Leaders, thanks for checking out some important summer teaching information, I hope this helps you prepare for the month of June. As you know, June 7 marked the end of our last 6 weeks set of classes for this school year. Which leaves the question, what's next? Here's your answer: beginning Sunday, June 14, we are going to be showing a series on video-driven lessons designed to keep our students thinking and growing even in the summer months.

The series is called "Nooma" - some of you may have heard of it and/or used it before or you've heard of it's "author", Rob Bell. Nooma is a video-driven teaching tool that makes subtle biblical points through the dynamic medium of video. You can look into the Nooma website for more details about this ministry. I think our students are really going to enjoy these topics.

I want to help develop your role for this initiative which will last from Sunday, June 14 to Sunday, August 16. That totals 9 lessons (I'm not counting July 5 because a vast majority of our High School students and leaders will be in Boston). We'll begin each week with what we'll call the set-up time. During this time, we'll highlight important ministry reminders and then quickly set up the theme for the day. This will take about 10 minutes. Then, we'll show the Nooma video for that day. Each video is about 10-12 minutes in length. After the video, we'll dismiss our students to their breakout groups for discussion and reflection. The groups will be organized by Care Group. So, 9th girls together, 11th guys together and so on. Whether you were assigned to be a care group leader or a course teacher this year, I need you ready to help facilitate these groups. If you were only a course teacher this year, let me know what care group you'd like to help with ASAP.

You will be provided with a lesson plan each week to help you prepare. Many of you may be asking, "can we watch the video ahead of time?" Though we would love to provide that for you, copyright features will not alow us to do so. Instead, when I send out your lesson plan each week, we'll include a brief description of the video to help preparep you as best as we can. If that can change, I'll let you know and we will provide it for you.

So, that's it. I look forward to seeing how God is going to use this tool this summer to minister to our students. Please let me know if you have any questions or just leave me a comment below. Thank you for all your guys do to love our students!