The answer will help you gauge the depth of the relationships in your ministry. Next evaluate what balance looks like in your ministry. When a youth ministry has a healthy and balanced structure, each team member knows his or her role. The youth worker is free to determine the vision for the ministry and equip volunteers, and volunteers serve within their passions and strengths to disciple students. Your ministry may be out of balance if you spend more time with students than your adult volunteers or if your volunteers see themselves as chaperones rather than disciplers.
Our ministries must communicate both the truth of the gospel and the cost of daily following Jesus. Ask this question to evaluate and predict the long-range effects of your ministry, and try to name specific ways that you have intentionally encouraged students to grow strong in Christ and his Word.
Threats — other churches moving in, shifting power inside the youth ministry or church, how the community perceives us, shifting culture are we preparing or flatfooted. I recommend doing one of these, by yourself, for a program or your youth ministry but not revealing the results until you do it with your team to see what results they come up with.
Compare notes and see where it takes you. The Bible is our mirror. It is also the mirror by which we hold our youth ministry up to. How much does our youth ministry look like what we see the early church doing and being? Through scripture we can examine our discipleship methods, our meeting strategy, what we should be teaching and to who.
And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple. You should be sure you do everything safely and legally.
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For others, it can be equally as hectic as the school year, without the benefit of a familiar routine. Regardless of what summer looks like for you, it does represent an opportunity to think about the state of your youth ministry. It offers a good time for evaluation.
If you want to improve your ministry, if you want to be as effective at living out your calling as you can be, you have to be willing to do the tough work of evaluating your ministry. Below is a suggestion of what this might look like. Then, identify what you want to measure or evaluate for each section. Questions need to include something similar to the following:. What is working?
Where are we succeeding in achieving our goals? There will be questions that you and your team will be best suited to answer, such as questions about budget and programming.
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