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Retreat: Own It: 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. A weekend retreat is the perfect environment to challenge students to go deeper in their faith. It's an opportunity to take all the relationships and trust you've built throughout the year, and leverage them for a significant spiritual moment for your students. The right weekend retreat, when done strategically, can help your students grow closer to God, grow closer to each other, and connect more deeply with your ministry. Whether you decide to hold your retreat in your community (at a combination of church and host homes) or at a nearby retreat center, this Event Guide will help you plan a weekend retreat for the first time, or maybe just get a little better at it! All our events are built to be flexible! You can use 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 Own It: a 4-Part Teaching Series for Youth Ministry TOPIC: Spiritual Growth SCRIPTURE: New Testament DECORATING THEME: Splatter paint AGE GROUP: Students Splatter art is one of the most unique ways of creating. In the hands of an artist, each splash of paint tells a story of focus, intention, and creativity. And once the artist is finished with their splatter painting, we get to see something one-of-a-kind. It's like that with our faith, too. Our experiences and the people we spend time with help us create unique works of art out of our faith, but how do we shape the faith we dream about in our minds? And who can we trust to help us create it? During this weekend, we'll explore how the right habits and community can help us because God invites us to own our faith, and true friends shape each other's faith. BIG IDEAS & BIBLE STORIES God invites you to own your faith. (God guides the exiles : Jeremiah 29:11-13; Philippians 3:7-14 God invites you to own your faith. (Faith in action: Hebrews 12:1-3) True friends shape each other's faith. (Jesus calls Philip and Nathanael: John 1:43-51; Proverbs 27:17) True friends shape each other's faith. (A word on friendship: Ecclesiastes 4:12) WEEKLY CURRICULUM SUMMARIES: In this session, we see that even when you don't know what's next, God invites you to take ownership of your faith. A splatter painting doesn't come together by accident; every choice the artist makes matters.This session, we'll hear how God spoke to people who felt stuck and unsure about what came next, reminding them that their future wasn't random or forgotten. We'll see that faith isn't just something passed down to us, it's something we choose because God invites you to own your faith. In this session, we see that our faith grows when we choose to trust God, even without knowing every step ahead. Faith doesn't grow by accident, it's built through trust, practice, and action over time. This session, we'll explore what it means to live with faith even when we don't have every detail figured out. We'll see that choosing to trust God day by day is part of how God invites you to own your faith. In this session, we learn how the right friends can help your faith grow in powerful ways. Who you spend time with has a bigger influence on you than you might realize. This session, we'll look at how two friends responded when Jesus invited them into something new and how their faith grew together. We'll discover that real friendship isn't just about having fun, it's about helping each other grow because true friends shape each other's faith. In this session, we learn that God uses community and friendship to help our faith grow stronger. Creating something meaningful is easier when you're not doing it alone. This session, we'll look at how community and strong friendships help us stay grounded, encouraged, and steady when life gets difficult. We'll see why God designed faith to be lived out together, because true friends shape each other's faith.

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