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PRELIMINARY YOUTH PLAN FOR 2008 – 2009
After visiting with our youth kids, parents, my wife and pastor, I have come up with a plan for the upcoming school year for our youth group at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church. This plan is meant to implement what we do well, maintain our Lutheran heritage, build on our current strengths and strengthen some of our current weaknesses.
I am sending you this letter to share with you a little bit about what is happening with the OSLC youth group. I have spoken with many parents, church leaders, students and congregants and have heard many of you express concern about our group; I share that concern with you! My hope is this letter will give you a framework for where we were, where we are and where we are headed.
I am a big believer in vision and purpose. Our Bibles tell us “Where there is no vision, the people perish” and I fully agree with that! A little background if I may. A little over two years ago, I ventured back onto familiar territory here at OSLC. I had served here for several years before taking a call to a church in the Omaha, Nebraska area. I left that church after one year there moving back to Phoenix, Arizona. I spent a year and a half as a youth probation officer in a detention center in Maricopa County. It was an interes [...]