More on getting others involved with students . . . • Ramp them up — The natural caregivers in any organization are those who have regular interaction with students. To help volunteers who are starting from zero, notice natural connections. A student in the choir? Working in the nursery? Helping at AWANA? Lives in same […]
Category: youthwork
Getting parents and others involved — 2
Groups work best when youth staff, parents, and volunteers join forces. Here are several ideas to keep in mind as you build a team: • Six verses in Ephesians — Read Ephesians 4:11-16. It says a group grows healthy when many members invest. Pray this passage to God. (I like to read it aloud and […]
Getting parents and other adults involved
It was a summer afternoon and four students were walking the side of the road on their way to youth group. One of our men spotted them and lurched his Suburban onto the grass, gunning the engine as if to plow them over. They screamed, scattered, laughed, and piled on the back bumper for a […]
The kind of students a group turns out
We saw this set in marble on a building in Chicago (don’t remember which one) and captured it in our Moleskine: Don’t waste your life in doubts and fears. Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or […]
Praying students toward God
There’s a student in our church we really admire. His family is broken, he’s known agony, and he still points toward God. Yesterday he told us his prayer life isn’t where he wants it, but he’s trying. “I’m not a close companion with God, but I respect Him from a distance and I want to […]
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