PYWA Small Group Grants!

Are there youth workers in your area with whom you would love to spend some time and connect? Do you need a short break from youth ministry with others who love working with teens? Do you need some money to make this dream happen?

PYWA may be able to help! We want to help you connect with other youth workers in your area! PYWA exists to support and uphold youth workers, and often that is done best when you and your peers can meet face-to-face to build community, to share joys and concerns, and to exchange ideas. Do you have an idea to connect youth workers in your area? Apply for one of our $150 grants!

Here are 10 ideas for potential Small Groups, but feel free to use your imagination!

Book Group- Select a book on youth ministry to read and discuss
Prayer Group- Meet to share prayer concerns and joys, and commit to praying for one another.
Planning Group- Create a regional gathering for your youth groups; meet to plan shared events to take place a couple of times each year.
Bible Study Group- Select a book of the Bible to read and study together, with no intention of using it for a youth study
Re-charge Group- Select an activity to build community and re-charge your batteries. Ideas: Plan a game night, read and discuss a fiction book, go on a hike together, etc.
Brainstorm Group- Meet to share and swap your best youth ministry ideas, as well as to brainstorm new ones.
Music Group- Meet to create or listen to music as a way of re-energizing your souls.
Listening Group- Pay a speaker to come and talk to your group for an hour or two on a Youth Ministry topic.
Mission Group- Gather to do a service project together with just the adults.
Coffee Break Group- Take time away for yourselves and make new friends with other adults who also love working with youth.

Download the 2013 PYWA Small Group Grant Application for more information and don't forget to submit your completed form before November 8th.

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