 Great. Let's pray and we'll get started. Father, we thank you for once again for this beautiful day that you've given to us. Holy Spirit, we welcome you. We invite you. We ask of you to pour out your wisdom over us to help understand the different way, your ways, Lord, as we study about ministry and youth ministry and leading different aspects of ministry. Father, help us understand and give us the grace that we need to accomplish the things that you've called us for. In Jesus' name, amen. Thanks once again for joining in for this youth ministry course. We will be finished chapter one and chapter two in the last classes. Let's continue from chapter three, where we will talk about identifying our audience. In your PEF, we will start from page 11. I think it should be the same page number. Yeah, so we'll talk about identifying our audience. So again, like most of the sessions, I'd like to start with just asking you all the question. Why is it important for us to identify our audience in any different context as an example that you can give? Can you think of and tell me why is it important to know your audience, whom you are serving or whatever, different scenarios or any examples that you can think of? On my side, of course, I've worked with a lot of youth in my team, so it is difficult to identify them because some are quiet, some are reserved, and you have to engage with them based on their behavior and on their personality. So it's important. Alright, okay. Thanks, Bangi. Anyone else? Anything else? The importance of understanding your audience, whom you are serving or yeah. So it's one of the examples that I can think of. This is again in context with worship ministry or if I'm leading worship. So I've been invited to lead worship in a church that is from a Methodist background or in a Methodist church, for example. So immediately I know who my audience is going to be. Now they would prefer more a traditional approach. They would prefer hymns and instead of some planet shakers or his song thing, you know, full on heavy loud music, sending electric guitars and whatnot. That might probably freak them out. I think I'm crazy, but the point here is I'm going to lead worship to a congregation, to a Methodist congregation. In other words, I'm also going to serve them. And for me to serve them well, I need to know my audience. So I would pick my set list or prepare my songs, choose my songs appropriately, which will cater to that kind of an audience. You know, some mix of hymns and some old classics and introduce one song, maybe one new song, contemporary things, so that they are not overwhelmed with all this, you know, new songs, if I have to do it. Another context can be if I'm leading worship for a youth meeting or a worship night, for example, which has a lot of young people per se. You know, we can still do hymns, but the whole, you know, 45 minute or one hour set is not going to be only hymns. To cater to that kind of an audience, we are going to have a mix of different genres, maybe, that will cater to that audience. Okay, so basically just understanding your audience is key to serving them well and helps you, you know, with your vision, with your mission, and helps you strategize. Right, so those are a couple of examples. So having, you know, given those examples, is there anything, any other examples that you can think of in why we need to understand our audience better? You know, from your own experience, from the career paths that you've been on, anything that you can think of and that you can share with us. Yes, Christopher. Yeah, so I think it also applies also to the messaging and, you know, the way the message is communicated. So if it is a youth group and, you know, messaging will be more aligned towards, you know, the, you know, some of the messages that were applied to the youth. As well as how it is communicated, maybe in a more informal way, maybe in the, you know, using a sort of, some, some, I want to say juggling, but, you know, some, you know, words that are, you know, that they are familiar with and making it, you know, more palatable to them, you know, when they actually hear it. Okay. Yeah, thanks for sharing that, Christopher. Anybody else, just one more person, if you want to share from your experience. Yes, I shall go ahead. The importance of knowing our audience, and I like that, because recently we were at APC College, we were conducting youth listening and for some of them they were playing uncomfortable the way, like, and the others were. So, we have to see the perspective view of their side and also how we connect yourself. And also, not to offend them, but to depends on the age groups like they mentioned. Yeah, because some of them are like, they don't like dancing, some don't like dancing. They have their own individuals and many talents and other stuff. So, thank you. Right, so is that more to do with the audience or, or what is it, say, individual choices from your example? You're saying it could be a mix of both? Is that what you're saying? Okay. All right. Okay, thanks for sharing this. Yeah, Maggie, go ahead. Thank you, Busta. That's Asha's point. For example, in our church's youth, we, even though it is one youth, however, there are different kids and different personalities. Some will be, some will choose to sit in the lounge instead of worshiping with others. And we need to cater for both groups. So, yeah, it's like challenging and it's different at the same time. Sure, yeah. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Maggie. Yes. Yeah, well, so it is important to identifying our audience or who they are. But I mean, I just want to share something that was maybe towards the end of the class or at least this topic. On what we've just, you know, began discussing. Right. So, let's just start talking about commitment levels. Okay. That's where I want to begin. And why is it important to identify our audience? I think we've established very clearly that it is important for us to identify who we are serving. Right. In the context of ministry, in our context, the youth. Okay. So remember, we've spoken about five purposes in our last class, which is evangelism. Worship, fellowship, discipleship and ministry. Right. And so now that, you know, we had these five directions that we can go on. You know, so another question that we need to ask, we had to ask ourselves was one program can't fulfill all these five purposes. To attempt to do a program which will fulfill all these five pro purposes is like shooting yourself in the foot. It's not a wise thing to do. So, you know, so once we understand that, okay, one program can't fulfill all these five purposes. The next question that we can ask that we asked was who are we trying to target with this program or with this youth meeting or, you know, with this combined youth meeting or with this outreach meeting? Who are we targeting? So that is the question. Okay. So, and, and now you are narrowing down your audience and you are being very intentional about who you're trying to focus on. Because in a group or in a crowd of people say 25, 30, 50, 100, 200, you are not going to please everybody. Because they are just too many different individuals who come in from different backgrounds. Right. Say for in a classic youth meeting is if you have 50 people, we are going to have at least five types of different youths. Right. I'm saying at least and the list can go on. Who are they? You know, there can be a non-Christian who's coming to the youth meeting for the first time or the second or the third time. They are a non-Christian, but they are still coming because they are, they've been invited by a friend. You know, they're contemplating their faith. Okay. What do I do? Is this right for me? You know, et cetera, et cetera. So there's the non-Christian youth. There's a new Christian youth who's just given their life to Jesus who surrendered who attended an altar call last Sunday. Or they've just been, you know, been part of this faith for like a month or two or three months. They are a very new Christian. They might not know a lot of theology. You know, they might not understand Trinity. They might not understand the Holy Spirit baptism and the gift of the Holy Spirit and the tongues and whatnot. They might be in that zone. And, and they might, you know, there might be students or young people who are growing in their faith. Right. And then there are youth who knows a great deal about the Bible. Like they were born into a Christian family. They are raised in church, et cetera, et cetera. Or they've been faithful. They attend every weekend school ministry, et cetera. So there are those young people who are, who know a lot about the Bible, who are pretty strong in their faith. And then there are those who are spiritual leaders itself. Okay. I mean, the list can go on. Right. You know, there can be young people who are coming to the youth meeting just because their parents forced them to be part of the youth meeting. I say, hey, thank you for coming for the youth meeting. We welcome you know, so who got you here? Yeah. No, I didn't want to come. I'm here because my mom wanted to be here. You know, so you'll never know who you're going to get. Right. So it's very important for us to understand that at least in my context, in our context at APC, we was very important for us to understand that one program can't fulfill all these five purposes. Now, just because we have an objective and a purpose set before us, we have to be wise about it and, you know, strategize how we, how are we going to accomplish. So in the name, you know, just because, you know, we want to have all these purposes, you want to see evangelism happen, discipleship happen, fellowship happen, worship and what not all of this happened in one event or one program. It's not going to be very successful. And people are not going to understand what you are trying to give them. And it's just might not work. Okay. So once you understand, once you decide on who you want to target. Okay. This program this Sunday in this youth meeting, I'm going to target the new Christians. Right. Who are new in faith. So let me talk about Trinity. You know, so and just kidding. But you decide on a topic that would cater them that would equip them that, you know, that would kind of disciple them help them in their journey and becoming a better disciple. You get what I'm saying? And though there could be another, you know, program where you say, okay, you know, let's do an outreach program. And you ask, you tell your, you know, your young people who are Christian spiritual leaders to invite their friends from, you know, their schools or colleges or workplaces. And you make this like an evangelistic event or a program. Right. So you are targeting the audience of who you want to minister to. Right. Are you following? Okay. So now that once we've understood, you know, who we want to target. I mean, it just keeps growing on growing. You know, in the notes, you would see an image that is mentioned, you know, you'll see circles. You know, that says core committed congregation, crowd and community. Okay. Now, that's just a brief diagram of the talks about the different commitment levels of the young people who come to your church. The different commitment levels. Okay. So as the commitment level increases, the number of the group size decreases. Okay. As the commitment level increases, the group size or the size of the group will decrease. Okay. So if you have, say 50 young people in your church, not all 50 of them are going to be in your core team. Not all 50 of them are going to be committed in setting up, you know, being part of the setup team or the sound team, the assuring team and whatnot. Right. That's what we're kind of, we will try and understand in this section. Okay. So now this is a standard universal, what do I say standard universal system in how they gauge the audience, but from again, our experience and our observation at APC, it's a little unique. It's a little different. So we, we don't have all these five circles seen at APC. So again, this is in context with APC and our young people. Okay. So on our observation, there were only three. One is the crowd and congregation, and then you have the community crowd. And then there's the core crowd. Right. All of these different things are talking about the different audience, the different people that you are ministering to. Okay. So one, there's the crowd and the congregation audience. Who are they? They attend church. They may or may not have given their lives to Jesus and they are shy or intro like they want to just, you know, head home. Even before, you know, pastor says the merit benediction. Right. Pastor says, okay, let's all rise and close our eyes and, you know, bring this to a close. Let's say the benediction. That moment you see all these people living out the different doors exits. And so, you know, okay, so they are the crowd and the congregation people that, you know, we will tell them, okay, you know, they're part of just coming to the church. They attend the church. They may have may or may not have given their lives to Jesus. Okay. The next thing is the community crowd. They attend church. They are committed to growing spiritually. They volunteer in different aspects of the church ministry and not necessarily proactive, but definitely interested in growing. This is another crowd, a set of audience. So they attend the church. They are committed to growing spiritually. That means they could be plugged into a small group or a cell group or a life group as we call it at APC. Okay. So they're plugged into one of these small groups, you know, they want to grow spiritually. They choose to volunteer in different aspects of church ministry, but they are not proactive. What does that mean? It means they are willing to help, but then they will help when you go and ask them for help. Right. They are more reactive in many sense. Okay. You go and say, hey, mangy, can you come and just help us with the sound? It's like, sure, I'll be there. I'll do that. Hey, can you come and help with ushering? Yeah, sure. Pastor come and do that. Right. They are willing, but they are reactive, not necessarily proactive. That's one part of the crowd. And then there's the core crowd. They attend the church. They're committed to growing spiritually. They volunteer, but here they are proactive. They are committed to doing ministry. Right. Now they come up with proactive suggestions or ideas or plans or thoughts on how to make this area of ministry better. Like, you know, they come to us and say, say, Alisha comes and say, hey, pastor, can we do this? And say, you know, I think if we do this, we can target this audience better. I think if we do that, you know, we can cater to this, a bunch of people better. I think if we do this, so you guys understand what I'm saying, right? They are very proactive and they are not thrown off or offended, you know, by the fact that you said no to their suggestion. Right. The people in this core category are the kind of people where they keep giving you suggestions after suggestions. And also if you say no to them, their suggestions or their ideas, they are not offended by the fact. They say, oh, this pastor said no to my idea. I'm going to leave the church now. I don't like this meeting. No. And so they would understand they mature enough to understand. Okay. And they are the kind of people who will immediately come back with another kind of suggestion or a solution. It's like, okay, pastor, so what if we do this in another way? Right. I hope you're following with me so long, you know, and hope you're getting why it's important to understand the different categories of our audience and where they are at. Yes, Christopher. I see you have a question. Go ahead. So just an observation. I mean, I think that the picture of the consent circle, the community is right at the outboard. Yes. Outboard circle. But you have actually put it in the, in the subway and then close to four. Yes. Is there any reason for that? I mean, I would have thought when I was thinking that, you know, crowd and community would be, you know, the attending church. And then congregation would be the ones that attend church and, you know, commit to coins spiritually. And, you know, there is no committed because you sort of kind of merge the course. Yes. So again, yeah, like I mentioned, this is the standard thing that is observed around the world. Like, I mean, they use this as an example. But like I said, this might not work in every setup or every congregation or every church. It can be unique, right? In the way, say, for example, even the way the word community is understood around APC and that, you know, the people, APC is very different from the way the definition was given for this concentric circles. And so I've adapted, you know, that idea of concentric circles and then just made it to our own for us to understand it differently. That's the only thing. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. So, you know, once you, you know, you and your team, your core team, whatever you've made, you've observed, you know, you have, I'm just using the number 50 as an example. So week after week, you've had this 50 young people come for your youth meetings Sunday after Sunday. And then you, with the help of your team, you begin to gauge, you know, where these individuals are, or you can do it yourself as well. You know, say, okay, you know, so and so, so and so, so and so I, you know, I think, you know, they come into this category, or they come under, you know, the community and the committed category. The crowd and the congregation or they have the potential, you know, to be as a core team, as a core member and whatnot. So, and now that my, my goal is this progression is growth. Now, in this context, when I say growth, it's not just increasing in number, but helping them move or progress from just being, you know, the church, church attendee and making sure that they've given their lives to Jesus. And try to draw them in to become to be part of this community. Right. So that's my another goal of where I want to work towards. So you, you draw them in from the crowd and congregation to community, and then eventually from community to be more proactive to be leaders, spiritual leaders and mentors. Right. So you see the thing is, it's like water constantly flowing is the people who've come in from, from the crowd and the congregation circle to community. That means more group would have another bunch of people would have filled in in that out the circle. And then the as the community people come into the core category. That means people from the crowd and the congregation have come into community. So there's this constant growth, and this is constant cycle and so, you know, that's people are coming in, they're growing. And then they're moving out, you know, and that's how youth ministry is, you know, it's your if you haven't realized we are not going to be young people forever to be a youth forever. So, you know, there's always this transition transition that is happening. In my opinion, I think a good transition is a healthy transition is every four years, maximum five years, because that's just my opinion, because you're pretty easily outdated. In this day and age, you're outdated in a day. But yeah, I think for tops five years is a good time to be a, you know, a pastor or a youth leader and whatnot, and the transition needs to happen. It needs to keep moving on to be healthy and to grow. Okay, so it's very important that you identify engage the different kinds of young people at your church and see where they're at. Okay, you can use this constant concentric circles and adapt it to your own church and, you know, gauge where each individual at and see how you can help them to grow. Okay. So reaching and keeping the crowd and congregation youth, what are some of the things that you can do to not just reaching out to them, but to keeping them. Right. You know, some of the things you can do is make sure you have a program to which you your regular students can feel comfortable inviting their community friends. There's the service will have Christians and non Christians. And, you know, small groups are a great way to nurture these kind of crowds and whatnot. So I mean you can think of your own strategies and ideas that you can come up with. And also for community youths, encouraging spiritual habits through small groups of the congregation, have consistent time with God through prayer and Bible, various topics that you can think of that can help. You know, this community people will grow into becoming core team members eventually. Okay, so that's chapter three very simply in understanding our audience. Okay, as anybody have any questions or thoughts so far that you want to share anything. Anyone? Simran, Kishan, any questions? Yes, Christopher, go ahead. Hi, yes, so I mentioned what we can keep in closing to our congregation and preparing community youths. There's just a question. Typically, one of the things is that, you know, it possibly could be a pin that, not exactly a pin, but there could be a possibility that, you know, that people from the community may go back into the crowd and there may be some kind of dynamic aspect in this. Yes. And there may be reasons for, you know, why that is happening. Yes. Particularly when it's, you know, I mean, if it is coming closer to the core, then of course, you know, we know that, you know, the messages are effective, the programs are effective. Yes. But what could be some of the reasons for you not to go back, God, for it to sort of, you know, a kind of way back slide. Yes. Yeah. So that is one question. The second question is in this sort of need to, you know, keep the crowd and congregation and move them into the core. What is the kind of timeline that usually have, I mean, what is the sort of advertising line that is actually sort of takes place. Sure. Just a question on that. Sure. Yeah. Thank you. I think a very valid and genuine question. So yeah, so it is possible, absolutely possible for people say in the community circle to move out and just be again, go back to being part of the crowd and the congregation and the reasons can, there can be various reasons that could be related to the leadership or that can also be related to the, you know, individual itself. Right. For example, so the leadership has done everything to draw them in from the crowd and they brought the part of the, you know, life groups or cell groups, they are helping volunteering and whatnot. But due to their lifestyle, a personal lifestyle, a secret lifestyle, or they could be certain habits or whatever could be the reason they might just backslide or they might choose not to be part of it. After the leadership has done everything they can. So what are some of the things that the leadership can do to keep them in is again, just keeping in touch with them constant, say, for constant follow up with them, just checking on them, you know, saying, stopping them and saying, how are they doing, catching up with them for a coffee and whatnot. Right. Just to make them know and feel that they are valued, that they are seen, they are heard, you know, and that there is a leadership that actually cares for them. And so all of these things, I mean, the list can again grow to the number to the things that we can do as leaders to keep them. So after having done all of this, you know, if they still choose to go back and that's on them personally. And that doesn't mean we stop pursuing them. We just continue to do what we are called to do. We pursue them. We say, hey, what's happening? You know, I didn't see you in life group this Sunday is everything okay. You know, what's happening with family and all of that. And the thing is that is you don't stop pursuing. Once they move out of the circle, the goal remains the same is that you want to help them grow and nurture them and equip them. Right. So the reasons can be very easy to be and from the leadership perspective, the reason why young people might go move out to just be part of the congregation or the crowd is there was no constant follow up. I attended the church. I've been coming to the youth meetings for three months. Nobody came and spoke to me. I don't know anyone. I feel lost. You know, there's a there are a lot of clicks, you know, okay, there's certain group of people only hang around with them. I don't feel welcomed. So, you know, all of this is part of can be the reason, you know, of why an individual can go back to just being part of the crowd. You get what I'm saying, right? So it's both ways. So it's very important for us as leaders to create a healthy culture of making everyone feel welcomed and whatnot. We talk about this much later, but that's one of the reasons and the timeline that I would give for the transition for helping, you know, people come in from one category into another. Again, it depends on the individual. There's no point in me giving a timeline for myself because I, you know, saying, okay, Russian in the next three months, I want this individual to come. It will not work like that because every individual are in a different season, different age, different stage in their lives. And so you kind of got to work with them and work around them. So, yeah, I don't want to give like a definitive number, Christopher, and say, okay, this is three months and whatnot. The sooner the better. But we also have to be practical and realistic saying every individual is very different and so you work with them very differently. Right. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Just a question and maybe you will talk through it, you know, some of the later classes, but was there any program that you felt was, you know, maybe not effective and you know, you kind of decide that, you know, that you wanted to kind of discontinue it. Didn't make any, didn't really have that impact that you wanted. You have an example for that? No, Christopher, because in my tenure as a youth pastor. So I was, I was a youth pastor for four years and in which two years went in COVID. So we didn't really get a lot of chance to explore and try different things. So, you know, for in the two years we, we had to improvise and have all our youth meetings online or over zoom, like the whole world adapted, we also adapted for that. So, but otherwise we kept them once we restarted, we had a monthly youth meetings and combined youth meetings. So this year was very little time for me to gauge if something worked or something didn't work, honestly, due to COVID and whatnot. Yeah, you're welcome Christopher. Okay. Any other thoughts, any other questions? Okay. So Pastor, just like you just mentioned about COVID post and pre COVID. So you worked on an individual before COVID, you found that significant positive change, but post COVID again you see, you know, all the way or maybe a backslidden. Yeah. So has that happened like in that group? Have you gone through like such an experience with the individuals? Everybody will, everybody will go through that avenue. Okay. Yeah. I mean, yes, that that is the reality of being in ministry or leading young people in our context, because they're constantly facing something or going through something. And, you know, there might be just be going through a phase where they want to be left alone. So I can't just put a tag and say they have backslidden because they might just feel like they want to be alone. And they might not necessarily be doing anything wrong, you know, in that period. But what I have, again, felt that is very useful and goes a long way is just a simple message. And you're saying like, Hey, how are you doing? It's been a while. Hope everything is okay. And I can't tell you the impact just that one message will have. And they will remember you for a long time to come. So as leaders, what is important is that to be just pursue them, you know, keep in touch with them and check on them how they are doing. Yeah. Yeah, that's very, very significant. Yeah. Awesome. Okay. I just very quickly share from chapter four on the organizational aspect of the youth ministry and the way it's set up at APC. Okay. So if you look at your notes in the PDF page 14, then the structure that you will see is there's a senior pastor who's past Arashesh Rachow. And then the youth pastor will report to the senior pastor. And under the supervision of the youth pastor, you have the core team, the operations team, the creative team, the core team leaders, members, youth life groups, and then youth worship coordinators. Just the different teams that will help, you know, work together with the youth pastor to accomplish the vision and whatnot. So this is the way that it's set up at the moment. Okay. The operations team, what they do, what they do is they take care of all the operations. For example, if there's a combined youth meeting that's happening, they will coordinate with about everything that's related to the logistics from setting up the sound and the venue and whatnot. And the media team or the creative team will have the lyrics for the songs, sermon notes, presentation, any videos to be played, all of that. The creative team can also involve, you know, dancers, you know, and painters, et cetera, et cetera. A youth life group coordinator is making sure that, okay, all the young people are connected to some life group somewhere. Right. And then there's the youth worship coordinators who coordinate every aspect of worship for youth meetings with the worship pastor and whatnot. So these different teams to help, it helps us be very clear. So as a youth pastor, I'm not, you know, now that I've delegated, my hands are not everywhere, you know. You trust them to do their job, the teams to do their job. Right. So the basic structure, the role of the pastor, you know, in the organizational aspect is that he provides the general vision. He gives the general direction and the motivation. He shares his goals for the youth ministry. Right. So in my initial meetings with Pastor Ashish, he would share, okay, say, Roshan, we want to reach out to the youth in Bangalore City. We want to equip them. We want to be able to empower them. Equip them is you disciple them and then you also empower them to go and share the gospel in the city of Bangalore, wherever they are. So that was his general vision, you know, his direction, and he would constantly motivate. So that's the role of the senior pastor. Right. And it is very important for us who who's under the supervision of the senior pastor to constantly meet with him and check and give him an update and saying, okay, this is what's happening with regards to what do you think about it, what do you want us to do, etc, etc. Right. Because he's the senior pastor, you know, we are accountable to him, he's accountable to God. Okay. The role of the youth pastor. It can be intimidating. More so pastoring the youth. Guys, if any of you who've led young people, youth, a group of youth, you will know what I'm saying it's very intimidating. Okay. I still remember the first youth camp we had in 2019. That's my first year as being a youth pastor. 125 people came for the camp. I cannot explain the anxiety that was inside of me. Tarun was there for that camp. I'm seeing all these three buses coming and I'm seeing, you know, wave after wave of young people getting off the bus and I'm like, oh Lord, what am I going to do? Help me out here. Because I have to meet with them. Because naturally as a character, as a person, I'm an introvert. Like I like my space. I will not engage in a conversation. You know, I like my space and whatnot. But then you can imagine guys, I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. Okay. It was just very intimidating. But you're the youth pastor. You've got to do it as intimidating as it can be. And also, pastoring simply means shepherd. The word pastor comes from the root word shepherd. It means to guide, to provide, to protect and to care for others through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. You are constantly dependent on the Holy Spirit to help you, to lead you as you lead the young people. Okay. So the role of the youth pastor, number one thing is that don't forget that you are a pastor. That is, don't forget you are a shepherd. You are to guide them. You are to protect them. You are to care for them as a shepherd would. And some more key points that, you know, that will help us with this in our journey is have a strong team. If you can have a team to help you to work with you, you know, as you do, you know, certain things that you have to do within the ministry. So have a strong team, a core team, you know, who lead the worship ministry, the life group leaders, et cetera, et cetera. And all of this, don't forget relationships are key. Again, this is from my experience is relationships are key. You know, the programs or the activities or the events are not more important than the individuals. Very often we can lose that focus and think, okay, it's all about the event, it's all about the event. But we forget why we are doing that event on who we are doing it for, like the audience that we are catering for. We make it all about the events. I know you understand what I'm trying to say. But we need to just remember that relationships are very important in ministry, right? And this is one simple saying that says the youth don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. You can be this leader, this amazing, you know, pastor with a PhD and whatever degrees you want to add to it and your knowledge about whatever. They will not be impressed by it unless they know how much you care, right? Because they don't care how much you know until they know how much you care for them. Okay, so the role of a youth pastor is to be their pastor, care for them, mentor them. And most importantly, in this journey, you rely upon God. Okay, rely upon him. And again, I hope you don't mind me sharing just another example of my personal experience is. So, you know, the first year for the youth camp again, I was seeking him to, you know, to give me a theme. I asked him, okay, Lord, what do we do for in this year's youth camp, you know, what theme would you like to focus on? So he gave me a theme on encounter and whatnot. And then the second year comes. And so in the first year, the first camp was success. Tarun, what do you think for the success? The second year, you know, there was this sense of arrogance in me saying, okay, hey, you know what? I've done one youth camp. I think I know how to do another youth camp. And it creeped into me. And then again, God and his tender mercy and his grace and his kindness. He reminds me and says, so you're not going to rely upon me this year. And I got it so good. I mean, it's such a good father that in a way that even he teaches us, he draws us into this conversation is so beautiful. And that was a very humbling experience for me. And that bear, you know, I would, I never want the success of my experience to stop me from relying upon God. That's something very valuable that I learned in my journey as being a youth pastor. And that's why I'm sharing the point here with us is to always remain in the posture of humility and relying upon him in every step of the way. For every event, for every meeting, you rely upon him to lead you, to guide you. As you shepherd his people, rely upon him to shepherd you because he is the good shepherd, right? That's the Bible says. Okay, so that's the role of the youth pastor. And there are certain points that are mentioned that is expected of a core team member that a core team member should attend a certain, you know, meetings. They will compromise of a few selected youth leaders from each location. Court team members are requested to be regular at the youth court in meetings. You know, guys, please remember these are all the structural aspect of the ministry and what is expected of a youth core team member if they are part of it. Okay, please go through it when you can. And at the moment, some of the events that's happening at APC, which related to the youth, if you see in page 16. What we call as MYM is monthly youth meetings. Every second Sunday, there's a monthly youth meeting happening at APC South. Third Sunday, there's a youth meeting happening at Central and fourth Sunday. There's a youth meeting happening at East and North location of APC. Combined youth meeting, which we call as pit stop is where the youth of all these locations from North, South, East, West and Central come together, which happens quarterly or once in two months or once in three months. That's what we call it as pit stop. There's a youth camp that happens once a year where we go off for three days for a time of worship and prayer and ministry, food and games and fellowship, and a lot of craziness and a lot of unexpected things to happen. The youth camp, who doesn't love the youth camp, right? So youth camp, youth retreat, again, it's a one day getaway kind of a thing where we take our young people to an offsite and just have a power packed day with games and then again ministering to them on a certain topic and whatnot. We encourage them to go on youth mission trips. Once a year, we also have youth missions at APC where we take a bunch of young people and go to a location to a different city to, you know, give them a platform to minister to people at a different city. And then some of the campus outreach programs that we have, what we call as campus elevates, we go into different schools and colleges. We have one hour inspirational program, you know, which we give to the students of different colleges. And we have a lot of resources where we talk about different topics, practical topics that will cater to the students there. And these are just some of the events that programs say that's happening at APC with the related to the youth. And yeah, so that's the organizational aspect of the youth ministry at APC, guys. Okay, I hope everybody is still alive and doing well. We'll stop here. Sorry that I've gone over time. Thank you for joining in. I'll see you all on Monday. You guys have a great week ahead. Take care guys. Bye bye.