Church Youth Group Leader Planner

If your youth group lives in your phone notes (who came last week, which parent to text, who is driving to the retreat), this planner puts it on paper in one binder. It is for the volunteer or staff leader who meets a group of middle and high school students every week, and plans the events and the retreat around the school year.

It fits any church: it uses "church", "pastor or staff contact" and "your church's own policy", and holds no lessons or curriculum, so you use whatever your church teaches. No dates are printed. You write in your own month names and meeting dates, so it works from any start month and in any year.

THE 24 PAGES (US Letter PDF, prints on A4)
Page 1: Cover, with lines for your group, church and school year
Page 2: How to use this planner, with a contents list
Page 3: Group at a glance: meeting night, room, ages, church contacts, where forms are kept, the usual order of a meeting night, supplies, group text, keys and lockup
Page 4: Adult leaders and helpers, 16 rows of contacts
Page 5: Year at a glance, months 1 to 6, a box for each month you name
Page 6: Year at a glance, months 7 to 12
Page 7: Student roster, 20 rows: name, grade, birthday, parent or guardian name and phone
Page 8: Birthdays by month, 12 boxes
Page 9: Attendance, weeks 1 to 12, 20 students, with a large white box at the top of each week to write the date in
Page 10: Attendance, weeks 13 to 24
Page 11: Attendance, weeks 25 to 36
Page 12: Weekly meeting planner: opener, supplies, discussion topic, reading and questions, prayer, announcements, after the meeting
Page 13: Series planner, 10 weeks on one theme
Page 14: Discussion topic idea bank, 20 blank rows
Page 15: Opener and game idea bank, 20 blank rows
Page 16: Event planner: place, times, cost, adults going, what to bring, 9-row to-do list
Page 17: Retreat planner: three days of morning, afternoon and evening, speaker or sessions, what students bring
Page 18: Volunteer and driver schedule, 17 rows
Page 19: Fundraiser tracker, 16 rows of money in and costs, with a totals line to add each column
Page 20: Parent communication log, 19 rows
Page 21: Message to parents, two drafts per page: what, when, where, cost, bring, reply by
Page 22: Snack and helper sign-up, 19 meeting nights
Page 23: Notes to students to cut out, 6 per page: happy birthday, we missed you, thanks for helping, glad you came, proud of you, see you next week
Page 24: End-of-semester look back: what worked, what to change, students to invite back, plans for next semester

HOW IT IS USED
Download the PDF, print it at home or at a copy shop, and keep it in a binder. Print pages 12, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 23 again as the year goes on. Everything is written in by hand.

This planner is a set of blank forms. It has no permission, medical or child protection forms and gives no advice on them: use your church's own permission, medical and child protection forms, and follow your church's own policy for drivers and adult volunteers.

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