Chaos Theory

Video from last night’s chaos. All videos now available on our Vimeo channel

New Pics on Picasa

If you’re a member of the site, you hopefully just got notified that we shared a Picasa album with you. It’s full of fun photos from last nights Parent Experience. Thanks to all you parents who participated!
If you want to join, click here.

Integrated group texting

Our new curriculum for Wednesday night small groups is absolutely awesome. One of the coolest features is the ability to set up an online group to send bulk text messages. This way, we can keep in touch with everyone; parents, students, leaders. Please sign up

Why is this important? Well communication has proven to be the single most difficult task of managing a junior high ministry. There is no single way to connect with every student. Even if there was a way, junior high students don’t make all their own decisions; and they sometimes (….ok, usually) forget to tell their parents about information that may be given out on paper. My hope is that you’ll sign up and sign up your student.

We’ve made some rules for ourselves to make you more comfortable with the system.

• First of all, the data is secure. When you sign up, your data is encrypted; plus we are only asking for a name, phone number, and cell carrier.
• Next, only the FMC Directors of Young Teens have access to the list. They are exclusivley responsible for the number, timing, and content of text messages.
• Finally, phone numbers will never, ever be shared with anyone for any reason, period.

Tweeter Testing

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Getting Ready for Parent Experience

Today, I’m just trying to make the website play nice with Facebook. Communication is proving to be a huge taks for us and I’m hoping this will make it easier.