Leaving a group

If you care for your youth you will not leave suddenly and without preparation:

• Take time to leave good notes for your successor.
  
  • Leave information about plans that have been made, people that have been recruited.
    
  • Leave addresses, phone numbers, web sites that are needed or helpful.
    
  • Try to indicate traditions that might be difficult to change too soon, things that can be changed easily and things that need to be changed.
    
• Start this documentation early and work on it over time. Leaving it to the end is to guarantee that your successor will be working with inadequate information which is a disservice to them and to your youth. As an example, often reservations for a camp or retreat site have to be done well in advance. It would be a shame if a traditional event can't happen because you didn't warn your successor of the cut-off date.