Youth Ministry Team Meeting

Last night our youth ministry team got together for a meeting.  With the start of the school year and a few changes coming we thought it would be a good time for a team meeting.  To sweeten the deal we had pizza.  Now I know everyone in youth ministry groans at the sound of the word "pizza" but last night we had, in the words of one or our team members, "adult pizza".  We broke away from the usual cheese and pepperoni and had the good stuff from Slice, meat and veggie, triple meat, white pizza with spinach and tomatoes and ricotta, and of course pepperoni.  Point is this - take care of your team.

Our agenda from the meeting:

1.  Are we ready?

It seems we plateau every now and then in our growth.  Several factors play into this.  The one we focused on was answering the question of are we ready?

Someone recently shared with me that the church in South Korea is praying that God opens up the borders to North Korea so they can go in and share the gospel.  The church isn't just praying for it they are actually preparing believers to get ready to go in when the borders do open.

We pray that our youth ministry will grow, not for the sake of numbers, but because there   are thousands of students here on the Outer Banks that need to be reached.  But are we prepared?  If we are asking God to grow us shouldn't we be preparing our team for growth and actually have the team in place to handle the growth?  So we are going to start promoting the ministry team among our partners at NHC and getting more adults on board with reaching students.

2.  Contagious Youth Ministry Team Handbook

In planning for growing out team and to help everyone on the team understand their role and expectations on the team I put together a "handbook" for the team.  We passed it out last night, it is the rough draft, to get the team's input and thoughts as well as help with editing.

3.  SHAPE and Personality Profiles

To be a better team leader I need to know our team better.  So I will be giving the team members links to online spiritual gift and personality inventories to help me better understand how God has shaped the team.

4.  Be the best youth ministers:

Our team should be leading the way in youth ministry in our area and setting an

example or model for other churches to follow. I am not the youth minister, I am one of the

youth ministers. Everyone on our team is a minister. To be the best youth ministers we can be

this fall we need to :

>watch our attitudes

>have Holy Spirit controlled emotions

>invest in students lives

>keep contact with our students

>look for conversation opportunities

5. Family groups for the new school year

each student is part of a "family group" and that is where they have prayer and discussion

at out youth worship gatherings

I shared with the team a quote that Nate shared with me from that great show John and Kate Plus 8:

"Don't do what is easiest but do what is best for the kids"

We closed with some prayer time.

That's a look into a NHC youth ministry team meeting. Bet you wish you were there, at least for the pizza.