Ok, I am totally ripping off Josh Griffin here! Just about every week Josh offers a weekend review of their youth services on his amazing blog, More Than Dodgeball. I check out his stuff all the time. In fact you will see some of it reproduced frequently if you came to our student services. I figured it might be helpful to show the world what a typical weekend looks like in our youth ministry. We currently see between 200-250 students in a given month at our youth ministry.

Each week I plan on posting the PDF cue sheet that we used in our weekend service. I will share a few comments on what worked and what (as Doug Fields says) sipped, then allow you all to ask questions. The key here is that I want to interact with you all. Let’s get crackin on developing better services together. So enough of this…

Date: October 14, 2012

Sermon Series: How to Annoy Your Family (A Doug Fields/Simply Sermon Series

Cue Sheet: Cue Sheet October 14, 2012

What Worked:

In our services we have student sit around tables, so each week we make sure that each Table Leader (adult volunteer) gives every student in the room a high five. Yesterday we added 6 more tables and had them all staffed. This fall has been a huge volunteer push for us (14 new volunteers so far). Students cheered as we introduced the new leaders. We want to make sure they are known as the heroes of our ministry.

Also, our student testimony for the week came from a young guy named Jorden. Jorden is hilarious (a real ladies man). He spoke of some of the struggles he faces as a single child in a racially diverse family. It was awesome!

What Sipped:

An hour before the service our lights on the trussing began to flicker. I had to swap out our DMX board and reprogram in a pinch. We still had some glitches. The bottom line is that you can always count on something screwing up so you had better be as prepared as possible. Had we not worked hard all week and waited til Sunday morning to run cable, setup ProPresenter etc. it would have been a disaster instead of a hiccup.

Let me hear your questions!