Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
This is the second post featuring my Young Women’s Personal Progress V{owl}ue Owls! These cute owls are the perfect way to encourage your girls to work on Personal Progress. Each unique owl corresponds to one of the Personal Progress Values: … Continue reading →
I know teachers with problems showing videos in church all over the world. The church typically relies on the very lowest bandwidth residential connections it can get, which causes problems for a media-hungry curriculum like Come Follow Me. The Come Follow Me site has a page that teaches you how to avoid the bandwidth crush as several teachers try to display the same videos during class at the same time….
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AC expressed a common concern on the LDS Seminary Teacher Facebook Group: “I’m a new teacher this year, not creative at all and need desperate help. I have my two boys in my class and they both tell me I’m boring.” Here’s what I said: Please know that everything I’m about to say is intended to be helpful. Please read it in that context.1) Consider the source. Your own children…
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Most gospel teachers struggle with classroom participation. Sometimes you’ll get a classroom of students who are very active and loud, and other times you may have a classroom of very quiet students. We want students to enjoy each other, but “between the prayers” we want them to talk about the gospel — not Friday night’s game. Following are some ideas to help you increase appropriate discussion in your classroom: Talk…
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After a lesson is complete, you may feel elated or even discouraged. Evaluating your teaching is an important, often neglected, step that can help you improve as a teacher. Evaluating your lessons is the “report” part of the Return and Report pattern taught in the temple. Reporting, by asking questions of yourself, prayerfully consulting the Lord, speaking with another teacher or leader, or blogging experiences, can help you develop Here are…
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The upcoming 2015 Youth theme was recently (unofficially) announced, and it’s found in one of my favorite chapters of the Doctrine & Covenants.
Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day.
Doctrine and Covenants 4:2
I don’t know about you, but I’m super excited about this theme! It seems like the themes they choose sort of build on each other, going from Stand in Holy Places, to Come Unto Christ, and now Embark in the Service of God. To first focus on building and strengthening yourself, and now putting the emphasis on building and serving others. That’s a huge pattern in this Gospel, and things like Personal Progress testify of the power in this pattern.
NEW! (10/20/14) At popular request I’ve created additional Youth Theme posters keeping with the same styles as before. The first style is now readily available in six color schemes, in one easily downloaded PDF. I also have the 2000 x 2500 JPG files for each poster, if that’s a preferable file type for printing. I will continue to provide custom colored posters upon request.
The second style I have is a variation on one I had available previously. The text has remained more or less the same, but the background is now a simple chevron instead of the wave pattern done previously. There are two different types of this theme available now. Upon hearing the comments of several, I’ve done one where the A in EMBARK is replaced with the sailboat art. Both types are available in four different styles, with differently shaded backdrops, and one without the chevron. Likewise, I will be offering this second style in custom colors upon request, and they are available as both PDF and JPG files.
Many have asked about ordering these posters. I am not selling any of these posters—they are 100% free! My job is only to create the files. If you want a physical poster, you would need to take it to a printing store (OfficeMax, Costco, Staples, Office Depot, Kinkos, etc.) and have them print it for you (or if you have a good home printer and want a stand 8.5 x 11). They are can be printed in good quality up to 20 x 25 inches.
To download the PDF, click on the large image above in the corresponding theme, and for JPG click on the individual thumbnails directly below.
Anyway, on to the fun stuff! Inspired by this theme, I’ve thrown together several posters.
I personally think they’re super cute, especially the last one! I will actually be offering to do the first one in custom colors—just email me at [email protected].
I really hope these are useful! I may be uploading more depending on my time and creative energy, and if you have any questions of suggestions, leave them in the comments.
NOTE: The contest is over and the winner has been chosen and contacted via email. Introducing my latest project: Young Women’s Personal Progress V{owl}ue Owls! These cute owls are the perfect way to encourage your girls to work on Personal … Continue reading →
I have a complicated relationship with Seminary. I love studying the gospel as a group every single day, but I don’t like the waking up at 5:00 every morning and sitting in heavy traffic. Somehow, though, I’ve survived it so far. That being said, I l…
I’ve been trying to find a good system for studying and marking scriptures as I prepare for a new year of Seminary. I found several great systems, that I’m sure would work well for many other types of people, but for me personally I wanted something en…
This logo can be used on Youth Conference T shirts or whatever else for the 2015 mutual theme. You have my permission to use it on any item you will not sell for profit. It shows the #serveHim with a heart, lightning (might), head (mind), and buff arm (strength). Please don’t remove my URL, and please don’t edit this file and pretend it’s yours.
These images were created to go with the 2015 mutual theme: Embark in the service of God. The images are from the verse D&C 4:2, which mentions serving God with your heart, might, might, and strength. You can use these images on stuff you won’t sell for profit. Please don’t alter them and put them on your website and pretend that they are yours. We hates that.
By JOLLY ROGERS After learning that a number of the girls from our ward did not complete their certification at Girls Camp last year (in some cases because they didn’t do the scripture-study portion), I really wanted to encourage all of the girls in our ward to certify for the year at Girls Camp this summer. Throwing pies at my face is always favorite activity, and its been a while…
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THIS WEBSITE WILL CEASE OPERATIONS ON DEC 31, 2018.
We are moving to http://NoBoringLessons.com/ where you can find Come Follow Me Lesson ideas for the new 2019 curriculum Dismiss
