Extra Curricular Student Ministry

If your church’s student ministry is anything like mine, and I would guess that it is, then your students are probably super involved at their school. It seems that just about every one of my students is involved in multiple sports. A christian school that many of our students go, plays one sport each season, and most of our students rotate from one sport to another. One of my students leaders does a sport every month and juggled both soccer and marching band this past fall! Our students are very involved in everything from sports, to drama, to band, and sometimes all at once.

I don’t think that much has changed in this regard since I was a student because as I look at my schedule I am always amazed that I, along with my parents, could manage the type of schedule that I committed myself to. My average week consisted school from 8 hours a day, football practice 3 to 4 hours a day, show choir rehearsals, praise band practice, youth choir, youth group on Sunday and Wednesday nights, and that doesn’t include doing schoolwork to maintain a 3.8 gpa. Things were busy to say the very least.

This post is not about busyness as much as it’s about visibility. Now, as a full-time youth pastor, I am on the other side of the fence watching…