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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 5/22/2009 12:56:37 PM
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French100
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Right now in youth, we are thinking of hot topics and how to battle them thru the word. U could use anything: abortion, pre-maritial sex, drugs, alcohol,etc. I hope God gives way for them to gain wisdom thru it all and the confidence to speak what they know! Pray for us!
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 5/24/2009 2:13:33 PM
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Those are good topics, but what about the teens that aren't interested in them? I'm not trying to be sarcastic, either. There are teens that don't use drugs, alcohol, and don't even want to date at 15.
It's sort of like going to Sunday school and learning about Adam and Eve and Moses every year. I think there are a lot of teens that want to go farther than learning what not to do. There are a lot of them that want to do right and already know not to do wrong. They are ready for the "meat" but are still being bottle fed. The youth groups need to figure out something to do with these teens.
Don't take me the wrong way. It's just something that I have seen happen in churches for years and then the people wonder why the teens stop attending. They need to be challenged.
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 5/25/2009 10:02:47 PM
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Judii I so agree I saw this as my two daughter were in HS and that the reason we as parent stayed involed and after the girls became adults we retrun to college AND hushband got his dregree as Youyh Pastor! , So sad even with all our experican most church want children directions , they just do not see HOW impratant YOUTH is IS!! And so many wonder why our nation is going the way it is and so many of our church are empity! Untill We as adults wake up and see How we are failing the youth!! We only have our self to know we have failed the youth of today In school and in our churchs!! If only we could have a youth awaking like the 70's and Jesus rallies and praise and worship will come back in to our communitys1 Sorry this is soo close to my heart if we had better service for our youthy we would not have youth on drug/having sex/bored with life playing in grang/etc!! Give them a place to come /a reason to come / they will ! Give them Jesus!
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 5/28/2009 9:40:37 AM
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I probably didn't explain myself well. I don't mean explain to the kids what they should/shouldn't do. For the most part they know that stuff. What our focus has been on is how to become evangelists, how to talk with others about those things and use Biblical support for that. You should check out WayoftheMaster.com - I recently purchased the School of Biblical Evangelism and the Evidence Bible. It has some really good topics - how to refute abortion, evolution, etc. I think we sometimes don't give them the opportunity to study the scriptures and to use it as a sword when facing adversary - its a challenge to them and I think a way the message sometimes don't get presented.
Plus, format of presentation has a lot to do with it. We did a debate a few weeks ago on a topic one of the kids asked about and it was AMAZIN' the focus and result of the debate. They were encouraged to use their Bibles to support their arguements and it also serves as an assessment of their knowledge of the word and the maturity of their walk so that then you can take them to the next level.
Also, we have a "suggestion box" in our room that the kids can write down questions that they want to know answers on and how to speak on the topics when they are in their daily lives. U'd be surprised out how their brain thinks sometimes - I've been amazed at some of the things they come up with and if the youth ministers don't dive into it, then who will do it for them?
Good luck!
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 5/28/2009 9:50:05 AM
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French 100 Now I know what you mean so many of the youth group plans are out of touch with what the youth really want a answer to! Few year ago at our camp I had 6 young ladies HS ask how to witness to a friend with the bible Now that was a schock to me because these ladies were from christian home and been in churh activies all the 14 yr of their life but the church /teacher had read the bible to them but not showed them how to us the Bible ! ( now we are youth leaders on another church )Now even in our youth group we open and show the teen where to find the answers ns how to look up thing to suport what they want to know. It can suprise what the teen really want to know and how they handles it ! I will look up the site you have listed, In the pass monthe we bee talking and seekinf what the aWord tell us about respect/truth/the reall have come great question as in How to respect a parent that beat/drinks/dope/etc ! Had to dig deep for that answer! But the Love of youth is our calling!I
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 5/28/2009 10:00:12 AM
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HJ-
Thank you for your post - its motivated me further ;) I have been searching for a while now for a new "focus", like the other posts, something to challenge them and help them grow. I am a BIG Way of the Master fan as well as livingwaters.com - both sites, same guys. I think you will like the gospel message and how it is presented from these 2 sites. Its different and modern AND it is Biblical. They have some downloads and freebies you can use as well if you choose to wait on purchases. Have fun browsing it - I can spend hours there! ;)
And isn't that the biggest blessing we can get, is for God to use us in discipleship to create evangelists? To be trained right along side them as we are teaching? I know for me it helps me grow just preparing lessons for them because I don't know it all - But with their pushing, it helps me to learn!
I wish you the best of luck - our youth deserve individuals who will push them above and beyond their typical "Biblical" lessons and help them grow and it sounds as tho that is just what you are on your way to doing - I'll be praying for you guys (please do the same for us).
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 5/28/2009 11:15:08 PM
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I hope it serves your purpose Judii1. I sat last night and spent over an hour reading the articles and answers to questions! I LOVE it. God bless you!
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 5/28/2009 11:25:05 PM
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2 suggestions for reads for every youth minister. Even if you've been in the ministry along time, I will encourage these reads. They are enjoyable to read, and such an incredible help in just pushing the ministry forward. Both by Doug Fields
Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry - LOTS OF GOODIES HERE!
The Purpose Driven Youth Ministry - I'm using this now. It breaks down the 5 purposes of the Christian walk, how to decide a focus for our youth ministry, and to encourage, etc. Lots of other good stuff. He's a great writer - I'm a BIG fan.
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 6/5/2009 8:58:45 PM
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You all have to read this CW thread.
What do you wish you had known in high school?
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Mission Trip Idea!!!! - 10/8/2009 4:35:17 PM
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I´d like to offer an opportunity to try an awesome new place for church mission trips for both youth and intergenerational groups. My wife and I are volunteering for a year at Roblealto Association in San Jose Costa Rica. This organization has been serving the poorest of the poor in San Jose for over 75 years through day care centers, foster care and temporary shelter, Christian school, sports, etc.
We have 11 weeks open this year for groups and we want to promote a low cost - high value experience in the safest country in Central America. Not to mention it is beautiful and there are amazing side trips to active volcanoes, rainforest and beautiful beaches. But that is not the reason to come (tempting as they are). For $20 a day per person (food and lodging) plus money raised for work project, you can serve at Roblealto for a week or two weeks and meet wonderful children who are being rescued out of poverty and violence and into the arms of Christ.
Roblealto has a fantastic success record and has yet to see a repeat generation from the same family in the program!
Check us out at www.roblealto.org for a great mission opportunity!
Facebook at Roblealto Association
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 1/15/2010 11:34:11 AM
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Hey folks, I'm new here. My name is Zach Dunn and I want to throw some things out there...
If I were to guess, just guessing here, Most of you probably have "problems" with the young men in your church becoming uninvolved in your youth groups or shortly thereafter. Just wanted to see if this is true or not?
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 1/17/2010 8:42:06 AM
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Most of you probably have "problems" with the young men in your church becoming uninvolved in your youth groups or shortly thereafter.
The vast majority of boys seem to drop out of AWANA, for example, shortly after hitting puberty. A secular organization, the Boy Scouts, has somewhat better luck with retaining its members before, during, and after that earthshaking event -- and has the life-long affection of its members who recall its practical presence during that troubled time.
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 1/25/2010 7:43:30 AM
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Helo, am new hear and my name is enochanderson from Ghana am christian and a missionary in muritainai nouakchott. I have been in the ministry for many years with my parent.
And i have the feeling to be a servant for christ.
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 1/25/2010 3:48:44 PM
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Welcome enochanderson!
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 4/8/2010 8:03:51 AM
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I have worked with young people in a medium sized town & it is one of the hardest jobs out there.
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 4/12/2010 5:59:07 PM
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Anyone know of any thing that most youth are struggling with these days. Or what they are mostly interested in? also how u can relate it to in christian life or to God?
Talking to the youth in my church, this is what I have discovered:
-they feel "disconnected" from the church. Even when they do a special youth service, less people come then if it were a regular service. They also feel they do more to support the church, then the church does for them. However, they are very careful to not become upset over it, and they are great go-getters for our church.
-the biggest supporters tend to be only the parents of the teens, not the church as a whole.
-dating, churches can take a more active approach on teaching why group dating is important. Also if a young couple want to spend time together, but are afraid they might go to far, is there someone they can call and say "do you want to come hang out with Bob and I?"
-why do they believe what they believe? So many of our youths know they believe something because "that is what the manual says." But WHY does the church believe that? WHY do some churches oppose dancing, and others do not. Teens want/need to know the WHY.
-there was a huge debate recently on Twilight. Is this something (not just this series, but anything like it) christians should be exposing themselves to? Does it matter?
-they are afraid to ask questions and speak their mind. More fearful of other teens and not just the leaders. There are some teens with some pretty strong convictions and they simple cannot understand/tolerate that another Christian would not be convicted of the same thing.
-the biggest struggle our kids have is balancing church time with out of church time. Most of our teens are in sports and sometimes they have practice on Wednesday night. We do have some teens who are invovled with nothing else other then their standard school work and church. Therefore they can do all church events. We have others who are trying to balance school, church, sports and a job. Sadly, those ones are sometimes looked down upon by the others if they cannot tend an event. As youth leaders we try to dissuade that from happening, but it still can.
Recently our kids had a Harry Potter debate and it was actually pretty nice. They had the team who felt there was nothing wrong with it, and the team that did. Each team prepared their side and presented it. It really forced them to look at other points of view.
So - not sure how I answered your question ;) but I hope SOME of my rambling helped!
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 7/3/2010 2:53:49 PM
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Talking to the youth in my church, this is what I have discovered:
-they feel "disconnected" from the church. Even when they do a special youth service, less people come then if it were a regular service. They also feel they do more to support the church, then the church does for them. However, they are very careful to not become upset over it, and they are great go-getters for our church.
I agree 110% with this. There is to much separation in the church. What the church needs to be doing is a more wholistic approach to ministry. For way to long we focus on just youth or children and forget we need to be ministering to the whole family. IMO the best people to teach kids about Jesus Christ is their parents. With that said Youth Ministries and Kids ministries should support that NOT take it over. The young people are not just a ministry in the CHURCH they are the church and if they aren't feeling part of it, when they get 18 years old and out of HS they leave it, and we wonder y.
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 7/3/2010 3:53:43 PM
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With that said Youth Ministries and Kids ministries should support that NOT take it over.
So true, but also not always easy to do! The majority of our kids during our mid-week program are kids that walk to church whose parents are not involved at all. Even though I have met most of the parents, some have never even stepped foot into the church!
On the other hand we have a lot of kids who do have parents involved in the church. It is finding a balance between these kids who are learning about Jesus at home and the kids who are not.
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 7/3/2010 5:20:16 PM
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So true, but also not always easy to do! The majority of our kids during our mid-week program are kids that walk to church whose parents are not involved at all. Even though I have met most of the parents, some have never even stepped foot into the church!
Why aren't they stepping foot in the church? What is the church doing to get the parents a part of the church? How are they ministering to their needs?
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 7/31/2010 10:04:29 AM
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BELOVED IN CHRIST,
Iam Balaraju young (24)Evangelist in India.I have been enjoying teaching and preaching and personal evangelism all the ways iam enjoying and growing in Christ.Iam very thank full to GOD for HE has given burden for me."I LOOKED FOR A MAN AMONG THEM WHO WOULD BUILD UP THE WALL AND STAND BEFORE ME IN IN THE GAP ON BEHALF OF THE LAND SO THAT I COULD NOT HAVE TO DESTROY IT BUT I FOUND NONE"EZEKIEL 22.30.AND I would like to know truth and be strong in word here we find many Godly people I hope i will get more nurishment and prayer support of all.you wist us .www.cggm.webs.com.
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 2/3/2011 11:12:18 AM
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I think this is a great idea! I did the same thing a few years ago. I was the Youth Leader for the church I was attending and was also teaching Youth Hip-Hop at the church. The church had a small 2 story building attached (it was the old church b4 they built the new one). The old building was RARELY used, they used the upstairs mostly. I felt God give me an idea for how we could use the bottom of this building for youth (it had a big main room, a small side room, 2 bathrooms, and a kitchen with a small area attached that we used as a coffee shop and a basketball court upstairs. It was perfect! I basically just approached my Pastor with the idea.
First, write out your vision (why you want it, what you want to do with it and to it)
Second, Meet with the Pastor first (unless you are under another youth leader) and pitch it. Make sure you emphasize that its rarely used and you ahve ways to use it and be helpful to the youth.
My pastor let us go nuts in our building, we painted it, and did all kinds of stuff!
Be Blessed! Hope this works out for you!
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 4/16/2011 6:28:16 PM
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What the church needs to be doing is a more wholistic approach to ministry. For way to long we focus on just youth or children and forget we need to be ministering to the whole family. IMO the best people to teach kids about Jesus Christ is their parents.
A form of "youth ministry" that has truly blessed our youth is -- befriending graduate students from other countries. The whole family participates in making these charming young people welcome inside an American Christian home. For several years, my girls came to dearly love a Turkish Muslim lady as a surrogate big sister. Her husband became one of my best friends ever. The one thing Suleyman and I agree on -- we each want to greet the other in the life to come!
The fields are white unto harvest. The sharpest people from every nation show up in our cities, wanting to earn an American degree, and make American friends. Tragically, fewer than 10% of these sojourners are invited into an American home. Help them with their English, make an effort to learn their language, and you can have a friend for life.
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RE: Welcome to the YouthWorker Forum! - 5/26/2011 5:44:20 PM
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