I wonder when was the last time you had a vision? — I don’t mean a Damascus Road like vision, but one where you could clearly see how you should shape or re-shape the ministry you are involved with.
When did you last draw back from the routine of week-by-week ministry and look at the longer term. A failure to do this often results in a group becoming grooved into their routine but unsure about where they should be going. You do things only because you did them last year.
More documentation
In recent years youth ministry has been forced to complete a lot more documentation. Recently I was looking at one of my files and realised that a lot of the paper work there did not relate to the delivery of ministry but was largely to do with the policies needed to cover ourselves. Now we must be clear here. We need policies to cover ourselves in terms of child protection and risk assessment and these documents need to be in place.
