A Day in the Life of a YouthWorks! Staff

Each day and each week are different, but here's how things typically look:

6:45 Wake up and Wake up teens upstairs
7:15 Breakfast served, lunches get made, and breakfast/building get cleaned
8:15 Morning Devotions
8:45 Meet and pray/daily announcements
9:00-3:00 Work at Ministry Sites (I usually hop around between work sites, kids club, running errands, or cleaning/organizing/preparing back at TCHS)
3:00-5:15 Shower time, snack and free time (free time favorites include playing spoons, Imaginiff, UNO, basketball, etc.)
5:15 Dinner and dinner cleanup
6:30-8:30 Evening Activity! Our evening activities include archery, hiking in Nebraska, dessert and cultural Q&A, community cookout/concert/art show.
8:45-10 Club! (I get to plan Club every night- this is our worship time. We have "Mad Props" time to encourage each other, worship songs, "Yay Gods!" to praise the Lord, staff story time [we each share our testimonies one night], and a scripture lesson and conversation [this is my gig])
10:00 Staff Meeting and next day prep
11:00 I usually read or workout and shower
12:30 Go to Bed

Repeat!

Staff each take a turn leading devotions and meal crews. On Monday nights I lead making Cheesy Chicken and Rice Casserole (I know the recipe by heart for preparing it for 70 people!), Thursday night I get the cookout food ready, and on Wednesday morning I set out easy continental breakfast. I think after this summer I won't ever want to eat a sloppy joe, casserole, tacos, egg noodle pasta, or YW cookout food again! But, I've gotten really creative with leftovers and wacky ingredients that I secretly like (canned chicken, hard boiled eggs, Vidalia Onion dressing to name a few....). It might come in handy since I'll have a kitchen in the apartment this year at ONU to cook more for myself!