End of the Year Get Together

I was talking with my wife the other day on the way home from youth group on Wednesday Night and I feel like a failure when it comes to communicating with my volunteers for FOCUS Factor Ministries! I am not sure where the ball is dropped but it seems like I am always behind in getting the information to you, casting the vision and just plain being able to talk with you to see how your life is going. I have tried numerous things to be better at this and they all seem to fail. First, we had YWT meetings every month and it was extremly hard to get more than 3 people to show up (which I understand because I am not a big fan of meetings), then we decided to go to a once a quarter meeting and we still were lucky to get 3 people to show up. I realized that the meeting thing wasn't working so I started this blog hoping that we could have some good communication between the youth workers and for whatever reason this really hasn't succeeded as well! I know some of you have had problems trying to get it to work and maybe don't fully understand how to post a comment. The one event that we've done as a YWT that was a success and had 100% attendance was our Christmas Party!

I am going to try and use this model to make sure I am better at communicating things to you. I think if we had three "parties" a year in order for me to communicate vision, expectations, thankfullness and ideas to you it may work! I think the three best times to do this would be rigth at the beginning of the summer (in order to thank you for the last year and be able to recap how things went and what we could do better), another at the beginning of the school year (in order to share with you expectations, vision for the next school year, discuss ideas on how to be better and thank you for volunteering another year) and finally have one during Christmas time (in order to make sure we are upholding our commitments, see where we are heading and see what is working and what is not)! I am not sure this model will work either, but at least there will be food there all three times :)! Let me know what you think about this idea. I know schedules are busy but if we cannot meet as a team we will all be doing our own things and won't have synergy.

-Joel