Report 11
My thinking
Working at JC Body Shop was a lot different than I thought it would be. I thought it would be more like the other youth groups that I have helped with. I thought I would be able to get more involved. What I found was, that all I did every week was go and hang out. I know that going and hanging out is important, but I thought that I would be able to do more than just being there playing ball. Through working there it really made me question my calling into youth ministry. If this is all youth ministry was I did not know if that is what I wanted to do.
What I did learn, from working there, was if you are going to have volunteers you need to make sure they feel like they are needed and not just baby sitting. Try and find ways that you can get them more connected with the teens. They said that they needed our help but I was never able to find anywhere that I could get connected other than playing ball. Another thing I learned from going to Body Shop, was you need to make sure you are spending time helping the teens learn about God. I felt a lot of the times the speakers didn’t go as deep as he could have. I feel he could have tried to go deeper and really help the teens grow their faith. They said this was the time to draw the teens into the youth group and the discipleship groups were where they would help them grow. It seemed like most of the discipleship teens were church kids, but on Wednesday there was a lot more community teens there. You did not see these kids at discipleship group or on Sunday morning. I don’t know if I would help out there again. I feel I would rather find somewhere that I could be of more help.

Report 10

Personal

This past week at youth was so much of the of the same, I find that I do have fun hanging out with the teens but I just don’t fill like I am making a difference, I fill like I could just not show up and nothing would really happen or miss me. For all I do is just hang out with the teens, and I don’t even know it you could call it hanging out for they are running around and I stand or seat there. I wish that I did not fill this way but I look forward to when I can leave and the only reason that I hang out there so long is to make shore that I get my time it. I really want to find a youth group next year that I can get connected with that I will be able to really help out with over just being there to be there.

 

What we did

This week not much changed I got there and seat outside and the kids played and then we had lesson and song some songs then we it was time to go. The big thing is they had a sing off with one of the teens, I don’t know what I am to learn for this but I think, have learned to make shore that your volunteers fill like they are really doing something for I do like body shop I just don’t fill like I am doing anything, and on Sunday is the same nothing really exciting happened just the same get there talk with some teens as they are playing then service then time to go. Maybe I am missing something but I am ready for change.

 Sunday 10:30 – 11:30

Wen  6-8  

Report 9

Personal

This past week at youth was just about the same as always, I just want and hung out with the teens, I really think at times if I am doing any good going for all I do is just go and talk with teens about nothing that really madders, and then now with my foot that i really cant do much with them. So this week I seat at a table and a few of the teens came over and we talked and hung out and I do fill as if I am getting to know them and they are trusting me more but I really don’t do anything that I fill like I am making a difference.

I still don’t fill as if I know where my place is in the group and I wish that I could find where I belong.

What I did

This week I just hung out with the teens and inside at one of the tables and then outside some also, this week again because of my foot I had to stet at the back and was not able to really interact with the teens.

PERSONAL

Sunday was very different for me when my alarm want off I really did not want to get up and go I keep thinking that oh I could just miss this week and not go and it would not really make that big of a deference, but I did get up and go and as I though I really did not do much, I have enjoyed working there this semester but I don’t know if I will help out next year for I really fill as if I am just going to hang out and I really wish that I could do more, for this whole semester I have not had one time that I have talked about God with any of the teens and it is not because I just have not but there really has not been any time that I felt that I could have. I don’t know but I am ready for something new.

WEN 6-8

SUN 10:30 - 12

Report 8

Spiritual Reflection

Ever since I messed up my foot things have been very different for me at youth for I am still trying to find where I belong, for I had though that I was starting to find it then every thing got turned upside down and not I really don’t know where I belong anymore, I find that I don’t really know how to fill about helping for I find it harder to go to youth when you don’t fill like you can really do any good, I know that this is not true but it is how I fill, and am still just trying to find my place in the group.

Events

This week was not to bad because of it getting wormer outside we have been spending time outside and so that has been nice for not as many teens just hang out and play ball some are out side playing around, I was just going out there and hanging out. Some of the teens I do fill as if I have become friends with and that has been nice but I still don’t know. This week as I have been doing for the last few weeks I would go seat up front and then when the band would play I would just have fun with the teens up front but I had to leave and go to the back for I was afraid that one of the teens were going to land on my foot, so not much happened for me but just seating there and trying to interact as much as I could with how my foot was.

For Easter I want to help with the teens and it was really neat when I go there they had all the teen in the gym and so I want out there and hang out with the teen and then when we want in to the serves they had things seat up different and really had a solemn filling to it, and at the end they had if any of the teen wanted to pray about anything with the adults they could and a few of the teens came up it was really need seeing the teens come up and praying and just worshiping. They had a thing where they painted red paint on the hands of all the teens and then they had water up front and they could go wash it off and just to stand for what Jesus did for them so many years ago. I really enjoyed the service it was really neat seeing the teens worshiping and really focusing on God.

Wen 6 – 8

Sun 10:30-12

Report 7

This past week I was not able to go to youth on Wednesday for I had been Climbing and had messed up my ankle from falling off the rock wall, but on Sunday morning I want over to JC Body Shop youth center, I was not able to really do a lot so I just hung out with the teens and what happened was I ended up just talking to people about what happened to my foot. then on the next Wednesday, it was different then it had been before for I was not able to really do as much as I had before for, for I would always go out and play ball or be active with the teens where now I cant do that so it was almost like starting all over again for me for I did not know what to do. all the teens that I had been hanging out with were out there playing ball and running around, so I stood there trying to find things to do and I did not know what. SO that was not quite my best time at youth but it gave me a new way to looking at things.

I did not quite know what to think of youth with out being able to walk it was very different for I had to rethink my position at youth for I was the guy in the gym and now I was trying to find where I belong, it is going to take time for me to find my place but I will do it, for I know that it will just take time.

Sunday 10:30 – 12:00 21th

Wednesday 6:00 – 8:00 24^th

Report 6

After I came back from Spring break it was, quite interesting seeing the teens again, for it has been a little defecate for me for back home the youth group and even the district youth know who I am and I am friends with many of them, so when I was home I spend a lot of time with the youth, so when I got back it help me remember what it can be like if I really try and make relationships with the teens I understand that it will take time, but I am willing and ready to keep pushing on. In youth I’ve been trying to get to know the teens hanging out playing soccer, or Frisbee. It was really neat for on Friday in the student center one of the youth sow me in there and can running up to say hey, I just felt that this was really good to see that they where getting to the point, that youth fill as if I has become more then just someone they don’t care about to someone that they fill as if there are getting to know.

On Sunday it was not a lot new that happened I want and just hung out with the teens, it was a lot of fun for I did go up and when they where singing got up there and danced with them and just had fun, for it is just showing the teens that you are willing to get up there and just be dumb and having fun with them.

Not a lot of spiritual things happened for I fill as if I have not got to the point where I fill as if I am able to really talk about there spiritual life just yet but, I do fill that what I have to be doing now is not talking it but living it, and let them see Christ in my life.

Wednesday 6-8

Sunday 10:30-11:15

Report 5

Record of Ministry

This past week when I was home I wasn’t to our district lock in it was a lot of fun we started out at 6:30 getting over to the church and getting things ready to go, then at 7 it was time to leave, we want to a Baptist church about twenty min away where we where going to spend the first three hours at, what happened is we had time to hang out and wait for some of the other churches to get there, then we had a speaker come in and do a lesson and a band come in, and things was really good the speaker really did a great Job of showing how as Christians we have to make shore we are living out our faith not just acting it out. At 10 we got all the teens into the vans and want to the YMCA, and this is where we spent the rest of the night, we had basketball and volleyball, swimming and much more, they had a spy game where you had to try and get two things of duck tape from someone and if you got there tape then you got the person that they were after. The night was good we had a lot of fun there was some water fights between me and one of the girls from my church, she laid down for a little bit and me and one of the other teens took to water battles and emptied them on her it was a lot of fun. Had some really good time of getting to talk with some of the other youth pastors from the district that I did not know, and meet some of the new teens for I know a lot of them for I have been on this district for a long time. Then finely it was getting near 5:30 when we where to get to go home, so we had to worm up the car and by the time that we got ready and finely drove back and waited for the teens to get picked up it was 6:30 so we had gone for 12 hours, but it was good and I had a lot of fun getting to just hang out with the teens.

Spiritual Reflection

Not a lot of spiritual happened that I got to talk to the teens about for we had out lesson, and then the rest of the night was just fun, and so I did not really get a chance to talk to the teens about God.

Personal Reflection

I really felt for my self that it was good for I was able to really fill as if I was able to get to know some of the other youth pastors much beater where I did not before, I also was able to see some of the teens for camp and other district things that I had not got to see for a wail it was really good just getting to see them and talk to them.

3-5-2010

Hours 6:30 -6:30

Blog 4

This past week I wasn’t to the Sunday morning service where for the first part they had all the teens together then when it came time to have the service they split into two groups, the senior high and the junior high teens I really did not do much I just hung out and got to see what happened for it was my first time to go. So I wanted to see how things where run

Then on Sunday night they had the homeless meal over at the church at 6 so I want and hung out with the teens and just got to know them more and have fun then they had a band come up and play, but I did not stay in with the band for real long for I had a head ace, so I want to the foyer and hung out with some of the teens that were out there. It was a lot of fun to just hang with the teens and have fun, the food to that they had was really good I thought even though most of the teen did not like it at all, but I did think that I was good that they where willing to try it.

Wednesday night I think was one of the best nights that I have had there yet I really fill like I am getting to know the teens more and connecting with some of them. For the most part I hung out in the gym for the first part playing some games then want over to the main door and talked with the leaders and teens that was hanging out over there. When the service was starting all the leaders where told to make shore that they spread out well to keep the teens under control and so I was seating in the front and when the band was playing just want up and had fun dancing with the teen and just goofing off. It was a good night I really fill that I am connecting with the teens. Things have been going really good I really am starting to enjoy working there.

Not a lot spiritual has been happing for what I have been working on is just building relationships and I fill as if this is going really well for if I want to make a difference and have the ability to open doors then you have to gain there trust and that takes time.

Sunday morning 1 hour

Sunday Night 2 hours

Wednesday night 2 hours

Blog 3

For the first time this past week I want to youth on Sunday night, I was going to start earlier but one week I forgot then it was the super bowl last week, it was not quite what I thought it would be, when I got there the senor high youth where getting ready to go out for pizza and the junior high teens where going to have there small group at JC Body shop, so I stayed and helped out with the small group. It was a little different then they usually have it for they had the boys and girls together, but it was fun we hung out and played basket ball and then they watched a Rob Bell video, but it was really nice for I was able to hang out with some of the teens and get to know then beater, it really was nice for there was not as many teens and I was able to talk and get to know them and see them in a smaller group.

Not a lot of spiritual stuff really happened on Sunday night for they really spent time hanging out, but I did fill that as was able to get to know some of the teens a I fill as if that is a big part of my helping there is to help get to know the teens and help show them what it means to live a life for Christ, for many of then don’t really get to see this except for when they are at youth.

On Wednesday we had youth and I think that it was the best one that I have had, for I really fill as if I am starting to get to know some of the youth much beater, I fill as if, im not just a some college student that but starting to fit in, I know that I still have a long way to go, this week I just hung out played ball and played a little Xbox. It was a good time of hanging out.

Sunday night 1 hour

Wednesday Night 2 hours

Report 2

super bowl 2010 Party at JC Body Shop

I want the other night to the SB, but I want manly just to go I fill that if you are going to really get to the point that the youth fill that they can trust you, you need to be where they can see you and try and show that you are interested in things that they are, so I want to watch the SB, but I was not planning on staying very long I was thinking that I would go and just hang out for a little bit then go back to my room and do some Homework, but about five min before I was going to go I was seating by the gym when a fight broke out in the girls bather room, and just as teens do every one very quickly took sides, so a few of the leaders quickly got most of the teens that where fighting into the gym and separated them so I want in when they where closing the doors to help if needed. nothing really happened with the fight after that they got the girls separated but they really needed some help watching the teens now for there was not a lot of leaders there helping for many had left or just did not come, so I ended up hanging out in the gym for the rest of the night just making shore that nothing happened, nothing really happened that was to big, other then some teens getting up seat, it ended up being good that I stayed for I was able to hang out with some of the teens and start to get to know some of then. So I did not really get done what I had planed that night but I was able to help, and begin to form relationships with teens witch I do not know where it will lead only God dose but it is up to me to be faithful no madder what.

Sunday the 7^th

Time: 6:20-10:20

Not a lot spiritual happened that night other then at the end I cleaned the gym and was able to get some really good time to spend talking with God.

Report one

Record of Ministry Activity

Last week for youth I want and just was hung out with the teens.

Wen 6-8

PERSONAL reflection

Over the last few weeks I have been helping out at JC Body Shop, it has been good what I manly do is hang out in the gym and play ball or just try to get to know the kids, it has been taking a little bet to get to know the kids very well. I fill that part of the problem is that there are so many people from IWU that work over there that the teens are getting to the point that they just fill that it is one more IWU student, that will be hear for a few weeks then leave, so I fill that I will really have to work hard at trying to break through the wall that they have built up to win there trust.

Spiritual

I fill that I have been able to see through the little bit of time of working there that there is a lot that can be done for the kids for, I can see that even though many of the teens have been going there for a time they still don’t really know who Jesus really is.

not shore of how this is going to work or look but i want to see what i can do with this blog, for i want to see about pics and layouts so lets see how it works.

This is a pic that I took over the Christmas of my family, my Mom wanted some family Pics for Christmas.

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