In some of the outlying states, you might have gatherings of 15 youth or fewer. You can still hold WELS Youth Night with a group that size—you’ll just have one group for the small group questions as opposed to several small groups. I highly encourage the teens to invite a friend. The added power to this small setting is knowing that over a thousand other teens across the country are experiencing the same games, keynote, and small group questions. Plus, the youth leaders are able to connect more personally with the teens in attendance when it is a smaller group.

In areas where there are hundreds of WELS teens, we suggest not having more than 150 teens in attendance. You will need individual space for each small group discussion and, ideally, there shouldn’t be more than 10-12 people in each small group discussion. So, if you have 150 people in attendance, you’ll need 12-13 small group locations. If you need to create more than one WELS Youth Night in the same city, you could assign certain churches to attend at one location and other churches to attend at another location.