In case you missed it, last Tuesday I announced that I accepted a position at Epipheo Studios and will be moving to Cincinnati after we finish up some other travel plans. Then yesterday I shared a bit about why I didn’t go back into a church ministry position.

The question going through my mind now is, “So what’s going to happen to Life In Student Ministry now that I’m not officially in full-time vocational church youth ministry?”

LISM continues to grow!

Throughout this entire past year of not working in a paid church position LISM has continued to grow, perhaps more than any other year! My heart and passion for teenagers and their families hasn’t changed. I plan to continue writing about my experiences in youth ministry, especially from a family ministry perspective and from a volunteer perspective who knows what it’s like on the other side of youth ministry as a paid leader.

However, I may give myself the freedom to let certain features, like Freebie Friday, not be as consistent every week so I can free myself up to have the time to write and process other youth ministry content. Although, missing a week of Freebie Friday at this point would be a real shame since I haven’t missed a Friday in over 5 years! Hmm… Yeah, that would be a shame. How about this: if you have a youth ministry resource you created that you’d be willing to contribue as a free download for several thousand other youth workers to use, please feel free to pass it along! You’ll get full credit and a link, of course. That will definitely make it easier to keep Freebie Friday going. (Tracking down a new free resource every week takes more time than you might think.)

I really love the community of youth workers here! The amazing dialog we have here is so helpful to me in my own approach to youth ministry, so I look forward to our on-going discussions about creating spiritually influential ministries for teens and their families. You guys keep me on my toes! I love it!

And TimSchmoyer.com comes back to life!

Because I need a personal outlet to process other stuff I’m thinking, I decided to resurrect TimSchmoyer.com for personal blogging as I work with online video, social media, and Truth at Epipheo Studios. I’ve dubbed it,

“The intersection of Truth, storytelling, online video, social media, marketing, and technology.”

Yeah, that’s a lot of intersections, I know.

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Visit the resurrected blog, TimSchmoyer.com!

Posted on February 9, 2012