Chicago

YO! so last weekend I had an awesome opportunity to go the Simply Youth Ministry Conference in Chicago with some of our team. it was great. two guys had to back out at the last minute so myself and one of our amazing volunteers got to go. I got to sit in some breakout sessions designed just for middle school ministry with the middle school pastor from Willow and from Saddleback. Learned alot of adolescent development stuff, and came back to our ministry here at CedarCreek with more questions than answers, weird how that works. One thing we are wrestling with and I will be developing in the coming months is leader/volunteer training. we have awesome volunteers, but at times we don't set them up for success by giving them adequate training. And anyone that as ever been around middle school students knows they are weird, so we need to help our volunteers understand why middle school students act like they do. I am excited about it, and excited about working through all the areas of our ministry to really make sure we are intentionally pointing students to Jesus with everything we do.