Comments on: Contemplative Ministry with Youth http://thelogosministry.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/contemplative-ministry-with-youth/ notes on a ministry and a changing world Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:08:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: liz http://thelogosministry.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/contemplative-ministry-with-youth/#comment-3 liz Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:00:22 +0000 http://thelogosministry.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/contemplative-ministry-with-youth/#comment-3 Amen! Last night at our LOGOS program, I was showing a visitor around. We were outside with our high school group and it was a "sports night" for recreation with different stations. One group was hitting golf balls into the field, another was playing volleyball, a third was playing frisbee. Each group was a mix of youth and adults and they were all having fun. It was such a clear illustration of why we even bother with playing at LOGOS. Just spending time together on equal footing. No adult was trying to get a point across...except the one that said, "I enjoy being with you and want to get to know you better." I couldn't have explained it in words to the visitor but it was a wonderful thing to witness in action. Amen! Last night at our LOGOS program, I was showing a visitor around. We were outside with our high school group and it was a “sports night” for recreation with different stations. One group was hitting golf balls into the field, another was playing volleyball, a third was playing frisbee. Each group was a mix of youth and adults and they were all having fun. It was such a clear illustration of why we even bother with playing at LOGOS. Just spending time together on equal footing. No adult was trying to get a point across…except the one that said, “I enjoy being with you and want to get to know you better.” I couldn’t have explained it in words to the visitor but it was a wonderful thing to witness in action.

]]> By: greg http://thelogosministry.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/contemplative-ministry-with-youth/#comment-2 greg Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:58:52 +0000 http://thelogosministry.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/contemplative-ministry-with-youth/#comment-2 At our church, we have tried to balance a structured ministry approach with a lot of involvement from a wide range of adults. We have attempted to identify a number of roles that adults can take that will give them a chance to interact with kids in a way that is comfortable for them yet is meaningful to the teens themselves. We had already tried a one-on-one mentoring-based approach that was inconsistently successful. We didn't feel that we were reaching enough kids. At our church, we have tried to balance a structured ministry approach with a lot of involvement from a wide range of adults. We have attempted to identify a number of roles that adults can take that will give them a chance to interact with kids in a way that is comfortable for them yet is meaningful to the teens themselves.

We had already tried a one-on-one mentoring-based approach that was inconsistently successful. We didn’t feel that we were reaching enough kids.

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