Starting to Launch...Again

So finally an entry about LaunchPad. Term 2 started this week but there is more to the story.

A goal this year for Thrive is to connect students from Leadership summit,our school AIDS prevention program, with LaunchPads, our after school Bible Discipleship classes.
To reach this end we moved almost all our LaunchPad classes from churches to LS schools if they weren't already in a school. Another thing we did was have LaunchPad assemblies in schools the week before this one.
An assembly was basically a 45 minute presentation that the interns and I prepared for multiple schools to plug LaunchPad. We would go to a school, and if the time and space was available, hundreds of kids would stream out of classrooms to hear us speak. We played some games, did a skit, gave a brief lesson, and told kids all about LaunchPad.
The goal is to see rapid and continued growth in our LaunchPads.
While we were not able to do the full presentation at every school we went too, they were tremendously fun and we saw fruit from our labor this week.

My intro class was on Tuesday at Clubview intermediate school. I'm teaching the curriculum, Ordinary Day with Jesus, with two other interns. It goes over how to experience Jesus in the moments of our ordinary lives.
We had 29 kids this week but it was very encouraging. They seemed to really enjoy it and for many it was their first time at a LaunchPad.One girl even asked if she could bring her mom (its geared toward high schoolers, but all ages are welcome.)

Great things are going to happen over the next 10 weeks in LaunchPad and I look forward to telling you about them.