scrappergirl
January 5th, 2008, 03:46 PM
My friend and I will be doing a purity event geared toward middleschool girls and their moms at church in February.
We are using "Every Young Woman's Battle" book and workbook as a guideline, and each pair will receive this set with their $15 fee (that's a little less than what the set costs). We are not specifically using it for the workshop/event because it gets quite graphic and we feel that there is too much of an experience range in this age group...but it has alot of good stuff that is not TOO intense for anyone coming that we will be using.
My question is:
has any of you ever gone to something like this?
Organized something like this?
Do you have any suggestions or tips for stuff to talk about or anything?
i have a rudimentary outline that i am working on which I'll post tomorrow or later tonight if I have time (can't right now).
We also plan to POSSIBLy have a break out session for the moms to watch a dvd by the same author as the books entitles "preparing your daughter for every young woman's battle" which SEEMS to be more geared toward the age group we're tackling right now (unlike the book/wkbk which is a bit older).
we also want to have fun stuff too, like nail painting, maybe a demo on how to apply makeup TASTEFULLY, perhaps a scrapbook page, maybe some type of game (not sure what)..but enough to keep them interested in hanging on thru the tough stuff.
We decided this was something that needed to be done bc of the unfortunate appearance that many of the teens at our church or involved w/youth group at our church *but not necessarily members* are either involved in sexual sin or flirting with it by the way they act, dress, etc. This has been brought up a few times to leaders, and it is being addressed in the youth programs (although...frankly I'm not sure how effectively it is, since there are some things that do concern me since i see no difference!)...and finally my friend called me because she felt after reading the scripture about older women instructing the younger women that it was up to us to correct these things when we see that the parents are not.
Anyway...
that's the short version.
if you have ever been to anything like this put on by a professional speaker or even by a church, etc., i'd love to hear your input, ideas, etc. We don't have alot of time to plan, and we'd really like to be as thorough as possible, as well as have this day really be able to make an impact on the girls and their moms.
our next one will hopefully be for the older teens (gulp)..and the pastor was so excited about this that he wants to see a similar thing for the boys in the church, with their dads. so this has big implications for our tiny church...even if it only helps ONE girl stay pure until marriage...
thanks in advance for your insight!
We are using "Every Young Woman's Battle" book and workbook as a guideline, and each pair will receive this set with their $15 fee (that's a little less than what the set costs). We are not specifically using it for the workshop/event because it gets quite graphic and we feel that there is too much of an experience range in this age group...but it has alot of good stuff that is not TOO intense for anyone coming that we will be using.
My question is:
has any of you ever gone to something like this?
Organized something like this?
Do you have any suggestions or tips for stuff to talk about or anything?
i have a rudimentary outline that i am working on which I'll post tomorrow or later tonight if I have time (can't right now).
We also plan to POSSIBLy have a break out session for the moms to watch a dvd by the same author as the books entitles "preparing your daughter for every young woman's battle" which SEEMS to be more geared toward the age group we're tackling right now (unlike the book/wkbk which is a bit older).
we also want to have fun stuff too, like nail painting, maybe a demo on how to apply makeup TASTEFULLY, perhaps a scrapbook page, maybe some type of game (not sure what)..but enough to keep them interested in hanging on thru the tough stuff.
We decided this was something that needed to be done bc of the unfortunate appearance that many of the teens at our church or involved w/youth group at our church *but not necessarily members* are either involved in sexual sin or flirting with it by the way they act, dress, etc. This has been brought up a few times to leaders, and it is being addressed in the youth programs (although...frankly I'm not sure how effectively it is, since there are some things that do concern me since i see no difference!)...and finally my friend called me because she felt after reading the scripture about older women instructing the younger women that it was up to us to correct these things when we see that the parents are not.
Anyway...
that's the short version.
if you have ever been to anything like this put on by a professional speaker or even by a church, etc., i'd love to hear your input, ideas, etc. We don't have alot of time to plan, and we'd really like to be as thorough as possible, as well as have this day really be able to make an impact on the girls and their moms.
our next one will hopefully be for the older teens (gulp)..and the pastor was so excited about this that he wants to see a similar thing for the boys in the church, with their dads. so this has big implications for our tiny church...even if it only helps ONE girl stay pure until marriage...
thanks in advance for your insight!