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.