Rethinking Summer Programming

Ready or not, summer is upon us.

 

It is finally hot enough to complain about how hot it is.

 

And nothing says summer more than when the plastic chair you’re sitting in outside gets up when you do.

 

Simply stated, summer happens. 

 

Which means all of us in the wide, wide world of youth ministry should probably consider what teenagers with more free time — and adult leaders who want and need more free time — means for our summer programming rhythms.   

 

How do we build the shifts that summer ...