Friday, April 25, 2008

What is Your Plan? Part 3

In Part 2 we took a look at doing youth ministry events on purpose.

If we just “wing it” and plan on a whim we end up doing youth ministry without considering how the activity will impact student’s lives and their parent’s wallets.  How much planning will really go into pulling off the event successfully if we fail to plan properly we could actually do more damage than good.  I'm sure I'm not the only one that had an event or activity that was a total flop.

 Some ideas when planning an events calendar:

>Decide what purposes you want to accomplish in your events for the year.

>Gather your church’s calendar dates for events that are already on the calendar to avoid conflicting dates.

>Gather your school’s calendars, if possible, to avoid conflicting dates.

>Decide what annual event’s you will participate in (camps, mission trips, youth conferences) 

>Try, when possible, to spread out events and activities that have a higher registration fees, try to not hit the pocket book all at once.

 Sitting down and spending some time in planning and thinking about the year’s events can really take a stress or burden off of you as a youth leader.  I know what direction you are heading as a youth ministry.  I know what I need to be thinking about and planning for upcoming events, it helps to know in February what my October event is and the planning steps that need to happen between now and then.  It makes life easier in recruiting volunteers to help with an event.

 How do you accomplish all of this if you are a volunteer youth leader or a group of volunteers?  We will tackle that in Part 4.

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