Subscribe to the NetworkHSM Weekend in Review: Volume 50
Weekend Teaching Series: You Own the Weekend: The Others (all of the remaining schools outside of the 5 we’ve already done during the series this year)
Sermon Title: The Names of God
Bible: Colossians 2:7 Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.
Sermon in a Sentence: The meaning of God’s name mean and how we can connect with him.
Weekend Scale of Difficulty: 4 out of 10
Attendance: Down 10% from last weekend, up 121% from the same weekend last year
Service Length: 51 minutes
Understandable Message: The message was divided into three parts – the first about the obstacles that keep us from connecting with God taught by a junior guy, the second part was taught by a sophomore girl about the names of God and how He is worth connecting to. Then Josh came back up and finished by giving 5 practical ways to connect with God. They had a reminder card at the door given to each student as well.
Volunteer/Student Involvement: Students once again owned everything – great decorations, the message, band, games, cameras, lights and control room. They even planned a little dance upstairs after the Saturday night service to encourage students to bring a friend to the service. We did have one adult on stage, who graduated from an “other” school, to help keep the energy high.
Element of Fun/Positive Environment: We kicked off this weekend with a hula competition on stage, which was fun – complete with grass skirts and leis. We also had a stunning camp promo video made by a student that got a good response each service, too. Lots of great decorations and window paint, too. Fun!
Music Playlist: So Contagious, Sing Sing Sing, Cannons
Favorite Moment: School pride was so evident with this series. I’m excited to see how our students can take what they’ve learned back to their schools and lives, and bring friends from their schools back to church. A great series, sure to be an annual event in HSM from now on.
Next week: Backward$ (2 week series on giving)
so much fun!! we also played the song “Til I See You”
Hey Josh, greetings from Johannesburg South Africa
How do you go about rating the difficulty?
from Brendon
Chase – you were AWESOME, man! I’ll add that in.
Brendon – It is a subjective number based on what I think would be the most difficult weekend to pull off. 5 would be a normal weekend. If there are multiple stage elements, live skits, videos, logistical nightmares, set decoration, etc it all bumps up the score.
JG