_Last week our virtue theme of the week was ASSERTIVE. The story from the manual was about a young man who collected 1,000 jars of peanut butter … so our guys decided to organize a canned food drive and deliver the goods to Victory Kitchen to help the poor. _
We organize everything according to MENTORING GROUPS and this is a competition amongst them. The winning group gets a special dinner.
Some teams may not do too much with their mentoring groups but we do a ton through them. In the pre-season we did the typical fundraiser discount card … We have 38 kids, $10 a card … they sold 850 cards … $8,500 which is the most the company has ever seen on a per kid basis … creating competition within the mentoring groups was the key.
A few weeks back we had worked on the virtue of TEAMWORK. The suggested team resolution after the story was to organize a team get together to have some good clean fun. One of our Seniors took this to heart, asked his parents and did it. He and his parents took care of everything, fed the whole team and we had a blast.
One of our Freshmen thought, "Why not me?" He asked his parents … and now we are having another team get together at his house …
The team unity, the bond, the brotherhood has been awesome. In the midst of all the service projects and team get togethers we got it done on the field this past week as well. It can be done!