Well if I am going to blog again I may as well get personal from time to time. If you don’t know me I am a bit of a pain in the neck because I am never satisfied and I tend to act like everything is messed up. Yesterday at our staff strat opp planning session for 2011, we were asked to determine if our ministries were ascending, peaking, descending or tanking. I spoke up and said the youth ministry was descending on the way to tankin. (Now we r making adjustments…see yesterdays blog). My pastor went a bit nutty on me. You see we have a youth ministry of 300 in a town of 6000. It is nothing short of a God thing. But I’m not satisfied with mere numbers. If we r not seeing drastic transformation after 4-6 years in our ministry should we be satisfied? By the way we r only 6 yrs old so I am also dealing with my first crop of kids who have completed the full cycle with us.
Within this first cycle of ministry there have been some successes. We went from 15 students to over 300. We have made an impact on our school campuses, seen 5 students surrender to a call to ministry. However, as I see our students graduate after 6 years of influence from Alive Youth Ministries I don’t see near enough transformation.
We have to do a better job of getting students to…
– live missionally (less selfishly)
– live passionately (sharing the gospel)
– live holy (striving for a higher standard)
Anyway, I believe we should always evaluate. Never be satisfied (especially when it is in regards to numbers).
what is your take?
Sean Rheaume 
Satisfaction breeds complacency. I’m okay with you being screwy as long as you are running toward God and bringing a crowd of students with you. 🙂