How to Plan a Successful Youth Ministry Winter Camp - Youth Group Retreat Ideas

🚨 ➡️ Start the 🎉 New Year strong and grow a healthy, thriving youth ministry...if you'd like to work with us, check out https://www.growyouryouthministry.com/ ⬅️ 🚨 ❄️ Winter camps for youth ministry don’t plan themselves, and waiting until the last minute ⏰ is how budgets break and leaders burn out. We’re opening our full playbook 📖 for planning a 🍕✝️ youth ministry winter retreat that can be cost effective 💵, high-energy ⚡️, and spiritually impactful! In this episode, we discuss three proven models and show how to pick the one that fits your size, budget, and resources. Then we get practical...how to plan your student ministry winter camp from start to finish 🏁! You’ll learn the true cost breakdown, a repeatable planning rhythm that works great and finally a step by step schedule you can plug in 🔌 for your next 🍕✝️ youth group winter camp ❄️. Finally, stick around until the end where we give you a 🆓 free game that can be played ANY time of year! 🛒 Game materials mentioned ⬇️: 🥤 White Paper Coffee Cups: https://amzn.to/3WfOeUS If this playbook helps, subscribe, share with a fellow youth pastor or youth worker, and leave a quick review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ so more 🍕✝️ youth ministries can run better retreats this winter ❄️! ========= 😍 WE WOULD LOVE ❤️ YOUR SUPPORT 😍 If you'd like to help us make more videos like this & have it on your heart ❤️ to support this ministry, please consider going to our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/ministrycoach 🙏Thank you!🙏 ========= We love hearing from you all and we do our best to provide powerful and insightful content on a weekly basis to be that coach and mentor you may not have, but desperately need. If you have a story to share or have an episode idea, please 💻 📩 E-Mail us at MinistryCoachPodcast@gmail.com Thank you for those who have submitted! 🙏🙏🙏 ========= You may also enjoy these episodes: ▶️ Games for Youth Groups at Church - Up Front Games! https://youtu.be/PAV04poXRsw ▶️ Youth Ministry Winter Olympic Games - Indoor Youth Group Games! https://youtu.be/STxIuh9-Tfo ========= 📕 CHAPTERS:📕 0:00 - HOW TO PLAY A YOUTH MINISTRY RETREAT FOR WINTER 1:59 - OPTION 1: BEST WEEKEND EVER! 4:24 - OPTION 2: PRE-PACKAGED CAMP 4:51 - OPTION 3: HYBRID PRE-PACKAGED CAMP 6:21 - PLANNING PHASE 1 6:53 - FIND YOUR SPEAKER & WORSHIP LEADER 7:28 - SEND YOUR DATES TO PARENTS 8:15 - FIGURE OUT YOUR THEME 9:00 - CALCULATE YOUR COSTS 12:32 - CONFIRM THAT YOUR CAMP CONTRACTS ARE DONE 12:52 - BOOK YOUR TRANSPORTATION 13:54 - PLANNING PHASE 2 13:59 - FIND SOMEONE TO SET UP & RUN YOUR TECH 15:16 - START PLANNING YOUR PROGRAM (EXAMPLE OF OURS) 22:59 - FIND A PHOTOGRAPHER & VIDEOGRAPHER 23:33 - START PLANNING GRAPHICS, LOGO & FLYERS FOR PROMOTING IT 24:43 - PLANNING PHASE 3 24:57 - WHO CAN YOU SEND EARLY? 25:54 - BEGIN SIGN UPS 26:26 - DIVIDE YOUR TEAMS 26:51 - LEADER TO STUDENT RATIOS 27:52 - CABIN / ROOM ASSIGNMENTS 28:31 - CONFIRM YOUR TRANSPORTATION 28:53 - HAVE CONTENT WRITTEN & IN BOOKLETS 29:43 - ADDITIONAL TIPS 29:52 - LEADER PREP & VISION CASTING 30:07 - GIFTS FOR LEADERS 32:42 - WHERE TO GO NEXT? 33:04 - FREE YOUTH GROUP GAME! 35:44 - COMMUNITY COMMENT OF THE DAY Thank you @SPLYOUTH for your comment! ========= 🔄 CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA 📱: Ministry Coach Podcast: Website: http://www.kristenlascola.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MinistryCoach/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ministrycoachpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ministrycoachpodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ministrycoachpodcast Kristen Lascola: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/klascola/ Jeffrey Lascola: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grandmasterbengal/ ======= AUDIO / VIDEO GEAR (We used in this podcast): Camera 📸: https://amzn.to/3eWTTaS Lens: https://amzn.to/3dIeJM6 Memory Cards: https://amzn.to/38p6pxA Front Lighting / Key Lighting💡: https://amzn.to/2YX3v02 Accent Lighting in Background💡: https://amzn.to/3im1QsB https://amzn.to/3NdiQ33 Microphones 🎤: https://amzn.to/4awimQo Microphone Preamp: https://amzn.to/4bPhFml Digital Recorder: https://amzn.to/3eXmvkj Mic Stands: https://amzn.to/4bZA8MX #youthministry #studentministry #youthgroup *This episode is not sponsored. Some of the links are affiliate links which simply means, if you buy something, we will receive a small commission (at no additional cost to you) Thank you!*