Youth Ministry Planning Tool for Smaller Churches

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Nathan Opsata. Youth Ministry Planning Tool for Smaller Churches. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/592344c6-af70-4f32-b9c8-96ac577f1415?q=2019.

N. Opsata. Youth Ministry Planning Tool for Smaller Churches. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/592344c6-af70-4f32-b9c8-96ac577f1415?q=2019

Nathan Opsata. Youth Ministry Planning Tool for Smaller Churches. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/592344c6-af70-4f32-b9c8-96ac577f1415?q=2019.

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This major project created a step-by-step process to help youth ministry leaders plan their youth ministry year. The planning tool was especially designed to guide volunteer-led teams of smaller churches through the planning process in a systematic and complete way by recognizing the strengths and limitations of smaller churches and volunteer leaders. The main deliverables of the step-by-step planning process were to evaluate existing programming, divide the leadership team according to gifting, and to develop a set of guiding documents, including a directory, programming calendar, weekly template with job descriptions, and teaching schedule.Five smaller evangelical churches were given the tool prior to planning their programming. Interviewing leaders from these youth ministry teams revealed that the tool was helpful in each church, especially for evaluating the success of programming objectives and generating ideas of changes to make. However, the step-by-step process did not allow teams to easily select which components they wished to use and was difficult to adapt for solo-led youth ministries. Furthermore, some ministries and leaders resisted implementing the systems-approach, especially formal job descriptions, in their smaller, family-style ministries.

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