Saturday, May 25, 2013

Coming up with a unique Creed for your group

We started doing this the first year, but I didn't follow-through like I should have to make it good.

Basically, we were going to put the following idea together on a poster board or some other medium, and put it on the wall to remind the youth what they committed themselves to do.  My friend Marni put the process and reasoning behind this well:

"[This idea] came from a marriage/family mini class I went to at a stake RS night a few months back.  They talked about their family creed, and gave out copies.  It lists several things things they will do every day, things they will do every week, every month, every year, and that they always strive to do.  At the top it says, "As part of the Johnstun Family, I'll do my part and help every member of our family, so we will have no empty chairs in the celestial kingdom."  It would be cool to have the youth take time to come up with a Vanguard Youth Creed, totally created by the youth.  If they are setting the goals and expectations together themselves (like 'Every week come prepared with Apprentice inspirements,' 'Every month we go to the temple'), hopefully they would be more willing and excited to keep them."

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