Hello everyone. Just wanted to bring to your attention that over the past day or so, the public rooms at MinsitryHub.com keep popping in and out. I just wanted everyone to know that we are working on it and should have it fixed shortly.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
The MinistryHub.com Team
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sunday, August 03, 2008
It's Alive!
That's right, it is alive. We have seen some tremendous growth here at MinistryHub.com over the past month. Since our last post on July 14, we've had just shy of 100 churches join in on the fun, and begin using MinistryHub.com. So please continue to spread the word and let's continue to build the largest database of service ideas ever.For fun we thought we would share just a few MinistryHub.com stats with you.
Current Members: 396 Churches from USA, Canada, Europe and Australia.
Virtual Brainstorming Ideas Submitted: 1,320 Ideas
864 Song Suggestions
384 Video and Movie Suggestions
42 Other or Out Of The Box Suggestions
Of The 1,320 ideas, they have been ranked 2,562 times (This causes the good to rise to the top and the bad to sink lower within the list)
Once again, spread the word! MinistryHub.com is becoming the place where you will want to start your service planning each week.
The MinistryHub.com Team
Monday, July 14, 2008
MinistryHub.com Is Growing!
Hello all,
The past couple of weeks have been pretty exciting for us here at MinistryHub.com, as we have seen some tremendous growth and participation going on within the site. We are proud to say there are now over 300 churches throughout the world using MinistryHub.com each week to locate ideas for their weekly services. Why just within the past two weeks we have had 64 topics brainstormed (see list below) an have now pushed past over 1,200 suggested ideas. As more and more churches participate, our database will continue to grow, and as the database continues to grow this just means that if your a member of MinistryHub.com in the end, it will save you a tremendous amount of time. Time that you can use for ministry instead of surfing the web.
So keep up the great work and remember TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT MINSTRYHUB.COM!
The MinistryHub.com Team
Brainstormed Topics From The Last Two Weeks:
Abortion, Adultery, Ambition, Anger, Authenticity, Baptism, Basics Of Christianity, Being Salt And Light, The Bible, Bondage To The Past, Calling, Caring For The Poor, Change, The Church, Christian Life, Christmas, Community, Contentment, Control Issues, Discouragement, Disappointment, Divorce, Draining Relationships, Evangelism, Evidence Of Christianity, Evolution VS. Creation, Failure, Faith, Family, Family Conflict, Family Relationships, Father's Day, Fourth Of July, Freedom In Christ, Fulfillment/ God Shaped Void, Generosity, Glorifying, God, God's Anger, God's Love, God's Presence, God's Promises, Gossip/Slander, Grace, Grace vs. Works/Legalism, Guilt, Holy Spirit, Laughter, Lordship Of Christ, Love, Male/Female Differences, Marriage Communication, Money Management, Parenting, Patience, Politics, Power Of The Media, Prayer
The past couple of weeks have been pretty exciting for us here at MinistryHub.com, as we have seen some tremendous growth and participation going on within the site. We are proud to say there are now over 300 churches throughout the world using MinistryHub.com each week to locate ideas for their weekly services. Why just within the past two weeks we have had 64 topics brainstormed (see list below) an have now pushed past over 1,200 suggested ideas. As more and more churches participate, our database will continue to grow, and as the database continues to grow this just means that if your a member of MinistryHub.com in the end, it will save you a tremendous amount of time. Time that you can use for ministry instead of surfing the web.
So keep up the great work and remember TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT MINSTRYHUB.COM!
The MinistryHub.com Team
Brainstormed Topics From The Last Two Weeks:
Abortion, Adultery, Ambition, Anger, Authenticity, Baptism, Basics Of Christianity, Being Salt And Light, The Bible, Bondage To The Past, Calling, Caring For The Poor, Change, The Church, Christian Life, Christmas, Community, Contentment, Control Issues, Discouragement, Disappointment, Divorce, Draining Relationships, Evangelism, Evidence Of Christianity, Evolution VS. Creation, Failure, Faith, Family, Family Conflict, Family Relationships, Father's Day, Fourth Of July, Freedom In Christ, Fulfillment/ God Shaped Void, Generosity, Glorifying, God, God's Anger, God's Love, God's Presence, God's Promises, Gossip/Slander, Grace, Grace vs. Works/Legalism, Guilt, Holy Spirit, Laughter, Lordship Of Christ, Love, Male/Female Differences, Marriage Communication, Money Management, Parenting, Patience, Politics, Power Of The Media, Prayer
Monday, June 30, 2008
The Blank Page
Hello everyone,
One of the funny things about serving in the creative arts ministry of a local church is how fast time goes by. I mean you spend many, many hours preparing for the weekend, making sure everything will go perfectly, and then before you know it, Sunday is here... and then it's over. Time to move on, oh and it never stops. Sunday is now just 6 days away. It is funny though, maybe that's why on Monday I can tell you what we'll be doing three weeks from now, but I can't remember what we did for our offering yesterday?? Well in saying that, it's now Monday, and I'm sure many of you are working through the normal routine of starting once again with the "blank page" and getting ready for the weeks ahead. This is where we at MinistryHub.com hope that we can be a help.
A few weeks ago I sent out an email to the current members of MinistryHub.com and asked what you were going to be doing in the weeks ahead. I then compiled all of the responses and thought I would now share with you the second most requested topics. Once again we would ask that you help out your fellow church workers by logging into the site, joining a public room and then share just two ideas you might have for each topic. I personally have already done this, and would appreciate it if you could take the time to do so as well.
A little while ago I was reminded how even a simple small idea can have a lasting impact on people and their relationship with Christ. A year ago we were brainstorming ideas, trying to come up with something new for our Good Friday service. We already had set in place for our Easter services these three extremely large, but fake, crosses and was trying to find a way to integrate the crosses into the Good Friday service. Well someone suggested the all familiar, putting a nail in the cross to represent sin, except the crosses were props and wouldn't allow us to put nails into them. I then made a suggestion that we ended up going with, that instead of a nail we would hand out black slips of paper and then ask people during the service to write with pencil, something they would like to give up in their life, and then later in the service just lay it at the foot of the cross. Simple right. Well almost a year later I'm programming another service and was searching for salvation testimonies, when this lady shares with me that it was at that moment, the moment she wrote the word "forgiveness" on that simple black sheet of paper, that she was finally able to forgive the many years of hatred she held toward her father and accepted Christ into her life. Because of that one simple idea, God was able to use it and heaven has one more in attendance. Amazing.
The thing is, because it's God, we never know what simple idea he might be able to use to the fullest. So please log in to the site when you can and contribute. As I always say, your one idea may impact someone tomorrow.
So in saying that the Topics we would like you to brainstorm are:
- Evangelism
- Calling
- God's Law
One last thing, we are soon going to be sending out some large marketing pieces and would love to have some quotes from you who use the site. I would love to know what you think about what we're trying to accomplish here at MinistryHub.com. Please send us an email and let us know.
Thank you once again and I hope you have a great fourth of July weekend. Just remember it will go fast! :)
Tim Yates, President
MinistryHub.com
One of the funny things about serving in the creative arts ministry of a local church is how fast time goes by. I mean you spend many, many hours preparing for the weekend, making sure everything will go perfectly, and then before you know it, Sunday is here... and then it's over. Time to move on, oh and it never stops. Sunday is now just 6 days away. It is funny though, maybe that's why on Monday I can tell you what we'll be doing three weeks from now, but I can't remember what we did for our offering yesterday?? Well in saying that, it's now Monday, and I'm sure many of you are working through the normal routine of starting once again with the "blank page" and getting ready for the weeks ahead. This is where we at MinistryHub.com hope that we can be a help.
A few weeks ago I sent out an email to the current members of MinistryHub.com and asked what you were going to be doing in the weeks ahead. I then compiled all of the responses and thought I would now share with you the second most requested topics. Once again we would ask that you help out your fellow church workers by logging into the site, joining a public room and then share just two ideas you might have for each topic. I personally have already done this, and would appreciate it if you could take the time to do so as well.
A little while ago I was reminded how even a simple small idea can have a lasting impact on people and their relationship with Christ. A year ago we were brainstorming ideas, trying to come up with something new for our Good Friday service. We already had set in place for our Easter services these three extremely large, but fake, crosses and was trying to find a way to integrate the crosses into the Good Friday service. Well someone suggested the all familiar, putting a nail in the cross to represent sin, except the crosses were props and wouldn't allow us to put nails into them. I then made a suggestion that we ended up going with, that instead of a nail we would hand out black slips of paper and then ask people during the service to write with pencil, something they would like to give up in their life, and then later in the service just lay it at the foot of the cross. Simple right. Well almost a year later I'm programming another service and was searching for salvation testimonies, when this lady shares with me that it was at that moment, the moment she wrote the word "forgiveness" on that simple black sheet of paper, that she was finally able to forgive the many years of hatred she held toward her father and accepted Christ into her life. Because of that one simple idea, God was able to use it and heaven has one more in attendance. Amazing.
The thing is, because it's God, we never know what simple idea he might be able to use to the fullest. So please log in to the site when you can and contribute. As I always say, your one idea may impact someone tomorrow.
So in saying that the Topics we would like you to brainstorm are:
- Evangelism
- Calling
- God's Law
One last thing, we are soon going to be sending out some large marketing pieces and would love to have some quotes from you who use the site. I would love to know what you think about what we're trying to accomplish here at MinistryHub.com. Please send us an email and let us know.
Thank you once again and I hope you have a great fourth of July weekend. Just remember it will go fast! :)
Tim Yates, President
MinistryHub.com
Saturday, June 28, 2008
New Tutorial Video
We have a new tutorial video for MinistryHub.com. This is a great video to learn of some of it's most basic features and what we have to offer you as the creative force behind your church.
The MinistryHub.com Team
The MinistryHub.com Team
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Hot Topics and Latest Results
Good Morning,
Let me ask you, how many times have you come back to the church, after a very busy weekend, to the first work day of the week with the knowledge that you have to start all over again. The blank page. You have the message or at least an idea of what you want to communicate, but now you need everything else. But there are so many songs, dramas, videos, movies out there, just where do you start. If you start with MinistryHub.com, and network with others in your church and other pastors across the world, you can save valuable hours from your work week.
Whether you have a creative team, you know your meetings are only as good as what you bring to them, or if you are by yourself in your planning with MinistryHub.com you don't need to be.
Last week we began to work together and brainstormed the topics Marriage Communication and Prayer and I thank you for all of the ideas that were suggested. (See Below) We even added the topic of "Marriage" from the many of you who suggested we add it alone. So this weeks hot topics we had three that were tied for first place.
- Parenting
- Family
- Relationships
Remember all we ask is that you go to http://www.ministryhub.com log in, join a Public room for each topic and then share any service elements that you have used in the past. I'm always amazed at how sometimes the simplest ideas can impact someone's life. Imagine your one idea has the potential to impact thousands of pastors world wide. Like a ripple in a pond we never know what kind of impact our one little stone throw can make.
God Bless and have a creative week...someone's life depends on it.
Tim Yates, President
MinistryHub.com
Marriage Communication-
Music- American Dream/Switchfoot, Ellsworth/Rascall Flatts, Good For Me/Amy Grant, Just The Way You Are/Billy Joel, Opposites Attract/Paula Abdul, Roll To The Middle/Sara Groves, Dare You To Move/Switchfoot
Videos and Movies - Die Hard, Everybody Loves Raymond, Invincible, Norm and Ethel/Sermonspice, When Harry Met Sally.
Drama- A Problem Of Perspective
Other - Improv Idea and an Audience Participation idea
Prayer-
Music- Every Day/Joy Williams, First Song That I Sing, Sara Groves, Pray/Rebecca St. James, Silence/Joy Williams, Through The Noise/Truth
Movies and Videos- Bruce Almighty, Meet The Parents, Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
Let me ask you, how many times have you come back to the church, after a very busy weekend, to the first work day of the week with the knowledge that you have to start all over again. The blank page. You have the message or at least an idea of what you want to communicate, but now you need everything else. But there are so many songs, dramas, videos, movies out there, just where do you start. If you start with MinistryHub.com, and network with others in your church and other pastors across the world, you can save valuable hours from your work week.
Whether you have a creative team, you know your meetings are only as good as what you bring to them, or if you are by yourself in your planning with MinistryHub.com you don't need to be.
Last week we began to work together and brainstormed the topics Marriage Communication and Prayer and I thank you for all of the ideas that were suggested. (See Below) We even added the topic of "Marriage" from the many of you who suggested we add it alone. So this weeks hot topics we had three that were tied for first place.
- Parenting
- Family
- Relationships
Remember all we ask is that you go to http://www.ministryhub.com log in, join a Public room for each topic and then share any service elements that you have used in the past. I'm always amazed at how sometimes the simplest ideas can impact someone's life. Imagine your one idea has the potential to impact thousands of pastors world wide. Like a ripple in a pond we never know what kind of impact our one little stone throw can make.
God Bless and have a creative week...someone's life depends on it.
Tim Yates, President
MinistryHub.com
Marriage Communication-
Music- American Dream/Switchfoot, Ellsworth/Rascall Flatts, Good For Me/Amy Grant, Just The Way You Are/Billy Joel, Opposites Attract/Paula Abdul, Roll To The Middle/Sara Groves, Dare You To Move/Switchfoot
Videos and Movies - Die Hard, Everybody Loves Raymond, Invincible, Norm and Ethel/Sermonspice, When Harry Met Sally.
Drama- A Problem Of Perspective
Other - Improv Idea and an Audience Participation idea
Prayer-
Music- Every Day/Joy Williams, First Song That I Sing, Sara Groves, Pray/Rebecca St. James, Silence/Joy Williams, Through The Noise/Truth
Movies and Videos- Bruce Almighty, Meet The Parents, Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
Monday, June 02, 2008
To All Members Of MinistryHub.com
Hello,
This is Tim Yates, President of MinistryHub.com. First let me begin by thanking you for signing up and giving MinistryHub.com a try. As I'm sure you've noticed we are a new site, and although we are gaining new members daily, in all honesty, the amount of topic data within the site can be scarce at times. That is why I am writing to you tonight. One of the great benefits of MinistryHub.com is that it allows us to begin to work together in our weekly search for service ideas like never before. I believe that if we network together, we will then see the tremendous advantage that being a member of MinistryHub.com can bring.
In order for us to continue to serve you and your ministry, as well as the many who will follow you in searching for ideas in Ministry Hub, we need your help. If you would, please respond back to this email and let me know what topics you and your church will be researching in the coming weeks or months. I will then compile a list of these HOT topics and then share this list with you, our current membership. Once we send out the list, please take time to review it. We then ask that you help your fellow members by sharing with them what service elements you might have done in the past that has worked for a particular topic. You also need to know that within the past two weeks we have launched new Public rooms that makes the entire process of brainstorming and suggesting ideas even more simple. To gain access to the database of ideas or what we call "The Results" all you need to do is select your topic, enter a Public room and then share two items that have worked for you in the past. We believe that if everyone who participates would share at least two items, the database will continue to grow and we will all benefit from this information.
So please consider what topics you have coming soon and please respond back to this email (tim@ministryhub.com) and let us know the topics you will be needing ideas for.
If you have never heard my story, the idea for MinistryHub.com came from an extremely frustrating week while trying to programming a series for my home church. I remember thinking there has got to be a better way? How could, we as church workers, begin to work together? After many, many months of programming and design I am so excited to see how God has begun to bring this small idea full circle. We, as the body, can make this happen. I say this to encourage you and let you know that I truly believe that you are on the forefront of developing a ministry tool like no other. Just imagine, with every idea that you suggest, you can bless and encourage Pastor's more than you will ever be able to comprehend! What a great age we live in to serve Christ!
I look forward to hearing from all of you as we look for upcoming topics that we can begin to work together on. As always feel free to write and give me any feedback or comments you wish. I pray that God will continue to bless you in your ministry as you bring Christ in a new and real way each and every week.
In Christ,
Tim Yates, President
MinistryHub.com
tim@ministryhub.com
This is Tim Yates, President of MinistryHub.com. First let me begin by thanking you for signing up and giving MinistryHub.com a try. As I'm sure you've noticed we are a new site, and although we are gaining new members daily, in all honesty, the amount of topic data within the site can be scarce at times. That is why I am writing to you tonight. One of the great benefits of MinistryHub.com is that it allows us to begin to work together in our weekly search for service ideas like never before. I believe that if we network together, we will then see the tremendous advantage that being a member of MinistryHub.com can bring.
In order for us to continue to serve you and your ministry, as well as the many who will follow you in searching for ideas in Ministry Hub, we need your help. If you would, please respond back to this email and let me know what topics you and your church will be researching in the coming weeks or months. I will then compile a list of these HOT topics and then share this list with you, our current membership. Once we send out the list, please take time to review it. We then ask that you help your fellow members by sharing with them what service elements you might have done in the past that has worked for a particular topic. You also need to know that within the past two weeks we have launched new Public rooms that makes the entire process of brainstorming and suggesting ideas even more simple. To gain access to the database of ideas or what we call "The Results" all you need to do is select your topic, enter a Public room and then share two items that have worked for you in the past. We believe that if everyone who participates would share at least two items, the database will continue to grow and we will all benefit from this information.
So please consider what topics you have coming soon and please respond back to this email (tim@ministryhub.com) and let us know the topics you will be needing ideas for.
If you have never heard my story, the idea for MinistryHub.com came from an extremely frustrating week while trying to programming a series for my home church. I remember thinking there has got to be a better way? How could, we as church workers, begin to work together? After many, many months of programming and design I am so excited to see how God has begun to bring this small idea full circle. We, as the body, can make this happen. I say this to encourage you and let you know that I truly believe that you are on the forefront of developing a ministry tool like no other. Just imagine, with every idea that you suggest, you can bless and encourage Pastor's more than you will ever be able to comprehend! What a great age we live in to serve Christ!
I look forward to hearing from all of you as we look for upcoming topics that we can begin to work together on. As always feel free to write and give me any feedback or comments you wish. I pray that God will continue to bless you in your ministry as you bring Christ in a new and real way each and every week.
In Christ,
Tim Yates, President
MinistryHub.com
tim@ministryhub.com
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