Rethinking Outreach...

I've never felt fully comfortable doing purely outreach events that cost a lot of money and then begging students to bring friends to make the event work.

This year we did an overnighter which went fantastic. We had a whole night of fun with students and volunteers who were stoked to be there.

But is it the best use of our time and energy.

If we're going to spend 3-4oo dollars over what we get in from students, should we be spending it on a night of pure fun with little impact long term...or should we be spending it on things like a student leadership retreat to develop student leaders or for small group trips to bring small groups together for fun and development during the year?

I'm not convinced, so my wife and I got talking last night about how to rethink outreach in our Youth Ministry. Lot's of good thoughts to start.

Will definitely blog about it as thoughts come up...

And yet as a youth worker, Overnighter's are so much fun...Check out the video of our time together. Definitely not wasted time...