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Retreat: Hidden in Plain Sight: 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 for spiritual growth, outreach and fun. You can do this at a retreat center or host homes. You'll receive games, group activities, teaching and more! This event includes Hidden In Plain Sight: a 3-Day Teaching Series for Youth Ministry TOPIC: Boldness SCRIPTURE: New Testament DECORATING THEME: City Skyline AGE GROUP: Students We all feel the need to hide sometimes. Whether it's because of some acne, a bad haircut, or an embarrassing fall down the stairs in front of your friends, sometimes you just don't want to be seen for a while. But other times we want to hide because we're afraid to be honest about who we really are or what we really believe. When we transform in order to fit in, sometimes that means we choose to hide or minimize our faith in Jesus except when it feels safe to follow him openly. But in this series designed for a weekend retreat, we'll see how Jesus calls us not to hide in plain sight, but to instead be like salt and light. If we're going to follow Jesus in plain sight, we're invited to stop hiding and instead be unashamed and decide to shine. BIG IDEAS & BIBLE STORIES Don't hide - be unashamed. (Jesus Predicts Peters Denial: Matthew 26:31-35, 69-75; John 21:15-19) Don't hide - be unashamed. (Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight: Mark 10:46-52) Don't hide - decide to shine. (Salt and Light: Matthew 5:13-16; Acts 8:4-8) Don't hide - decide to shine. (Unity Among Believers: Ephesians 4:1-3, 31-32)

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