Last night we went old school. We met at the church at 4pm and then loaded up in vehicles and headed out. The girls went to Cloud 9 a jewelry making shop in Nags Head and they got to make necklaces. From what I hear they had a great time and from what I saw they did a great job creating their own jewelry. I was impressed with their bead working skills. The guys went to Nags Head Bowling. We had a great time hanging out and competing lane against lane. Lots of fun. After our adventures at Cloud 9 and the Bowling center we met back at the church for supper together. Some parents hung out at the church while we were having fun and cooked a full on spaghetti dinner with salad, bread and cake. I wasn't there in the kitchen but I'm pretty sure the parents had a good time of fellowship as they cooked. It was very good. We dined in the big lobby and ate on 44 feet of table. It looked like a king's dining hall. Lots of fun!
The parents did a fantastic job! Which brings me to the point of this post. Last night's event was:
1. Inexpensive (important right now with the shape the economy is in)
2. Lots of fun (you don't have to go to an amusement park to have fun)
3. Impossible without the involvement of parents (youth ministry is parent ministry)
Youth Ministries need to realize the value in teaming up with parents and getting parents involved in events, activities and in the youth ministry as a whole. Our parents knocked it out of the park last night as they drove students and prepared the meal.
Destination Unknown is very easy to plan:
- Decide where you will go
- Cost of the event for the students (will you pull money out of the budget)
- Contact the location of the event and make plans with the management (well in advance)
- Promote the event with the parents well in advance
- Invite parents to join in and help, weeks ahead.
- Promote the event with the students for at least two months in advance.
- A Destination Unknown would be a great event to have a ministry team put together and pull off.
3 comments:
Do you think having a big Saturday night event (that was very successful) had an impact on the low turn out for Contagious tonight?
And now that you have youth on Sunday night, would you consider a Super Bowl party next year?
We had more students on Super Bowl Sunday night than ever before. Over half the youth group was here.
A super bowl party requires either cable or sattelite costing over $400 per year. I don't know that a super bowl party is worth that much?
I don't think the big Sat. night event impacted the attendance, b/c most of the kids that were at the event were also at youth group. I don't have actual statistics for that, I'm just remembering who was with us.
I heard lots of postive comments about Sat night. At first, they didn't like being 'segregated' but came back with lots of positive comments.
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