JumpStart Ministries, Inc.

2017 is coming to an end, but there’s still time to give. Yep, 2017 is almost over! You can still make a year-end donation to help more teenagers experience new life in Christ in the coming year. JumpStart Ministries exists to help get youth ministries up and running in churches around the country, and your tax-deductible gift will help us continue this mission. In 2018, with your help, we will:... Continue to train several rookie youth pastors Create a youth ministry training course with short animated videos Write and publish the JumpStart book Assess the youth ministry of several churches and help them find their next youth pastor Create and publish media-based curriculum for youth leaders To spice up giving to JumpStart at the end of this year, every donation (of any amount) given in the next few days will score a bottle of the coveted and acclaimed Ken’s Burn hot sauce! You can donate here: http://www.jumpstartministries.com/?page_id=351

Ken’s Burn #33 is ready! This batch features a delightful blend of Red, Chocolate, Fatalii, Giant White, and Bahamian Goat Habanero peppers. A special kick is c...ompliments of a few Trinidad Moruga Scorpions. Yeeoow! I threw in a few Emerald Fire Jalapeños for fun. All the peppers were grown in my backyard, and smoke-roasted in my Weber charcoal grill. Twenty bottles of this awesomeness are available. Want one? All you have to do is make a tax-deductible donation to my non-profit youth ministry organization http://www.jumpstartministries.com/?page_id=351. Any-size donation is accepted, but I hope you’ll at least cover the $7.15 mailing expense. First twenty donations score a bottle! When they’re gone, they’re gone!

Check out my thoughts about using live fish in a youth ministry game. http://www.jumpstartministries.com/?p=625

New blog post: Are We Having Fun Yet? http://www.jumpstartministries.com/?p=584

This week we Spring Forward and change our clocks ahead an hour. I found this hilarious movie preview about the time change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S58bhd-YIx8 Go ahead. Click the link and watch the video. I’ll wait. . . . . . . . . . . . . .... I TOLD you it was hilarious! And, it points out an issue that every youth leader deals with every Sunday morning it’s just that this Sunday morning, the issue will even be more pronounced: morning and teenagers don’t easily mix. (I’m fully aware that some people, through a freak-of-nature accident somewhere in the gene pool, wake up early and with great enthusiasm. I am not one of those people. And neither are most teenagers especially the guys. If you are one of those who wake up early and energetically, I have a Bible verse that you should memorize Proverbs 27:14 says, If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.) The problem with Sunday morning is Saturday night. And that’s a problem for a youth leader trying to get some ministry accomplished on a Sunday morning. Here are three ideas that might help you to be as effective as you can be, given the morning you have to work with. Wanna read more? Go here: http://www.jumpstartministries.com/?p=574