First Impressions Team

OK, we are going to talk about this topic next Tuesday Night at your YWT meeting, but I thought I would pre-empt that discussion with this blog so that you can be thinking and praying about it before the conversation begins. I have felt led to start a "First Impressions" team for FOCUS Factor Ministries on Wednesday Nights and possibly Sunday mornings. We have, in the past three years, had A LOT of visitors come to youth group and Sunday morning. The usual thing that happens on Wednesday Nights is that they come up very timidly either with a friend or on their own, trying something new, and just stand outside the Casa looking around and wondering what to do. I feel we have lost a lot of people because they weren't made to feel welcome! I cannot tell you the number of people that give Wednesday Nights a "shot" and end up coming for a month or less and then we never see them again. I can't help but believe if we had done a better job of helping them feel welcomed and connected they would've found their fit and stayed. I don't want to lose people due to a lack of showing them God's love in simple and easy ways. What do you all think about this? We would definitely need some teen buy in, but I think we can get that as long as we have some adults helping out as well. Thanks for all that you do and for your heart for the teens. Have an awesome weekend.

-Joel