A “Brain-Stretching” Week So Far
This is my first post all week because I have been in three full days of youth ministry discussions that has captured my thinking. Without going into details, here are nutshell highlights of some discussions I’ve been in:
1) Our student ministry “Core Leadership” (department heads, directors and regional campus leads) escaped for a couple of days to discuss two key areas: 1, what do you LOVE and HATE about youth ministry? 2, What did you think about this book (I had an advanced copy that I photocopied, with the author’s permission, to give the team)? Both discussions were really rich and the second one led to some great conversation about how we can better train our adult leaders to be good question askers, listeners and fellow journeyers instead of “answer givers” and “information imparters”.
2) We talked A LOT about what a good “entry level” weekly large-group program for students really looks like. How important is a tight program? Is a program that is jam-packed with games, videos, comedy bits etc. really all that much better than a fairly trimmed-down program? Do students value the production quality as much as we think they do? Would we be better off spending less time during the week on production of the program and more time with the leaders and students who come to it?
3) Today I was with a group of about 20 junior high youth workers and we talked about a bunch of different stuff. We talked about teaching: How important [...]


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