Weekend Service Inspiration!

Here's a little note I wrote to some fellow students at my school who are student leaders in the High School Ministry with me! We are starting to plan a weekend that is completely led, and put on by students from Trabuco Hills High School. We are hoping to make it big and better than last year! I will keep you all updated on the planning and execution of it all!

I think we have a lot to convey to Trabuco. We are a group of student leaders at our church who need to live out what we are going to speak of on our weekend. Don't just prepare for this weekend materially but try your hardest in the next couple months and weeks leading up to really let your light shine in all parts of your light.

Like Grant said, I would love to start hearing some of your guys ideas. Ill list some of the components that we need in a service for those of you who aren't very familiar:

1) songs: think based around the theme and also just a fun opener song that we could do!

2) teaching element: pray about ways that we can best convey the message we want to convey the most clear. It's very important that we make this the strongest piece of the service as it will be what we leave people with as they leave the refinery.

3) videos: any way we can help further drive the teaching element home is best. Also any fun videos to use as a hook into the service. A countdown video? a re-make of the alma mater? all ideas are welcome!

4) skit: (this is totally optional) I have found in the past that the congregation will adapt and relate a lot to a visual representation of the subject we are focusing on. Many times people get lost in videos and start becoming distracted and use a video to pull out their phone and zone off. Skits have really dug deep. Think back to the Lifehouse Everything skit El Toro did last year, or the I'm Broken skit that a group of students performed during the happy series in HSM, Crave, & the main sanctuary. If we can get a deep, powerful and meaningful skit together, I think it can do awesome things.

5) announcements: these are provided by the HSM team, but we for sure will need two maximum, students to deliver them. start praying about if this is something you could take the lead on once we all begin to delegate.

6) take away: last year Trabuco owned those bracelets. I still have mine on, and i think a lot of others do too. Think into our theme and try to find a take away that we can give students as they leave. Meaningful, nostalgic, and long lasting.

Please shoot up any and all ideas up on this wall! Ill keep taking down some of the ideas together and at the next meeting we can all narrow some of them down. No idea is a bad idea. Who knows, maybe parts and pieces from each idea will be used. One thing though guys is don't become too attached to your ideas. We cant do everything in the hour and fifteen minute service. I know we can be a great team and hopefully this will even spark more friendships within our own school!

Love you guys, and girls!!
CT