Ways of being visible in a congregation

It is important for you, your youth and your program to be constantly and consistently visible to the congregation:

• To a degree even negative attention is better than no attention: A complaint about their being noisy or messy can be responded to positively with: "Isn't it wonderful? How many congregation have this problem???"
• Get youth on committees and boards
• Use them in worship
• Use them as Sunday School teachers
• Have ”Parent's Day Out” babysitting services from time to time
• Use them for a “valet” service
• Have a prominent bulletin board with pictures of the youth and their activities
• Have a prominent bulletin board celebrating the accomplishments of the youth
• Have them attend Congregational meetings
• Send a newsletter about youth activities to the entire congregation, not just to the youth
• Make sure the youth ministry page on the church web site is unique and attractive and up-to-date