New Year's Reminders

This is a great way to use new year's to make a spiritual impact.  Ask students to think over their past year and write a letter to themselves.  Give them some spiritual questions to get them started:

• What is something you learned about God?
• Who is someone you need to forgive?
• Who is someone you need to ask forgiveness from?
• What is something you heard God say to you?
• What is something you heard a pastor or youth leader say that you don't want to forget?

Then ask them to place the letter in an envelope, seal it, and address it to themselves.  Take the letters up and stick them in a drawer for several months.  Sometime around may or June when you are rummaging through your desk and see the letters, mail them.

I also will do this at the end of a retreat with questions like what did you hear God say, what is something you don't ever want to forget, etc.