Courtney is the Pastor of assimilation at Glad Tidings church in Reading, Pa. I walked into class a few minutes late and we were discussing what they do with their youth group at the church. They went through a number of different phases in the church in how they did youth group. The did the junior and senior high together on wednesdays, then they split wednesdays and had small groups for each age level. Then they had youth group on different nights for junior high and senior high. They currently have youth group on sunday mornings and on wednesday nights they run their small groups program.
The strategy for discipling young people who accept Christ at the church is relied upon the small group leader. The small group leaders graduate with their students in the sense that they spend the next 4 years with the students. As the students grow up the leaders are there with them. They make a long term commitment to the youth group and the students they are ministering to. The small group leader is the front line person for living life with the
The church has a program called Serve where they can learn about all of the different opportunities to serve at the church. They meet with a serve coach and discuss what they like to do and where they can be the most useful and do what they are good at. This process was created so that better follow up can be had and people can go to one place for everything they need to get involved and not get lost in the process.
A program that Courtney shared with us in class is one called Fellowshipone. the church uses this basically to have a profile for every person at the church. They run background checks through this, keep church attendance, have their small groups listed along with more information. She said it is a bit complicated to navigate through but that it worked great for being organized in all of the different tasks they need to do in the church office. All interactions with the members are recorded on this program so that accountability can be kept.
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