Bible Mime Tableau
This game is another fun—and educational—indoor winter game. Play as you would Charades with two teams. Each team then sends someone out of the room.In two minutes, the team must then reas...
Youth Culture Update: The Other Face of Facebook
Facebook and other social networks have given users a whole new set of ways to keep in touch with the people most important to us; but sometimes, all that interconnectivity isn't all that great for us. Research...
Youth Culture Update: Are Youth Actually Learning in College?
We all know the cost of attending college continues to grow at an alarmingly rapid clip, but just what are students—and the parents often footing the bill—actually getting for their money? Often, no...
Youth Culture Update: High School Graduation Rates Rise
The United States' sluggish economy has been bad news for lots of families across the country, but it has contributed to a piece of good news: High school graduation rates are the highest they've been in decade...
Youth Culture Update: Split Family Can Sever Religious Ties, Too
Divorce, including relatively amicable divorces, can impact mightily how children deal with religion, according to new research from Lake Forest College in Chicago. Sociologists have found that kids raised by d...
YWJ Roundtable on Missions: Living Missionally to the Ends of the Earth
Before ascending, Jesus tells His disciples in Acts 1:8, "You will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." Arguably, short-term mission trips help teens obey t...
Missio Dei, Neighborhood and Cultivating Sent Ones
From the moment humanity rejected God, He embarked on a mission to restore what had been broken. The culmination of this mission—the missio dei—is found in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus....
Planning with the End in Mind
"If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise" (Galatians 3:29).Every January in our annual staff retreat, I pass around a sheet of paper that contains several questi...
Youth Culture Update: I Never Forget a Facebook Post
You'd think people would have an easier time remembering a line from a great writer—William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens, perhaps—than an off-the-cuff Facebook post from a semi-literate friend tal...
Youth Culture Update: Technology Time Is Together Time
As technology continues to grow in importance in the average home, families are adapting that technology—creating new opportunities for moms, dads and kids to spend time together. According to a recent st...