Comments on: Create A Parent Advisory Team?

By: How to Last In Youth Ministry | Youth Ministry

How to Last In Youth Ministry | Youth Ministry — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:29:04 +0000

[...] parents to be involved with their student’s spiritual development. I just wrote about Creating A Parent Advisory Team which is one way to start getting parents involved. Rick simply said that you start with a couple [...]

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:36:51 +0000

Yeah, sorry, didn’t clarify that every leader on the “executive team” is also a parent that serves as a youth leader. In fact, I don’t have any college-age leaders at all.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:47:07 +0000

Thanks Tim for sharing this. Definitely need to limit and be selective of your team. I also think trying to have some parents on the team would be awesome because we need parents involved – it’s biblical and think we should not just outsource it to college students. Having a good balance is good though.

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:11:10 +0000

Since we have about 60-some adult youth leaders, it’s impossible to get everyone together and think we’ll make any progress with decisions, so I have an “executive leadership team” that consists of about 7 leaders and myself who make the big decisions and give overall direction. I could share a lot about this group, but pertaining to this blog post, the cons are avoidable by only placing people on the team who do not have other agendas and are team players. We have other stipulations, too, but this team can be ESSENTIAL to a youth ministry if done right the first time (you don’t get two chances to form this team).

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:34:42 +0000

Jeff – thanks for sharing. I will try and update my process. My purpose is both to get more parents involved and to be able to provide a more well balanced youth ministry experience. It would be great to see more and more parents start getting involved in some way. Good luck to you!