You are having a messy games night and there are a couple of youth who are standing back. Let's say you value engagement and involvement because it builds relationship and connection. They can start to focus on external things without carrying the spirit of it. So young people may only see the fun, but leaders see chances to connect and opportunities to speak into teenagers' lives in a greater way.Ī failure in culture, is when a leader does something without understanding or carrying the value that under girds it. Not because we want to only entertain and attract young people, but because fun builds connections and opens the heart. I think fun should be a value in every youth group. There is also a difference between the culture of our youth group, and the leadership culture that helps produce it. I remember our youth leader trying to change the culture by creating a list of things that we couldn't call each other.
If you didn't know someone well enough to know their sense of humour, then you wouldn't joke with them. It meant they knew me well enough to know what my line is between funny and offensive. I knew I was part of the group when I was getting mocked for things I did. When I was a teenager, the culture of our youth group was definitely one of humour and mocking. And they change over time with different leaders and seasons.Ĭulture also often reflects our values. Most of them are not wrong, just different. Ways of doing things that may be different from others. Your family, your previous church, your school, or youth group, all have a sub-culture. I am not even talking about ethnic cultures. Sometimes there is a clash or mismatch of cultures. Move on and do your best to maintain the relationship.Do any damage control that you may need to with affected parties.
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Sometimes we jump to conclusions that people did something on purpose. Nevertheless, there are still moments of miscommunication and actions do not match to instruction.ĭo your best to identify it for what it is - a simple miscommunication. If I am receiving instruction, then I try to ask clarifying questions if I have any doubts. I may even make them repeat things back to me if I am unsure. If I give instructions, I try and make sure that the other person understands. Both should do their best to be clear, polite and make sure they are on the same page. So the execution of the task or project is not what was expected.Ĭommunication is a two way street - the communicator and the receiver. What one person felt was clearly communicated, may not have been as clearly understood. You don't have to be in leadership long to experience a failure in communication. So become familiar with those to help formulate your own responses when these failures happen in your youth ministry. There may be some internal policies that already exist in your church. Hopefully we have some helpful ideas on how to fix them and move forward. Some of the key areas that we can see failure are communication, culture, competence, character and compliance. Whether it is an adult volunteer or a student leader, you need a process to identify the issue and resolve it. Another leader, a young person, a parent, who needs to feel encouraged and expanded. Marinate in that for a bit, then send some encouragement to someone else who needs it. Look to the God of the harvest, for he has plans for you and he still loves you. The gift of God is still in you to see breakthrough in your personal circumstances, to see change in lives that have seemed stagnant, to see resource where before there was just lack. Someone who is not thrown around by whims or fads, but who has self-control, who can live a life of example to those around them.Ĭan you feel the oxygen coming back into your soul? I hope you can. Someone who can take God's power into circumstances that need it. Someone who can be an agent of God's love in your community. They expanded him into leadership within the early church, and you can expand into a person of greater influence. Timothy received encouragement from Paul from these letters. For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline."ĭo you feel like your flame is fading? Are you feeling timid?ĭon't be distracted by what you don't think you have. 2 Timothy 1:6-7 says "For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
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