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Retreat: By Name: a Retreat Event Guide for Youth Ministry EVENT CATEGORY: Retreat SPIRITUAL HABIT: Spend Time with God, Spend Time with Others AGE GROUP: Students For a well-rounded and holistic approach to your ministry events, there are 10 different kinds of events we recommend including in your annual event strategy. The category for this event is a RETREAT. This type of event is focused on helping teenagers grow spiritually and build relationships. Over a weekend, they'll practice the spiritual habits of spending time with God and others. Spring is the perfect time for a weekend event that challenges students to go deeper in their faith. A spring weekend event is an opportunity to take all the relationships, influence, and ideas you've built during the first six months of the year and leverage them for a significant spiritual moment for your students. This weekend event can take place locally in host homes, with sessions taking place at your church, or at an off-site venue. Whatever works for you! The right weekend event, when done strategically, will help your students . . . connect with God. connect with each other. connect with your ministry. We may not be able to do all the event-planning for you, but this resource is designed to give you just about everything you need to pull it off on your own . All our events are built to be flexible! You can customize this event to your ministry's needs, but here's how we recommend using this one: use this event at your church or in your community over a weekend. This event includes By Name: a 3-Day Teaching Series for Youth Ministry TOPIC: Spiritual Growth SCRIPTURE: Old & New Testaments DECORATING THEME: Space AGE GROUP: Students Whether it's a friend, teammate, or someone you just met at your church's weekend retreat, the first step in getting to know someone better is usually learning their name. But when that person becomes more than just a name to you, that's when a real relationship can begin. In this series designed for a weekend retreat, we'll talk about what this looks like in our relationships with God. We'll explore passages from all over the Bible, from Genesis all the way through the New Testament, as we try to understand what it means to know, and be known, by the God who made us. Together, we'll discover why it matters so much that God knows us by name. Then we'll see how we can know God by name - and how sharing who God is to us can help others know God by name too. BIG IDEAS & BIBLE STORIES God knows you by name. (Comfort for God's People: Isaiah 40:25-26; Psalm 139:1-18) God knows you by name. (Do Not Worry: Matthew 6:25-34) You can know God by name. (Moses and the Burning Bush: Exodus 3:14-15; Genesis 16:7-15; Colossians 1:15) You can know God by name. (A Psalm of Praise: Psalm 145-146)

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