Excellence

Excellence is such an essential part of what we do at The Way. We never want to bring left overs or our second best to God (just ask Cain about that) we always want to give our best, pursue for excellence in everything we do including life groups. Wanted to give you some quick tips on how you can be excellent at what you do.

• Pursue God - You can never take your students some where you haven't been. Constantly be pursuing God with everything you got. You do this through daily prayer, Bible study, getting in a life group for yourself, evangelizing, giving, etc. Never stop deepening your faith because when you do that your students will too.
• Prepare - We say it all the time but it is so important. Know what your teaching, where you want to end up, and how you are going to get there. Don't just read the curriculum because honestly, the curriculum is boring (because it is a piece of paper), you are what makes it come alive, you are what puts meat on the bones of the lesson. But if you are just reading it, it's just a skeleton not moving anywhere.
• Pursue your students - The Bible teaches that Christ pursues us, he comes after us, isn't that a cool thought. So, why are we not doing the same thing with our students.
• Pursue them before service: Find your students before we start and hang out with them, play a game with them, buy them something from the cafe (tell them to put it on the youth tab if you don't have a dollar). Let your students know you're not just a teacher but you are someone who loves them.
• Pursue them during group time - get your students to open up during, dig deep into their lives, make sure that they know you love them and want the best for them, which is Jesus.
• Pursue them after group time - Again hang out with your students out side as they wait for their parents. Here is a great idea, meet their parents. Team up with them, give them your number so you can work together to disciple their student.
• Pursue them during the week - This is so IMPORTANT, connect with your students DURING THE WEEK. Text and facebook are the best ways I know how to do this. Ask them how their week is going, can you pray for anything, do they need anything, etc. Let them know your not just don't care about them on Wednesday but that you love them everyday (don't word it like that or they may call the cops)