Worship

Worship in Youth Group can look a lot different than worship for the greater church community.  At it's base, Worship in Youth Group is an opportunity to think and reflect upon life's greater questions.

The majority of last night's meeting was devoted to Worship lead by Erik.  The following will give you an idea of what we experienced as a group last night.

Take a moment to make a visual representation of your Life right now, 

this can include words or pictures.

Next, take a few minutes to write or think about two alternative ideal 

lives for yourself.  

Finally, in thinking about those ideal alternate lives, take some time to think about what pulls you toward those alternatives?  Is it that you wish you took more chances?  Do you wish you listened more?  Do you wish you were more inquisitive?

Take those and try to incorporate them into your own life starting now. 

Social Action

This year, the Youth Group has chosen Homes and Homelessness as our Social Action theme.  This means that we will be working on projects in an effort to make a difference around this theme.  The above mural was put together at Youth Group to offer a visual representation of our theme.  Please let us know if you have any organizations or suggestions for projects we can do around this theme.

Mascots!

This past Sunday at Youth Group, we broke out into Touch Groups for the first time.  Touch Groups are smaller groups of 8-10 people designed to provide an opportunity to get to know people in a smaller setting than the usual 50-60 who come to youth group each week.  Touch groups will stay constant for at least through the end of December.  Each touch group has two youth YAC members and one adult advisor.

Each group was tasked with two main things.  First, we used the smaller group setting as an opportunity for brainstorming ideas for our social action theme for the year.  As most people know, we alternate years between a service trip and local projects.  This happens to be a local projects year so in order to frame our efforts, our Social Action Coordinator Erika gave each group a list of considerations to keep in mind when brainstorming.  At the end of the meeting each group shared their idea and then we voted, but more on that in a later post...

The second far more fun task that each group was saddled with was creating a Touch Group Mascot!  I think they can speak for themselves..