Getting started with junior youth in El Vendrell...

...requires A LOT of time, planning, organizing and effort!

A core group of us have been working tirelessly in the past month to open a junior youth group and every day it seems we are closer and closer.  

We started with planning at the youth conference in Madrid last month. Immediately following, we met again and created a more step by step plan of action. We invited our friends to become animators and offered a study of books 1 and 5. We invited friends from other communities to help us conduct outreach in our neighborhood to invite junior youth and help us plan/prepare for our first sessions. Now we have met with some 12 junior youth four times and we have another group of 8-10 that wants to form too, with whom we have met twice.

At the moment, Kilian and I are the only two trained animators with two more going through books 1 and 5. Our challenge will be to fortify the youth and consolidate the junior youth so that we have enough resources to have and sustain two junior youth groups. 

Every day we are learning something new about this process.