Why might you want a coach?

Building a solid youth and family ministry is like building a solid house.

You want a coach with years of experience who understands planning, and can help you successfully develop the following four program essentials. You want someone who can help you learn quickly and avoid the many mistakes that are often repeated. 

Architect - Your design.

• Do you have a congregational blue print for youth and family ministry?
• Do you know your desired outcomes? Where will youth end up following your plan?
• Is there a positive  atmosphere, theological framework and relational culture conducive for building a youth and family Ministry? How will you develope this?
  

Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to
Alice: I don't much care where.
The Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.

Contract - Your systems. 

• Are there effective and efficient systems to accomplish your plans?
• Are there old habits, fly by the seat of pants practices, or other road blocks that need to change?
• Are you planning programs for the sake of programs, or are you planning for real faith forming outcomes?

If you always do what you've always done,
you'll always get what you always got.

Build - Your Implementation.

• Are your leaders well trained and equipped for leading faith forming relationships?
  
• Will  kids come for  event, or are they coming for the faith forming relationships?
  
• How  do you learn from every event in order to improve the next? 
  

Kids are either leading or they are leaving.

Real Estate Agent - Your outreach.

• How do people reach out to young people in your congregation and community?
• How is information, trust, need, and purpose  communicated? With kids? Parents? Congregation?
•  How are stories celebrated?

The one who tells the stories, rules the world. - Hopi proverb