First Five Responses Get a Free Membership

So read this quickly!

by Sam O'Neal

We've got a mini-dilemma happening here at the SmallGroups.com International Headquarters. A little more than a month ago, we decided to create a YouTube channel as a way to help our readers exchange stories about small-groups ministry.

The idea was to feature a new question every month, and then have readers (such as you) record little videos that answered those questions and upload them on YouTube. As an incentive for participation (and to get the ball rolling on the videos), we decided to randomly award a free SmallGroups.com membership to five people who participated each month.

Here's a little video we put together to introduce the idea:

Now here's the dilemma: it is March 2nd, which is the day I am supposed to randomly select five winners from the people who have submitted videos in February. But there have been a grand total of zero videos submitted. This is our fault, of course. We intended to use this blog as the main vehicle of promoting the YouTube channel, but delays pushed the launch date back to just last week. So nobody is really aware of the whole YouTube thing yet.

Therefore, I am going to turn this lemon of a situation into a chance for you pioneering readers of this blog to drink some nice, refreshing lemonade. Simply put, the first five people who submit a video to our YouTube channel will receive a free membership to SmallGroups.com.

All you've got to do is record yourself talking about one of your favorite small-groups memories, then upload the video to YouTube (it's free to create an account if you don't have one). Once your video is up, send us a message with the link. (You can send a message through YouTube, or just e-mail me at "smallgroups at christianitytoday.com")

If you're interested, check out this link for the official rules: http://smallgroups.com/multimedia/contest.html