This past Friday the youth in attendance discussed what the meaning of our Youth Group is, and what we would like to focus on throughout this year. Of course, things like having fun and playing games were mentioned, and this is something we will continue to do. The other three most mentioned aspects were:
- Taking [even] more of a focus on service opportunities to show Christ's love to others around us.
- Study the Bible more in-depth; this could possibly mean lengthening Bible Study/Devotional times up to half an hour or even an hour.
- Not only becoming more mature Disciples of Christ ourselves, but also looking at ways we can help our friends become Disciples of Christ . . . Evangelism!
For those of you who were not in attendance (and even those who were), what are your thoughts? Parents, this includes you too! What do you think the focus of Youth Group should be and what does this look like? Should we cut Youth Group back to a two hour event each week and add a bi-weekly Bible Study on Wednesday (or any other appropriate) nights? Maybe we can do online Bible studies by using the comment section on this blog!?!? What are some service activities that we can do, and should these be in the wider community of Winnipeg, such as Wpg Harvest & Siloam, or in the more immediate community of Southdale?
We also discussed the possibility of giving a name to our group rather than just "Youth Group." Something that expresses what we are about as a group and would look cool on a t-shirt :p Some of the names tossed around were, "Soulfire", "20Verse9" [from Jer. 20:9], "F2L" [a Fish & Two Loaves, hahaha!], and, well I forget the others [they're on the other computer right now, I'll get them later]. Anybody else have some ideas?
Use the comment link below to share your thoughts with myself and the others! Be sure to use your name so we know who we're talking to!
Cheese!
Cliffy
Is anybody out there?????
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