The Youth Ministry Garage is booming! Daily we’re getting new subscribers! Even though we’ve been doing this for 5 years, people are just now finding us and we couldn’t be happier to have them join our little team.

There’s a lot of stuff happening in the garage!

1. Our powerhouse primary sponsor Youth Specialties is sending us people everyday.
2. The new bloghas become a place where we’re posting “community questions” to be answered by the listeners/team/podcast family.
3. We’ve got a new contest happening contests—big prizes (write a poem, rap or song and win big YS prizes).
4. We give away great gifts each episode (see below) from our amazing sponsors:
Azusa Pacific University
YM360
LeaderTreks
RemedyLIVE
5. We’ve got easy-to-subscribe to video or audio (via iTunes)

Below are the winners from the last two episodes and what they won. Here’s how to win: (a) send in a question, (b) we choose 5 questions from each show and forward it to our sponsor and they send you FREE stuff. It’s that easy!

Get involved in our community and join the fun! Like we’ve said since episode 1: “Just enough youth ministry so you don’t feel guilty for listening at work.”

Episode 169 winners:

Sponsor: YM360
Gift: Book study bundle: books of James/John ($99)
For: Read question on podcast
Ethan Young (Conway, AR)

Sponsor: LeaderTreks
Gift: Book: Leading Youth Ministry
For: Read question on podcast
Steven Mendez (San Diego, CA)

Sponsor: Azusa Pacific University
Gift: Foundation Pack: PDYM, First 2 years, What Matters Most
For: Read question on podcast
Matt Cross (Bristol, VA)

Sponsor: RemedyLIVE
Gift: RemedyLIVE gift pack
For: Read question on podcast
Matt Burek (Conway, MI)

CONTEST #1 Winner
Finding people in church who look like Doug, Matt, Josh and/or Katie.
Winner: Kyle Corbin
Gifts from all of our sponsors

Episode 170 winners:

Sponsor: Youth Specialties
Gift: Small Group Material
For: Read question on podcast
Joe Thompson (Winterville, NC)

Sponsor: YM360
Gift: youthministry360 Small Group Super Pack ($199)
For: Read question on podcast
Phil Dickey (Port Neches, TX)

Sponsor: LeaderTreks
Gift: Book: Leading Youth Ministry
For: Read question on podcast
Jimmy Higgins (Bakersfield, CA)

Sponsor: RemedyLIVE
Gift: RemedyLIVE gift pack
For: Read question on podcast
Derek Altom (Ada, OK)

We’ve already chosen winners for Episode #171 (which we recorded yesterday)…and, I’ll post those winners next Sunday. But, I’ll also post winners for the week of November 14-20 who will be chosen for their interaction on the blog (answering “community questions”). We’re not doing a show this coming week (because McGill is on vacation and I’ll be at the National Youth Workers Convention in Atlanta. So, interact on the blog this week and we’ll choose some winners on Friday (for next Sunday’s post).

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