Some Feedback and Questions

Here is some feedback and some questions that people posted... please comment:

Joan says...

"Hi everyone! I was thinking about the July 11-12 Lock and wondered about a few things:
*Permission slips/Consent Forms-where can we get one? Each student will need to bring one.
*Theme-any suggestions?
*I'm thinking the Lock-In would start at 7pm with dinner. What's your thought?
*Games-let me know what games you'd be willing to facilitate.

Jamie says...

"Hey everyone, I just reviewed the minutes from the Youth Worker/Helper meeting last Sunday. Good stuff! I will be praying for each of our youth by name - that they would treasure Christ in their hearts more and more, and that they would see and experience in us a passion for Jesus that is compelling.

I'll share a couple thoughts after reading the minutes:

1) Aug. 9 - As soon as I settle on the dates for the hiking/camping trip that I'm organizing (during the week of Aug. 3-9), I'll let you know for sure if an Aug. 9 day-hike will work. If we do this, I'd love to have the parents going with us too. An alternative would be to schedule the day-hike on Aug. 16.

2) Question about the Nooma series: What is the main reason why we're going through this series, and what spiritual benefit are we wanting this series to have for our youth?

3) I'm getting the g-mail updates

4) I'm interested in the mentorship of a youth. I had thought I was assigned to Jonathan, and am wanting to grow that relationship. Sev, we can talk more about that.

Curtis' responses to the responses...
- Permission slips. Donabel Martin had a CD she was going to give me, that had forms on it... alas... I didn't get it yet. Can we get ahold of her? It may be laying around the house...
- I was thinking maybe we could have a "Rock Band" night. Sev said he had a wii, could he bring it? We could also play "Name that Tune..." that's always fun. I can facilitate that.
- I think 7PM would be good, since there's choir practice until 6:30

- For the hike, I'd like to do it on the 9th to avoid going into the school year (I think Kristen and Meg start early). So Jamie if we need someone else to lead, we can manage. I think we need to plan on it being close by, to do more hiking than driving. I would even be ok with just going to the top of Mt. Davidson for a picnic. That'd be simple enough to plan and transport. Not much of a hike, but at least there are trees!

- As for Nooma... I'm still forming my opinion. It's supposed to be the "Becoming" B of our 3 B focus. It's definitely light on Bible, but it's good at "relevancy." I think helping them contextualize how faith looks in their everyday decisions and thoughts is one thing they're getting out of it. I think hearing what others think on the topics is also helping nurture the "Belonging" B... of the 3B's. BUT, we're still open to suggestions. I'd like to let NOOMA run through August and assess it again at our Youth Workers retreat in August as we move forward into next school year.

- Mentorship. From the minutes from 4/14 I had the mentoring assignments as: Joan-Kristen, Lisa-Meg, Sev-Jonathan, Jeff R.-Anthony, Jamie-Christopher, Curtis- DJ. Should we discuss???

- For YOUTH WORKER Retreat/Planning meeting... I have 2 votes (me and Joan) for August 8th. Any more votes??? (between the 8th, 15th or 22nd)