This year through Lent, our youth studied the Lenten Prayers (the Collects for Lent in the Book of Common Prayer). This study allowed them to dive deep into the central ideas of what Lent is really about, and reflect on our own fallenness. It was a beautiful time of...
Another youth minister I know did an anonymous survey with their youth group, asking them what the most pressing things they wanted to learn about were. Their overwhelming response... mental health. Youth today know that they are facing a mental health crisis, and...
The Book of Common Prayer contains a series of Advent prayers (called collects) which are prayed each week through the season leading up to Christmas (starting on page 211). The prayers are a great sources of inspiration and theological foundation through this holy...
Summer is always a great time to stack up that reading list with some great books. And we always like to get our youth group engaged more with the Bible. So, we're running a few youth Summer Bible reading challenges this year to keep our youth in the Word regularly....
There's much more to the Holy Scriptures than a bunch of stories and rules for life. There's a great deal of guidance on how to live a good life. That's where the Wisdom books come in. But it's not all just straightforward tips for living your best life. You really...
As Summer approaches, we're all about to have a bunch of kids with nothing to do! So rather than simply allowing them to plant their faces in a screen and lay around in their jammies all day (like my own kids would prefer to do), we discussed some ways to engage the...
March is Youth Art Month. So it seems fitting to have the children and youth in our church work on a cool art project. And with it being the Lenten season, it also seemed appropriate to make it a creative project that carries a level of reflection and prayerful focus....
We recently hosted our all-new Parent Night at the church! And in addition to having dinner together and simply connecting, we discussed what's happening in the children's and youth ministries, and had some great topical discussion. During this inaugural gathering,...
The Christian faith, as in life, has lots of questions. And many of those questions are difficult to answer, leaving many of us simply responding, "IDK" (I Don't Know). The questions we're specifically dealing with in this study are: How can I know that God exists?...
There's no question that the medieval church was less than perfect. The people didn't have bibles in their own language, and attended mass spoken entirely in Latin. So they relied heavily on the explanations they got from greedy and power-hungry clergy and what they...
Soul in the City, the summer youth mission/service trip for the Diocese of Central Florida, continues to transform local communities as well as the lives of the 50-plus youth and youth leaders who show up for a weeklong community service experience. The youth groups...
One of our biggest goals with our youth is that we'd develop a deep and authentic faith in them. It's not good enough for them to just come to church, and learn some do's and don'ts of Christian morality. They need to learn how to fall madly in love with the Word, and...
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