WEEK 7 REPORT: SMALL GROUPS BEGIN

Ministry Activities

5:00-6:00--> Hang out with staff and have a staff meeting
6:00-6:45--> Monitor the main room
6:45-7:15--> Keep kids listening to the anouncements and break the kids into small groups
7:15-8:10--> Meet my small group and build us together through some activities
8:10-Close--> Monitor the kids and close up shop

Personal Reflection

This week gave me a lot of hope for the group. Small groups were some of my most fond memories of my youth group back home. It is a place where I can really get to know the kids and since the groups were randomly assigned within grade, I got a group of guys who will get to know each other too. I hope we will be able to get along and actually have good conversation. I want people to actually think about some of the bigger questions. My guys seemed to get along pretty well. My biggest issue with these groups is that I am not going to be there during the summer. These kids need continuity in the staff and small group leaders. If every semester they get a different sponser to lead their small group and they are with different guys, it will not be nearly as effective. If they could stay with the same guys and with the same staff a trusting relationship will be gained all around. Ten weeks is simply not enough time to build that kind of trust. Not to mention we started them seven weeks in. If we stop coming in three weeks, small groups will be an interesting experiment that did no good.

Spiritual Life

I've really been struggling with some temptation this week. It is hard to keep up a solid prayer life and devotional life. Hopefully Spring Break will be a time of rejuvination and reorientation. I need to get back on track, but at least I can recognize that. Sometimes I hate the fact that I am human and have to constantly struggle against my flesh and the devil. It is hard for me to see the way out that God provides. I wish He would just take away the need to fight.