The cycle of youth ministry tends to see September as the ‘new start’. Some of the young people have moved on and some are joining new groups. It’s so easy to see a new start as just like it was a year ago — I just have to gear up for the Friday night meeting, the Sunday meeting and try to be a bit better organised than I was last year.
If you feel like that then you’re approaching the new year in an organisational way not in a ministry way.
I spent 12 years in one church and so I had quite a few September start-ups and tried, after the first two or three, to make each September contain something fresh. Perhaps the first stage is not obvious
