Parent Advisory Group

Mission Statement
To provide a communication medium between the Ignite Ministry youth pastor and the parent’s of the Ignite Ministry youths for gaining information about the ministry and to voice general questions or concerns about the ministry.

Role
The parent advisory group is designed to facilitate communications between the DSBC Youth Pastor and the parents. The focus of this communications includes, but is not limited to:

• Parenting issues

• Teen culture

• Volunteers

• Counseling issues

• Campus impact

• Ignite Ministry Activities

While we are flexible in what we will try to accomplish, there are many things that are not appropriate for this group to be involved in. These topics include, but are not limited to:

• Issues with a specific student

• Personal issues with the youth pastor

• Ministry direction
  

Contacts

Structure
The group shall consist of the DSBC youth pastor, the primary youth volunteers, and several parent members. The parent members should be regular attendees of DSBC and have a student that is involved with the youth ministry. There should be a maximum of one parent per family as a member of the group in order to provide a broad membership while keeping the group size to a manageable level.

Communications
With the goal of facilitating communications between the youth ministry and the parents, the group will be very flexible in how they receive and provide information. Parents can present questions to the any group member via verbal, written or email. As the group provides information to the parents is will use similar methods. The group will try to provide individualized response to specific queries from a parent and where appropriate, provide information in a format to address a larger group.

Meetings
The meetings of the parent advisory group will be held monthly and will be closed meetings to the group members only. Parents wishing to have questions, issues, or concerns brought to the group can speak with any of the members, who will make sure that the topic is addressed at the next regular meeting. The Parent Advisory Group will respond to the parent individually and, if appropriate, provide the information to all parents.

The parent Advisory Group will hold several open meetings for any parents to attend. These meetings will provide an additional opportunity for the group to give the parents information about the Ignite Ministry and to allow for questions from parents.