Travis the Preacher-man
The youth pastor at our church was in Chicago over the weekend to visit family, and while down there his car's compressor failed and so he got an extended vacation this week while they waited for the part to come in so they could fix it. Silly guy buying a Saab. As part of that, I got to have my first real responsibilities as our deacon of youth and take control of the youth group meeting yesterday. We have a pretty good routine going and good leadership for delegation and such so it was pretty easy for the most part.
The most challenging part however, was that I got to come up with the lesson and give it in front of the group. I do not consider myself a speaker and so this was a bit of a concern for me, that and a lack of time to prepare made it a bit challenging. So, I dug back and found the closest thing I've done that I could turn into a lesson and went back and grabbed one of my previous livejournal posts, re-worked it a bit and voila, I had something to speak on.
Overall, it went pretty well. The youth who commented on it said that I did fine and one even said that it was too short (It was probably less than 10 minutes overall). I'd rather be too short and have them get something out of it, than too long and bore them into not listening though and I think I made the point I wanted to make as well.
Through this I even got to play with a new piece of software that I've been toying with at work to see if it will help manage my task-list and project information. It's called FreeMind. I think it worked pretty well. If anyone is interested, I put a copy of my outline up here.
The most challenging part however, was that I got to come up with the lesson and give it in front of the group. I do not consider myself a speaker and so this was a bit of a concern for me, that and a lack of time to prepare made it a bit challenging. So, I dug back and found the closest thing I've done that I could turn into a lesson and went back and grabbed one of my previous livejournal posts, re-worked it a bit and voila, I had something to speak on.
Overall, it went pretty well. The youth who commented on it said that I did fine and one even said that it was too short (It was probably less than 10 minutes overall). I'd rather be too short and have them get something out of it, than too long and bore them into not listening though and I think I made the point I wanted to make as well.
Through this I even got to play with a new piece of software that I've been toying with at work to see if it will help manage my task-list and project information. It's called FreeMind. I think it worked pretty well. If anyone is interested, I put a copy of my outline up here.