Grow Youth & Kids Ministry

If you use either the Grow Curriculum or the Attendance tracker this app is a must have. It has the small group discussion guide for the curriculum, the attendance tracker and now it has groups! I had my entire volunteer team download this app as we use both the curriculum and tracker and now I don’t have to worry about printing off backup lessons. Plus with the groups my team can now focus on their individual small group without being overwhelmed by everyone’s information. It’s great and a must have but not quite perfect. There are a ton of passwords that you have to keep track of. There is a password for the curriculum, a password for each group you create and a password for each event you check in with. Plus there is not a simple way to import all of say the 6th graders into one small group. You have to do each student individually for each group you create. If I could give this a 4.5 I would because a 4 seems too low for something my team and I love and use on a regular basis.

This app makes it so much easier to be organized and prepared for youth ministry, especially if you use Grow curriculum (but not necessary). I can easily review the small group questions ahead of time, have an icebreaker if the group needs some motivation to participate, as well as other helpful resources to encourage and help youth leaders grow (see what I did there? 😃) The check-in feature is great to actually start tracking which youth have attended and who is missing. No more guess work. I’ve never used a database system regularly in the past but this helps me feel way more connected to which students are actually coming and who I need to reach out to for missing. I love everything Kenny and Elle are doing. The Facebook group is amazing to learn from other youth leaders. The free resources are better than most paid resources from other places. It has hands down made me a better youth leader and is doing its part to expand the kingdom of God here on earth. Thank you for all that the Stuff You Can Use team is doing!

Seriously, this is what you have been looking for for your ministry. It is more than a curriculum. Grow helps provide a scope and sequence for your teaching each year along with small group questions/materials, mission opportunities for your students to own their faith outside the youth room and so much more! I’ve used dozens of different curriculum over the years. This is the first one that I’ve found to be both Spiritually DEEP & easy for students to relate too. I absolutely love the curriculum dashboard and the simplicity it provides for tailoring the message to my specific group. Stop reading reviews and order GROW right now. Your students, your parents and your Church Administrators will thank you!