Summer Lovin'

Thanks for meeting on Sunday. I know meetings aren't "supposed" to be fun, but I always have a good time meeting with you all! And I feel like we get stuff done which is always a good feeling.

Here's the schedule (other talking points will be listed below the schedule)

Sat. June 20th (meet at 5:30 at ATT park): Giant's vs. Texas Baseball!

Sun. June 28th (also Graduates Sunday): Nooma (1-3 PM)
Nooma - Curtis
Food - Jeff R. (SPAGHETTI FEED, youth group fundraiser)
Music - Joan
Mixer - Sev

Sat. July 4th (Church wide): BBQ (Time ???)
Church will be having a BBQ to reach out to the neighbors and our community. Invite friends! The youth group will join this with possible fireworks viewing to follow.
Coordinator - Curtis

Sat July 11th - 12th: Lock-In (6PM - Overnight!!!)
Youth Lock-in!!!! We will have movie night/Rock Band/intense hide and seek/s'mores/whatever we can think of! Waking up just in time for church on Sunday!
Coordinator: Joan

Sun July 19th: Nooma (1-3 PM)
Nooma - Jeff R.
Food - Joan
Mixer/Music - Sev

Sun July 26th: No Meeting, to help with Neighborhood GIG
Sat Aug 1st: No Meeting, to recover from Neighborhood GIG

Sun Aug 9th: Hiking!!! (1-5PM)
Jamie??? to coordinate a near-by, low intensity hike/walk.
Lynn??? to help prepare food to go?

Sun Aug 16th: Nooma (1-3PM)
Nooma - Brad??? (alternately: Lisa)
Food - Joan
Music - Curtis
Mixer - Jeff R.

Sun Aug 23rd: Service Project (1-3PM or beyond)
We'll be doing something around/for/to the church. Reminder, bring some work clothes!
Coordinator - Jeff R.

Sun Aug 30th: RETREAT!
We'll play it by ear, but it'd be nice to do at least one youth thing together at the retreat. Possibly during the group sharing times. But, we'll see how it goes.


Other stuff we discussed:
1) We're switching to 1st Saturday of the month for our evening youth groups to avoid conflict with the choir practices. (with the exception being July 11th, but we won't meet until 6 so I think that'll be ok... I'll double check).

2) We debriefed the first 6 weeks of YG, and for the most part I think we agreed it went quite well. To improve, we will try to vary our discussion methods for NOOMA. And we're going to try to get our weekly food costs down to $25/week as well as fundraise to further keeps our out-of-pocket expenses down.

3) We need to double check that everyone is getting the gmail invites.

4) Promote: Sept 11-12 Nor Cal All-Nighter in Fremont.

5) We need to work with our parents to share the vision of our youth group. Parents in particular are the Zachariah's, Gemma, and Aurea. One idea would be to have the youth start to do promotions for the youth group on Sundays. Also get a bulletin board area where we can show people what we're up to.

6) We need to be sensitive and prayerful to a lot of family changes a lot of our kids are going through.

7) We can start building mentorship into our program. We're starting with the high school aged students first. We talked about: Jeff R - Anthony, Curtis - DJ, Sev - Jonathan, Joan - Kristen, Lisa - Meg. See if there is any time in summer to meet 1-2 times a month together. Perhaps go through a book together. I'll post up some ideas on this blog sometime soon.

8) One of the Saturdays in August, I think we should do a Youth Worker Retreat. Maybe we can go out of town and spend some quality time crafting a vision/mission for our group. It'd be an all day get-a-way, with time spent: praying, planning, laughing, crying, encouraging, rebuking, etc... (ok, I'm sort of kidding about the rebuking... ) Let me know which of these is best: Aug 8th, 15th, or 22nd????