When is that trip to Michigan’s Adventure?
What weekend is the retreat?
Do you need any forms turned in?
Have you ever asked your student these questions?
Did you get the answers you desired?
In our fast paced culture, communication is difficult. Getting all the right information to
the right people in the right amount of time always proves challenging. In my years of youth ministry I find
myself perplexed that on a regular basis there are at least five different ways
to contact people: Email, Phone Calls, Text Message, Facebook, Bulletin
Announcement…and the list can go on.
I would be kidding myself if everyone was contacted and “in the know”
for all the various activities and events connected to the youth ministry at
First Reformed. It is a challenge
to get everyone “in the know” for everything that is happening. I am also fairly confident when we hand
out something at a youth event that maybe 25% of what we hand out makes it
home. In order to confront these
challenges, and because we realize that a student’s connection to our youth
ministry is directly connected to their access to and understanding of all the
necessary information (and their parent’s access to that info).
As we step into this Fall,
a new communication system is going to be in place for all correspondence and
information concerning youth ministry at First Reformed. The short story is this; since
there are so many different ways to communicate, we are going to pick a few
ways that to try and consolidate the moving pieces. Our commitment is to still distribute information at the
beginnings of semesters via email and paper distribution, however, in an effort
to keep the stream of information flowing we are going to encourage people to always
check a few different places to obtain information. The three main places to look for the Youth Ministry
information are:
·
Middle School Ministry Blog: http://frczmsyouthministry.blogspot.com/
·
High School Ministry Blog: http://frczhsyouthministry.blogspot.com/
·
Facebook Profile: Joe G Impact
The plan is to update the blogs 2-3 times each month with
all the short term details on Youth Ministry events for Middle School and High
School. Whenever there is a new
post, an email will be sent to our parent list, and a link will be shared on
the Facebook Profile page. We also
encourage that everyone save the link to the Youth Ministry Google Calendar
(This link can be found on the blogs of the church website). The weekly church bulletin will have
the dates of upcoming events for youth, and from time to time detailed information;
however, most weeks the bulletin will only have a link to the Youth Ministry
Blogs.
The best way to describe what this will look like is to draw
a picture!
Next steps for you as a parent or student:
1.
Make sure we have your email address (Email
youth@frcz.org if you do not receive emails
from the Youth Ministry)
2.
Go to the blogs and the Google Calendar and
bookmark them as favorites in your web browser.
