As many youth pastors have been forced to learn, facebook can be a very helpful tool to them in the youth ministry field. There are several different ways in which facebook can help your youth ministry.
1. Private messaging- Many students have gone away from using email because of all the spam and the convenience of using facebook messaging. This allows youth pastors to send mass facebook messages, but in a private way just to the members of their youth group facebook group.
2. Youth Group facebook group- Students can join this group on facebook and recieve the messages for the group. Along with messages and announcements, these students can share photos, videos, and have a blog type thing within the group to share thoughts. They can find others from the youth group in the facebook group and add them to their friends list.
3. Event RSVP- With having facebook, it is free and easy to make facebook event postings for any youth group events. This is something that can be openly viewed by anyone, or only people within the group. With these events students can mark if they are attending, not attending, or maybe attending, aloowing the youth staff to get a better view of the numbers.
4. News Application- This is a program that provides a news feed on all the latest news within friends on facebook. A youth pastor could put updates about events, or any other announcements on this for the students to see when they log on to facebook. Again it is a free and easy way to get the word out.
5. Track the youth's activity- although this is a reason that some students do not wish to be facebook friends with their youth pastors in fear that they will constantly be checking up on them, it can serve as a good conversation and accountability piece. The youth pastor, if friends with the student on facebook, can look at pictures, wall posts, and news feed that will somewhat update the person on what they have done.
In majority it is a very helpful tool when used in the right way, it can do great things for a youth group to connect to youth pastor!
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