Follow up from Leadership

Dear Leaders,
let me first say how encouraged I am by you all and I am humbled to see the help that God has provided to reach kids at Wilson High knowing that 7 years ago I walked into that school for the first time by myself not knowing what the heck I was doing!

I will also say this I sense that God is on the move not just at Wilson but in us. I got the great feeling at Leadership this Saturday that we are on the same page and that we are expecting God to do huge things at Wilson but again I believe that he's going to blow us away with how he stretches our own faith in the process and that our ministry to kids will not be something forced or akward but more like an overflow of the love he is showing us in our own lives individually and together as a family in Christ.

Ok, so since it's been a while since I blogged I've got to say one more thing before I get to bidnez. I look to you guys as my starting A team. In the same way that a coach often seems to be the hardest on his best players because he knows how great their potential is I feel the same way about you guys.
I feel like up till now I have been super laid back YL leader and have kind of been like, " come when you can and do what you can, whatevs" , but I feel like our team is to sharp for that kind of Leadership and we need to be pushed because we are on the edge of something great and I don't want us to miss it.

Ok, that's it for now on motivational speeches we covered some great stuff on Saturday so for those who missed it and as a reminder to those who were there here's what we discussed.

• Leadership/ Time- kind of jumping off what I just said just realizing that the more YL grows at Wilson the more important it is for us to meet together outside of Club etc. to pray together , for each other, for kids, and to build community w/ one another.
  

Time- just the understanding that if we want this to work we're going to have to give of our time some how some way to do Contact Work and just being present consistently in the lives of kids outside of the hour we do our Club program.
We established that it is perfectly fine and encouraged for you guys to take initiative and do things w/ the kids outside of planned events ex. having girls over for a sleep over, showing up after school for a game of ultimate frisbee whatevs.
Let's not make this complicated Contact work is about showing up consistently and even if you've got 30 minutes to give every week it will make a difference. Bottom line it needs to happen and we all need to be doing it. You can also use this Blog to post ideas or times you're available to do Contact work so the rest of the team can see it and join you or Kalean and I to do it together.

• Club- Feedback- It's been encouraging to see it grow, Themed Clubs can be confusing and devisive so if we use a theme it will be more for our programatic planning purposes and we won't for example sell it on Facebook as "Glow in the Dark Club" but just "YL Club" , we won't tell kids to dress up so as not to ostrasize kids that may forget or come for the first time, and we will keep the flow/ format of Club the same each week so kids and leaders know what to expect.
  
• Campaigners- We decided that Volpe will take the lead on this which doesn't mean she will do all the work but will be the point person to get it organized. So anyone that wants to help out with it get in contact w/ Volps as we figure out when the best time will be.
  

As of now it looks like we're leaning towards either an early morning pre-school Campaigners or some time on the weekend and we are going to talk to the girls we think would be interested this week to get their vote/ feedback. So please take a few minutes this week to make some calls to girls/ send a facebook message so we can get this going again.

• Camp July 12-18th @ Syranac- So far leaders who've confirmed that they can go : Volpe, Kendall, Fagley, Samantha, Kalean and myself. If you're not on that list it's cause you either already told me you can't go or cause I don't have a confirmation from you so please let me know ASAP.
  

We decided that our goal for this year is 30 kids from Wilson! and that we need to make it a priority now to get our regular / Campaigner kids locked in. So any kid whose been to camp already or shown interest we need to be making calls to parents now and getting deposits of $75.
As a reminder the total price is $300 and the deposit is $75 due BEFORE APRIL 1st!!!!

To up the anty a bit I've decided to make this a competition so whoever get's the most kids signed up for camp (you talked to their parents and have recieved a deposit) by the end of March will win $50 and as a team if we get to our goal of 30 kids by the end of March we will have a party to celebrate at Dave and Busters!!! Let the games begin.
Also as for who contacts who , I don't care it's every man for himself whoever get's in touch w/ a parent and get's the deposit get's credit for the spot.
*Kaleah and I don't count but Kaleah if you beat me I'll take you out to eat or something

I know that's alot of info. but as I said at Leadership this is the time of year when we are starting to get tired and maybe not as excited as we were when we started but let's dig in and see how God will redeem our time.

Vs. to ponder for the day
John 1:12 " Yet to those who believed, to those who called on his name he gave the right to be called Children of God!"