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Promotion
- Design a flyer to give to your friends
- If this is the first time you run Youth Alpha do a "demo" session. This should motivate others to invite their friends.
- Run a Youth Alpha ‘Party’ one week before, preferably the same day and time as you propose to run the course. Invite friends. Have loads of food, music, games and get three teens to do a 5 minute talk each on:
- Christianity is NOT Boring
- Christianity is TRUE
- Christianity is RELEVANT
- At the end of the party, tell the group then that they can come back every week, same time, for more Youth Alpha talks, food, games etc.
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"Success of courses ride in a lot of ways on how well our students invite others to do Alpha. Students who are prepared to invite do a better job at it. Every time we have students inviting, they face spiritual warfare. Students experience fear, doubt, and discouragement. How students invite their peers and how we train them to invite is important.
High School students are good at sniffing out a bait and switch. If we invite students to a ‘party’ they expect a party. When some guy stands up at the party and starts telling them about “a man named Jesus who lived two thousand years ago…” they realize immediately that they’ve been tricked.
If you really want to talk to a teenager about Jesus, we find it most effective to tell them that you’d like to talk about Jesus. That’s why we love Youth Alpha. We use it as an outreach to non-Christian high school students and there is no bait and switch. Instead of inviting students to a ‘party’ or a ‘concert’ we invite students to join a student group where they will get to explore the truth and relevance of the Christian faith. We tell them, “at Alpha, we get together, hang out, share some food, we’ll hear a presentation about a Christian claim, and then we sit and debate it together. We want to hear what people of different backgrounds think about some of these topics: who was Jesus, really? Does God heal people today?” No tricks. No gimmicks. We tell students exactly what we do and then we do it. And students respond. Over the four years we’ve been running Youth Alpha at our church, we’ve been encouraged by the response of students to our course.
Jon Paul, Youth Pastor, MA
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