I recently read the book youth ministry 3.o, it had some great stuff in it but the thing that really stood out to me was this. when talking about the mid week service there need to be some key elements to the service. this element is what separates it from being a youth group or a youth ministry. I wanted to share some of these...
Its about them- make your midweek service about the kids that attend and nothing else. If the leaders are getting stuff out of the service this needs to be rethinked. the leaders and youth pastor are there to be everything for those kids.
Make your midweek service an event- make it something the kids think about all week and want to come to. always be ready to take the midweek service to the next level. Give everything you have to those kids, they deserve it.
Use your Imagination- I went to a youth ministry wednesday and the youth pastor was talking baout getting the garbage out of your life. He had trash everywhere in the room. so everywhere the kids stepped they were stepping on garbage. great use of imagination
Touch their emotions- as youth pastors it is our job to know the culture and all of the things our kids deal with. We can use that to our advantage, if we can touch all of there emotions great things can and will happen.
Time for encounter with God- open the altar to the kids, have prayer leaders up front or in the back willing to pray with the kids.
Changed Lives- if the above 5 are done well the lives of the youth will be changed, it may not happen that service but it will happen. the service I went to with the garbage 2 kids got saved and 3 recieved the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Be Prepared- be prepared for anything because as all ministers know anything can happen.
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