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evaluating your small group leadership

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Last week, we sent the following tool to our leaders to help them evaluate their personal ministry:

 

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP EVALUATION

It’s impossible to get better if we don’t evaluate! Here are a few questions to help you think about your ministry. I encourage you to take some time to reflect on each of the following:

  • Am I maintaining a passionate faith and living a lifestyle that is above reproach?
  • Who are the students with whom I’ve really made a strong connection?
  • Who isn’t showing up to my small group that should be? What kind of follow-up should I do this week?
  • What have I done with my students outside of the programmed small group time?
  • Am I challenging the individuals in my small group enough?
  • For the few that I know really well, what’s their next step spiritually?
  • Do I make the most of the time in my small group each week? What can I do to make it more effective?
  • How many of my students are doing the H.A.B.I.T.S.?
  • How many of my students have committed to praying for their unsaved friends? (The Salt & Light Challenge)
  • How many of my students are serving in a ministry?

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this month’s volunteer leader training

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As a youth ministry leadership team, we gather once a month to build community and get a little training.

 

It was our second meeting of the school year, the first one focused primarily on small group training. This month, we needed to look at the over all strategy for our ministry (DOWNLOAD HERE ). Three reasons why a leader needs to repeat the important stuff about his or her ministry:

1. A leader can’t assume that everyone remembers the vision. Volunteers are busy and have many personal concerns. Although they love serving in the youth ministry, it’s only one part of their life. A leader has to repeat the important stuff.

2. The vision for your youth ministry is exciting…at least it ought to be. Your strategy is all about helping students grow spiritually, why wouldn’t you want to talk about that!?!!

3. A leader repeats the vision to equip the other leaders for success. Youth ministry is all about relationships, but there is more to ministry than making friends with adolescents. As spiritual mentors, we ought to have a path for spiritual growth. Of course personal spirituality can’t be carbon copied from one person to the next, but having a process creates an essential starting point for leaders to mentor students.

 

 

 

 

 

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youth ministry training: small group adult leader training

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We are kicking off our small groups next week, so last week we had some training for our adult leaders.

You can grab the PDF HERE.

It’s A LOT of content…normally I wouldn’t have quite this much…however, we added a bunch of new volunteers and we are running a new small group program. Our meeting went for about two hours, the first 30 minutes was eating and hanging out, and then the last 90 minutes was me teaching. Part way through the training, we had everyone do the Bible study activity like the students will be doing.

THIS PART WAS GREAT!

When we do this next time around, I’m hoping to make it a more interactive meeting.

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16 free sermon outlines!

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Links to the last three Weekend Series I’ve taught to our High School Students.

Last January, I started my second tour of duty in youth ministry.

In my first 11 year run, I didn’t preach very often, maybe every 8 weeks or so.

In this second run, I’ve been teaching every week. It’s only been nine months, so I feel like I’m learning (and hopefully improving) every week.

 

 

 

 

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