Youth Group Leader
Sacara Martin

                                            
Categories and Sub-categories of how I would like to expand the Youth Ministry:

1.       Spiritual Development
Sunday School Sacara will continue to teach but would like volunteers to come and speak to youth as guest speakers or presenters. Also if anyone is willing to coordinate volunteers in the church who are available to give rides to kids on Sundays so that they can attend Sunday School on a regular basis.

Youth Led Worship Services Sacara willing to continue in this area but needs help getting rides for kids so they can attend rehearsals and be there on Sunday. Also help preparing breakfast for the kids.

Christmas Play need people who are interested in taking this on as an independent project.

Skits for Worship Need someone who will coordinate the youth and the elders so that the youth can plan and rehearse skits to go along with the scripture readings on Sundays. Would also like to have the youth give one of the Black History presentations each year.

Praise Band who can coordinate some of the youth into a praise band?? If interested get youth together and meet with Jeff and Eileen to rehearse. They need someone who will get the youth to rehearsal and to Sunday worship on a consistent basis.

Prayer Group people who will get together to pray for the youth and youth group.

2.       Program Development
Volunteer Coordinator need someone to help coordinate all volunteers

Calls and Rides Coordinator as you can see throughout this outline is a theme that one of the things the youth ministry needs is a system for calling youth and parents and a system for transporting youth to activities, rehearsals and church.

Community Outreach Coordinators we not been that successful at getting new kids from the neighborhood to join the youth group. We need a group of adults who are willing to help advertise game night and try to get youth from community to attend.

3.       Service
Service projects I would like to see the youth complete two service projects each year.

Community Garden we want to pair each youth with an adult gardener. The youth will play a large role in planning, gardening and distribution of the food.

Community Outreach and Service this can be accomplished by youth volunteering to help with the Community Development Corporation houses. We need some adults to attend and help coordinate this effort.

Peace Team we want the youth group to participate in the Peace Team at JFK with Carol Boddy's group. How can we work on this?


4.       Recreation and Activities
Youth Nights - currently the youth have about one youth night per month at the church. Sacara will continue to plan and attend youth nights.

Recreation -when the youth want to attend activities or recreation outside the church we will need volunteer drivers who will also act as additional adult supervision for the youth.

Game Nights - We need a large group of adults who are willing to host game nights at least twice a month at the church. This will include free food and activities will be open to the area youth. We need to have strong adult participation, especially adult men, people who are willing to rotate so that one individual does not end up doing all the game nights and we also need someone who will make sure that the Lee Heights Youth are in attendance to host.

5.       College
College Liaison someone who is willing to be the contact person for the Mennonite Schools and other schools and who will plan college trips and coordinate when the schools recruiters want to come and visit us. This person would work closely with Sacara to determine the needs of the individual youth.

6.       Finances
Accounting is handled by Helen Miller and Sacara

Fundraising Sacara is willing to continue working in this area but reallt needs a team of three or more people she can rely on who are willing to plan, coordinate and execute (along with the youth) at least four fundraisers per year. This will also require someone who will call the youth and their parents and will get the kids rides when necessary.

Coffee Hour I have been unsuccessful in getting the youth to help clean up after coffee hour even though they get much of the proceeds from the donut sales. It would be nice if someone could coordinate with parents to get them to donate baked goods and help their kids clean up at least once a month or once every other month.         

Convention Sacara will continue to be the major coordinator for convention. We will need adults to help prepare for convention like making the banner ordering t-shirts, fundraising, etc. I usually like to get the college age kids to attend the convention but sometimes we need adults to step in and fill that role.


TOP PRIORITIES FOR YOUTH VOLUNTEERS:

         1. Prayer Group
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         2. Game Night and Recreation Volunteer Supervisors
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         3. Calls and Rides Coordinators for Activities Rehearsals and Church
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         4. Fundraising Team
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         5. Volunteer Coordinator
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         6. College Visits Team
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