About 7 years ago, when I was going through leadership training, we were equipped with a lot of theoretical ideas on how to run the ministry. We learned about contact work, earning the right to be heard, the various levels of contact work, etc.. but we weren’t really taught about some of the most helpful aspects of the mission. Now that I am on staff, I tell the volunteers, it is foundational to this ministry to ‘earn the right to be heard.’ But it is foundational to our faith, that we know how to communicate what we believe after we have earned that right!

Too many of us earn the right to be heard, and then fumble through what to say after we have earned that right. That being said, we spend half of our training studying the Gospel. I think it is a pretty big deal.

Also, it would be fun to walk them through the Ingredients of club, explaining why we do each things with intentionality and then challenge them to plan a club of their own.

Visit a kids house, look at the photos on the wall of his room.

Draw a diagram of the school and indicate what kind of kid hangs out where during lunch.

Do contact work every day for a week, but at a different place and time each day.

Ask a friend who might be a potential leader to go on a contact work with you.

etc.