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11.1.20

 

Your November Resources Are Here!

So…finding a funny .GIF on anxiety and 2020 was the easiest work we have done all year. Now to the good stuff…

We originally set out to offer you a brief snippet on anxiety within last’s month content, but the Lord had much more in store. Like loaves and fishes, one interview turned into three podcasts, a fabulous Toolbox Resource, and more.

Centered around how to help families lead (step four in the M2P Roadmap of building a parent ministry), you can offer families HOPE amidst a global pandemic.

A BIG thank you to Jason Gibson, from @lunchwithjason_ and parenttv.com, who offered his expertise and wisdom for the content. Be sure to invite your families to follow @lunchwithjason_ for parenting ideas in real life.

As we move into the Thanksgiving season, we are very aware of the privilege and responsibility of supporting you in your ministry. Thank you for the opportunity.

~ The M2P Team

TOOLBOX

What Is It?

This e-book includes 9 stand-alone handouts on anxiety, including:

  • What Is Anxiety?
  • Two Ways People Cope with Anxiety
  • Four Phases of Anxiety
  • Simple, At-Home Exercises
  • How to Build a Team: Create Support for You and Your Child
  • How to Parent When You Have Anxiety
  • Two Mistakes to Avoid When Parenting Anxious Children
  • How to Take the Temperature of Your Home
  • How to Connect to the Heart of Your Child

How To Use It?

There are multiple ways to use this resource.

  • Download the PDF and email it straight to parents. Invite parents to follow @lunchwithjason_ on Instagram for quick parenting ideas in real life.
  • Pull out the 9 stand-alone handouts from the e-book and email each handout over a certain time period, such as the holidays, summer, or during a quarantine. See the examples below.

Theme Examples

  • It’s 9 weeks until 2020 is over! So for the next 9 weeks, we are going to email you one simple and easy resource on anxiety!
  • 9 Ways to Start the New Year Right…One Day At A Time. (Email 1 handout a day.)
  • Is your teen or child distance learning? Has anxiety increased in your home? We have you covered. Over the next few weeks, we are going to email you practical resources to help with anxiety.
  • During a global pandemic, we know students and their parents can feel anxious. We have a quick and easy guide to help you walk through it with ease.
  • As you head into summer, we want your teenager to enjoy the holiday! So we want to support them (and you!) by giving you some quick tips on how to reduce anxiety. Each week, we will email you a quick note. Be on the lookout!

Click “Toolbox” to download your training resource.

THANKSGIVING: 3 GRATITUDE ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN

Thanksgiving is soon approaching, and this U.S. holiday is an incredible season for parents to be able to pass down their faith. In 1 Thessalonians 5:18, it says, “Be thankful in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you, for those who belong to Christ Jesus.” So we offer parents a short video themed on Thanksgiving with 3 easy, practical activities you can do with your children to teach gratitude.

Click “Online Parenting” to view your OPC, video script, social media swag, and direct-to-parent emails.

*Some leaders send themed material to parents. If this is you, be sure to check out the OPC Library for videos on Anxiety.

 

Anxiety is on the rise as teenagers figure out how to live life in a global pandemic. What masks do I wear in school? How do I meet with teachers online? Why do I have to sit six feet apart from my friends at the game? (We really do feel for those teenagers right now…can they really stay far apart?!?).  And because students feel anxiety, so do their parents. Therefore, M2P kicks off a new series for church leaders on how to help your families deal with anxiety.

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PLAN YOUR 2021 VIRTUAL PARENTING SEMINAR IN ONE CLICK!

This Parent Seminar Kit gives you everything you need to plan, promote, and pull off a parenting seminar WITHOUT PAYING for a speaker!

CLICK HERE TO HEAR FROM JEREMY

The Kit includes:

  • Session 1 Video: Connecting to Your Kid’s Heart through Relationship (1 Hr.).
  • Session 2 Video: Connecting to Your Kid’s Soul through Spiritual Leadership (1 Hr.).
  • Presentation Slides in Keynote, Powerpoint, and Image files that can be uploaded into other presentation software.
  • Printable Listening Guides to give to parents during the event.
  • Discussion Questions that can be used during the event.
  • Promotional Graphics to help you spread the word about the event.
  • Promotional video that invites parents to attend the seminar.
  • Pre-written text that describes the seminar for use in promotion.
  • Jeremy Lee’s bio and picture for use in promotion.

What Is It?

For years, Jeremy Lee, Founder and Co-Owner of Ministry to Parents, presented parent seminars around the country on the parents leading their kids spiritually. A trend began to form in his discussion with parents after the seminar. They didn’t want to talk about spiritual leadership, but instead, they had other questions.

He realized, before he could ever help parents connect to their kids’ souls through spiritual leadership, he realized he had to help them connect to their kids’ hearts through a healthy relationship.

Jeremy worked to put the material together and then hit the road going to several churches to practice the material and get feedback. After ten years of leading parent seminars, he never had such positive feedback from parents!

So Jeremy recorded the material to make the Heart and Soul Parenting Seminar accessible for everyone anywhere.

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How Anxiety Affects The Home

What Is It?

This e-book includes 9 stand-alone handouts on anxiety, including:

  • What Is Anxiety?
  • Two Ways People Cope with Anxiety
  • Four Phases of Anxiety
  • Simple, At-Home Exercises
  • How to Build a Team: Create Support for You and Your Child
  • How to Parent When You Have Anxiety
  • Two Mistakes to Avoid When Parenting Anxious Children
  • How to Take the Temperature of Your Home
  • How to Connect to the Heart of Your Child

How Do I Use It?

There are multiple ways to use this resource.

  • Download the PDF and email it straight to parents. Invite parents to follow @lunchwithjason_ on Instagram for quick parenting ideas in real life.
  • Pull out the 9 stand-alone handouts from the e-book and email each handout over a certain time period, such as the holidays, summer, or during a quarantine. See the examples below.

Theme Examples

  • It’s 9 weeks until 2020 is over! So for the next 9 weeks, we are going to email you one simple and easy resource on anxiety!
  • 9 Ways to Start the New Year Right…One Day At A Time. (Email 1 handout a day.)
  • Are your children distance learning? Has anxiety increased in your home? We have got you covered. Over the next few weeks, we are going to email you practical resources to help anxiety in children and parents.
  • During a global pandemic, we know children and their parents can feel anxious. We have a quick and easy guide to help you walk through it with ease.
  • As you head into summer, we want your kids to enjoy the holiday! So we want to support them (and you!) by giving you some quick tips on how to reduce anxiety. Each week, we will email you a quick note. Be on the lookout!

 

TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF, CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW.

10.27.20

(Another!) Exclusive for M2P Members! New Partner Resource!

We’re excited to offer M2P Members this exclusive WEEKEND EVENT RESOURCE Ebook from our friends at YM360!

Click TOOLBOX: EVENTS to view your new resource.

New Podcast! 

This episode is the last installment of the podcast series “How To Help Families In Crisis.”  Jeremy and Elisabeth Lee, owners of M2P, share their story with cancer to offer insights for church leaders in how to support and serve families battling cancer. 

This episode offers an insider perspective and helpful ministry tips on an issue many families face.

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Ministry Blueprints: Disciple Now and Retreat Weekends E-book

YM360 is offering M2P Members “Youth Ministry Blueprints: Disciple Now and Retreat Weekends” E-book which includes every detail you will EVER need!

WHAT IS IT?

This e-book is a quick reference guide for all of your Event Resource needs. Whether you have planned one-hundred events, or this is your first, YM360 answers every question that might come up including real-life examples of what to do, such as timelines, checklists, and example forms.

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

  • Major Decisions
  • Regi(Fru)strations
  • Marketing and Advertising
  • Recruiting Volunteers
  • 3 Months Out
  • 1 Month Out
  • Planning Services
  • Week Before Your Event
  • During Your Event
  • Following Up From Your Event

For more YM360 resources such as games, Bible Studies, training, and more, click HERE. You can also follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for even more goodies!

HOW DO I USE IT?

Click the picture below to download the E-book.

 

 

 

Virtual DNow Guidebook

WHAT IS IT?

Gatherings with our students have disappeared. Our ministry partners at YM360 want you to be equipped to continue to make an impact in the lives of your students, even if you can’t be in the room with them. Let YM360 take the guesswork out of how to pull off a virtual event with this Virtual DNow Guidebook.

This guidebook includes:

  • Moving Small Groups to Zoom
  • Event Schedule
  • Zoom Tips & Instruction Guide
  • How to Use Zoom as a Participant
  • Group Activity Ideas

For more YM360 resources such as games, Bible Studies, training, and more, click HERE. You can also follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for even more goodies!

HOW DO I USE IT?

Click the picture below to download the Guidebook.

 

 

 

Anxiety

ANXIETY: COPING MECHANISMS FOR CHILDREN WHO STRUGGLE WITH ANXIETY

EMAIL 1

Copy/Paste the email below.

Subject Line: Are your children struggling with anxiety?

Dear (Insert Parent Name Here),

Due to a global pandemic experience, anxiety is on the rise in children of all ages. Some occasionally experience anxiety, while others are daily. To help introduce the topic, we have a brand new, encouraging, (and short!) video for you that includes some basic starting points on how to help your child.

To view the video, click the link below.

https://vimeo.com/parentministry/review/463193419/bf72d1825d

As always, I am here to support you as parents. If you need anything, please do not hesitate to reach out.

(Insert Signature Here)

EMAIL 2

Copy/Paste the email below.

Subject Line: Ideas on how to help anxious children

Dear (Insert Parent Name Here),

If your child struggles with anxiety on any level,  you are not alone. Anxiety has increased among children, especially since the global pandemic. As some of your biggest fans, we want to support you in the parent journeying.

We have a short, encouraging video that includes a few simple ideas on how to help a child with anxiety. To view the video, click the link below.

https://vimeo.com/parentministry/review/463193419/bf72d1825d

If you have any questions, thoughts, or want to talk further about the subject, please reach out.

Cheering you on,

(Insert Signature Here)

VIDEO

SOCIAL MEDIA SWAG

Anyone struggle with anxiety in your family? Check your inbox for a short, encouraging parent video to help!

Learn more from our new parent video on anxiety. Parents, check your inbox for more!

Anxiety can create a loop of worry and fearful thoughts in your child’s head. Learn more in our brief parent video. Check your inbox for more.

ANXIETY: Coping Mechanisms for Children who Struggle with Anxiety. Parents, check your inbox for our new, brief, encouraging video!

VIDEO SCRIPT

If your child struggles with anxiety, you know that this is probably something you need to seek professional help because it is no joke. We all understand that we have some level of anxiety. But for some of us, the anxiety is so real. You know that really annoying song we used to sing? “This is the song that never ends. It just goes on and on, my friends.” And you just keep singing that over and over again, having that same song in your head over, and over, and over, and over? Yeah. That’s what anxiety can become for our kids, this never-ending song in their heads. But instead of the lyrics of a cheesy song, it’s a fear or a worry that they just simply can’t stop thinking about. And it quite literally grinds their brain down. If you’re a parent of a kid with anxiety, I don’t have to explain any further. You live it almost on a daily basis.

And yes, as I said earlier, professional help is probably something you’ll need to check out to see how they can find some coping mechanisms to help them. Here are some of the things you might discover if you went and sought help. You might discover that you can name that worry and anxiety and separate it from yourself. What that means is for your child, especially when they go through some crisis or some big, huge life moment, your child can help separate my stress, worry, and fear from who I am. It’s so important to separate that from their identity. I am a person, and I am here, and God is with me. And yes, also, there is a loop of worried and fearful thoughts in my head. And I can name those, and they are there, and I can deal with them.

But I am dealing with them; they aren’t dealing with me. The next thing to think through that a licensed professional might help you process with your child is to teach them how to take small steps towards a big fear. One of the things we sometimes do when we have fears is we say, “Conquer your fear, attack your fear.” But for those who struggle with anxiety, the fear is like a huge giant, and telling them to conquer it is like telling someone to charge hell with a water pistol, right? It feels impossible. And that is the reason why we can cope by saying, “Hey, if you have a huge fear of going on our family vacation across the country, then why don’t we take small steps towards that? And maybe this weekend, let’s just drive 30 minutes to go somewhere that’s new. And let’s experience that and build that muscle and help grow towards this thing that we’re afraid of.” You see, there’s a lot of great ways that professionals can help you and your child think through anxiety, especially after crisis.

One of my favorites is for you to be able to insert faith into that, for your child to begin to be able to, like the scripture says, “Be anxious about nothing, but with prayer and petition, present your worries to God.” That idea of leveraging prayer as a way to separate those anxious thoughts and worries and giving them somewhere. One coping mechanism could be that they would literally write them down to get them out of their head and put them somewhere else. But our faith allows us to say those to God, and say, “God, I want to give them to you.” Anxiety, especially after crisis, can feel crushing. But if you struggle with anxiety, a normal day can feel like a crisis every single day. So whether you’re going through crisis or whether you’re just struggling with anxiety, you can find hope when you go seek out those professionals and allow God to use them in the life of your child, to help them bring peace in the midst of all of that crazy anxiety.

10.1.20

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Your October Resources Are Here!

In the last few months, images of medical health care professionals flash across the screen, offering much-deserved gratitude for their work on the front lines. These images remind us of you, the church leader on the front lines of ministry.

Because of your essential work, our team created done-for-you resources to help you encourage families in crisis. We cover:

DIVORCE
ADDICTION
DEATH
CANCER**

We hope these tools help you in some way. Thank you for the privilege of partnership.

~ Elisabeth and Jeremy Lee & the M2P Team

**An earlier version listed Anxiety, but due to the quantity of the content, we gave it a whole month…can you guess November’s theme?

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PODCAST featuring

DIVORCE

Tammy Daughtry, founder of CoParenting International

ADDICTION

Dr. Chip Dodd, founder of Sage Hill, speaker, and author of 8 books

DEATH

Philip Robinson, author of Forgiveness in the First Degree

CANCER

Elisabeth and Jeremy Lee, Co-Owners of M2P

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How to Help Families Going Through Divorce (Do & Don’t)

One Mom’s Story about Her Son’s Prescription Addiction

How to Help Families Grieving a Death

How to Help Families Going Through Cancer

TOOLBOX: Kids Edition

What Is It?

Times of crisis are difficult and can be life-changing for students of all ages. This toolbox resource helps you care for families in crisis in the areas of Divorce, Addiction, and Death. Each section offers:

  • Hints & Helps
  • Email/ Direct Message Templates
  • Care Package
  • Follow Up
  • Resources Handout

How Do I Use It?

There are multiple ways to use this resource.

  • Download the PDF and save the file under the folder “Families in Crisis” for future use.
  • Click the TextEdit file to easily copy/paste the pre-written emails and texts as needed.
  • Print the “Resource Handout” section of the Toolbox and give it to families in need.
  • Print the “Care Package” section of the Toolbox and ask volunteers to give to families.
  • Email it to your volunteers for an online training session.
  • Host a volunteer training on the subject “Families in Crisis” and use the PDF for training.

Click “Toolbox” to download your training resource.

OPC KIDS EDITION
ANXIETY: COPING MECHANISMS FOR CHILDREN WHO STRUGGLE WITH ANXIETY

Anxiety has increased among children, especially since the global pandemic. We have a short, encouraging video that includes a few simple ideas on helping a child with anxiety.

Click “Online Parenting” to view your OPC, video script, social media swag, and direct-to-parent emails.

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A Quick Guide to Helping Families in Crisis (Divorce, Addiction, and Death)

What Is It?

Times of crisis are difficult for parents and can be lifechanging for children. This toolbox resource helps you care for families in crisis in the areas of Divorce, Addiction, and Death. Each section offers:

  • Hints & Helps
  • Email/ Direct Message Templates
  • Care Package
  • Follow Up
  • Resources Handout

How To Use It?

There are multiple ways to use this resource.

  • Save the file under the folder “Families in Crisis” for future use.
  • Download the TextEdit file and copy/paste the pre-written emails and texts as needed.
  • Print the “Resource Handout” section of the Toolbox and give it to families in need.
  • Print the “Care Package” section of the Toolbox and ask volunteers to give to families.
  • Email it to your volunteers for an online training session.
  • Host a volunteer training on the subject “Families in Crisis” and use the PDF for training.
TO DOWNLOAD THE TEXTEDIT FILE, CLICK HERE.
TO DOWNLOAD THE DOCUMENT IN WORD, CLICK HERE.
TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF, CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW.