October 11, 2012

In my church I haven’t had much of a chance to connect with Kids from my youth, as seeing that I have only gone to two youth groups and most of the kids in the youth do not go to church on Sundays. But the ways that I have tried to connect with them is in small group time. I have learned most of their names, but really haven’t had a real conversation with them as of yet.

                As for the pastor and people in other leadership roles, I feel as if I have made better connections.  Every time we walk into the church I feel very welcomed, there is always someone that takes interest to make conversation with us. I feel like we have made some good connections with the pastor’s son in which we have had good conversations with and he has become more like our friend.

                Overall I feel like the connections really need to be made to with the Youth, I also think that it will be the biggest challenge of this year to be able to get to know the kids. My experiences that I’ve had over the last two youth groups are that the kids are very out of control and that in this atmosphere it is really hard to make those one on one connections, especially when you are putting all your efforts in to trying to calm them down. My hope for this year is that I will be able to make connections with the youth and be able to share with these kids. As for our connections with the ministry groups in the church I think are great and I hope they continue that way.