maybe from a retreat. The pro is. It's probably the most real prize if someone wins a genuine good t shirt. Like that's the best real prize that we've given away so far on this episode, the con is again, it might become a little bit expensive over time, and so you do have to make sure that you can kind of manage the budget.

00;07;19;23 - 00;07;39;05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And then the seventh foolproof idea that has never failed me is a crisp high five or the satisfaction of winning once again, the pro, it's free. It's actually so cheap it doesn't cost your budget any money. The cons is that students might, over time, if they know that that's all they're going to win, might lose their drive to.

00;07;39;08 - 00;08;04;16
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Now, for those of you who are like incredible like payers of attention, you'll know that this episode said 25 prize ideas. And so what I want to do is I want to let you know that this idea came to me from my friend Josh Boardman, who got a cube storage sort of thing. And so I, I'm thinking maybe next fall to grab this one that you'll see linked here on screen.

00;08;04;16 - 00;08;23;22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Also, the link is available in my guide to this episode where you can get all these different freebies. And, he said that what they did was they filled this, 18 cube. Maybe he had less, but we're going to try 18 cubes. And so over the course of like a semester or whatever, there's a different number of prize.

00;08;23;22 - 00;08;42;03
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So the winner gets one of the items from this cube box. And he said they just got like shoes or whatever. They numbered it. They labeled it. So the kid wins. And then either they get to pick numbers, say one through 18, or they, get to spin the wheel and then whatever the wheel ends on, they win.

00;08;42;09 - 00;09;01;10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
You can either let it deplete over time so that by the end you only have one box left, or you can, replace it every single week. And so he said there were times where he'd forget and he'd throw something random that he found in the church to give away. And so it's a great way to add some mystique and some mystery, but also not blow your budget.

00;09;01;10 - 00;09;25;25
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Now, what I want to do is I want to react to this here in live time, because I'm going to say here in ChatGPT you can see the prompt if you're watching here on screen, help me come up with 18 hidden shoebox game price ideas that cost less than $5. Either it's laying around the church already or it's a cheap prize to put in a shoe box that goes in these 18 cube storage box shelves.

00;09;25;25 - 00;09;43;03
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Like, for example, here's a pro tip and this might be your 26th idea, Bollman said. Sometimes he would put a can of beans in there. So let's see what ChatGPT says. And then I'm going to literally these are spitting out right here in live time. I didn't rehearse this. I never put this in ChatGPT before. You're just gonna have to trust me.

00;09;43;09 - 00;10;05;25
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But here we go. They said in the actually worth it. Anker wins. Give a $5 Chick-Fil-A gift card. Of course. Who doesn't love Chick-Fil-A Christian chicken? You can give full size candy bar bundles. So I said make it less than $5 so that this cost you less than $5. So these are your $5 actually worth it. $5 Chick-Fil-A gift card, full sized candy bar, a cold soda plus candy combo.

00;10;05;25 - 00;10;23;20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
That's a great idea. Takis hot Cheeto bags. Our kids go crazy for this stuff. Energy drink, if that's appropriate for your group, ChatGPT says it's appropriate for ours. We sell Celsius in our cafe or a mini snack pack box. Now keep in mind of the seven options I already said they could win a platypus book. They could win a game card.

00;10;23;20 - 00;10;44;17
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
They could win a piece of paper that says best seats in the House, so you can recycle some of the seven ideas that we have in the shoe box. Ideas. Also, here's some like funny, right? Here's some trolls. According to I, one single mint, one ramen packet. A banana bonus is slightly brown. Now imagine we created these for 18 weeks of game winners.

00;10;44;19 - 00;11;03;12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
We put a banana in at the beginning and it was the last one taken 18 weeks later. Months into the semester that would be discussing and hilarious old same time, a single slice of bread in a bag, a rock labeled pet Rock or a church fire, or old Bulletin that's laying around as a prize. Once again, this is where it comes in clutch.

00;11;03;12 - 00;11;21;07
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Sometimes they can be troll gifs, sometimes they can be actually good ones like Chick-Fil-A gift cards. We got mystery drink. So random soda flavor, weird dollar store toy off brand candy that no one recognizes, or a coupon that says trade this for a better prize. That's pretty funny. And then last 17 to 18. Skip the next game.

00;11;21;07 - 00;11;48;16
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So they automatically win the next round or 18. They get to control the room for the next 60s they get to sing a song or make a rule that's actually pretty funny. So these are 18 AI ideas. And what you could do is you can put them in, right, print them off, or go buy them or go obtain them somehow one time at the beginning of like a semester or like a certain session of time, and then put them in this 18 boxing or go nine box or whatever you want to do.

00;11;48;18 - 00;12;12;15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So once again, like I said, this entire list is going to be included down in the link on Patreon. There'll be a link to the 18 bookshelf. There'll be a link to the nine, bookshelf or recycle one that you have at home or laying around the office that you don't need anymore. Wrap these up, put numbers on them, and either choose for the student to pick them and replace it every week, or let them spin a wheel and let the wheel decide which item they get.

00;12;12;15 - 00;12;37;07
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But these are 25 amazing, foolproof, youth ministry game winner ideas that don't break the bank and are actually good and actually fun. I hope you guys found this episode helpful. If you did, what would be amazing is actually if you go check out the guide over on my Patreon, that really helps more than you can imagine. Or if you don't want to leave YouTube, click the like and click the subscribe button so that you don't miss the next video.

00;12;37;07 - 00;12;46;21
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In the next episode, which is episode 200, it's going to be amazing. But until next time my friends. And as always, don't forget. Stay hybrid.

Episode 198: I Planned Your Entire Youth Group Summer… You Don’t Have to Think

Nick Clason — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0500

Steal this brilliant idea - kick your feet back this summer in your youth ministry.

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00:20 The Context
02:53 The Calendar
04:21 The Gameplan (Relax, Youth Pastor, I've got your summer plan mapped out!)
07:28 Summer Theme Youth Group Nights
08:16 How to Unlock These Deals

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TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:17 - 00:00:05:01
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Steal this brilliant idea this summer and then

00:00:05:03 - 00:00:08:00
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kick your feet back. You deserve it.

00:00:08:02 - 00:00:21:09
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I'm giving away this calendar, along with all of these graphics that you see right here on screen. For those of you watching on YouTube, welcome to the Summer calendar edition of the Hybrid Ministry Show.

00:00:21:11 - 00:00:25:09
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Well, hey everybody, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. If you and I haven't had chance to meet yet.

00:00:25:10 - 00:00:45:10
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My name is Nick Klassen. I'm a youth pastor in DFW, Dallas-Fort worth area. And, you know, 15 or so years ago when I started in youth ministry, I wouldn't have dreamed about doing youth ministry in the summer. However, summer midweek has actually become a staple, and I remember the first year where I became a believer in doing youth ministry.

00:00:45:10 - 00:01:02:07
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Over the summer I was up. It was like a Sunday night for our youth ministry, and I was teaching, and I looked out in the crowd and I saw a girl who I hadn't seen all year long, but she was able to show up in the summer because her, competitive dance, you know, practice took a break for the summer.

00:01:02:10 - 00:01:22:19
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And so ever since that point, I've been a huge believer in summer youth ministry. Not to mention, like, we go to camp right at the beginning of our summer, May 20th 9th to June 2nd. And then to not have anything throughout the entire course of the summer just feels like such a wasted opportunity to capitalize and continue on some of that summer momentum.

00:01:22:19 - 00:01:46:15
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So whether you have summer youth ministry or not, these are going to be some different theme ideas. And if you do have summer youth ministry in particular Wednesday nights, I've done the heavy lifting because over the last several years, in our particular context of our church, similar to other places, have been the rest of the the church shuts down so kids ministry shuts down, adult groups shut down.

00:01:46:15 - 00:02:04:04
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All happen on Wednesday night in a normal, cycle. On Wednesday night, like throughout the school year. But we we come back for 5 or 6 weeks from about mid-June once, like our, camp recap night is over until the end of July. Take a couple weeks off, the first few Wednesdays in August, and then we're back,

00:02:04:11 - 00:02:06:10
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that third Wednesday in August.

00:02:06:10 - 00:02:22:23
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And it's like our back to school bash or whatever. So if you want to meet and do something over the summer, I have mapped out six amazing events. And what happened was a couple of years ago, we were kind of coming back and realizing that we needed to drum up some momentum because the rest of the church wasn't going to be meeting.

00:02:22:23 - 00:02:39:05
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And so we looked at the National day calendar, which, if you've never done that before, there's just wild amounts of national days. There's like 8 or 10 different options on some days of, of the month. And so since the dates change every single year, for the most part, we, can kind of do a different

00:02:39:05 - 00:02:41:04
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like theme throughout the summer.

00:02:41:04 - 00:02:58:00
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So we don't do themes throughout the regular year. But but during the summer will lean into different national days. And, and I've done the heavy lifting. I have found them for you. And so I'm giving away this calendar right here and and, you know, like on this calendar, right up here at the top is where we put like our summer camp.

00:02:58:07 - 00:03:17:28
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And then right here is where we do like our, our fifth grade VBS spot. You can like right in on top of this and any sort of design thing, Canva or Photoshop or PowerPoint or keynote. And then I send a transparent version after sticker mule to get a magnet printed. So. So go grab this. It's free over on my Patreon.

00:03:18:01 - 00:03:33:18
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But in this section right here, these are the summer Wednesday nights. And if you don't meet on Wednesday nights or you're not going to be leaning into these, this is where you can put something different, that, you know, down here is where I have like our our back to school time and then our Sunday morning, right down here at the very bottom.

00:03:33:18 - 00:03:54:05
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But, this is where I would put and where I did put our Summer Wednesday themes. Now, if you do have ones and you want to just like, adopt what I have to to give literally, I'm giving this to you. Steal these for the summer and they are yours. And if you have Wednesday nights, we start on the 24th of June, and then we skip the first for the 4th of July.

00:03:54:08 - 00:04:10:24
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And then we go through the rest of, of July, the eighth through the 29th. If you do want to meet on the first, I've added an option in there as well. And so, what's going to happen is I'm going to give you this episode now because some of you are planners and you need to get, you know, things printed and you need to get the ball rolling on some of this.

00:04:10:28 - 00:04:29:10
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Most so giving away every single graphic. And I'm going to rattle through what these different nights are. But on July or I'm sorry, on June 19th, I would encourage you to subscribe and turn the bell on on this YouTube channel because, you know, we drop an episode every single Thursday, whether it's, in your podcast catcher or on YouTube.

00:04:29:12 - 00:04:51:04
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So turn on notifications. I'm going to send you a reminder about the upcoming Wednesday night so that you can start getting working on, you can start planning, and then on the following Monday, over on my Patreon, my bonus show, I'm going to detail recap and outline how the entire night went. And I'm going to give you the service flow for the next upcoming night.

00:04:51:04 - 00:05:13:20
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So for example, you'll get the upcoming service flow over on Patreon, the Monday before the Wednesday night starts. So for the first one, world UFO day, I'm going to give you our entire service order. And what I always do on Patreon this summer, I'm going to, kind of like, lean harder into Patreon. So the Thursday shows are going to be quick hitters and just reminders about what's coming up.

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And then on Monday, we're really going to take a deep dive where we're going to answer what we did,

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what worked, what flopped, what I would change, and then give you the next week's assets. And here's my promise. I'm going to give

00:05:24:03 - 00:05:28:23
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you the entire service flow, everything I have planned for the upcoming Wednesday.

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So I'm going to give it to you with enough time for you to actually implement the ideas that we've already come up with in our youth ministry.

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All you got to do set the notifications, set the reminders, make sure you're subscribed, and you'll get these every single week. So I'll give you the service flow. I'll give you any

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of our plus up programmatic elements. For example, on one of the days being, National White

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Elephant Day, actually, it's not National Elephant Day. It's actually National Give Something Away Day.

00:05:56:26 - 00:06:11:24
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And we kind of branded it around White Elephant. We're going to do like a white elephant gift exchange thing in the middle of July. But I'm going to tell you exactly what we did, how we did it, and what other elements kind of went along with it, along with the service flow and also any other kind of plus up ideas.

00:06:11:24 - 00:06:22:22
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And then some are just going to be simple, like, yo order chicken wings on National chicken wing and National Lasagna Day. I'm also going to give you, any games, videos and elements. And here's my promise. Okay? I'm not

00:06:22:22 - 00:06:28:00
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going to create a custom or brand new, game every single week. I might for some, I might not.

00:06:28:00 - 00:06:49:17
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For others, it's pretty far out. I don't know exactly what I do. I'm not promising to make something custom and new for every single episode, but my promise is, if I created, a resource in any way, shape or form, I will link it in the podcast description for free for those in the Hybrid Hero Patreon tier. If it's newly created by me, I will give it to you.

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And whether it's released on dime or not, that's going to obviously be up to them as the gatekeepers. But I will give you early access. I'll just put drop box links and then if I am using something over on D, I am I will give you the link so that you can go grab it from them. I can't give that away.

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It's theirs. Go give them the royalties. But I will link every single thing we

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
do. I'm planning my youth services and I'm putting them out one week ahead of time on Monday, so I'll lay out the entire service flow. On Monday you'll have, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to implement that and then, operate on the same National Day schedule that I'm going to be operating on.

00:07:24:05 - 00:07:42:21
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So, like I said, the National Day calendar, if you so choose to participate, the 24th of June is World UFO day. I've got a graphic for it. You can use it. You can, use everything that we're going to do in our ministry. Then on the first is Canada Day. So hey, why not celebrate our neighbors up north, do some Canada themed stuff?

00:07:42:26 - 00:08:08:20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Maple sirup. And, you know, was poutine and then do, like, a Canada themed game. It'd be super fun. National ice cream. Sunday is the eighth. The white Elephant day is, national give something away day. Pie approximation day is 22 divided by seven, which is, 3.14. That is, July 22nd. And then finally on the 29th is both National Chicken Wing and National Lasagna Day Stew.

00:08:08:20 - 00:08:32:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
These ideas have been incredibly successful for us. I'm literally handing them over to you. The best way for you to access that is my $4 per month Patreon tier, where I drop my bonus podcast. It also gives you access to all of our social media packs. It also gives you access to my carousel engine. $4 per month for all of that is $8 for the summer months of June and July.

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Worth having everything in your programing from games to service orders and all of the creative elements. Is it worth it? You have to decide. I think it is less than $10 over the course of two months. I think it's a radically insane idea. Who says radical? I don't think I've ever said radical on this podcast before, but hey, it's episode 199.

00:08:53:14 - 00:09:18:20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I do wanna let you know I'm dropping this a little bit out of cycle and order. And so, next week and next episode is going to be the 200th episode, and then make sure that you set your notifications for the 19th of June, where we'll start rolling these out, and we'll start continuing to push all of these events and reminding you what's coming up on Wednesday and how you can grab the graphics and how you can lean in, and how you can celebrate these different national days on the Wednesdays.

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Of those of you doing youth ministry this summer, but until next time, my friends. And as always, I hope you found this episode helpful. If you did give it a like, give us a subscribe, share it with a friend, but don't forget to stay hybrid.