Here are some thoughts from those of us at the Willow Creek conference.
We don't plan on doing all of these -- but this gives you some perspective to what God is speaking to us:


Seeing all the people there for the same reason and knowing you’re not alone.
To see the passion, and be reminded we need to grow.
It should be more student run (youth group) have kids more involved.
Hearing all the people sing in one voice with no instrumentation.
Seeing the passion everyone had and their wanting to learn about youth.
Middle school band was awesome.
Encouraging to see all the twenty-something men and women.
Power of Holy Spirit when Adam was praying was cool.
How important it is to make God a part of every second of your life and keep Him fresh everyday.
Kid’s stories about being real and there for each other.
Testimonies.
Celebrating achievements.
Parent training opportunity telling them how to deal with their kids.
Juniors and Seniors leading middle school bible studies,
High schoolers getting more involved with the younger kids.
The high schoolers would have to devote time to spending time with the kids and preparing for it in advance.
Using illustrations to demonstrate points.
High Schoolers to be part of purity month if they feel strongly about it
Open café as a hang out once a week or so as a safe place for kids to do homework and play games.
Friday night activity nights.
Redefine vision.
American Idol is cool for Middle School.
Travel agent analogy.
Change bible studies to have more in depth analysis of fewer chapters at a time.
More inter-relational aspects.
More service projects, have someone be the one to organize it all.
Aim more at asking “What can we do for you?”
Modeling the right way to live is very important.
Reactions to good gesture was interesting.
Don’t care about what others think, just care about others.
Take a group to the Silver Ring Thing.
Pull all-nighter, maybe after Craig’s Cruisers.
Youth group mascot.
Kids feel less threatened over internet as no one can see them,
should adults have MySpace accounts to connect with kids or not.
Southridge Chatroom
Don’t ignore God, respond to His voice.
Make it a safe and comfortable place for kids not from church to ask questions, encourage them.
Ask new kids in small group about church background and reasons for coming to FBI© to get on the same level as them.
Take surveys about youth group.
We have to make sure and have not just adults, but student leaders welcome new students.
Welcome committee.
Enjoy what we have and don’t be all negative of what we don’t have.
Be Positive.