Yesterday in our LIVE Youth Ministry Conversation Alejandro Reyes of ChurchWired.com lead us in a discussion about using social media to connect with teenagers. We talked about how to use Facebook to stay involved in our kids’ lives, how to use it to find out what issues they’re going through, how it should impact our teaching, if Facebook is true community or not, and many other things.

Alejandro Reyes is an online marketing consultant and speaker who specializes in teaching organizations how to use social media to better connect with their audiences. ChurchWired.com is his new project to extend this expertise to churches and ministries to learn how to further spread the message of Christ online. Check him out on Twitter, also.

You can listen to the whole conversation below or grab it in iTunes.

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Next week’s discussion

January 23rd: Next week Jason Lamb, the Deep & Wide Ministry staff member at Dare 2 Share Ministries, will talk with us about Deep & Wide Ministry — how to take our teenagers deep in to God’s Word and wide with His message.

Join our next LIVE Youth Ministry Conversation!

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Posted on January 17, 2009