School lunches Pt. 2

Every week we visit students at their school lunches, here is our strategy:

1.  The very first thing we do is we get permission from the school administration to visit our students at their lunch.  If we don't get permission we don't visit those school lunches.  We want to get on campuses but not hurt a relationship with a school or leave a bad taste in their mouth.

2.  We go to lunches on Tuesday and Wednesday because those are the closest days to our Wednesday Night Youth Experience.  This helps keep Epic fresh on our students and their friends minds.

3.  We go to lunches of students that want us to come!  There is nothing worse then going to a school lunch and get brushed off or ignored by students because they may be embarrassed or too cool for school.  We don't force it, we just find the students that want us to come and we go!

4.  We let those students know ahead of time that we are coming so they look for us.  This helps us not wander around a lunch looking lost.  That can be a very uncomfortable feeling.

5.  We don't preach at students or push our youth ministry on them.  We are there to build relationships and the only time we hand out invite cards is if we have permission from the school.

6.  We go to many different school lunches but we visit the lunches that have a majority of our students in them.  We want to see as many of our students as possible so it's great to hit up a lunch where the entire time we are walking around connecting with multiple Epic students and their friends!

7.  We go to school lunches right away, currently we have already hit up over 8 schools.  The school year is the greatest time for growth so we don't waste anytime getting on our students turf.