Weekend Teaching Series: Bringing Sexy Back (Week 2 of 4)
Message Title: Your Basic Sex Talk
Sermon in a Sentence: The uniqueness of males and females and boundaries for the sexual relationship.
Weekend Scale of Difficulty: 6 out of 10
Attendance: Up 9% from last weekend, up 38% from same weekend last year
Service Length: 73 minutes
Understandable Message: A Doug Fields brought the talk and students were engaged the whole time. Not as much rustling as last week.
Volunteer/Student Involvement: B+ Not as many volunteers on stage, but one of the best parts of the program was a skit with all students.
Element of Fun: A
Positive Environment: B Students, Leaders and Students were all “up” and the message went over very well.
Music Playlist: N/A There was really only one song and it was a comedy part of the program – not something for students to sing with. (This is the second week without a praise experience for students.)

Notes: This week seemed to be more in the sweet spot for HSM programming. It didn’t seem that it was as “hard” as last week to pull off, but the results were visibly better. Students weren’t nearly as restless, and were more engaged. The only improvement would be that the game (at the service I was at) took a little long to setup, but it made up for it by ending very strong. I think the main difference between last week and this one is that the on stage programming was very funny and the primary focus with video as secondary and illustrative. That and the programming was much “tighter” without as many silences in between parts of the programming.

Overall grade: A-

(This week’s report was written by HSM volunteer Tony Steward.)