Youth Event, Change of Plans, Reflection Time

Posted on August 24, 2008
Filed Under Church, Life Direction |

This weekend has been an eventful time filled with adventure, change of plans, and a moment to reflect of this past year with our youth group.

For starters, I was in charge of planning a weekend of events for a church from Florida that comes up to Kentucky every year to support us. Well, to leave a long and complicated story short, they were unable to make the trip this year.

So, instead of canceling the whole weekend, we decided to carry on with the event we had planned for our community of young people. However, to add to the list of changed plans, we discovered that the gymnasium that was to host our event had been double booked. Crap!

Plan B was to call anyone that had a house and that was willing to let a few youngsters come over to cause some havoc in their home at the last minute. Thankfully, a family had mercy on us and allowed us to come over and have a fun evening.

What did we do? We had a few games, a group talk/reflection time, hamburgers on the grill, and then a scavenger hunt in town.

During our group talk, I asked the group to reflect on the past year we have had and what God has been up to in our group and in their individual lives. Lastly, I had them split into groups and make a top ten list of things they felt we needed to cover this next year, things that young people are going through.

Here are a few topics from combined lists:

1. Dealing with living two life’s (How you live at church/world)

2. How to deal with temptation

3. To date or not to date

4. Reaching out to everyone

5. Honoring and respecting friends

6. Forgiveness

7. Defending our faith and having answers against other beliefs

8. Sex (one kid could not stop laughing every time we said this word)

9. Learning God rules

10. How to deal with guilt

Interesting list. The goal was just to really hear from a young person’s perspective and to give us some more ideas on what the group needs to concentrate on this next year.

C.Harv

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One Response to “Youth Event, Change of Plans, Reflection Time”

  1. ArelisNo Gravatar on August 25th, 2008 9:51 am

    I thought the ice cream was going to melt in my trunk while we figured out plan b! Dispite the last minute mishaps everything turned out well.

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