Michael Kell

I emailed another youth pastor who is considering coming to Southern California to serve our church… Here’s a sample schedule that I came up with.
Sunday
Arrive Sunday early evening.
8:30 PM:Arrive Liberty Church, Meet & give you history/idea of who we are..
9:15 PM: Depart for Host Homes/Hotel/Sleep at Church.

Could stay in host homes or at the church… I’d recommend host homes because then we can have the host homes provide a breakfast.

Monday
9 AM- Morning Devotion
10-Noon: Door-to-Door Evangelism with our students. Maybe pass out flyers for a Backyard Bible Club/Soccer Sports Camp in a park.
Noon- Sack Lunch in a park
1-2: Door-to-Door…
2: Head back to church. Get off feet & relax/open up game room.
3: Head to LA Rescue Mission to serve & eat dinner. Do Evening Chapel service.
Return around 10pm.

Tuesday
9 AM- Morning Devotion
10-Noon: Door-to-Door Evangelism with our students. Maybe pass out flyers for a Backyard Bible Club/Soccer Sports Camp in a park.
Noon-3: Backyard Bible Club/ Soccer Sports Outreach Camp-
3 PM: Host Homes pick up or back to church to relax. (May want to shower though from soccer)
5 PM: Dinner in the host home.
6:30 PM- Meet at church
7 PM: Head to local shelter for battered families… Bring ice cream and work with children.
9 PM: Back to church and then to homes.

Wednesday
9 AM- Morning Devotion
10-Noon: Door-to-Door Evangelism with our students. Maybe pass out flyers for a Backyard Bible Club/Soccer Sports Camp in a park.
Noon-3: Backyard Bible Club/ Soccer Sports Outreach Camp-
3 PM: Back to church.
5 PM: Dinner at the church
6:30 PM: Wednesday evening Bible Study- You guys lead entire thing… testimonies, P&W, lesson, game, etc…
8 PM: Head to Homes

Thursday
9 AM- Morning Devotion
10-Noon: Door-to-Door Evangelism with our students. Pass out flyers for Block Party
Noon-3: Backyard Bible Club/ Soccer Sports Outreach Camp-
3 PM: Back to church.
3:30 PM: Head to Laguna Beach (with our students) for Bonfire & P&W on the beach
11 PM; Return to Church/Head to homes.

Friday
9 AM- Morning Devotion
10 AM- Community Beautification Project (Work at Edgemont Elementary School? Paint Play area?)
Lunch on Site
3 PM- Back to church
4 PM: Go to set-up for Block Party
6 PM: Block Party at the Church or a member’s home… Chick-Fil-A cater?
9 PM: Back at church/ Head to homes.

Saturday
Disneyland/Hollywood- Play

Sunday
9 AM- Lead Sunday School
10 AM- Worship Service
Noon- Fellowship Meal at Church.
Afternoon off-
6 PM- Student Bible Study
8 PM: Head to Homes

Monday
Depart. (If afternoon flight, then you can do Hollywood in the morning…)

Want to come to Southern California?

Why do I promote the event: See You at the Pole?
I have recently had some interesting discussions about whether or not an event that encourages students to pray publicly in their schools is necessary and/or biblical… Here’s some benefits that I see:

• Students making their faith public at school
• Students seeing who some other Christians are.
• Students talking about why they stand at the pole
• Students thinking about unsaved students at their school.
• If you linger back, you can interact with the students who are walking by and asking about what is going on…

The key to See You at the Pole is two-fold

1. Training students to be prepared to talk about it. Students need to vocalize to other students what they are doing and why they are doing it. Why are they praying? Why are they not ashamed of it?

2. Having more then just one event/program/service/training/thing to not only train students to grow closer to Christ but also to reach the lost. It’s utlizing it as part of a comprehensive ministry that not only equips and challenges students to live out their faith in both and public and private manner on their school campuses but is an intentional outreach to unsaved/unchurched students on the campus.