Launching A Next Gen Ministry From Scratch

So, I am out to explore something unprecedented…launching a Next Gen Ministry (middle school, high school, college, young adult) from scratch.  We so often spend time maintaining what has been around instead of having the freedom to focus on creating what is to come.

Here is the setting…

I was recently in a room with Dr. Tim Elmore (President of Growing Leaders), Neil Howe (Generational Expert), Tim Tassopolous (Executive VP @ Chick-fil-a), and key leadership from LIFECHURCH.TV.

Here is where we landed.  I hope these thoughts help you to launch or to perhaps re-start your Next Gen Ministry.  These are the puzzle pieces I would have to build the most effective ministry that focuses on Gen Y:

• Parent engagement
• Commit 50% of your week to developing leaders/mentoring (life change doesn’t happen until life exchange happens)
  
• Build core group
• Leverage images and music
• Create space for conversations that lead to experiences
• Build catalytic events followed up by a process
• Understand critical mass
  
• Help grow adult leaders
• Help them understand this statement: “I won’t ask you to be who you’re not, but I will ask you to be everything you are.”
• Build opportunities for students and parents to serve together and alone.
• Keep in mind that Gen Y wants to join something very important and nearly impossible.

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