Because we would love to support not ony individuals but whole teams working with the youth, we spent time, the weekend of 8-9.12.2006, with leadership teams that are connected with students from our school for youth leaders (ŠPM). The teams were from: Bratislava, Púchov, Obišovce, 2 teams from Prešov, 2 teams form Kuková and Košice.
The topics for this weekend were:
Vision: why our youth group, our ministry, and our small groups exist
Team building: understanding our roles in the team, trust, and communication
Creativity in the ministry: how to use our gifts and to discover our creativity – even without big resources
Another aim was to create space for learning from each other. Because we believe that God called us all to ministry and He is giving the wisdom to all of us. So we created a special sharing time together with the teams concerning what had brought the most health in their ministry in the past year. What influenced your ministry most last year, what was the most remembered activity?
Each topic was supported by activities, time for processing it in inside of the teams and a panel discussion on the end.
Here is some of the feadback:
“The most valuable topic was, why our youth group extist and to look at Jesus’ ministry in comparison to our youth group ministry.”
“I now realize my responsibilities in the youth group and my responsibilities in the team.”
“I found out that I need to look at our youth ministry with diferent eyes God´s eyes.”
