Brandon Riley joined us today to talk about unleashing student artists in our ministries. Youth leaders who are not artistically inclined themselves tend to overlook artistic students in their ministry, so Brandon shared some ideas how we can get them involved and encourage them to use their gifts for enhancing the body of Christ.

Some of the things we talked about:

• How to spot artistic teens in your group
• Ways to help them start using their artistic abilities in ministry
• Tools that could help with the process
• Tips for shooting and editing video and photography
• And a lot more…

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

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Next week’s discussion

September 25: Next week LIVE YM Talk is with guest, Patti Gibbons, who will lead us in a discussion about serving as a woman in youth ministry. We’ll discuss some of the unique opportunities and challenges of youth ministry for women, what male youth pastors need to know about their female youth leaders, and offer a lot of encouragement for you ladies!

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Shift Creative just updated their library of free online stock photography for you to use for your ministries. If you need a good image for a lesson series logo, an illustration, or maybe to use as a PowerPoint background, check them out, grab the images you want, and tweak them as needed for your purposes.

Use the link below to visit their stock photography library, recently updated just for Life In Student Ministry readers. Enjoy!

Royalty-free stock photography from Shift Creative

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