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How to Plan a WORSHIP NIGHT for Your Youth Group - Youth Ministry Ideas! (250th EPISODE GIVEAWAY!!) · Ministry Coach: Youth Ministry Tips & Resources

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Today we're talking all about how to plan an unforgettable worship night for your student ministry.
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ministry Coach Podcast, where we give you weekly tips and tactics to help you fast track the growth and health of your youth ministry.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: If we've never met before, my name is Jeff Laskola and this is Kristen Laskola, and I'm not sure if you checked out the episode we did last week.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: It was all about a tour of our youth group night, like from start to finish.
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: Everything that happens kind of behind the scenes, but that was our 250th episode, which we were really proud of, so hopefully you'll have a chance to see that.
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: But that also means we're doing a giveaway and we didn't do it last week, so we're starting it this week.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: So make sure you guys stay tuned to the end of this episode for details on how to enter that.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, and today, basically, is considered a giveaway for everybody, because we're going to help you plan your worship night.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: If you're going to do a worship night, yeah, you plan your worship night If you're going to do a worship night.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for student ministries.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: We're going to take you through the whole thing, start to finish, how to schedule it, plan it, song choice ideas, all kinds of stuff.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: So you know what surprises me every time?
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: Like this morning is a perfect example.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at my student leadership bio boards.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: So we have a little board for each student with their picture and it has questions like what's your favorite Disney movie?
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: Or what do you want to be when you grow up?
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: If you could travel anywhere, where would it be?
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: And one of the questions on there is what's your favorite part of chaos?
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: Our youth group and I would say about 80% of the students wrote worship and I was looking at it this morning and I was trying to get all our worship leaders attention and she stepped out of the room and I was going to show her.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: Look how much the kids love worship and one of my leaders that was standing by, johnny.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: He's like that's so funny because most of them talk during worship and they don't appear to be loving it all the time.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: I said yeah, but inevitably when I get up to speak right after worship, there's this little crew of girls right in the front and they're always crying.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Like they're always like having this moment and some students, I think, don't really get it, like maybe they're new to the faith or maybe they're not even Christians yet and they're just kind of like when are the songs over?
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: Or maybe they're kind of paying attention but they're not fully immersed yet.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: But there are some students that are like soaking in every second of it, and so if you wanted to do a night like either in place of your regular youth group I don't know that I would totally recommend that, just because I think that's more of the draw for new people to come and see.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: But if I were doing a worship night, I would do it on a separate night, like maybe a Friday night Summer is always a great time or any time of year really works, but a Friday night, exclusive worship night for students who know exactly what they're getting into.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: I think the reason for that is because if you did a worship night on a regular youth group night and there are students who had never been to your church, maybe weren't Christians, and they were coming to church for the very first time, they might be feel a little out of place.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: Like how can you and maybe they wouldn't, I don't know argue against that?
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you have another opinion on that.
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: I just think for myself, if I was brand new to a faith and I had to go full in hands up, eyes closed, worship, I might be like, oh, I don't know what I'm doing and what is everyone else doing.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: But if I were maybe got a little taste of it at youth group and was like, oh, okay, worship, and then there were other things as well, I might be excited to go worship night next time.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: If I kind of was maybe a little more prepared for what I could expect.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: I think worship is a very.
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: It could be a difficult experience for people who are brand new Christians not Christians new to the faith, you know and it doesn't mean so don't worship around them.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: We don't want to make them uncomfortable.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying like, huh, like, strategically, plan it for a night where the they know what they're getting into.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: So I think the first thing I would do our students are very, very particular with their worship set lists, preferences, so they like what they like and I feel like sometimes, um, worship nights for me, like I want to sing the songs I know and love, it's like when you go to a concert and we're going to play some new stuff.
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: You're like no, it's kind of like wait, but I wanted that one that just hit and I knew, you know, and I think everyone has those like think of yourself, like what are those songs?
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: That when you hear it you're like oh, like yes, I feel it.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: And not that you couldn't get into a new song at some point, every song was a new song at some point to you.
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: But it's like that's the bulk of what you're playing.
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: It's difficult.
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: And my students get very excited for the ones they know and love.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: So I would go so far as to even take a poll a few different ways, before your worship night, maybe a few weeks before, whether that's like an Instagram story poll asking what their favorite worship songs or the request for worship night.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: You could have little pieces of paper that they fill out and write and throw it in, like for the weeks leading up to it, like worship votes.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: Here you can have a number they text it to.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: Whatever your style is, it doesn't really matter.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: You could ask the small groups to brainstorm and like for five minutes in their small groups and write it down and put it in their small group folder and you could look through them.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: But just to give you an example of some of our students' favorite worship songs, because I feel like sometimes youth pastors will reach out and they'll be like what are some of the songs your kids like?
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: So this is just a few.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: They love Reckless Love.
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: Goodbye yesterday, happy day, deep dive.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: Freedom.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: Generation victory is yours.
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: That's a North Coast church, one that's ours.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: Our church wrote it.
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: So if you're not familiar with it, go to the North Coast church Spotify, you'll find it.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: I thank God, gratitude, build my life graves into gardens and made for more, and I think you have plenty right there.
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: And then I have a mix too.
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: It's fast, slow, new or some older.
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and like if your youth group has your favorites and you're like we're good, skip, you know these are just ideas if you're looking for them.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: So I would want the students to go in knowing we're going to do the one that you are waiting for, you know, not like throwing the wrench in, like we're teaching you new songs tonight.
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: And then the second thing I would do is I would pre film some testimonies from some older, more mature students and or leaders and the video testimonies.
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: I think the sweet spot's about like two minutes I mean three, if someone's very eloquent, I guess.
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: But it's just kind of like to break it up a little bit and add some testimony of what God is doing in the lives of the people that we know and love and people that normally don't get a chance to teach or speak, and doing it on video, I think, is a great idea because you have a lot of control in terms of timing and editing.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: You know, for someone who's not a very experienced speaker, you could kind of edit out their ums, uhs and flubs so that you can make it look a little bit more nice and neat for them.
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: And I have even some example questions that I like to ask of the people who are going to give testimonies.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: So if you need some ideas, I would usually email these out like the week or two before we do it so that they can be thinking about it, and then we take them into like a quiet room during small groups or before or after youth group.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: We just find a time to film and then we edit it down.
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: So we would ask them do you remember what your life was like before God or before you were a Christian?
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: How would you describe it?
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: And if they're having a hard time doing that, just say can you think of two or three words that would describe that?
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: How would you describe your relationship with God now?
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: When did God become real to you?
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: When did your relationship with him become your own and tell us about that process.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: Did you go through a time when you struggled with your faith?
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: How did you come through it?
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: Have you come through it?
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: What would you tell a junior, higher or maybe, in your case, a high schooler, or a student, a teenager, that is struggling with their faith?
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: What would you tell them when following God is hard, how do you know it's worth it?
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: And this is just a jumping off point.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Add or delete, you know however you want, but I feel like within that variety of questions I've usually gotten enough good meat to help students see, like the story of somebody else, that like the ups, the downs, the before, the after, the struggle, the win, you know all of that kind of stuff kind of mixed in there.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: So it's just sort of some guided prompts and what I'll do off camera is ask the question.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: So like I'll be in the room and if I was saying it to you I'd be like okay, Jeff, tell us about a time you struggled with your faith.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: And then I say, Jeff, make sure you use the question in your answer, and then we'll edit my voice out, because if they just so you're basically a repeat it back a time that I struggled with my faith was.
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: And then you answer right, because sometimes they need me to have a conversation with them to be able to express their story, but I don't want them to hear me.
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, that is a style of editing like where the producers ask the question and they leave the audio in Right, or you just do like a screen where it's the text or the question written on that screen and then their answer yes, exactly.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: So lots of methods.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: That's just how we do it.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Is it the best way?
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: Probably not, I don't know.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: It's just how I do it, and so I would have those testimonies recorded, edited, ready to go.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: We already talked about.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: We have our set list, we have the songs students love and know and are excited to come and do, and so now let's talk about a schedule.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: So how would you actually put it together, the nuts and bolts, to make the night flow pretty well?
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: Again, this is a jumping off point if you would like to use it, but here's how I would do it for about an hour, hour and a half program.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: I think for junior high, an hour is probably the perfect amount of time based on what we're going to talk about.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: If you have high schoolers, I think you could go an hour and a half.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: I think that the one more that.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: I think that they would love it, did I?
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: sound like Porky Pig.
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: I sounded like Porky Pig Do you remember yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah oh sure, why are you just like OK?
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Because you thought it was offensive if you agree or something, no, what I don't know.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: You acted weird like uh, sure, we don't talk about porky pig.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: That's looney tunes where we moved on to pixar and disney.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: Go on, hurry up, hurry up.
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: Now porky pig is offensive.
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: That was.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: No, like I am a Porky Pig.
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: I have no idea where we're going at this point but I love it.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: So let's go with it.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: Anyways, I sounded like Porky Pig, agree, I bet he, I bet he, I bet he that.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: That's all I know.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: I worked with a guy who he did sound exactly like that one time and it was really hard only one time no, no, one time.
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: I worked with a guy one time because you said it like well, then I got fired, so it kind of was one time is that when you were digging holes for a living no, no, no, no, no, that was something else.
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, okay, story for a different day.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Back on track, back on track here we go, the schedule ready, jeff paint.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: Hey, no more messing around, let's do this, all right.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: So I was saying if you have high school, you could do like an hour and a half, and I think that they would really like that and Porky Pig would like that too.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: So you know, you know, have the students come in, welcome them.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Normally I'm always trying to create a hype environment like music and snacks.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: This is probably more of a mellow night where you know you just have a vibe going with music.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: The lights are probably dim.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: You could light some candles, you know, have different scripture like on your screens or stuff like that.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: I mean doesn't have to be like somber, but we're trying to create the vibe as they walk in that this is going to be a more reflective night.
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: This is going to be a little quieter.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: We're not going to play dodgeball, but we're here to focus our attention on jesus and jesus, which you know we always are, but sometimes we do that in different ways.
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: You said probably have the lights dim.
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: I would say absolutely have the lights dim.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Absolutely have the lights dim Unless you have a reason for why you wouldn't.
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: But I feel like that just helps people kind of like thinking back to being a middle schooler or high schooler I was so aware of like myself and not like well, probably in a selfish way, but not so much like what am I wearing, what am I, how am I walking?
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: Like, what are my gestures?
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: Like you know you're so concerned with, like oh my gosh, do I look stupid?
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: That when you kind of lower the lights it kind of helps you just blend in and be.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: And that kind of goes back to the knowing the songs.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: Because when you're playing new songs and you're having to read the lyrics, like knowing the songs, because when you're playing new songs and you're having to read the lyrics, like okay, what is this?
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: Like what are we singing here, and yeah, you can get into it.
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: But it's easier when it's like I know the lyrics and I feel like I don't even have to open my eyes.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: I can have my eyes closed because I know all the lyrics and just kind of enjoy the ambience and really get closer to God.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: I think in that moment instead of trying to like, learn, focus, like what is this saying?
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, I like that, that's a good point.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: The eyes closed thing yeah, that's a good point.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: So then I'd have somebody who's ready to MC the night.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: That might be you as the youth pastor and you know, welcome the students in and kind of take about five minutes to sort of cast the vision for the night, set the tone of what this is and what your hope is for it, maybe a scripture.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: You know that you want to unpack quickly and just get the heart tone and the right space and then you know you're maybe have the band start warming up behind you while you're there and playing some kind of riff or intro and then I would jump right into the songs.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: So, depending on what age you work with, you could change the tempo to fit your group.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: So I would probably like to start because junior high, I would like to start with two fast songs and very fast songs.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: You know we do this event in March called starving to serve.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: We've talked about on the podcast before and we do some really hype worship and the kids are just like pouring their heart out having so much fun.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: I kind of like to start on a high note and I like to end on a high note.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: So change this according to your preference.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: But I would start with two fast songs and then I would do a mid tempo and that would be my first three.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Now we've between that intro that you just gave and those three songs.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: You're now about 20 minutes into the program and then I would throw up the testimony video.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even intro it, I would just put it straight up.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: So let's say that's two or three minutes and then I would do, on the back end of that testimony, two slow songs and then I would do a mid tempo and then I would do another testimony.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: So now we're on testimony number two and then after that testimony I would do two slow songs and then I would do communion.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: And so again, another reason why this is not best suited for a youth group night communion, the way our church teaches it, it's for people who have made the commitment to already follow Jesus, and so you don't want to put unbelievers or new people in a weird position.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Now, will new people and unbelievers show up to your worship night?
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's not, like you're going to check IDs at the door, like where's your Christian card?
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: So that's why you're going to need an explanation before you do communion.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: So you're going to get up and do a devo and you're going to talk about the purpose of communion, who should take communion, why we do it.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: You could turn it into a little sermonette or something like that, and we always just say you know, if you haven't stepped over that line yet and said yes to Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, feel free to just bypass it.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: You know, the Bible says here's who it's for and if you are interested in a relationship with Jesus, we're going to have a prayer team up here.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: We would love to talk to you more about that If you're interested, if you have questions, if you're seeking that, we want to talk to you about that and I'll get into that in a second, like the prayer team aspect.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: But you can do communion.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: The way I really like doing communion so that you have an easy out for people who are not believers, is leave it in stations and have people get up and go get it whenever they're ready, so the worship team keeps playing and you can sit and reflect, confess whatever and just have a moment and then, whenever you're ready, you get up and take communion.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: When communion is served, I feel like it puts the unbeliever in a very difficult spot because, when it comes through, they feel like I have to grab it, or else everyone's looking at me like oh they're the ones you know.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: So if everyone's kind of getting up you can blend in a lot easier and so that's just my preference.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: So you know you can have like however your church likes to serve communion the bread and the juice or the little packs that are already done, whatever you want to do and then I would have the instrumental or the worship team kind of keep going until they feel like everyone who needed to do it has done it and have their time to pause and reflect.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Junior hires probably will need less time to do that than high schoolers.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: High schoolers might take a little bit longer.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: And then to kind of break that to let them know all right, like next step here I would throw up your third testimony and so after that I would do one more mid-tempo song and then end on a fast song.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: So all of that is about hour, hour and a half if you stretch it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: So just to reiterate welcome.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Two fast, one mid-tempo testimony, two slow, one mid-tempo testimony, two slow communion testimony, one mid-tempo, one fast, and that's the night, and you could rearrange that however you want.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and obviously community might that however you want.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and obviously community might look a little bit different based off the denomination or what church you're at yes exactly.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Fill in the blank for that.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fill in the blank.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: So here's the extra elements that I kind of want to talk about.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: So that's the nuts and bolts, and now this is more like the garnish.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I talked a little bit about having a prayer team up front.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I think that's a really great element to add that the MC or host, the youth pastor, whoever's doing it, can point them out right in the beginning, like, hey, you know, we're going to have a prayer team up here.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Who is that prayer team?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I would have that probably be your adult leaders, I don't know, be your adult leaders.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I'll just speak for myself.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know that.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I could like just tell my junior hires, like you are going to be responsible for praying for someone going through a hard time or lead someone to Christ, potentially.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Would I love that to be the case.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I would.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: However, I don't know, maybe if I paired them with an adult or something.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: If there is a way I want to get the kids involved in the prayer team, maybe I'd have every adult have a junior high partner or something.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: If you have high schoolers like more mature seniors that you feel like could do it.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: But I think either way, it's really great to have a prayer team up front.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: A for what I said during the communion talk of, like, if you're interested in a relationship with Jesus, like, we have people up here who can answer those questions and pray with you and pray for you.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Or maybe there's just a student like my.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Like I said, there's that group of girls.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: They get very emotional during worship.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I think it just brings up they all come from, like not all of them, but a lot of them don't have spiritual support from their families.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: They're like a lone wolf in the Christian world, you know.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: And then they go back home and they're the only Christian in their family.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: So I think worship might bring up just some deep stuff for them.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: So they might want to talk through some stuff and pray through some stuff with an adult, so just having people available, and if nobody comes up, nobody comes up.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: You might actually want to have it in the back of the room so it's a little less obvious like oh, they're up there crying and praying.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: You know, I think I keep saying up front because our prayer team signs are in the front, but I would probably say the back might be a little less distracting, more, you know, intimate.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: That would be helpful.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And then one thing I've seen done at our church prayer or worship nights is like this kneeling space up front where they've kind of cleared the chairs, like in like a small area, semicircle, with different pillows and things.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: If people just want to have a different posture, you know, sitting or kneeling or whatever.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Again, your students maturity might dictate whether or not that's a good option for you or not.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: And then another thing we've done that I've really liked when I attended the worship nights is they would pass out like some prayer prompts or verses that, as worship was going, you could like pray through some things, or like they would give you something, maybe on the attributes of God, just something that would help you be reflective, maybe before communion, during communion, whatever you could get, pass out something that would be a walkthrough of communion, like confession or what Jesus has to say about it, to kind of prompt them through it if your group isn't used to taking it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: So yeah, something to pass out, just tangible for them you know to be able to look at.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: And then we talked about the lights before.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Like low lights are absolutely necessary.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: But here's where I would actually even go one step further.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Junior hires are such a wild card.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Like I have so many good ideas, but then I'm like, can you people handle this stuff?
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: And, depending on my group, like I just got back from camp and there were so many things where I'm like, oh, don't do that, oh my gosh.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: And one of our adult volunteers looked at me and I go, I'm overly cautious, aren't I?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, and I said you know I've been traumatized.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: That's why, like the these are trauma responses of me thinking we could have fun, and then you guys taking it to a level where.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Now we're in the emergency room and I'm shook, you know.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: So I'm very careful with this group.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I think I've shook, you know.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: So I'm very careful with this group, I think I've they.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I've just seen too many things.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: What I was going to say is I think, speaking of the lights, there is a cool element to lights completely off during worship.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Again, are you going to turn it into like, oh my gosh, now we're carving our name on the seats or something in the dark or worse.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: But our high school ministry does it every camp and I was a part of it once when I was speaking for their winter camp and it was that night and they turned all the lights off and the vulnerability and the freedom you had just to worship, but you weren't alone, like you were still with people hearing everyone's voices, but like that element you were talking about where, as a student, you're so self-conscious.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: You're like I want to raise my hands, but like am I doing it right?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Are our palms facing this way or this way?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Should I do?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: One hand, two hands.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Who else is doing it?
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Did we stop doing it?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Do we do it?
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: on the chorus only.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And so there's an abandonment that happens in the dark and it's just very freeing and it kind of helps students take their eyes off of themselves and get in a space that they're trying to get to but they just can't because the human factor like we're all human, but it kind of breaks down a wall for them and ushers them into a different space of like you can get there.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: It's just you're a teenager and it's hard.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I get that.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: We're all a little like oh, do I look dumb right now?
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: So I love that.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I would definitely do the lights completely off if you can but like ambient light, like you're saying candles, or I mean obviously if there's a worship band up front, they're gonna need some lights to be able to see what they're doing.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had, like, I think, little podium lights, but this was, like they call it, bird worship, like from that movie, because it's like totally dark, like I mean everyone's blindfolded which is so culty creepy.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Don't call it that.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Culty creepy worship or bird box.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Well, either, to be honest.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Well it was.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: They call it bird box worship every year.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: So, like this kid came home from their camp and I was like, hey, how was?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: How was camp Desmond?
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: He's like, oh, so good.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, we did bird box worship.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, I love it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: See, it's memorable, and I knew exactly what he meant.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I would also add some of you probably are listening and it's like I don't have a worship band.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I would say that I don't even think that if you have a band that's playing, that's awesome, if you have one person with the guitar playing, that's awesome, and if you don't have anybody, then number one, this would be a good opportunity to start inviting somebody for the future.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: But even something as simple as like playing music.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: You know a playlist off of YouTube or just the music itself.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: You know like no visuals at all, like up on a screen or whatever it's always good to have at least the lyrics, but kind of like trim to fit, like whatever you can do in your context.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and I was thinking like, if you do it on a Friday night, I'm sure your church has a worship team, you know, for the main service for the adults for the weekend weekend.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Ask them if they can do a friday night.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I mean what?
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Once a year or however often you're doing this twice a year, and I'm sure they would not mind doing it for the youth.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: No, I will not play worship for the youth.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you never know.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: All right, let's.
• 27:02
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• 27:07
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• 27:09
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• 27:12
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• 27:18
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• 27:24
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• 27:25
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• 27:39
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• 28:26
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• 28:30
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• 28:31
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• 28:34
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• 28:44
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• 28:45
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• 28:49
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• 28:50
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• 29:00
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• 29:09
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• 29:11
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• 29:17
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• 29:18
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• 29:24
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• 29:25
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• 29:26
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• 29:30
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• 29:38
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• 29:54
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• 29:58
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• 30:07
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• 30:17
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