Last night we move the Attic Youth to the sanctuary and the adults down to the Children's church room. The Girls Club moved to the youth room. This is a trial run but it has great potential.
First, the youth can grow past 35 with the extra room. Also, they can grow in prayer as we institute altar time and prayer responses to the youth messages. They also have access to better sound and video tools in the sanctuary.
Second, this is the start of us growing the Wednesday night ministries beyond the size of our building. If we want to be healthy, we need Wednesday night ministries and Small Groups to grow with the Sunday morning ministries. Sunday Morning is going to max out soon and we may add a third service at some time. Small Groups can never outgrow their space because space and time is unlimited for groups. Wednesday however is a bit of trouble unless we get really creative. We can not offer two Wednesday nights, so we need to spread out in other ways.
With the adults in the Children's church room we are going to move in the coffee house furniture and work out an acoustic type set-up for worship. The smaller setting already made some improvements actually. We shared a couple prayer requests which is normal, but when asked about praise reports, we had FOUR! That is really good. The smaller setting may allow for better sharing in the Wednesday night Bible Study.
I need a few people to help with set-up and tear down on Wednesday nights in the next two months. Also, if you play an acoustic instrument that might fit into our worship let me know. We need to keep a contemporary style, but could get really eclectic and beautiful adding a violin, Cello, guitar, shakers (no tambourines!, too loud in a small room), and some other things that could be beautifully blended together.
Brent Nissen played the bongos last night and suggested that if we serve coffee, and do the acoustic set that people might want to start reading poetry. lol. But honestly, if you have a poem to read, bring it and let's try it on for size. Some of the best ministry ideas I have had actually came out of joking around about what we could do that would be crazy. I'll write one out in a bit for you.
So far, so good.
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Youth Service went really good last night. The whole atmosphere is different. It isn't a "youthy" space but it aloowed us to do some things that we can't normally do. We had a great extended worship time, were to play an up front game that went over well, and the powerpoint and video clips seem to be more impactful when your not watching them on a 27" tv from 15 feet away.
Thanks for letting try out the sanctuary for the next few weeks. I look forward to many more great services.
last night we started on a 3 week series about our mission statement as a youth ministry. Stand. Up.Out.Strong. We talked last night about Stand Up in Worship for God.
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