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In the spirit of Ephesians chapter 5, recognizing that I am to be an “imitator of God,” seeking to model Christ for those I am privileged to supervise and serve at this event, and understanding that my congregation and my group members’ parents have legally entrusted their youth to me (in loco parentis), I promise, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to . . .
• Personally participate along with my youth group members in all the spiritual growth presentations.
• Cooperate with rally officials and assist in whatever ways asked to help make the rally a success.
• Ensure that my group’s youth are attending the required spiritual growth presentations and breakout discussions and contributing in a positive manner to them.
• Ensure that my group’s youth are accountable and participating positively in all recreational and social activities planned.
• Ensure that my group’s youth are adhering to any and all rules, regulations, and requirements, i.e., wear required name tags, respect rally site property, follow curfews, not use controlled substances, no guys in girls’ rooms and no girls in guys’ rooms, remain on premises unless allowed otherwise, etc.
• Remain onsite and responsible for my group’s youth at all times unless rally schedule or circumstances require otherwise.
• Be physically present and remain in the lodging buildings when my group’s youth are required to be in them for the night.
• Refrain from personal consumption of alcohol.
I further acknowledge that my failure to abide by the above could adversely affect my youth group’s participation in future rallies.
I guess WELS has had problems with this type of behavior in the past, at least this is my pastor’s wife told me.
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GJ - I went to all youth activities. At a regional youth rally, the pastors patrolled the dorms all night and behavior was excellent.
At the Columbus Youth Rally--run by Kuske's divorced Church Growth pastors--behavior was totally unsupervised and horrible. One teen did $800 damage to a taxi (bottle thrown from upper storey). No one fessed up. I guess they were already forgiven.
OSU officials said the WELS rally was the "worst ever" in youth conduct.
I think the pledge above is just plain silly. Adult attitudes are clearly communicated without a lot of verbiage. I believe in conveying an attitude that all unwelcome actions will have immediate and unpleasant consequences.
On a lighter note, when Pioneers acted up, I made them salute and say, "Sir, yes sir!" One boy was funny with his missing front teeth. He said, "Thur, yeth thur!" and saluted smartly.
On a trip in town, a police officer asked my van full of kids what we were doing. He was just checking everything out, so he was satisfied. He turned away so I told the boys, "He must have been in the military. Let's all do sir, yes sir." We opened the windows and shouted, "Sir, yes sir!" and saluted. He grinned and laughed.
