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Agenda:

1. Prayer. Guiding Verse: I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. (Psalm 32:8)
2. Review of our overall objective and notes from last meeting.
   1. Grow youth who continue to serve in the church.
   2. 50-70% of our servants in 2-years should be from the youth.
   3. How to address the 5-needs identified through the course.
3. Continue discussion regarding Need #3 - More ideas? How to start implementing these ideas?
   1. How do we capture our action items and follow-through on them.
4. Wrap-up

Discussion Notes:

Create an atmosphere that facilitates friendship between the kids:

Mervat: Help younger adults (Youth servants) become role models.

Engage the young adults with the grades 4,5,6 to help grow the identity. For example, Friday night together and participate with the older youth in some activities within the church.

Possibly mini retreat in one of the family homes. Give more opportunity for the younger kids to learn from the adults. Learning through example.

Nelly: Create opportunity for SP Youth to get to know the younger kids well.

Manal: Big Brother/Big Sister system. Prepare future leaders and role models. Older kids may modify their own behavior.

Steve: May work remotely as well. 

How to foster an atmosphere of friendship within the same class?

Marian: Give kids responsibilities in the class: Paper Handler, Attendance Taker, Cleaning before leaving, Garbage collector, distribute chairs, candy distribution, Jacket handling during winter, on zoom give job responsibility. Servants to create a chores list and distribute among classes.

Manal: Give kids the responsibility of checking on each other - A buddy system within the class.

Fiby: Engage some of the kids with the servants when they go Eftekad. Especially between groups who seem separate.

Mervat: Why not get input from the kids their thoughts? How do we do this?

Hossam: Create a schedule of events. Keraza through sports. Make it a habit that each year, there are specific repeatable activities.

Nelly: Parent communications. Servants to meet with parents of each class on a regular basis. Ensure parents are on the same page. Also, capture undesired home behavior which may affect the kids.

Marian: Give parents positive feedback on their kids which encourages the kids. Create relationship between servant and parents.

Manal: Fostering the relationship with parents can also help grow the relationship between the kids of the same class. Outing including the parents.

Side Topic:

Number of servants per class:

• Rotation Schedule? 
• Continuity of care and ownership?
• Rotating servants feel side-lines and don't participate much?

Steve: Consistency of servants attendance. Too many servants per class waters down the responsibility.

Manal: Need to create new services and re-distribute the servants between Sunday School and these services.