• Think about it – it’s never an accident.

• Come ready – prayed up, fired up and ready for anything.

• Start well – where you start effects where you go.

• Lead the thing – you set the tone or someone else will.

• Think like a listener – ask how your young people are used to receiving information and communicate with that in mind.

• Think 3 dimensionally – young people never think flat! So don’t think flat! Think sound, sight, smell, feel.

• Engage people from the front – it helps them relax and gives them permission to have a good time.

• Finish well – it’s what they will remember.

• Think holistically – from when they leave home to come to you even until they arrive home after your event, it all counts.

• Have fun – you and them will get bored quick.

• Give well yourself – without you doing it, it ain’t a culture .

• Be seen giving at every offering – standing orders are essential, but you need to be seen leading.

• Cheer when the opportunity to give comes – God loves a cheerful giver. 

• Make a big deal of giving – people exchange their lives for money, make it important.

• Bin the bags – use buckets or plates or a policeman’s hat…. anything that is wide and open encourages good giving.

• Explain biblical giving principles – point to the bible, you know it makes sense.

• Tell stories of when you gave and then God gave to you –  you don’t have any? Then give in the way that gets you some!! 

• Give as a youth group – then let them see the effects of you giving.

• Allow your young people to see their wealth in the light of others poverty – real worldview perspective is vital in releasing us to give.

• Giving is serving, worshiping, time and energy – allow your young people to give alongside you in all of these things.

• Don’t just do business with people – hang with your team, go for meals, let your hair down.

• Encourage your team – when was the last time you told your guys they are the best?

• Be generous – if your team see that you are generous with them with money, pressies and time, they will do the same. Generosity is brill when you need that favour!

• Don’t create clicks in your team –  try to go round them all, try to get them to mix with new people,  let them all feel a million.

• Be honest if they let you down – it may sound harsh but if you want hero’s they need to know when they haven’t got it.

• Pray for them – and get them to pray for each other. This cements hero’s into saving the city long term.

• Have a laugh- humour can sort alot of tiffs and tensions. It’s God’s gift to us serious types. 

• Be there for your team – not just at youth stuff but in their lives. Know about their week, their family etc. 

• If people leave the hero team to move onto something else – Let them move on with a great hero farewell!

• Never think that you are superman or woman – without your team you would be like the guy on Mr sheen adverts (wimpy)!