Did you see the e-mail the Todd Buegler, ELCA Youth Ministry Network Executive Director, sent out a few weeks back about Martins List? Did you read it? Be honest, no one knows but you. If you did, and went to the site, maybe you found it useful. If you didn’t, you might want to visit http://www.elcaymnet.org/martinslist and login with your ELCA YM Net username and password.
Once there, you’ll discover a plethora of Open Source Youth Ministry resources. Now, these aren’t the kinds of things you go looking at while the youth group is eating pizza in the other room, because they’re going to take some adaptation to use in your context. These aren’t professionally produced resources by a famous author (although some of them could be). These are your fellow Network members sharing resources they’ve created in their contexts. Martins list is founded on the belief that there is an amazing amount of talent, expertise and skill within our community. And we have all developed resources for use in our congregations. Many of us are willing to share those resources that we have created. MartinsList is a place to do that. Here, we can share our work with each other...and can create a community of mutual support in our ministry.
Well, maybe not quite free. See, MartinsList depends on all of us sharing what we have. Maybe it’s just a simple idea like a talk based around a song. Maybe it’s your minute by minute plan for a retreat around the spirituality of teenagers. Share it! Keep the rest of the network from having to start from scratch. Let us build on what you’ve started.
To upload an original (and do make sure it’s your own work and it is original), go to http://elcaymnet.org/martinslist and click on the icon just like the one below to upload your stuff.
Please convert it to a .DOC (not .DOCX, Microsoft Works, Open Office Document, or any other format) or a .PDF before uploading so that others can make good use of copy and paste (see the keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Macs) to customize your work for their context.
If you’ve come across a great copyrighted resource that you want to share with the rest of us, click on the link like this one and post it in the MartinsList Forum.
Once there, you’ll discover a plethora of Open Source Youth Ministry resources. Now, these aren’t the kinds of things you go looking at while the youth group is eating pizza in the other room, because they’re going to take some adaptation to use in your context. These aren’t professionally produced resources by a famous author (although some of them could be). These are your fellow Network members sharing resources they’ve created in their contexts. Martins list is founded on the belief that there is an amazing amount of talent, expertise and skill within our community. And we have all developed resources for use in our congregations. Many of us are willing to share those resources that we have created. MartinsList is a place to do that. Here, we can share our work with each other...and can create a community of mutual support in our ministry.
“Hey there! All who are thirsty, come to the water! Are you penniless? Come anyway - buy and eat! Come, buy your drinks, buy wine and milk. Buy without money - everything's free!” (Isaiah 55:1 - The Message).
Well, maybe not quite free. See, MartinsList depends on all of us sharing what we have. Maybe it’s just a simple idea like a talk based around a song. Maybe it’s your minute by minute plan for a retreat around the spirituality of teenagers. Share it! Keep the rest of the network from having to start from scratch. Let us build on what you’ve started.
To upload an original (and do make sure it’s your own work and it is original), go to http://elcaymnet.org/martinslist and click on the icon just like the one below to upload your stuff.
Please convert it to a .DOC (not .DOCX, Microsoft Works, Open Office Document, or any other format) or a .PDF before uploading so that others can make good use of copy and paste (see the keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Macs) to customize your work for their context.
If you’ve come across a great copyrighted resource that you want to share with the rest of us, click on the link like this one and post it in the MartinsList Forum.
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