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