{"id":732,"date":"2009-05-15T06:53:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T06:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/05\/fm-static-teams-up-with-youth.html"},"modified":"2009-05-15T06:53:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T06:53:55","slug":"fm-static-teams-up-with-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/05\/fm-static-teams-up-with-youth.html","title":{"rendered":"FM Static Teams Up With Youth Specialties For &#8220;Dear Diary&#8221; Devotional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vids.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&#038;videoid=55167331\">Boy Moves To A New Town With Optimistic Outlook by FM Static<\/a><br \/><object width=\"425px\" height=\"360px\" ><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/mediaservices.myspace.com\/services\/media\/embed.aspx\/m=55167331,t=1,mt=video\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/mediaservices.myspace.com\/services\/media\/embed.aspx\/m=55167331,t=1,mt=video\" width=\"425\" height=\"360\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object>Pop punk band FM Static, side project for Thousand Foot Krutch&#8217;s Static singer-songwriter Trevor McNevan and drummer Steve Augustine, has teamed up with Youth Specialties  to create a free devotional guide for youth pastors based on the band&#8217;s latest concept album, <em>Dear Diary<\/em>. The &#8220;Dear Diary&#8221; Bible study guide is designed to be uses as a Vacation Bible School or outreach for teens.&#8221;It&#8217;s a fresh modern day twist on the traditional Bible study as we know it,&#8221; says McNevan. &#8220;This goes hand in hand with the story and the songs on the record.  It&#8217;s a more in-depth look at life&#8217;s questions and makes the points made in the story more relatable and conversation based.&#8221;<!--more-->The study takes 10 days for the youth group to complete, using one song per day from the album. Each teen will listen to one song per day followed by a corresponding verse given by their youth leader via Facebook, Twitter, phone or email. The youth leader then provides a series of questions to ponder that correspond to that day&#8217;s verse. &#8220;<em>Dear Diary<\/em> captures so well the teen angst and the &#8216;unavoidable battle of feeling on the outside&#8217; that youth workers see on a daily basis as they minister to kids,&#8221; states Bethany Marvin of Youth Specialties. &#8220;The music itself says that where there may not be answers, there is still a purpose.  Communicating that message is at the heart of every youth worker&#8217;s ministry. We hope the downloaded Bible study will be used as a tool to take the listener that much closer to the powerful message woven throughout this record.&#8221;Youth leaders just need to go to www.fmstatic.com\/devo and download the PDF guide.  The video above is  &#8220;Boy Moves to A New Town with Optimistic Outlook&#8221; from the band&#8217;s new album, which debuted on Billboard&#8217;s Top 200, and came in on theTop 5 iTunes Rock chart and Top 30 of the iTunes overall album chart.<em><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=GospelSoundcheck&amp;loc=en_US\">Click here to subscribe to Gospel Soundcheck by email <\/a>and have the Gospel Soundcheck headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. 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