CSMDO Wants You!

Thanks for coming. This blog is an attempt to avoid lots of brainstorming meetings...and maybe capture your ideas when they come to you (as long as you're near a computer. J., Kathy and I are passionate about Jr. and Sr. high school students finding, knowing, and experiencing God at work in their everyday lives. And on top of that...we want that for our own lives too. And the key word is experiencing (for this forum). We want to challenge the students to actually "DO SOMETHING" about what they are learning about God. And I think you have untapped creativity that could lead our kids into a more active faith as a result of what they hear from stage. So we're gonna try something new and brainstorm on-line...and see how it goes. Here's how it will work:

1. I (Paul) will work with J. to understand the desired overall objective for a message series for CSM JR & SR.
2. I will then translate that objective (desired outcome) to this blog.
3. There will also be a challenge attached to the objective...for you to post your responses & creative ideas in the form of a comment...to each blog posting from CSMDO. Your posts should describe an activity or a tangible challenge that can be communicated or promoted from stage or Live groups. These activities could be a group thang...or an individual experience. But they should be derived from the series message and objective. And most importantly, we want them to lead the kids to an experiential understanding of who God is...and how he works in and through us.
4. I will collect the ideas from your comments, follow up on the ideas that work best for that series, and reloop with the blog and individual on how we will make the ideas into a tangible challenge for the students.

This is an experiment, and i'm sure the process will be tweaked as we see what works and what doesn't work. But your participation is critical for us to succeed. No ideas are bad. Be creative...even if you think you are not creative. This could be huge...but i need you to help make it work. Cool? Cool.

That's it.

PO, JW, KR