A Plan for Ministry - 5 Steps

Everyone has a different approach to how to organize youth ministry, and that is a beautiful thing.  Willow Creek runs off the 5 G's, Saddleback has the purposes, Northpoint has the C's.  I love them all, and learn from them all.

We have a system that is pretty basic, but it works for me.  We work off of a 5 level pyramid.  So, yes, we run a pyramid scheme for our youth group.  We're changing our name to AmWay Jr/Sr High next fall.  Anyway, it looks like this:

 

We use each of these five levels to discuss where a student is in their growth, where we are doing well in ministry, what programs are we running, which programs should we add or let go of, what does the future of the ministry look like, and more.  Over the next few days, we'll walk through each level and discuss what each one is.  Tomorrow, we'll start with Level 1 - Relationships.