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We will be reading this book. Please read 5 chapters before our next meeting. We will try to meet this first Sunday on Nov. at 4pm

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Agenda notes 10-9-11

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Everyone here is what we talked about this past Sunday 

Costume party - Oct. 26 Agape Feast we will set up tables Oct. 23 after church

Nov. - Series Give Thanks with agape feast last Wed. of month

Nov. 19 Refuge Bowl - we are going to have it here. We want to get some parents to do bring food. Maybe they can do a chilli cook off.  We also talked about making it a girls and guys seperate league Ex. Middle School Girls and guys and High School girls and guys league. 

Family Banquet - we will move to Feb. I have been taling to staff and we are going to make this a church wide event. We are putting a lot of energy in this and feel we need more time to plan. 
Dec. - Christmas Salvation Agape feast Dec. 16 with christmas party and we adopt a family Gospel presentation

Jan. Stewardship month church wide prove the tithe. 

Feb. 3-5 dnow 2012 Breathe - the idea of just to have life you need breathe, there are essentials to the Christian life in order to show life. 

- Refuge Sermon Series Family 

We also discussed about getting more student involvement

Jordan G. Announcements 

Teams Media - 
Matt Smith, Daniel Forester, Jacob Stewart Jason E., Mike Smith and Micah Barber can all run each. 
(I would like these teams secured by Nov.) 

Sound 

Team 1
Team 2 
Team 3 
Team 4 

Media 
Team 1 
Team 2 
Team 3 
Team 4 

- Starting in Nov. we will only be serving snacks in the refuge no full meals 

Starting in Nov. - Student Leadership at THE STARNES  11 - 12 grade on 1st Thursday of Month the first in Nov.

- The idea is to make more leaders 
- Create mentoring Little Brothers and Little Sisters 

Nominations 

- pray about 3 individuals you would recommend to the leadership team, and let me know as soon as you can .

Thanks 

Brandon 

4 Benefits to Annual Youth Ministry Events

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4 Benefits to Annual Youth Ministry Events

Kurt Johnston & Josh Griffin

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Annual events in your youth ministry are certainly a double-edged sword. For many of the same reasons they are great … they are terrible. Today, we’re only going to give you a positive take on annual events, reasons we think a few annual traditions make good sense.

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Annual = momentum
If an event is great – students will look forward to it every year. Every year in our junior high youth ministry we host The 3 – an incredible night of fun for $3 on the 3rd Friday of the month. It is awesome and the buzz around the middle schools is incredible. Legends have been passed down from generation to generation of 7th and 8th graders about how awesome this event it. OK, we’ve only done it for 3 years, but still.

Annual = safe
“We’ve done this before – you can trust us with your kid on this trip!” That’s what a long-running annual event says to a parent. “I don’t know about axe throwing, but shoot honey, they’ve done it for 6 years - I think we’ll let Kyle go.” After a few years of the same event, you get the benefit of perceived safety. Total aside: an Old Spice-themed youth group logging championship sounds interesting, right?

Annual = longevity
A youth worker who is hosting their 7th annual parents conference is doing something right. Granted, it is possible they inherited the program and just kept it going, but when we hear about a youth ministry doing something for years and years, we get excited because someone is investing in those students.

So should you turn an event into an annual occurrence? Maybe so! Annual events in youth ministry can be a powerful weapon in your arsenal. A few cautions:

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  1. Not everything needs to happen every year. Mission trips to the same place at the same time every year seem ideal, however it might be good to keep the tradition of “summer retreat” but mix up the locale.
  2. Make it “The 1st Annual (whatever)” … and if it bombs, make it the last one, too! Don’t value “tradition” over “effectiveness” . If something is lame, don’t make it lamer by repeating it year after year!
  3. Just because something is an annual even doesn’t mean it is exactly the same every year. Pour your heart into the planning andpreparation even though this may be the 2nd or 3rd time.
  4. Don’t forget about the new people in your ministry! Never assume anyone knows about your event or the history of it.
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notes from last meeting

Refuge Leaders meeting 8-7-11

Purpose of team- to protect the foundation of the student ministry of Westmeade and to help stay on task to the purpose of the ministry Loving God, Loving Other and Serving in our world. 

Parent involvement - we were all in agreement that this is a area of improvement 

Events 

 Aug. Radical Teaching Series 
19 small group study events 
 26 refuge friday dodgeball tournament 
27 First Priority training at DBC 9:30 am 

Sep. Radical Teaching Series 
24 pass Bible 
23 glow in the dark bball
28 SYATP 

Oct. 
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2 Corinthians 11:14-15

14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

26 Costume Party Theme ? - agape feast 

Nov. Teaching series Family ( discussed that this may be better approached as helping parents be more appreciated. 
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Deuteronomy 6:4-9

4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. [a] 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

19 - refuge bowl ? do they want to do this again

Dec. 
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Psalm 98

1 Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. 2 The LORD has made his salvation known  and revealed his righteousness to the nations. 3 He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 4 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music; 5 make music to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing, 6 with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn— shout for joy before the LORD, the King. 7 Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. 8 Let the rivers clap their hands, Let the mountains sing together for joy; 9 let them sing before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.

21 - Ugly Christmas sweater party (do they want to do this again?)

Take home Assignments 
Jason - get teams for each week for sound ( Micah B. Jacob Stewart and Mike Smith are possibilities) 
Sextons - talk to the seniors about being more of leaders and taking more ownership - bring them to next meeting 
Veronna - brain storm and put some ideas for potential family month 
Becca - talk to other students get ideas etc. 

Next meeting Second Sunday of Sep. in refuge 4pm 

ALTitude

Good Morning everyone I pray that your day is well. I wanted to let you guys know that after much prayer and consideration I feel we will go in a new direction with the ALTitude team. The ALTittude team was in place before I came to Westmeade and it served as a great role to our student ministry. Over the past couple years we have seen a lot of younger adults stepping up. I am going to create a team called THE Refuge creation team.
This team will be consisted of a few students and some younger adults. This team will be 6 members. They will meet once a month and help plan the worship services and monthly programs that we do. I hope that this will create more ownership, give opportunities to use some of our younger adults, and make the events more planned to what students needs are.

We will have one final meeting in the refuge on March 6 at 12 pm Lunch will be provided. please RSVP.

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