Learning Matters Youth Ministry

YOUTH MINISTRY

The Church's Role in Helping Teenagers Listen for God's Call

So few young people live in a setting like my growing-up days where a built-in group of relations take care of them. The church must be this network for today’s young people. Teenagers need folks beyond their parents who are willing to deal with tough questions about life, God, and choices.

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Maximum Learning: How Is It Achieved?

Jesus often involved the disciples in an activity in order to help them learn an eternal truth. Often they failed to understand or to learn, as will the youth in your group. Yet, they will be much more likely to learn, and to hear from God, if we involve them in experiences and activities that help them learn for themselves.

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Seeing the Big Picture

Have you ever come across one of those sessions where you just can’t connect, you can’t get a handle, you can’t make sense out of what the session writer is hoping for you to accomplish during the session? What do you do when this occurs? How do you find the “handle” for the session when there seems to be no place to get a grip?

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