If you read my last post, you know that I've been working on a 2009 theme for our youth group. I want to invite you to respond with your thoughts by participating in this little poll. (By the way, because I'm not creative, I freely admit that I've stolen all these ideas from other people.) Also, if you have thoughts for images, Scripture passages, or songs that would compliment these themes, please leave those in the comment section! I'm not promising to use the winner, but I'd love to get some honest feedback. Thanks :)
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It would be helpful if you would share what you have in mind for these. I'm not sure we have the same thought in mind when all we get is a word.
"Renovate" is this a call for your students to clean their rooms, or trick out their cars, or are you going to do some sort of extreme makeover thing this year?
Maybe you just want us to pick the one that we think can make the coolest shirt.
I'm being facetious, but you get the idea.
Any more help
I think at this point I'm leaving it intentionally ambiguous. I would likely teach on the theme throughout the year, so the more open to being used in a variety of ways, the better. For example, "Renovate" would obviously imply change but could also be used to talk about God's intention for people's lives, the image after which he would renovate our lives, the Renovator behind the renovation, the brokenness of what our lives have become, etc.
I was thinking "reclaim the world" might be paired with the recycle symbol as an image on a t-shirt. In the same way as "renovate," it might lead to discussion about what God wanted to do with the world and how he might use our teenagers. "Remedy" came from the title of David Crowder's cd (which I love!) and "Wide Open" was a past theme from Youth Specialties' National Youth Workers Convention. "Be the Change" is the title of the book written by a teenager, Zack Hunter.
Sorry I can't be a little more specific, but it reminds me of a game me, Greg Taylor, Cager Thompson and a few others used to play on long road trips... "God is like...". We had to pick an object and someone else had to come up with a way God was like it! (A bit on the blasphemous side every once in a while, but good times!)
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