How Can I Prepare My Group Spiritually for Youth 2011?

On the Youth 2011 blog, devozine has offered lots of suggestions for preparing your group spiritually for this event so that Youth 2011 becomes more than a 4-day event that is over when you return home.

One idea is to incorporate into your regular youth group meetings BEFORE YOU GO some time to focus on the MORE THAN theme of Youth 2011. This will help to involve those young people who may not be able to attend the event and will make it easier for them to reconnect with the group once you return from Youth 2011.

To help with this, feel free to download two devozine meditations written by Youth 2011 Design Team members for this event and use them to help your group begin to think about how God’s love is more than we could ever imagine—and how, because of that love, we are far more than the sum of our past mistakes.

The rest of the meditations written by young people on the Design Team will be incorporated into your Devo Time at Youth 2011, so exploring these two before you go will help your group become familiar with the format of the devos for the event.

May God bless you, your ministry with young people, and your experiences together at Youth 2011!

The devozine staff

 
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