...you and your Senior Pastor are sitting down discussing the youth ministry. He makes the statement, “I’d like to see the youth ministry going in a new direction. How about we only have the regular youth service twice a month? On the other two weeks of the month, we would split the guys and the girls for gender-specific lessons. Let’s teach the young men to be Men and the young girls to be Women."How would you react to that? Would you be anxious, perplexed, excited, or downright scared?
Take a moment to think about this: What if we as youth ministers brought our young men out of the traditional youth ministry setting and separated them from the ladies so we could specifically target them as men?
If you want to do something like this in your youth ministry, think about these things before you start it up:
1. Name the fraternity:
Yes, you need to think of this as a fraternity where the men will want to be part of it and enjoy it.
2. Main Goals:
What do you want to accomplish in these 2 meetings a month?
3. Tenets/Core Values:
Out of all the things Christians need to develop in their lives, what specific “core values” or tenets will your group focus on?
4. Content:
What resources are you going to use?
We will continue to discuss this the next time I post about men's ministry in a youth ministry.
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