Face time in worship

Make sure you and your people get “face time” in regular worship. Youth program often get isolated from the rest of the church. The youth are an abstraction. The congregation may be proud that they have a “youth program” but not know who that describes. Such abstractions are often ignored, overlooked, underfunded.
So you and the youth need to be in the congregation's face. You all need to be real and personal to the congregation. One way of doing this is by assisting in worship regularly, not just on “Youth Sunday.”