Youth Involvement Task Group Issues

April 22, 2007

1) Children’s Messages

2) Children Singing (3 yrs - 6^th grade)

3) Youth Participation in Church Services (7^th-12^th grade)

4) Youth Sundays (7^th - 12^th grade)

* It has been noted that we are seeing a few of these issues already being put into action. God’s blessing and many thanks to those who helping in every big and little way!!

Children’s Messages

Previous notes:

Erika Rolf has volunteered to organize children’s messages. She would give the message one Sunday a month and prep others to fill in on remaining Sundays.

Coordinate with Worship Task Group to get the children’s message regularly scheduled in the bulletin.

New notes:

Suggested that children’s messages could/should be based off worship service readings each Sunday.

[Found out from Jess that Erika’s class on giving children’s messages was very successful. The senior high youth came up with terrific ideas on ways to present lessons to the children and seemed willing to consider giving a children’s message. Rebecca Pfennig will be giving the children‘s message on April 22nd Youth Sunday.]

Children Singing

Previous notes:

Bring back the Sunday School opening music.

Coordinate with Worship Task Group to schedule the children to sing during Sunday service at least 4 times a year.

New notes:

Need to start seeking people who would be interested in getting this started up again. One option would be to have a rotation of people if needed.

Youth Participation in Church Services

Previous notes:

Includes the following tasks:

Reading the 1^st and 2^nd lessons

Ushering

Special music

Greeting

Operate sound booth

New notes:

Sound Booth: Further discussed having youth help Aaron and Andria with the sound booth on Sundays. Perhaps have a workshop to show them what needs to be done and discuss how early to show up on Sunday to get things set up. Get this added to “Serving this Sunday” list.

VBS: See if youth are interested in helping with VBS. Come up with a list of tasks (helping with games, teacher aide) that youth could sign up to help with, even if just for a day.

Church Field: It has been discussed to have the youth be responsible for maintaining the church field. This could be a responsibility that they could own and pass along to incoming youth, to keep it going. Matt Coburn has already been asked and has agreed to maintain the field this summer. Scott and Tim will make sure the lawn mower is serviced and in working condition.

Youth Sunday

Previous notes:

Every 5^th Sunday of the month.

Pastor/Worship Task Group facilitated.

Planned during Sunday School and/or FISH.

New notes:

April 22^nd is a Youth Sunday. Jess is the current facilitator of Youth Sunday and has youth doing special music, leading music and doing the Old and New Testament readings. Jess said if there were other things we would like to see happen, let her know. Ushering and greeting are two other responsibilities that youth could be involved with on Youth Sundays.

ORLC Website

Previous notes:

Discussion on making a youth activity calendar and message board available on-line. Possibly through the church website and/or Family Fellowship website.

New notes:

Jaye is in the process of updating the ORLC website and setting up links/folders for the various committees and task groups.

Discussed audio recording the worship services and downloading them to the website, for people that are unable to make the Sunday service. Operating the recorder would be another way in which to get the youth involved in the service.

Tim and Jaye have agreed to present the youth involvement task group issues at the meeting on Saturday, May 19th.