Every August I have a meeting with all of our youth leaders to get ready for the fall. The fall is our busiest season and where we have seen the most growth in our youth ministry. Here are some things I go over in our meeting:
1. We eat good food! It's always nice to break bread with those we are serving with every week.
2. I thank my leaders for their commitment and investment in our students. Without them Epic would be a mess. They are the backbone of our ministry. I'm humbled and honored to serve with all of them.
3. I cast vision and remind my leaders that everything we do is for more life change. Our students deserve the very best and we are going to storm the gates of hell to win as many students to Christ as possible. We may even get burned doing it but it's worth it when one life is changed.
4. We go over details of our fall outreach, I want all of our leaders to be on the same page and know the details of what we are doing. I also give some overview for the rest of the year as well.
5. The summer can get pretty crazy with people on vacation and so I use this time to remind everyone how important it is that we need them at Epic every Wed and on time. I'll also address any other housekeeping items we may need to tidy up like changes to our structure, new ministries, changes to team leaders and other stuff like that.
6. I always use every meeting we do to encourage our leaders to help us recruit more leaders. They are one of our best resources to recruiting new leaders to serve in our ministry. Most of leaders that serve were invited by one of our current leaders.
7. We share testimonies of life change.
8. At the end we give our ministry teams a time to meet about any issues the need to discuss.
The structure of our meeting is eat and fellowship first for about 20-30 min, I cover my stuff in 45 min - 1 hour and then we have time at the end for testimonies or breaking into our teams for about 15-20 min.
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