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I’ve taken off the last 3 weekends from teaching after our Refinery Grand Opening and Save the Planet 3-week series. It has been such a good break! Here’s 5 reasons I think you should recruit some volunteers to teach for you all of the month of August.
it builds up your team – you might just have a great communicator in your volunteer pool and not even know it. Maybe there’s an adult with a great story that needs to be shared with your students. Maybe a few students just returned from a trip and they have a desire to share the impact the experience had on their lives. There might be an intern who could step up and develop that skill or giftedness. Either way, take a weekend off to develop someone else.
it helps students that learn from different teaching styles -you’ve found the groove in your personal teaching style – good for you! There’s only one problem: not everyone learns in the same way that you teach. Give your varied students some varied teaching styles and watch the unengaged light up like they never would when you’re up to bat. No offense, really.
it offers a difference voice and a different perspective - beyond teaching style, sometimes just a different voice causes people to wake up. And not only that, but a different perspective (older, younger, different race, gender, etc) can help shake things up as well.
it gives you a chance to take a break – why does the lead youth worker have to do all of the teaching? While it sometimes feels that the prerequisite for the youth pastor to be the primary communicator – primary doesn’t mean all of the time. Take a break for your own sanity and well-being. Another aside as I type this: it also gives you a chance to focus on the rest of the weekend program since you don’t have to spend as much time focusing on the talk.
it gives you time to gear up – you’ve got a big Fall planned, there’s the kickoff weekend to remember, too. And don’t forget about camp! Take some time and let others do some teaching up from so you can gear up to start out the new school year right.
JG
Hey Josh,
A couple of weeks ago, our church went down for a missions trip to Mexico and for the last 4 years we always stop by Saddleback for service. We were blessed to finally hear Pastor Rick Speak and to see your new Youth Building!
Any how, I managed to see you running around the new youth building and we catch eye contact and I went right away to say hello! You greeted me like you know me and even give me a big hug!
I introduced you to the LARGE ASIAN group that was hating me why don’t we have such a great youth room! LOL!
Thanks for acting like you knew me which made me just a little cooler to my youth! It meant at to me!
I always enjoy you on the POD cast! BTW, I feel like I’m the only Vietnamese Full Time Youth Worker listening to you, so Shot outs to all my VIET YOUTH WORKER!
I’m cooler because Josh pretended he knew me,
Anh Truong