Jaime has always thought it would be a good idea to get shirts made that say something like the above made and wear them on one of our trips. Now, we can do one better.
I’m going to print up ID Cards for all our kids and bring some of the bright yellow lanyards for them to wear with it. It will be totally optional, but we’ll have enough so that all our youth and adults can participate if they want to. Some questions:
- Is there a better text to put on there? I debated between a question and a statement.
- If a statement, should it be punctuated? It looks weird, but the teacher in me says it should be.
- Should we print extras and bring supplies so we can pass them out to other interested individuals at the camp?
- Are there other badges we could make for the trip that would give our youth opportunities to minister to others?
I’m really excited about this fun, informal way of discipling our youth. We’d coach them ahead of time for what to do:
- Ask for a name so you can pray for the person by name.
- Get some specific prayer requests.
- Give them some “generic” prayer requests in case people want prayer but aren’t comfortable sharing.
What a great way to give them some practice sharing Christ with those they come in contact with while on the trip, plus it gets our kids meeting lots of new people and having conversations. Plus it will be great to share the stories during our evening devotions. I’ve got goose bumps thinking about the possibilities to Love Out Loud here.
I like it. Some other options – “Ask me about my church” or “Ask me about my hope”
I LOVE this idea! They are all good ideas.
Tracy
How could I pray for you?
Thanks for the suggestions everyone!
Great stuff! Needs to be short/sweet. Did you consider?
I’ll pray 4 U
Tell me how
Extra badges would be great but may be a big burden to make on site.
We would print all the badges here and take them along with us. Once we ran out, we’d be out.
That is a great idea 🙂 I don’t think I have ever seen anyone wear one with a message like that before! We should wear them to King’s Island too.
I’m up for that Kels!
We have to be careful of them on the lanyards. Remember that we will be working near/with tools and the kids will be going on rides at Kings Island where they could get caught on something.
Yea, we won’t be wearing them on the work sites. We will wear them at the park, but they’ll have to secure them on the rides so they don’t fly around and knock someone out! 🙂
We also paid the extra 5 cents for the handy dandy breakaway piece for added safety. Could come in handy!
We could also say something like;
Ask me about LOL or ask why I LOL
(LOL could stand for Love Out Loud!)