Ευχαριστώ για να σας δείξετε. Είναι Βίκη εδώ και σήμερα θα πάμε ένα κλωσό μπλούκ για να παρακολουθήσουμε το νέο Τόνικ κραύτηκο και θα σημαίνω να σημαίνω κάποιες ιδέες. Η κίτα πάντα είναι παρακολουθήκης με υπροδάξεις και πιστεύω ότι είναι ένας από το καλύτερο στον market. Τώρα, πρώτα από όλες έρχεται με αυτήν την νουβού μούς και αυτή είναι η νέα εξπαντική μούς. Θα ανοηθήσω για εσείς να μπορείτε να δείτε την κόλλο. Είναι η χαμερική κόλλο και έχει αυτήν την κόλλο κόλλο. Θα ανοηθήσω σε αυτή την πίση του κομμάτου. Θα μπορείτε να ανοηθεί με το μπλούκ, με το χαμερικό σου. Υπάρχουν δυσκορές μπλούκες που μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσεις. Τώρα, αυτή η κόλλο είναι η εξπαντική μούς γιατί όταν ανοηθεί και τότε ανοηθεί, θα ανοηθεί σε εσείς να δείτε την κόλλο που θα δείξω σε ένα καρδί μετά σε αυτό το βίντεο. Αλλά φυσικά μπορείτε να ανοηθεί μπλούκες, με το χαμερικό σου ή ένα μπλούκ. Και θα ανοηθεί καλύτερο από το μπλούκ, όπως με το μπλούκ's κολλο. Και θα ανοηθεί αυτή η κόλλο. Φυσικά είναι πολύ εύκολο να ανοηθεί τα χαμερικά σου με ένα βιβλό και δεν ανοηθεί. Τώρα, δεν χρησιμοποιήσεις αυτή την κόλλο, μάχτω με αυτό το μπλούκ και χρησιμοποιήσεις στους το μπλούκ. Παρακτικά να βρείτε καλό χαμερικό, This way, You eliminate the amount of air that touches the product and it is going to stay nice and soft and prevent drying. You also get diamond ink pad. This is a Acorn Brown color and I'm going to show you how it looks, a lovely brown chocolate color. And actually, there is a whole range of this ink pads. They are hybrid inks, which means that you can use them both with your alcohol inks ασφαλκοχόλυνες, όμως your watercolors. You also get a mini pot of gilding flakes. These are called sunkist copper and they are not of the normal gilding flakes. These are quite chunky, they are bigger so they don't fly all over the place. And I will use this product in one of the cards that I share today. You also get a mini crystal drop in bubblegum blush.  And you see all the products in this kit coming this gorgeous browns and copper shades as well as pink that everything goes nicely together. Now this is a glitter pot, the color is chestnut brown and this is not a mini pot, it's the normal size so you get lots of product. And if this pot of glitter is not enough, here is one more pot with glitter. These are actually confetti flakes and the color is chestnut brown. Again you get a big bottle so lots of product in here and I like to mix these flakes with other elements on my shaker cards. You also get a glitter marker, this is strawberry bombon. If you are a subscriber of these kits you probably have more colors in your stash so here is one more for your collection. Now remember that you can color with this marker but you can also apply some on your glass mat and pick it up with a brush. This is water based so it can be used as watercolor with glitter. Now moving on you get two bags with rings. One is in classic bronze color and the other one is in antique brush and you get six of each color. They open up really easy and if you are into book making then you will use those a lot. Now just like always you get a sticker and let's take a look on the dies and the stamp set for this month. This is the memento stamp set and it comes with five stamps. You get a lot of sentiments and this kit is actually called memento bookmaker which means that you can use the dies and the stamps and the rest of the things for making books but I'm going to show you that it is more versatile. A time to treasure can be used on Christmas cards, on fall cards like I will be sharing today. You also get true friendship lasts forever, perfect for friendship cards as well as and so our adventure begins which can mean a new baby, a wedding, so many different ideas there. And now let's take a look at the dies. There are 15 dies included in the die set, great value for money. If you are a beginner on book making and album making then this is perfect for you but it can be used equally for creating cards.   Now you also get these rectangle frames that fit inside the bigger one. These are great because they give you lovely panels for embellishing cards and they have lovely stitching and lovely details on the edges. Now if you want to make a book and you need holes for using your rings then you can place this here in the cup and if you want to see how to put together an album then you can go to the Tonic Studios website I'm sure they will post lots of tutorials on how to make them. Instead I'm going to show you today how to make cards since I am a card maker. Now you also get two sentiments to die cut and also what I absolutely love about this kit is that you get these corners. As many dies as I have I didn't have corners to embellish my cards so I'm super happy because I get five different designs in this set.  This is meant actually to tuck inside photos but for a card maker it's perfect for creating gift card slits. And another thing that I'm super happy about is that you get three different dies that cut out tabs. All the tabs are going to end up in a different position. These are great of course for making albums but they are great also for creating cards and I will use them today in one of my cards. And you also get lots of cardstock. This is a mirror card in rose platinum. This is a specialty paper called Blush Heartbeat. Here is a gorgeous cardstock called Ivory Twile. This is Ivory White and a gorgeous cinnamon silk. Love this texture, gorgeous cardstock. This is Glace Chestnut, a pearlescent one. This is really textured and soft, one of their specialty papers which is called Soft Leather Jacket. And finally you get Express Brown and Craft Card. This actually has two different colors you can use either side depending on your project. So let's use this kit to create cards. I will be combining these beautiful papers from the kit and I absolutely love this one. This is perfect for wedding cards and I'm going to do just that.  And with this panel I'm going to cut out once from the Ivory. Now I end up having these two shapes which I'm placing one on top of the other. These are going to create my card base but I need to use my paper trimmer to cut out the bottom of those shapes.  I'm going to fold this flap and this is where I'm going to add at the back some tape adhesive and I'm going to stick those cutouts together to create my card base. I absolutely love the shape of it so I'm just going to embellish it and turn it into a wedding card.  I'm using my Nouveau Deluxe glue at the back and I'm going to stick them in two opposite corners. Of course you can cut out four different corners if you like to embellish all the corners. Here is how it looks. It works either way vertically or horizontally and all you have to do is to add the center and the center. Now I went with a tie cut that I had in my stash that rides best wishes and I think it's perfect for a wedding and you can see that it works either way. I used foam squares at the back to stick that panel on top of my card base. I'm going to finish off my card by tying a ribbon and I love that the design of this card base has those slits at the top which are perfect to tie my ribbon inside. I'm going to tie a bow and my card is ready.  So all you have to do is to just place it on the corner of a panel and this is going to cut out all those little flaps where you tuck in your gift card. Then you can stick this inside making sure that you leave enough space for your message.  I have placed it inside my stamping platform and I'm going to stamp one of the sentiments from the kit using the ink pad that was included. And I'm using the textured side of this cardstock so I need to stamp it a couple of times. I created my card base out of the brown pearlescent cardstock in the kit and I'm going to create some embellishments. For that I'm using just a scrap piece of paper which I am covering up with double sided tape. I am removing the top and now my surface is all sticky. I'm going to bring in a scrap piece of paper to work on top of it so that I don't create a mess and I'm going to apply on top my flakes. I'm using my fingers to spread them around. The flakes are going to stick on top of the adhesive and you can also use a brass to move the flakes around and to remove the excess flakes. You will end up with a lovely shiny panel that the color is not flat it will have some variation of color and I'm also going to combine it with the dies from kit number 12 to cut out some leaves. Of course if you don't have the kit and you are not a subscriber you can use any dies or flips that you have or even cut out your own shapes with your scissors.  I also used my brown cardstock to cut out the shadows of those leaves. Again the dies are from the same kit which I think is number 13 and I'm going to put everything together. Then I will decide where I want these leaves to go and stick them down by using my foam squares at the back. This is a great fall card and I think the sentiment match is perfectly the idea here. And another idea is instead of using tiny little leaves like I did here you can use a big leaf on the center of your card as the main focal point and of course cover it up again with those flakes to give it a gorgeous shine. Now for the next card I want to demonstrate how to use the expanding mousse. So all I did was to use a stencil from my stash and I have placed it on top of a panel. I also made sure that the stencil is nicely secured so I used some purple tape at the back and now I'm going to apply my mousse by using my spatula. The mousse is nice and soft and it spreads out just like butter. So you can apply it completely flat with your fingers or your brass as I showed you in the beginning of the video but of course you can apply it through a stencil to create more texture. Now if you leave it it's going to dry as it is nice and shiny but if you use a heat gun on top of it then it's going to start bubbling up and it's going to create a lovely texture completely different than what you get if it is air dry. I don't know if you can tell from the video but here is a close-up photo on how it looks when you finish heat setting it. So to play with your mousse that comes in the kit just use any stencil that you have at home and heat set it and then I'm going to create a very simple card here. I used foam tape at the back of my brown panel to stick it on top of my card base and now I'm just going to stick a die-cut sentiment and the lovely idea is to add some gems to embellish your card in different areas of your stencil design so here I found a place where it would look great and I'm going to stick them down. Now this is a very versatile card as it can be used for any occasion and I love that you can hand it out to both men and women and I hope it gives you some ideas on how you can use your expanding mousse with the stencils that you already have in your stash. Now can you see in this panel how I have still that embossed detail although I ran it through my big shot which is perfect. Now I'm also going to use the three ties that cut out those tabs and I'm going to cut out panels using these two papers that I have on my screen right now. So I'm going to put everything together now. You can see I have different panels with different flaps and I do have another one somewhere around here that will pop in my screen in a bit. And as an example I'm going for a completely different style of cards that I normally do and all I'm doing is placing those panels one on top of the other. I'm not trying to align them, I just want them to look completely random and I also found that at the back of those embossed papers tape runner doesn't work so make sure to use either white glue or some double-sided tape like I did here. Now I have these three tabs exposed which is a great place to add sentiments or just stamp them on top. I'm going the easy way so I'm just going to add some stickers. This is going to be a birthday card and I'm choosing stickers that have something to do with that so I'm sticking one that says let's eat cake another one celebrate and the last one that says make a wish. All these come from the Occasions booklet by Tim Holtz which is old and I think it is discontinued so I cannot link it but this design gives you an idea of how you can use tabs on top of a card Now on top of this design all you need to do is to add a focal point I decided to go with flowers these are really dimensional flowers by Prima which I don't normally use but I told you today I'm going for a completely different style of card I will link to the flowers that I'm using they are actually on sale right now but you can use any dimensional flowers that you probably have on your stash or you can even use a dice that you may have to create your own flower or even stamp a flower cut it out and stick it there so many options to create similar cards Now for the flowers since they are so dimensional I used my glue gun to stick everything down and since this card has so much bulk obviously this is not a card that I would send out through the mail instead this is a birthday card that I will hand out to one of my close friends on their birthday I'm finally using my blending tool with what's left on it this is the one that I'm using with my Distress Oxide inks just to add a touch of brown on the edges as well as to get rid of that bright white on my stickers and finally I'm adding some dots with the mini Nuvo Troops that was included in the kit and you can see how that color matches perfectly the color of the cardstock and that concludes the last card for today I hope you had fun and you got inspired as we explored all the products included in the Tonics Craft Kit number 15 I hope I gave you some ideas on how you can use the products included as always you will find links down below to everything I used and if you want to get the kit and you are not a subscriber then move fast these kits are great value for money so they sail out really quickly Thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you next time


Hi guys, this is Dr. Nancy from Honey with Milk. I teach negotiation and influence to help engineers and international professionals to get control of their lives and their career. Now it is a holiday season. Were you wondering are you supposed to give your co-workers and bosses some kind of holiday gift? Or in my shoes I received amazing gifts from my boss. For example, that's what I got from my boss. A huge box of goviva chocolate. I truly loved it and I put this gift opening video right here. Now in my shoes given I've received such a great gift from my boss, am I supposed to give some gift back to him and how much money I should put in. So I did lots of research on this topic. I had to share you some ideas about what kind of gift you give for your boss and what scenarios and I discovered 11 different things I'll share with you today. In my case, my boss had really great relationship with all of us. He gave each of his managers those like goviva gift boxes. What we did was the five of us talked to each other and said why don't we give our bosses some amazing gift like this. It's pretty big gift. Definitely at least $50 between $50 and $100. I looked up and so each of us just putting $20 together and combined is $100. So we gave our bosses $100 gift certificate so that he's able to use it to buy wine next door. So here's the thing. You need to understand what your co-workers what your boss likes. We know that he's a foodie. He loves amazing wine. He loves like Europe to wine tour. So therefore we would love to buy him some like a nice certificate to buy any kind of wine he likes. So this is what we did in my specific scenario. And the other thing I want to mention is that and it's totally up to you if you do not feel comfortable or nobody in the office gives gifts to each other. Maybe you can consider not doing that but in my scenarios we have great relationship with my managers and my employees and my peer managers my bosses. And we feel okay to give each other something under $10 on the $20. So everything I'm sharing with you today is all under $20. Mostly under $10. And the other background information is that I am the only female manager out of a 100 people for a management organization. So most of my co-workers and the bosses they are all like men. So most of the gifts examples I gave you are gender neutral and maybe more towards the male side of things. But it's totally up to you. You have more female co-workers you can tater a little bit. And at the end of the video I'm going to show you what I would buy for my female friends or what would I receive. So stay until the end. So let's get started. The number one gift I recommend everyone to give is chocolate. Surprise the best gift. Everybody would love a piece of chocolate. You can give them like small boxes, big boxes. I think they're all under $20 each box. That matter men and women we all love it. And in my case I got so much chocolate myself. I would definitely give people chocolate as well as the best gift. I recently went to Japan and I brought the sake flavored KitKat for my co-workers. So I put it right here. We already ate the KitKat. The KitKat itself has alcohol in it. It tastes like sake. So don't really give the KitKat to kids. They might get drunk. You might get drunk over the KitKat as well. But I found it very very interesting, very unique. And those KitKat are under $5 dollars. All this I bought in Japan. I bought multiple boxes. And third, not any random candy. Again, it has to be special candy. And for example, my co-worker did something very smart. He's Spanish. So he got us those Spanish candy called Turan. It's my first time having Turan in my life. I'll put a picture right here. And he just gave those Turans a long beautiful Turan with a little no card with his name and his wife's name on it. And those Turan I think is less than $5 dollars. Let's say less than $10. But everybody in the office really love it. It's very simple and nice and small gestures. We totally love it. And number four, lots of people have this idea already. Wine or bottle of Pesachal. And those are under $20 dollars guys. You don't need to go out of whack. I wouldn't recommend anything over $20 as a gift for your co-workers or your boss. And for those kind of wine, you can get it any places and who doesn't want any wine for the holiday spirit. Number five is also something very trendy. Sin card with trendy right now guys. Star Wars. Right now everybody's watching Star Wars movies. And including my fiancé, currently he is in the theater watching Star Wars with his best friends. With me living here and making YouTube videos. However, I'm going to watch Star Wars with my best later this week as well. So I'm covered. For your bosses or co-workers or your employees, I would just get them two tickets to a Star Wars show. Do not put any dates on it. You can just buy the gift certificate from AMC that for the worst of two tickets and they can just go watch any time for the Star Wars shows. It's totally trendy. Who wouldn't like Star Wars nowadays? And number six, it's also something very touching. And it's something I recommend lots of people to do it more. It's a donation in the name of your co-workers or your boss. Seeing this way, gift giving has been a long tradition, but the lots of people in the world who doesn't have $10 or $20 by gift for each other and all your bosses, co-workers honestly, they make enough money for themselves. Something I did this year is to write a nice letter to my boss and tell them that I made a $30 or $20 donation in your name to a nonprofit. I have listed all my favorite nonprofit that I know about, have worked before. I believe this is one of the best Christmas gifts. We should all do this more. We have enough gift for ourselves helping others. Number seven, tiles. When we talk about tiles, it's not the tiles on the floor, it's the tiles on the keychain. Have you had experience that you lost your keys or you cannot find your keys about the head-out? So where's my keys? So the tiles is something, something very small. I put it right here that you can directly attach to your keys and you will never lose your key. And there is a little app on your phone. You can click it and the tile will make some beep beep beep sound. It can help you to find the key itself. I have personally received tiles before as a gift. But those tiles, when they attach to the keychain with all the tons of keys, I've lost the keys. And the tiles start to get broken or beaten up very quickly. So I will recommend giving them a package of like four or two. It's all under $20. I will put some links down below. You guys can look it through. And number eight is gift basket. I personally haven't bought any gift basket before but I asked other friends who are managers and asked, well what kind of poor goods have you received? And they told me those kind of gift baskets, really good idea. So I will link some gift basket has been proven by other managers. So I believe you can use that as well. And number nine is coffee. Something very small, something very simple. You can just walk to your boss desk, buy coffee for yourself, buy coffee for him, and even invite him to have a conversation with you for the end of like a holiday season. Who doesn't like coffee, but those conversations might generate something bigger. I also hope to build relationship. Building relationship is not, it's way more than just giving gifts, okay? It's about the fundamental way to influence and trust and build relationship with each other. So buy a coffee for your boss, no. Number 10 is tea. Hey guys, it's written on my face, okay? I'm Chinese, I love tea. And earlier in my career, I didn't know, do American like tea or should I even give them tea? What I discovered was that they really love tea. For example, my parents came to the US, they brought me lots of tea. And those are the special tea I gave to my coworkers inside the little gift bags. And we have those kind of tea is like from my hometown. That's so good. The tea is inside orange peel, dry orange peel. So tea had the flavor of orange.  They loved it.  Yeah, those small things, honestly, under $10, something you can share all the time. So I recommend people to do it as well.  If you do not feel comfortable, you can just write them a card or write them an email saying that, hey, happy new year, happy holidays, wish you were fantastic 2020. And bosses barely get enough appreciation for what they've done for you.  That's a different story we can talk about next time. So just say thank you show sincere appreciation with a little card or just email. And that's all you need to do. Here is the bonus. So I received really good gifts this year. This is from my girlfriends. Of course, don't buy this for your male bosses. Don't buy anybody it like a guy, I assume. And this is the the naked Urban Decay palette in this new version called Honey. I love Urban Decay. I have three of them guys. And my girlfriend just really know me very well. And I bought this one myself. My friend gave me this one for holidays. Then my friend got me this one this year. And today I'm wearing this new Honey Shadow. How do you guys like my new eye shadow? This made of gold and eye shadow looks like this. It's all different flavors of gold oranges. I like it. Thank you so much, my bestie. Let you guys know if I look good in this new eye shadow or not. The most important part about gift giving is to give something that people really like. You have to know that person very well. For example, like me, I don't like physical stuff. If people give me lots of stuff I don't like. I would rather to donate to other people. I always do donations guys. So for someone who give me anything they must know me very well. Know that wow Nancy must love this gonna get it for her. Now so do some research of person you give gift to. This is very meaningful than just giving the gift itself. 11 things I discovered could be very useful for you. And this is my gift to you as well sharing my knowledge. Happy holidays. This is Dr. Nancy from Honey with Milk. So let me know what kind of other gifts have you given to your bosses of coworkers especially those like male bosses. And because I work with guys all the time. And let me know so we can share the gift ideas with each other what works, what doesn't work. Alright wish you a happy 2020.


All right, good morning everyone and welcome once again to the youth ministry course. I hope you all are doing well So in the last class we discussed the organizational aspect of the ministry Everything that goes into planning from the team the way it's set up So that was chapter four the organizational aspect of it And I hope you've been able to follow understand and learn everything about youth ministry so far So today's session will move to chapter five. I will discuss a little bit about the challenges in youth ministry Right some of the challenges that we face in youth ministry And yeah, I mean this can be applicable for other areas of ministry as well But then in our context related to youth ministry, okay I So first off we I wanted to kind of approach the challenges from two different aspects a Challenges that a leader or a pastor Goes through faces and then a challenges of our audience Okay, so we look at those two different things So the first thing I want to discuss is the challenges of a youth leader or a minister in youth ministry one of the major challenges is Impatience Impatience amongst young leaders young say young worship pastors or young youth leaders and whatnot is Impatience Okay, so that is we wanted results yesterday Okay This is Like a typical feature of a young leaders who normally aspire change and new way of doing things So I've just been appointed as a youth leader or a youth pastor and I'm going to change everything in one day You know so and that that's a sense of impatience. Okay. It's okay. I want to bring about change I want to do it right away and Let's go Okay, but unfortunately Practically speaking that does not happen like that Okay, and so we need to approach This area of ministry youth ministry as a marathon instead of a hundred meters dash Okay, because guys we are living in a day and age where We expect microwave results Like I think I hope you get what I'm saying you know Put cold water inside for 30 seconds and get you know hot water Seems like We all do this we still do this and we put the water put it in the pot and then boil it and wait for five minutes It seems like It's not trendy But I hope you get what I'm saying right is We all want immediate microwave results Right learn to play the guitar in five days five days learn to play learn to sing in in one day I mean sure we can but I Learned to play the guitar in five days. I see I mean I see posters like that. I'm like Yeah, we just bet off our life instrument and So it's it's it's the way of attracting people saying, okay, you know, it's it can be done in just short period of time and Somewhere somehow the same mentality can creep in to our area of ministry as leaders as well If we are not careful Okay, and so the example that I just simply want to share is The difference between a marathon runner and a hundred meter sprint dash runner Okay, and this example was birthed out of my personal experience So in school and in college when I was in part of the athletics and whatnot I was a hundred meters dash runner, you know, I could like a hundred meters or 200 meters You know, it's just short distance and short sprint you can, you know, and so I was I would train for that and I would participate in a hundred meters dash and whatnot and then one day what happened You know, there was you know, there's a lot of Marathons that happens in the city at least in the city of Bangalore You know like a five kilometer or ten kilometer run or 30 kilometers run or whatever And so the part they opened up, you know for us to participate in it. And so I also Signed up to it. It's like, okay. I'm going to run because I'm a runner too. I'm an athlete too I'm going to participate in marathon this Uh Yeah, I lasted about five or ten minutes. I think Um, so it's exactly, you know, how it sounds like I ran for 200 meters then I ran out of breath and uh and then yeah, kind of Just walk the rest of the marathon Uh, so the difference here is uh, there's a difference between an athlete that trains for a hundred meters sprint And there's a difference between an athlete how he trains he or she trains for a marathon They train very differently for a hundred meters dash.  So I want us, you know, I want to encourage us all to keep this point in mind that Approach it as a marathon, you know, take it one day at a time Okay, I hope you all are with me, right And we see that it's it's I mean it's very biblical as well. It's not just a practical idea You see that God did not give the promised land to the Israelites in one day Right, uh, it was a gradual conquest. It's you know, little by little little by little, right So he put together a journey that would allow them to develop their faith and confidence Right as they learned to depend on him Okay, um, so this is important because uh, the simple foundation of the ministry is strengthened in your Um, as you develop faith as you develop skills as you develop leadership Uh, experience character, discipline, passion, patience and endurance Right, all of this will be tested. Um, as a as you run As you run as you lead this area of ministry as a big marathon Wait, am I making sense? Uh Yeah, this you get what I'm saying. Okay All right, awesome. Well, that's one of the challenges uh in young leaders or in leaders of any age Is that we expect results immediately but to approach this area of ministry as a marathon Um, and just don't let impatience You know Make you quit prematurely Okay, uh, this is one of the reasons as well not the only reason but this is one of the reasons when we you know You get discouraged when you so don't see results when you don't see things going your way immediately You tend to get discouraged and then you tend to quit Or give up very prematurely. We'll talk about uh more in in More more points to come Then the second challenge in the area of ministry is time management Okay time management um So if you don't manage your time Your your time will be managed for you I'll say that again. Okay. If you don't manage your time as you're leading a ministry Your time will be managed for you Okay. Um, so, you know the the many demands of youth ministry will keep you busy. Um Because unlike any other work or profession Your ministry work does not end after 5 p.m. Or 7 p.m. Or 9 p.m. You can get a call or a message any time of the day or night And so work never really finishes on our clock Right, uh, what did I hear a name at? Work never really finishes or ends When it comes to ministry, there is always Going to be you work You will always be thinking about something related to work And that is the nature of ministry and you're working for, you know So To manage well to do this you need a healthy understanding Of your priorities based on the church's values and expectations And whatnot right so to be able to manage your time without burning out Is you need to understand your priorities really well, right? You need to make a note of your priorities really well, so And one Reality You'll quickly learn is that uh, you know as mentioned work never ends More is always waiting to be done And so the secret to lasting long Is a very simple Learn how to say No and when to say no, okay Uh I'm an Indian. I think it's a very Indian thing to say Uh, if if any favor or anything is asked of you to do use to say yes for everything Uh, you know, yes, I can do this. Okay, Roshan, will you do this? Yes. Yes. I'll do this. Um, can you do this? Yes, I'll do this. I am not thinking about I'm not thinking or It's it's like it's almost as if that I've forgotten that there's only 24 hours in a day and and I need to sleep some of the hours hours, but I don't know what it is about, uh as It's very difficult for us Indians to say no, uh, even maybe Or To be very diplomatic we'll say I let I let you know I'll keep you posted Things like that, but uh, but it is very important. Um To be able to say no, you know Especially if it's clashing with your priorities Uh, are you with me? Yeah it's very important and uh, and it's And you who develop this culture this habit by saying uh, and and You know as you as you make certain priorities the people that you are leading will get to know Okay, he will not tell no unless he is really not able to do it He or she is really not able to do it So it'll come, you know, as there will come a point where you know will be valued and without being taken as offense He'll go, you know, I asked this person and he or she said no, I'm never going to ask this person types Uh, that's the fear right? That stops us from saying no, but then uh, trust me guys. It's going to Uh, you know help you last long Okay, uh So plan your time or people will plan it for you Okay, uh, just a book suggestion. Uh, it's mentioned in your notes. Uh, there's a book called deep work by cal and newport Um, you know, I'm sure most of you have already heard of it or if not already read that book um, even pastor mentioned this book uh recently in this When we were doing the series on mental health in the month of february, I think yeah Um, so give that book a read. It's a good one Even book summaries that are available on youtube uh for you to just go through it Okay, um So I'm basically this uh, what that book suggests. Uh, just one of the points is that um If there's a work or an assignment that needs to be done Uh, you set aside, you know, either one hour How many whatever one hour two hour three hours? And you shut everything off And you are only focused on that one thing And that you know working on that one thing for that many hours of you know time is considered as deep work um And a lot of examples such as bill gates is used in that um how they would you know and a lot of major successful entrepreneurs are mentioned in that book where they would just Book a room or go to some solitude place And uh and just work on that one thing And uh, no wonder they are successful people, but yeah, it's a good read. Uh, you know Take it out when you can And I had to learn to manage my time as well because when I joined apc I joined as the youth pastor and also as the associate worship pastor And so that means I had to deal with the youth ministry and Just so you know under youth ministry, we have the youth core team I have to um, I am under the supervision of seen the senior pastor The core team and I'm also leading the the youth Ministry and everything that's related with it, right? And then there's the worship ministry as well So there's worship ministry and then everything that's related with worship ministry From the sound team and to interact coordinating with the setup team And equipping the worship leaders training the musicians working with them Walking with them understanding where they are in life and whatnot. So There are all these things with youth ministry worship ministry and whatnot And it is very very easy for all these work to get mixed up and doubled up and whatnot, you know And it's happened sometimes but so the way I would approach um a day is You know, I would just divide A day into two halves I tried to It was successful for the most part. Okay. It was successful guys Um, it's the first half. Maybe I will only focus on youth ministry Um, I would resist the temptation to think about work related to worship ministry And if and if something pops up about worship ministry I will park it. I would make a note of it on a whatever sticky notes. I would keep it aside you know, and then Just focus on youth ministry. Uh, I was very determined to not waste any time mental you know strength on Another area of ministry Which was not important at that time Okay, um, and then the second half I would focus on everything related to worship ministry and um, yeah So, yeah Any other thoughts that you want to share on this a point of time management? Uh as as anything else that you've done that has been uh helpful for you that you want to share Yes, uh Let's go ahead Thank you. Thank you. I'm just gonna add to the point you made about learning to say no um There was also a time in my own life where I was always Agreeing to everything and somebody made a comment that oh I'm gonna ask him because he's always helping out. He never says no Right. And so when I heard that I realized that People just drop into my own schedule not minding what I have on my own plate Because you know, I always say yes. So I started Being firm on no and I realized that people started adjusting Yes, whatever they're saying or trying to give me to do or help them to do is It's not going to disrupt anything in my schedule. So I do agree with you It's important that We're firm to see we can see it in a nice way, but let them just know that you also have Your own things to do and you can't just come disrupting what they're doing. I don't want it to add that Yeah, awesome. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, I think we've all been there. I guess Uh anybody else who wants to share anything from your experience on this point Yes, Christopher. Go ahead, please Yes, I think sometimes In time management, there are these distractions that that take place It could be someone You know some event or even a person You know distracting As from you know being able to Consecrate and focus on a particular time bound task And these distractions can be Could be you know some of them could be important. Some of them could be you know valid There's some that are you know unnecessary and then you know, we just sort of Get caught up in the destruction and suddenly realize that you know a couple of hours have gone by so yeah I just thought I'll share that. Yeah Thank you Thanks, Christopher. Thank you Anyone else Avni is anything You've experienced you Recently I went through this very recently this experience of saying no and I was too oppressed by some responsibility and I was finding it difficult to do. So I just took a step and I said No, and I don't know but it was a supernatural experience where I felt some heavy burden lifted out of my head and I was able to focus on my priority Yeah, which was actually coming against me And I realized that saying yes will not make people happy Yeah, saying no makes you accomplish much and maybe you're not happy or but People are not happy with your yes. Yes happy when you say no, but You do what is required and you fulfill that And that is that satisfaction builds you up and encourages you to do better Yeah, and give you better outputs. So recently I very recently I was just smiling And yes, my husband said, you know, you always have a yes for everything I realized that yes was not making much of a benefit And you think so I learned that Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. It really helps. Thank you. Thank you for sharing Thanks, Christopher. Thank you. Say yeah, I just another person anybody else who wants to share from your experience before we move on And what has helped you uh, you know in managing your time if we can share that also is good Yes, Prabhakar. All right. Very good morning person. Uh, actually, um saying no is Sometimes very difficult due to People's expectation, especially when we are when we are You know work or corporate jobs kind of a thing When we pose a certain positions So people expect even our superiors or peers Uh subordinates many time they they expect us to say always yes So it is always environment corporate world or in in worldly nature as well people always come up Uh come to us With expectations even in ministry. So uh, sometimes saying no is more difficult Because we we think a lot of that what they think about us, but Over the time I realized that if every time we say yes to them So they will take us for granted And shouldn't let ourselves taken for granted So it should be in a professional way and also very politely we should say that This time I'm so sorry next time I'll do that or Now my priorities is different. So so sorry for that, but I'll do it Thank you for sharing that Prabhakar. Thank you for being honest. Yeah Alisha, please go ahead Yeah, thank you pastor. I think Prabhakar shared thoughts On what I also want to want him to share I think we shouldn't We should also tread cautiously Not trying to make say, you know part of Our syllable so that because we want to say no This is ministry and we are We are doing ministry Largely for young people Who needs attention? Who needs care? Who needs our time? And our effort Yeah, so even as much as we are trying to manage our own time Things know At the time we should always try to make time For another time Maybe the person has come to you with a need If you can help the person now Try and speak to him or her and Schedule him for another time so that You can engage him. We shouldn't make Saying no Become part of that because people take us for granted For me I believe that if we really want to do ministry And do to the To the maximum When we put take us for granted It is between them and God We should go to the extent where We will feel that we have really sacrificed And brought out for the people We are ministering to that is when we can be proud of What God has used us to achieve in the life of these young people. Thank you very much Thank you. Alesha. Yeah. Yeah, I think uh, I mean it's very it's important not to get confused between being able to serve people well And then not being able to manage your time. Well, I think there are two very different things Uh, especially when it comes to you know, the administrative Part of things a ministry is not just always being available for people, which is true But then I think there is an administrative side to ministry Which not a lot of people like to talk about or think that even exists or it even requires so those You know that part of ministry is very important the way that you manage time Yeah But thank you for sharing Alesha. Yeah So there's a question here. How to manage spiritual apathy amongst youths which comes to you to which comes to you in patients uh I don't see the actual name Uh, may I know who this is please? The name says metro stars, but I'm sure there's another name Because I wanted you to elaborate on that question possibly Yeah, Kennedy. Could you please elaborate your question? I feel free to unmute and now speak Um, there's an echo from your end Kennedy I think it's a problem of mine for my side but my question was Attempts due to apathy You tend to be impatient in this direction So how do you manage that? Because due to impatience and poor time management, right? Attempts to just look interest And apathy tends to develop in the process Yeah, so, uh I mean the secret for any Secret for life is balance in an ideal world right, um and Again managing time does not say that I don't It should not say that, you know, I don't have love for the people that you're serving Uh It's as simple as that. I you know don't want to elaborate more on that but then um Again, just like what Elisha shared is you don't Get into this habit of saying no for the sake of saying no You are saying no to prioritize your other work So for example at this moment your priority is to minister to a young person who's in need of help That is your priority and then there's another, you know Say your colleague or someone comes and saying, okay Hey, can you work on this thing? Uh report. I need this. Can you help me with that? What are you gonna do? You are going to say no to this person who wants a report because you want to serve the young person who is in need You understand what I'm saying, right? So you you know, you learn to prioritize what is important and not to say no for the sake of saying no You are saying no as a spiritual habit and also as a good habit To get work done And so that work could be anything in ministry being so being able to serve person or administrative work Yeah, Prabhakar, go ahead Uh, I would like to add uh to Kennedy's question faster. Um, uh To as I said, I completely agree with you and sometimes what happened with young people are mostly they are impatient actually And to deal with them we have to have a lot of patience Um, there are many incidents happened recently with me that uh, there was a Sister young sister who got married at very early age and she has a son and uh I don't know. I don't know whether she was married like on her own like love marriage or kind of arrangement I don't know but the her husband is a drunkard So he she he used to beat her a lot and she didn't he started coming to church and She like so I used to console them. I and my wife So she said she wanted my number So I had exchanged the numbers and she used to call me Our deal like to get pray the prayer pray for me. My health is not well and this and that So I used to pray a lot Isn't it what happens? She started uh calling me at any It might be a midnight or it might be a late evening Morning like five a day more so Told her when she came to church. This is not the way we should communicate each other We are praying for you daily And uh, if you don't believe that we are praying then there is no point of getting prayed daily So we are praying for you If you work in your life and then We did counseling to her and now she has stopped calling at any random point of time She used to call like to a night in in the night 2 a.m. Or 3 a Sometimes and sometimes some of the young people who used to uh go through a lot of you know heartbreaks or breakups and this This kind of stuff everything So they they want things to be sorted out at that right time and they even quoted the scripts like ask and it will be given So we we need to tell them the real meaning of that and doctrinal foundations and everything So that is what I want to invite that sometimes we have to be Very clear about our views. We have to put boundaries Aside us so that no one could cross that boundaries and even we shouldn't cross that boundaries So in that way, we should tell them the clear message that this is the time of availability or this is not the time for the So that's what my point is all about so showing empathy But uh within the discipline and within the limits and also you have to say The right to say no and the right to say yes, it should be between us. I mean you can know us Thank you pass try it. Yeah. Thank you Prabhakar. Yeah. Thank you for sharing I'm being honest Okay. Yeah, so I think we all come kind of come conclude that In management is important and saying no is important and how we say it is also important, right? So first two points the challenges for youth leaders your pastors and ministry is impatience and time management and then uh, the third one, uh, is which in my opinion is A pretty big one is discouragement Uh, okay So maybe the single most powerful feeling that entices great women and men to exit prematurely from youth ministry is discouragement Okay, um, it's like one day you're feeling like you're the best youth pastor And the next day you're thinking, okay, if you're really having an impact Is this what god wants you to do? You know, we have this Elijah moment, you know One day you're slaughtering 400 prophets of vile and the next day you're wondering What's happening in my life types? Okay, uh, again, and it's has anybody been there? uh Uh So the nature once again, it's a you know, wherever people are involved anywhere people people are involved The task becomes difficult Okay No matter where you are, you know, what it is which which area of ministry you're leading People are involved the task becomes difficult because that's what we like to do. We like to complicate things Right, um, it's never a smooth ride anywhere Uh, yeah, especially in churches too Okay, uh, and I can hear a lot of amen. So, yeah Uh, but I mean, there could be so many reasons For a youth pastor or a youth leader to get discouraged. Uh, it's one of the challenges, right? It could be uh, I've just mentioned a few reasons a few points in the notes But then the list can go on But uh, here it is. Okay, uh lack of respect It could be from your leadership or from your core team members You know That could lead to discouragement sleep deprivation and because of a new baby Okay, so I put that point in Uh, a couple of years ago when Ethan was very young. I mean he was just about born Okay, and so I was very sleep deprived and that's when I just took up the whole as the youth pastor and it was not fun um That's where the point is there. So sleep deprivation because of your baby conflict and confrontation um You know, a lot of conflicts confrontation people are involved, you know happens a miscommunication and misunderstanding Uh, too many calls and emails to return Um Criticism um, it's like, you know, you're not leading the youth well.  Why did you have a barbecue party? Why did you take them to swimming pool, you know, they'd know what if they drown? Examples, okay, uh youth who are difficult to like uh core team not cooperating failure to please everyone failure to please anyone When you receive an email of disappointment saying Motion i'm very disappointed with you. Uh, you know, because you did not Uh follow up with this person but so and so well, uh, you did the announcement lacked Or you know, we can do better and things like that. So Does anyone here relate to anything I've just said? Okay. Yeah challenges are real Okay, so yeah discouragement is real it can come in any a different shape form And all of this is uh real very real but Hang on there is hope for all of us Right, uh, you know, as we know that we are running this race with endurance and perseverance And one of the things that we need to remember is that Jesus is with us Right, he has promised that he will never leave us Nor forsake us Amen, uh, I mean that's all the hope we need to hear Right when we are going through this uh race of in ministry is all we need to know is that the great I am is with us the good shepherd Is with us But he walks with us through the valley through the darkest valley And so we need to fear no evil, right some 23 says for he is with me and he comforts me Right through all the challenges through all the discouragements through all the lack of respect and criticism and emails of disappointment and And whatnot through it all He is with us and that is our beautiful beautiful hope, right? So just some of the practical Steps to battle discouragement is to be confident and know one that you are not alone and jesus is with you And second thing what has helped me personally is Find yourself a mentor Right find yourself a mentor pray And seek and ask god Uh for the right person to be led into your life to help to mentor you and guide you And um some of the points that you can remember in finding a mentor while you're praying is you can ask yourself I mean you can look people inside and outside of your church Doesn't matter I'm more comfortable with finding a person outside of the church so that you know because there's not much of familiarity Okay, that's my in my opinion, you know, just do what you're comfortable with ask yourself who inspires you Who encourages you? Who confronts? Corrects and challenges you and who do you respect? okay, um, so find yourself a mentor and uh, and And i'm sharing this because During my time, I mean seasons of discouragement Uh, i'm sure you know, there will be a lot more seasons of discouragement to come But then uh having a mentor has helped me. It's having someone To share with say, you know, this is what happened. This is what's happening help me me uh And and just having this individual to inspire me to encourage me to Correct me. I think we all need people in our life. Uh, who? Is willing to correct you and confront you and you should be able to receive correction Okay, um, and we need to discern the difference between criticism The receiving criticism and receiving correction. They are two very different things Okay, uh, I mean you think about all these great athletes and sports person I'm sorry. I keep using the examples of sports But you know, say roger federer and any coaches right all these great athletes have Coaches and what do they do is they correct there? Right and they give tips on how they can get better Isn't it and so if we want to thrive in ministry or to get better to grow better as an individual or as a person It is very important to be able to receive correction And to have a person that is willing to correct you and know that you will not be offended By that. Okay. So once you find a mentor, uh, you know, respect the mentor's time If you're setting up a meeting with a mentor be on time, you know, and I have this philosophy Uh, where I say you are late if you're on time You are on time when you're early And so respect the mentor's time, uh, you know and have a hobby, uh, you know And take a good look at your calendar and see where you can make time for yourself You know to go for a walk by the lake or you know bird watching whatever it is.  Um, so that's the third challenge and, um, the fourth challenge is communication Um Communication is important. Okay. World wars has happened because of miscommunication and no communication Okay, so All the great leaders, uh know that Communication is not just staying something. It's not just passing along a verbal set of commands That's not just it's it's not communication. Right. Communication is a skill Right. So, you know where we learn to be clear in our communication. So what you want to say and how you want to say it It's very very important, right? Um, so again in youth ministry, we have two audiences Two people that we are working with one is your team and your senior pastor and the other is the youth itself Right communicating with your senior pastor keeping him updated in your weekly reports by weekly reports monthly reports Quarterly reports saying, okay, this is what's happening. This is what's going to happen This is the plan the vision. What are you saying? You're saying letting him know what you're up with You know, what what you're planning and whatnot. Okay, and communicating the same thing to your team Your core team members, right? So everybody's on the same page and that they are able to Help you facilitate what you want to achieve as a youth leader. Okay, so communication is super important And uh, you are find ways in how you can better get better in communication, right? Get a book if there's a book that uh That'll help you with your you know, improving your communication get better at it Like I said, communication is not just throwing Passing along a verbal set of commands. It's more more than that Okay, and that's one of the sides to communication. The other side is uh, how do you engage? You know communicate with your youth Right, so you look at all the different channels pathways that are available for you to communicate with your youth And then you come and then you use them all and you use the appropriate one For example, say newsletters emails website updates text messages social media Uh, you know instagram whatever there's so many Right and communicate often Okay, uh communicate often Hey christopher, I'll get to you. I'll just make this point and I'll get to you Okay, one of the things that I want you to keep in mind is that there is no such thing as common sense When you're leading a team, uh, or whatever, okay It's because I say this because what may seem common sense to you Will not seem as common sense to another person And so that will lead to assumption and because you assumed and if because you're assuming that this person Okay, you know it's common sense to me and so it's going to be common sense to this person also And then you know when you finally finally realize that okay It hasn't occurred to them. You are going to be upset and Angry and irritated because you assumed that that person knew about it. So Over communicate There is no such thing as common sense amongst the you know when you're leading a bunch of people So over communicate there is no such thing as too much communication. So communicate as often as possible And it's very important Okay, uh, and then finally, uh, you know intimacy with god It's key, uh, you know The busier you get in ministry.  I'm not able to make time to Read his word and whatnot. Okay, but our intimacy with god is our fuel For the fire in ministry It it fuels our fire in ministry Okay, um, so these are the five challenges that a youth leader youth pastor can face I will speak about the uh The challenges that the youth face and the rest of the chapter in the next class Then we need but yeah christopher go ahead Ah, yes, master. Actually, this is In earlier section, which is in discouragement Yes, uh, where you mentioned about youth what is good to like So just want to understand, uh, uh, you know, if we give us a couple of examples, um in your experience I mean just from a con in the context of of a youth of the youth ministry And uh, also ideas where possibly I know boundaries have been crossed So just wanted to get a little bit of the insight into that Yeah, um youth who are difficult to be liked again that point is see most A lot of these points again from my personal experience as a youth pastor and also as a youth And so I was one of those youth who was very difficult to be liked because I think I mean I was just too hyper to I wanted to challenge everything that was said Uh, and again And not with ill intentions that was one of those things I would say um I would ask questions If I if I felt that something was not right, you know as a youth I would ask questions So, I mean there are a lot of young individuals who can be like that Who is not willing to uh, understand, you know, certain guidelines that you're trying to set and um, and what they will not seem to Understand is the difference between asking questions and questioning Hey, there is a very thin line and the difference between asking questions and Questioning it all boils down to the motive and the intention of the heart um, and so that's one of the things uh, and Again, Christopher, they come in all different shapes and sizes in the way that Uh, the all the young people are, you know, we're very difficult to like as in it's just a point, but then Um, you know, you uh Yeah You just ask god for help and and then Yeah, ask and say help me like that person That's one of the things and uh boundaries will always be crossed. Uh, again, uh, christopher. So, uh, A youth camp is a classic example where you experience and encounter all of this Uh, you know, you set a guide you set a certain guidelines saying for example, okay guys Nobody gets out of this campus gate uh outside alone Because of the youth camp where you went which is we were surrounded by the forest elephants are there everywhere and um, You know, we told them very clearly very specifically Saying okay, nobody is allowed to go out without permission outside of the gate and after a certain time and uh People went out across the literal boundaries and they also crossed the boundaries that we said verbally um and that's always going to happen and uh Yeah, it's part of ministry christopher and I I've I've I have come to terms with agreeing, you know that okay.  I don't want the other hundred and a hundred people to get affected by the way I feel about this thing So you meet with that individual uh and in work on them you speak with them and uh Yeah Yeah, awesome. All right everyone. I hope you had a good time Learning we'll meet again Wednesday and we'll continue with this session Okay. Thank you for joining you guys. Take care. Let's see your Thank you. Thank you. Thank you pasta.


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And a chance to maybe see a lot of your former teammates. Well, I mean, it's ideal for me because some of the guys I haven't seen in the past, you know, you still communicate with over the phone or something like that, but to be in person with them and to come back here and talk about some of the old times, some of the things we did, some of the things we should have done, it's rather unique. I'm just very fortunate to be able to come back and see the guys and see them in good shape and good health. You played the game with so much energy. What was it that made you just have that level of excitement for them so far? I think it was the challenge, the challenge of playing in a big man's game supposedly, but having fun and having a little bit of success. But what made it more interesting was the guys that played with me, especially on special teams, we had a lot of fun in doing it. They would think of ways that I could return or that we can have success, but it was just supposed to be fun. If it isn't fun, why do it? Why go through the turmoil and the sweat and everything else that happens in preparation to play on these levels? But it's been fun, it was fun from the beginning and it was fun when it finally stopped for me. What do you think of the roles as far as taunting and those type of things? Do you think your dance will fly in this thing? I think it would, if it was up to the discretion of the referee. Cuz I always went to the corner of the end zone, got away from everybody. They followed me, that's their fault. They followed me, I didn't want any trouble. So I think it would get by. Was there anybody else doing end zone celebrations? But when you started doing that? Probably, I don't know. Yeah, different guys did different things in the end zone. They're like the guy in Detroit or who else, they were a couple out there. I can't recall right now. How much did you see people's events? How much did you see that started to happen a lot more after you? It happened, I think the reason it happened was because they wanted that 12th man, they wanted to appreciate themselves to the fans.  Ask Warren, when the Astrodome was full, what was that like? What was the atmosphere like then? It was electric, it really was. And then they had the little marquee of the time, talking about Go Oilers or whomever it was. It was just exciting at that time. People all coming together seeing that ocean of blue up there with the little pom-poms, it was fun. If you're familiar with Julio from your days in Atlanta, what do you think about what he brings to the Titans and AJ Brown as well? Whoa, when they start hitting on all cylinders, I'd hate to be the defense to try and stop them with Julio and Henry. Those guys, I mean, along and then the other weapons they have, they're going to be unstoppable. And I know it's going to take some time for them to gel, but I'm waiting for that moment. I may ask you what on Bum too, just since he's going in the ring of on this weekend, what do you remember most about playing for him and some of his sayings, maybe stay with you today? Bum was really interesting. Yeah, he would do well today with some of the players. He tried to take their talent and let them do what they did best of all, and incorporate to his scheme. It wasn't trying to make it all generic. He just knew everybody individually of what strong suits they had. And I think that's what made us successful. Well, I had a singing career and that was one of the things we used to do. Go on stage and I will be the first act and I will go out. I'm lying, you know, that's not true. Sounded like a good night, fellas. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.