Elevate Day 1

I would say there are about 125 folks here at The Elevate Conference. Most of the folks here are children's pastors trying to figure out what to do with 4th-6th graders. It's kind a weird, I feel like I'm the young one here and I'm almost 40! The two break-out sessions I attended were good. I took a class on pre-teen culture and strategies to reach pre-teens as well as how to use events in pre-teen ministry. Listened to a great guy named Patrick Snow who is on the cutting edge of pre-teen ministry. He was great and had some great reminders when teaching to pre-teens: student interaction, theme repetition, energy injection and small group connection. Patrick is affiliated with SuperStart which is ministry that caters to pre-teens and puts conferences together for this age group. So far, I feel our pre-teen ministry called The Edge is on the right track!