I love the adventure of shaping and facilitating worship.  This is a picture from our last youth worship service.  The goal of the service was to capture the drama and emotion of all of Holy week.  We began on Palm Sunday, and people even threw their hoodies and jackets on our road to Jerusalem (see pic).  Here we also had students write reasons they wave their palms for God.  Then we moved to the upper room and had communion.  From there we had a service of light and good friday liturgical readings. We then had students write on a dry erase board the things that separate them from God.  Finally we ended worship with Easter and the proclamation that the tomb was not only empty because god overcomes death, but also because God’s love for us wins even in the face of death and humiliation. 

I thought it was very cool and the students took to it as well.  

What have you done to shape your programs that has worked?

After listening to a podcast this week I found youthleaderstash.com it is a great site that is chock full of wonderful game and talk resources.  I don’t know how I didn’t know about it before this, but now I am glad that I do.  Take a peek and tell me what you think about it. 

After some time of jingling around in my mind, I finally put design to ink and came up with this logo on a soccer style jersey.  I am really excited about it, and just wanted to share a couple of pictures.

Here is another of my Screening “lab” in the basement.