Comments on: What Was I Really Teaching? http://youthminblog.com/2009/05/what-was-i-really-teaching/ For Youth Workers, By Youth Workers Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:20:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Clay_Conry http://youthminblog.com/2009/05/what-was-i-really-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Clay_Conry Mon, 18 May 2009 20:20:58 +0000 http://youthminblog.com/?p=621#comment-286 Great post! I have been struggling with the same things you have been through! This post gave me some great insights into helping our students become missionaries in their own context! thanks! Great post! I have been struggling with the same things you have been through! This post gave me some great insights into helping our students become missionaries in their own context! thanks!

]]> By: saraeden http://youthminblog.com/2009/05/what-was-i-really-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-288 saraeden Mon, 18 May 2009 15:25:52 +0000 http://youthminblog.com/?p=621#comment-288 I should have included this in the post: What I use to get things rolling is a discussion based on "Finding Your Holy Discontent" and "Feeding Your Holy Discontent" ... both can be found here: <a href="http://www.myholydiscontent.org/index.cfm/pageID/1282/" target="_blank">http://www.myholydiscontent.org/index.cfm/pageID/...</a> I should have included this in the post: What I use to get things rolling is a discussion based on "Finding Your Holy Discontent" and "Feeding Your Holy Discontent" … both can be found here: http://www.myholydiscontent.org/index.cfm/pageID/...

]]> By: Matt Howland http://youthminblog.com/2009/05/what-was-i-really-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Matt Howland Mon, 18 May 2009 10:01:44 +0000 http://youthminblog.com/?p=621#comment-282 That is a really great point. Although I have not seen it on the service side, I did related to evangelism. We had done special evangelistic outreach events to reach kids around us and saw very limited results. Basically a hand full of kids would come if any and it did not seem to matter how we advertised. We developed this outreach called Spanky O'mally's (which means nothing) where we set up a frame work for the night and had the kids actually plan the night. It was an activity night for the most part, along with music and a speaker. We had the kids plan the music and activities and get the speaker (which usually ended up being an older youth). As youth leaders our job was to make sure they were staying on track with planning it. With a group of 15 kids we would see 50-80 kids come out to attend the special event. What we found was that because they were taking ownership in what was going on, they naturally told their friends about it because they were a part of it. Matt Howland Christ Community Church, Clyde, NY That is a really great point. Although I have not seen it on the service side, I did related to evangelism.

We had done special evangelistic outreach events to reach kids around us and saw very limited results. Basically a hand full of kids would come if any and it did not seem to matter how we advertised. We developed this outreach called Spanky O'mally's (which means nothing) where we set up a frame work for the night and had the kids actually plan the night. It was an activity night for the most part, along with music and a speaker.

We had the kids plan the music and activities and get the speaker (which usually ended up being an older youth). As youth leaders our job was to make sure they were staying on track with planning it. With a group of 15 kids we would see 50-80 kids come out to attend the special event.

What we found was that because they were taking ownership in what was going on, they naturally told their friends about it because they were a part of it.

Matt Howland
Christ Community Church, Clyde, NY

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