On Tuesday night, we worked on body maps. This is something that everyone who goes through Church Planting Bootcamp will be involved in, and helps to get the creativity flowing, helps to brainstorm new, helpful ideas to reach people, helps to narrow who those 'people' even are [demographics], and puts it in a systematic order.
I thought this exercise worked well enough - we chose the youth of Phoenixville. The only difference or issue that presented itself was that I felt like I was making up the needs of the teens specific to this area - I mean, I knew what needs all teens shared, but not the ones that might be specific to this area. I believe we made an educated guess, but I believe the activity would be even more fruitful if I knew the area better [unfortunately, it's my own fault, given I've lived here for three years, and I don't know by now what the teens are like in this area].
However, armed with that knowledge, I believe our solutions or potential practical programs/events would've been more suited. If our educational guesses about our demographic were in fact right, however, then I think our ideas would've done well to reach teens. In fact, we even found ourselves overlapping some ideas with other groups, perhaps opening up the door for synergy and teamwork amongst people with similar passions.
Overall, it was a fun, interesting project for a Tuesday night.
God, help me to really learn who it is that You're calling me to reach.
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