Youth Sundays, Step 2, part 2

• Divide the service into common elements: Music, Prayers, Sermon & Scriptures (including Children's sermon), mechanics.
  • Divide the group into these teams. Any method of division is ok
  • Have an adult leader work with each team
    • The leaders must have been instructed before on the theology of worship, and that they are not to to give too much leadership nor do the work for the youth. They are to trust the youth.
    • They (and you) can provide technical information.
    • They can make resources (such as song books and hymnals) available
    • They are not to veto anything. If an idea is too difficult or offensive, no youth will agree to take it on and it dies a natural death. No confrontation this way.
  • The small group can operate anyway that seems right to them – parcel out the prayers, write them as a team, work in subgroups.
  • If they need to recruit someone from the outside (church musician, sound system technician, …) they need to appoint someone to do it.
  • Depending on how much time they have to work on the service, they may need to have committee meetings outside the normal meeting time.
• It is acceptable to help them locate Bible references once they have firmly decided on the theme and how that theme is to be developed.
• Each group is to recruit people to do each item/activity under their jurisdiction. They do not necessarily have to do it themselves, but they are responsible for making it happen.
• I usually expected everyone in the group to have a speaking part, but someone can volunteer for something easy like starting a congregational response such as a creed.