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Last Login: 9/4/2009 7:05:04 PM
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This is the third church where I've served in the youth ministry, first place where I've been the full-time youth pastor. I've been here for two years. I love the church and the kids, but I could really use some advice when it comes to events. As far as regular programming goes, we have a Sunday-school thingy on Sundays, and a combination youth group/small groups on Wednesday night. We've had parents' meetings before, but this semester I'm doing two a semester. I'm the only person on staff in the youth ministry and I have a small but dedicated group of volunteers.
My executive pastor has made it clear that he wants to see one high school event and one middle school event per month outside of our regular programming. They generally need to be separate. It's leaving me feeling a little overwhelmed doing something every other week or having one extremely busy weekend each month. That's how it's been for the last two years, and I've kept up.
Counting the parents night, I'm doing three this month, two in October, two in November, and cheating in December and doing Christmas parties for each group during our Wednesday night meeting time.
So that's 7 before Christmas, 9 if you count the extra work for the Christmas parties.
I was just wondering: what's the standard number of outreach events you guys do each month or semester? Does this sound like too much, or am I being a whiner?
Sorry if this ground has been covered, but I couldn't find it through searching. I'd just like to know if I should try and negotiate a more realistic expectation or if I need to suck it up a bit more.
(Unnecessary list of events: 2 Parents' Nights, dinner and topic discussion; 2 Raves; a lock-in; family outing to a corn maze; Christmas service project, little to no planning; and the two Christmas parties)
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Last Login: 11/17/2009 12:20:03 PM
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| Our group does one event about every other month.(Such as canoeing, bowling, etc) More than that is to overwhelming for one person. We also do have other things that we do during our class time maybe once a month or every 4-6 weeks. I am a firm believer that there is more to youth group than just the fun activities. I have had kids that want to come for nothing but the activities and then never come again. I also know that we have to have some activities to draw them in but at the same time....we do have our own personal lives also.....as bad as that may sound. I love my youth dearly and would do anything for them and be there for them at ANY time they called but I also have my own family and they need me to. I once had a young pastor come and join with my group and he thought we needed to do something with them every other weekend, that was just to much. I hope taht you can find a happy medium somewhere before you burn yourself out!
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