Has your youth ministry targeted a specific group to help? How did you arrive at the decision to help this particular group – did leadership decide or did the youth have any input? To whom are y...

    What activities does your group find to be together outside routine weekly gatherings? Have group members been chosen to lead (i.e., Social Committee)? How are you seeing them discover their spi...

    How have you let your youth know it’s OK to hold you accountable when you make mistakes? How do they hold each other accountable? What scriptural examples have you used to discuss Jesus...

How have you found pop culture to be a springboard for spiritual lessons? With reality shows and celebrity escapades pervading the media and blatant materialism vying for attention, are you finding y...

    Is your group honoring particular traditions or anticipating an annual event everyone enjoys during Christmas and New Years? What are you doing differently this year than last? What specific...

Studies are showing not only that kids are getting less sleep than kids used to, but that even one hour of sleep loss dramatically affects a child or adolescent’s development in negative ways.   &n...

The man who killed eight people and committed suicide at a mall in Omaha spent four years in treatment centers, group homes, and foster care after threatening to kill his stepmother in 2002. In August 2006, he ...

Brad Paisely and Sara Evans join together in "New Again," paired here with clips from "The Passion of the Christ." (YouTube video) ...

Keeping kids in, and engaged in, school isn’t so much a problem for students coming from families with a precedence for achievement and education, but kids in poorer or less upwardly mobile homes, the val...

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