Leader Appreciation at Christmas
Last week, we had our annual Youth Leader Christmas Party with all our Cedar Run Volunteer Youth Leaders. It has become an annual tradition as each year we give our leaders a gift certificate to a local mall and have dinner together. This year, we tried something different. Instead of having dinner at a persons house, we wanted to go out and treat the leaders to a nice dinner and then take some Christmas pictures by the National Christmas Tree in Washington, DC. Unfortunately, traffic and a bigger than expected snow storm wrecked havoc on those plans and we were not able to go into DC.
Because of this, we had to improvise on the fly. We changed plans and decided to go to dinner at a local Italian restaurant which had some very good food. Then, instead of taking pictures in front of the National Christmas Tree, we ended up taking some cool and random pictures in front of random houses and Christmas Trees in the downtown Fairfax area. Here is one.
I have found that when we honor our leaders with this dinner and give them Christmas presents, it goes a long way with them. They feel appreciated and cared for which will hopefully inspire them to go that extra mile in building relationships with the students so that Christ can impact them for eternity.
So, what about you? Do you do anything for your leaders over Christmas? If so, what?
