From YouthMinistry.com on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 @ 2:02 AM PST
in the "Blog" Category.
Our focus this week on relational youth ministry brings us to the practical question: How can we make our student ministry more relationship-based? Here are a few ways we're trying to do just that in our ministry.
1 – Add a "welcome time" to youth group each week.
We've all seen this before, the "shake hands with 15 people around you" but when used sparingly it can be really effective. As your group grows, it's surprisingly easy for the "basics" like a warm greeting to slip through the cracks! Our students have come to love this time—we've expanded it to several minutes so that people can actually have a short conversation rather then just a cursory greeting. This is a great chance for introductions to be made, too! We have a volunteer every week who works hard to get to know someone new and makes it a point to introduce them to us specifically each week.
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What are the Rewards of Authentic Relational Ministry?
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2 – Have everyone in place before and after the service.
If you are still running around finalizing details of your program when everyone is coming in, it's gonna be tough to be relational! Work hard to do program-related stuff before students arrive; if you're still dialing things in as they're walking in, it's simply too late. And tell everyone on your volunteer team they are "dead to each other" once youth group starts.read more |
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