It's the End!

It’s the end . . . of the year.
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December is a great time to get alone and do some evaluation of the youth ministry.

Some questions to answer as you evaluate:

• What were your goals for this past year?

I took some time to re visit our goals for 2014.  I then took some time and gave a  grade to each goal.  It was a little bit reminiscent of my childhood report cards, a little good, a little average, a little bad.

• In view of those grades what needs to happen in 2015 to improve?

Make a list and keep it somewhere to update it as more thoughts about improvement rise to the surface.

• Where is the youth ministry bottlenecking with me?

 Are there areas that are getting jammed up because you need to let those areas go to someone else on your volunteer team?  We can’t do it all.  You know the old saying, “do what you do best and delegate the rest.”  List the areas you need to delegate and start thinking of volunteers to plug into those areas according to how God has shaped them.  Does your team flow chart have one box and in that box is your name?  Plan to remedy that in 2015.

• Is the current structure of our weekly youth group gathering working?

 Are there some areas for improvement?  What can we cut out?  What seems to be missing?  How can we make it better?  What can someone else do better during the weekly gathering than you can do? 

• Evaluate your youth ministry in worship, evangelism, fellowship, discipleship and serving.

How did you do in each area?  Was there an area you were striving to focus on and improve?  Are you out of balance somewhere with one or more of these?

• How many students came to know Christ and how many are being discipled?

How can we be more affective in discipleship?  How can we better equip our students to reach their friends?

• Which students had noticeable spiritual growth last year?

Make a list.  Plan on taking a minute with each one you can think of and let them know that you noticed their growth in their faith walk this past year and want to encourage them to continue to grow.  How can your team help with that growth?

I would suggest after doing some evaluating that you sit down with your volunteers and get their input and then work together on improving in 2015.

Let the evaluating begin!