Forgiveness and healing

I had lunch with a new old friend at a place right around the corner from my new church….I’m staying for sure now!!!! Check it out! This is the serving line…We say that things are bigger and better in Texas and this is just another example of the truth behind that statement!
I haven’t heard any ideas that are new in a long while…I may write a book entitled “stale church?” I have had an idea for youth ministry that I have shared with a few guys that I believe may be the solution to the attrition problem that plagues every youth ministry in the nation.

My concept is pretty simple…maybe even overly simple. The method is this. Train Jr and Sr high students the PD model of small groups. They begin to Host the small group their senior year. This small group can meet wherever and whenever they choose. They could even meet during lunch at school, maybe even become a school sponsored small group. The Sr’s mentor Jr’s to take over when they graduate. The Youth ministry mentors the graduating Sr’s when they go off to college. The local youth ministry supports, guides, equips those new freshmen to launch small groups on the college campus that too meet whenever and wherever. These groups are tracked like any other church small group. When the next graduating class goes off to college, they are able to see the active small groups and search for them from the local church’s website….just like any small group search.

All of the studies find that it is “relationship” that carries an individual through the college years. Studies find that it is through Christian relationships that students make it through college with the least amount of “regrets.”

This is something that I am going to have our youth guy try at FBC Coppell. I truly believe that with everything I have seen over the past 14 years of youth and singles ministry that this could go a long with the solving a very old problem….are there any thoughts out there?

And yes….these small groups would both attach themselves to a local church, attend virtually, and be populated and tracked locally….

I told a youth pastor at a very large church this method about 2 years ago and he continued to focus on the program side of a big, entertaining student ministry and not on relationships that are way bigger than the biggest of event!
So this was a great thought and maybe the execution could have been done better…but I think this video is great…for every pastor to listen to. If you are a pastor/ speaker type and you are married then you will enjoy this one…at least your wife will….mine did.
This is Tyler’s great great aunt Coye who is 100 years old! They are spending an early thanksgiving together.
at the dallas church tech camp unevent today in Dallas. A friend of mine is leading out…@Tonysteward – it is fun being in a room full of other geek-types! I have come to realize that I am more of a geek than I thought that I was…not sure what to think about this. I know that social media has really helped me in my ministry yet it is not at the forfront of my ministry. There is a piece to modern ministry, as you desire to grow your current situation, that demands me to focus on building that local crowd. Typically that local crowd, when growing, allows you to branch out in an area where you are able to grow your sphere of influence and create the potential of moving people from connection virtually to connection physically. The ongoing relationship can happen in both contexts….scattered thought but specific

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Forgiveness and healing

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