You've Got Questions week 1

  The New talk series we're running through is titled: "You've Got Questions" and I am super stoked for it!    What we did was we asked the Middle School teens to ask any question they wanted to about faith, love, God, Jesus...basically anything they had doubts about when it came to religion and church!  What we got was heaps and heaps of questions.   We worked through all the questions and are going to take 5 weeks to...

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Working with Inner City Youth

I am an inner-city Student Ministries Pastor. I work predominantly with Middle School students. This past week has been tough. My heart is to see these students (churched and non-churched) to grasp the depth of Christ's love for them, know Him and then in turn make Him known. Working in an inner-city context is rough. You hear about friends dying, drugs being sold and pregnancies happening. My heart breaks for these kids. I love them and care for...

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Identity Week 4

This is a long time coming, since this series has been over for about a month now...but I finally got around to posting this finale up here!  This series was a great series in which to get the kids realigned with what their true identity is.   The world that swirls around todays teen is a world that desires to strip them of God's stamp on their lives and stamp them with many different types of Identities. After we've seen what Christ...

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Teens and Sex

Sex has been a hot button topic in youth ministry from the inception of youth ministry. The two are pretty much inseparable, because if you are dealing with teenagers, you are also dealing with their sexuality. The sad truth is that this year is the first year in 10 that teen sex, abortion and pregnancy rates have swung up. From 1999-2009 they were slowly on a decline, however now they are inclining again. Teens are re-defining what sex...

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