THOUGHTS FOR UPCOMING STAFF
It’s been a hectic two weeks it feels like. My apologies for being absent from the blogworld consinstently. It seemed that we were starting to build an on-going conversation centering around our meetings and dreams with this blog…so I’m ready to get rolling again with regular postings. So make sure that you subscribe to this blog, or check it frequently to stay current with our conversations. Please also try to think out loud with each other and with this blog by posting your comments, questions, and etc..
We have re-opened the talk about the environments that we are offering our students….more specifically, we’ve been talking about revisioning RAZE and offering it on Sunday nights instead of Wednesday nights. I still feel that this is the best for this environment because it maximizes our student audience (much more students are available on sunday nights than wednesday nights…especially during the school year), as well as maximizing our potential for volunteer recruitment (in the multi-purpose room and with the revisioning, RAZE will be an event that requires a lot of hands and hearts to live up to it’s full potential). We will be looking for a worship team, a drama team manager which can help students put together engaging dramas on screen or live on stage, cooks, and volunteers for set up and tear down. However, there is also a lot of risk that the enviornment will not succeed, that we won’t get enough volunteers, that parents won’t support, etc..
So…last Wednesday night @ staff I asked you guys to wrap your heads around the question: what would an engaging worship environment for students look like? Please keep thinking about that. On a much larger scale (dealing with our whole grow, love, lead strategy) please also consider these questions for Wendesday night’s meeting:
- What are the resources available to us as we engage this student generation?
- What are the most effective ways to earn the right to be listened to by today’s students?
- What is the best possible way (or avenue through which) for us to leverage the resources and opportunities above?
- Could we achieve more by doing less? Please explain your answer.
Those are some good questions to be thinking about. I’m going to have some groundwork on our environments done by Wednesday’s staff meeting for our observation, discussion, and planning. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT STAFF MEETING…please make your plans to be there!!
You guys rock, and our students are entering into the Jesus life more fully because of your hearts and your example. Thank you. Please keep praying for Devon, Mama B, Brant, and Mal…they are hoping for a room in Columbus.
