The Fall Party
We just had our Fall/Harvest Party this last Saturday and I wanted to get some feedback on it from the YWT people who were there. My opinion was that it was not as fun as last year doing the "Amazing Race" but still it was a good time. I liked that I saw quite a few new faces (maybe 5 to 7) and that the turnout was OK! I still struggle with the teens not getting excited about anything though, this included.
I REALLY want to start a "Greeting Team" with teens and adults for Wednesday Nights to make those who are new feel welcomed and valued within the first 10 minutes they walk up the stairs. I will talk about this at our next meeting though. We bought a new camera for the teens and it is pretty sweet. I think it will take the GREAT pictures that we want after we get trained on it a little more. I am going to buy a $20.00 training DVD for that camera so that those who want to operate it can at least get a beginning course it using it since it isn't just a "point and shoot" camera. I have watched the tutorial and know a lot more now than when I started. It should be good.
Well, thanks for all that you all do. God is working through us.
-Joel
posted by JHealthNutG @ 10/23/2007 01:50:00 PM
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Who are the teens whom we see as leaders in the youth group? Do they see themselves as leaders, or is their potential for them to be leaders it is simply not realized or developed? If we do in fact have one or the other in focus factor ministries, would it even be possible to sit down with that person as a team to collaborate on their persepective of Focus Factor, if they see the teens becoming involved, and if not...why not, and what would it take from the leaders to get the followers more involved in the activities and out of a me-me-me society? Or is this, but an endless and hopeless downward spiral of inactivity and lack of focus from the model played out by the parents...and then their teenagers. From an optimistic standpoint, just because it may or may not be headed in that direction...doesn't mean that it has to continue that way. Remmeber, cats were an afterthought because Adam got tired of throwing rocks into the water...it was much more entertaining to see the cats race to get to dry land. There certainly must be a way to break the vicious cycle of the lack of involvement and excitement on the part of these students with whom we live life.
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