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COUNTDOWN TO A CHECKUP: A Guide For Personal Reflection, Assessment, & Evaluation

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For December’s Freebie Friday, the team at YM360 wants to wrap up this calendar year (See what we did there?) by reminding you once again that as a youth ministry leader, what you do is a calling—what you do matters! As the holiday season rolls into full swing and 2023 comes to a close, many within our youth ministry tribe are limping across the finish line—feeling worn out, burnt out, beat up, or ready to bail out. That’s why this holiday season, we want to give you the gift of a soul-care time out by providing this FREE soul-care resource to inspire, equip, and invite you into a time of reflection, assessment, and evaluation of the previous year’s journey while also providing an opportunity to look ahead and chart the course forward for ourselves, our families, and the ministries we lead. Don’t walk into a 2024 with your soul’s tank on empty or your spirit on life support. Don’t let weariness cause you to question your impact. Don’t let the grind of ministry rob you or the other youth workers in your community of this incredibly unique calling. Download Countdown To A Checkup: A Guide For Personal Reflection, Assessment, & Evaluation today and share the link with other youth ministry leaders in your community. Enter the new year refreshed, refocused, renewed, and ready to chart the course forward for yourself, your family, and the ministry you have been called to lead!

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  • About This Free Resource
  • Overview: 

    Every December 31st, as the clock counts down to midnight, upwards of two million people pack into New York City’s Times Square, huddling together in the cold, eagerly awaiting the 60-second drop of the Waterford Crystal ball atop One Times Square. For the millions of us who are either way too smart or too far away to join the festivities in NYC, most still participate in yet another New Year’s Eve tradition: the making of a list of New Year’s resolutions. This is a time-honored tradition that invites each of us into a fresh start: an unblemished 12 months/52 weeks/365 days/8,765 hours/525,948 minutes/31,556,926 seconds where we can renew broken commitments, dust off unrealized projects, set fresh goals, and dream new dreams. Each new calendar year invites us into a time of reflection, assessment, and evaluation of the previous year’s journey while also providing an opportunity to look ahead and chart the course forward for ourselves, our families, and the ministries we lead. So, this year, whether it’s shortly after or maybe even before that famous crystal ball begins to descend and count us down to a new year, your friends at YM360 want to challenge you to carve out some time for a personal, ministerial, and spiritual checkup—an intentional timeout to allow yourself some margin to process the past year, seek the Lord, and chart what’s to come.  

    This guide has been created to serve as a call to action and as a tool for you to answer the coming New Year’s invitation for personal reflection, assessment, and evaluation. Within the pages of this guide, you will find a countdown of ten critical areas that need your attention and prayerful contemplation every year. Each of the ten areas includes a Scripture to read/meditate on and five thought-provoking questions for you to answer about yourself or the ministry you lead. Are you ready? Let the countdown to a checkup for this year get started!


    Using The Resource In Your Ministry:

    • Download Countdown To A Checkup: A Guide For Personal Reflection, Assessment, & Evaluation PDF guide for FREE.
    • Block off a day (or a few days) to get away or at least get alone with the Lord and engage these questions.
    • Pack your Bible, a pencil/pen, a journal or notebook, and maybe your laptop/tablet. Just make sure to turn off email, texts, notifications, and anything else that could distract you from focusing and being fully present.
    • Use the Countdown To A Checkup: A Guide For Personal Reflection, Assessment, & Evaluation PDF guide to count down each of the ten critical areas and prayerfully/honestly answer the questions under each area. 
    • Share this resource with your ministry team and other youth workers who serve alongside you in your community. 

     
    What’s Included? Countdown To A Checkup: A Guide For Personal Reflection, Assessment, & Evaluation PDF guide