Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Youth Ministry Lessons I Learned in 2010 Pt. 3

I finally figured out how small groups worked best for my youth ministry! We've failed many times but had success this year.

We currently do our small groups on Wed night as part of our experience & here is why:

1. All of our students attend on Wed night so this change took us from 20% of our students in small groups to 100%!

2. Our sharpest leaders attend on Wed night so I don't have to stress about finding leaders, host homes & another night of the week to do small groups, it really simplified things for us!

3. Our students can discuss the message while it's fresh on their mind!

4. All of our students are now connecting with each other & our leaders at a high level!

5. It saves everyone gas money! Not a real reason but a benefit.

I love the way we are doing small groups & wished we started earlier! This also allowed us to do a Battle of Community Groups which was very successful for us too!

If your wondering what our experience looks like the biggest change we made was I started preaching 15-20 minute sermons to give our small groups 25-30 minutes to meet at the end of our experience.

FYI: We split up our groups by gender, school & grade.

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