5 ways to develop students as leaders"

1. Youth Ministry Lesson - Five Steps
Toward Better Student Leadership
5 ways to develop students as leaders
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2. If students are to develop to their fullest
potential as leaders, we must be willing to
take five basic steps to assist them in the
process:
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3. Hear them out. Surveys, forum discussions, and
other feedback times will help us learn about
students’ needs and where they can be
stretched and challenged.
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4. Use them. We need to give them
responsibilities that they can handle so that
they come to their group, not our group.
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5. Affirm them. Students are much more likely to keep on
taking responsibility (and to rebound from failures) when
they know our affirmation and encouragement. We must
be careful not to take our student leaders for granted.
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6. Let them testify. The best way to recruit more student
leaders is to let those who have served as leaders tell
others about how they have grown through the
experience of leadership.
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7. Be a facilitator. When students start to lead on their own, our
jobs will change from omnipresent leader to facilitator. When
students start their own small groups or host their own
socials, we may no longer be needed at these meetings. Our
students will need only our advice about how to lead. When
we come to this point, we can rejoice, for we will know that
they own the program.
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8. Creative Youth Ideas
Camp Bible Study Series
“Who Do You Say that I AM?”
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-> Tell me about “Who Do You Say that I AM?”
Jesus asked the disciples, "Who do others
say that I am?" It was easy to answer
because it required no conviction, no
commitment, and no risk. But then he
follows that question with another, "Who
do YOU say that I am?"
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9. Live the Fruitful, Abundant Life
Jesus Promised. Great for youth camps or
weekly Youth Bible Study. There are 7
Primary Bible study Sessions in the series.
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-> Tell me about “Fruit Of the Spirit”
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Youth Camp Bible Study Series
“Fruit Of the Spirit”
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