Fall Planning for HSM Today

Josh on May 21st, 2009

Today a couple of us snuck away for a series of fall planning meetings in our High School Ministry (HSM). We used a similar process to the one back in the Spring (read 5 Steps to Calendar on Purpose here) with a few other additional thoughts based on where we’re at this year.

The biggest was that a reminder that our primary focus on evangelism isn’t a program at all – it is friendship evangelism – where students invite their friends to an appropriate program. With that centrally in mind, the focus is not on events, but on creating a compelling weekend front door week after week.

So events, while still part of the process to reach our community students, are secondary and considered supplemental to the vision of the weekend services. With that in mind, we are putting extra emphasis on our weekly services and planning a few less threshold events in the Fall. A little less plate spinning sounds welcome to me.

Going to be a great fall in HSM!

JG

Comment (1)

kyle Gunderson at 7:38am May 22

I am currently working on an evangelism curriculum and book writing project for an Evangelical Denomination and as we were looking at some stuff we came across an old term for Friendship Evangelism and they called it “FRANGELISM”. I loved it, so corny yet really funny. We are not really going to use it but it was good reasons behind it all. FRAN stood for, Friends, relatives, associates, and neighbors. I liked the idea of talking about your relationship with Christ with the people you are already in contact with. We went on to talk about how great it would be to make Frangelism T-shirts and frangelism necklaces and it could all be delivered in a FRANNY Pack. Of course when i teach on evangelism next year i will use some of the funny parts of this material. I look forward to the this material coming out and being really good. Have a great day.