it’s best to serve two weeks on, one week off. successful at programming a lighting desk or
Others once a month. Some serve once every whatever. SEU is developing a deep hands-on
three or six weeks. In this we’re guided by the directed studies program. Rumor has it that I’m
principle of making it easy for the people. We going to have two students working for me part
also consider what stage of life they’re in. If a time this fall. SEU holds a chapel every week,
high-capacity volunteer just had child number and we’re redoing a system in the Hub for that
five, I don’t care what he tells me, he’s not and will teach them to be self-sustaining. The
going to be on every other week. I’ll tell him, “I students face all kinds of exciting challenges,
love you, go home and change the baby.” So, so they can learn in a very practical way that will
there’s no formula that‘s right because if we're prepare them for the real world.
going to really do relationship and really dive
into how different everybody else is, that has to We also have twelve to eighteen-year-old
be a floating thing. volunteers who actually do all the tech and
programming for our weekend junior high
[WM] South Eastern University (SEU) has a ministries in the youth auditorium. Even the
regional campus located onsite at the Bayside monthly high school worship nights are run
broadcast 90% by the kids under the oversight of an
campus,
including
a
worship
curriculum. How does that affect Bayside?
incredibly gifted staff person. Imagine sixteen
year olds directing tech and running switchers,
[Rick] I actually taught a live production class twelve year olds running cameras. That’s
for the students in the worship track last year. My shepherding, and it’s an absolute blast.
part of the curriculum was focused on building
successful relationships with venders and on And as Bayside continues to grow, each new
leading production volunteers well. Students campus needs three to six people already
need to know how to help volunteers become capable of being the director, people who have
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