Report 8

record of ministry activities:

• prep for sunday school 2 hours
• Sunday School 1 1/2 hours
• Youth Group 3 1/2 hours
• meeting with youth group leaders: 2 hours
• met with other small group leader and one small group student: 1 hour

Total: 10 hours

Personal Reflection:

Ministry this week has been well. I did the Sunday school lesson and we talked about how God speaks to us and we needing to be in tune with God in order to Hear what it is He is trying to share with us. I feel it went over well. I got to use a clip from Facing the Giants (I don't mind admitting, i love this movie!) so i was really excited! There wasn't much discussion which i realized if i could've got more questions into the lesson there would've been more discussion with the students.

Youth group went well. We are continuing to talk about Evangelism but we are at the basics right now, talking about who is Jesus and what is the Gospel and Good News. This is good stuff, but we have trouble getting many of the kids to talk to us even in break out groups where there is only 5-7 of them in a group. We talked about this afterwards as to how we can fix this situation. We are looking to changing the seating around a bit, taking a step back and going over even more basic stuff, as well as maybe doing snacks and a lesson first, and then games - just to see what gets them more talkative. We all still feel like the Holy Spirit is moving, this week it was just frustrating because we didn't get a lot of feedback from the kids.

We are continuing to meet outside of the church every other week to discuss ministry stuff. We finally got somewhere with small groups this week and Erin and me got to start ours (only 1 girl showed though). We also are still talking about doing something with the high school in the next few weekends and then we are going to plan a scavenger hunt with the youth in the spring. We are also planning a purity retreat (but we are being careful with calling it purity...thats just the name right now). I love all the planning and it'll be cool to see all of this take place. I feel like we have done a ton of planning this semester for things that are going to take place next semester and I cannot wait.

I'm frustrated with small group because we talked with like 8 girls and only 1 showed. I am ready for this to take off, but we won't do that till January, but i want to meet with the girls a bit before then and get to know them in that setting. It'll be good though, i know!

Spiritual Reflection:

Things are continuing to go well for me. I am continuing to see God work in many ways. I am so excited for some of the ministries I'm involved in real soon and can't wait to see how it all turns out. I'm excited for thanksgiving and Christmas and excited to see what God is going to do through all of that!

Have a good week!