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1. Students need and are craving a retreat or summer camp after missing a summer in 2020.
2. Relaunch your ministry and build momentum for 2021-22 ministry year.
3. Give the students a place to find truth and grow in Christ.
Perhaps one of the greatest passages on passing down the faith to our children and teens comes from the Old Testament. Deuteronomy 6 says that we are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, and might and that this shall be taught " diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise...You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." (ESV)
Below are 10 changes we need to make within our ministry as we are coming out of this worldwide pandemic.
1. Become a ministry that now live streams our worship services.
2. We must have online ministers, communicators, or host to speak and engage an audience back at home.
3. Provide an online option for small groups.
Parent involvement within a student ministry can sometimes be a sticky subject, and it can be hard to get parents to step in and help serve and lead. Many of them have full-time jobs, other kids to take care of, and about a million other things on their plate. However, parents’ involvement in their child’s spiritual life is so crucial and is even biblical(Ephesians 6:4). The Bible gives parents the responsibility to raise their children up in the ways of the Lord. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “it takes a village,” which could not be more true. The church has been given the responsibility to walk alongside parents, kids, and families in order to help one another to grow in Christ. But how do we get parents more involved in their students’ lives, especially when their child may be skeptical about always having their parents nearby? Here are three ways that youth pastors/leaders can help out parents and get them more involved in the student ministry.
Recently I've been thinking about the whispering spot at the US Capitol building. Growing up in Delaware I would make many visits to the US Capitol building in DC. Especially because my mother is a huge history person and would take us to learn about all these different American historical moments in history. On one of my trips to tour the Capitol with either my parents or on a school field trip I came into Statuary Hall where there is a plaque on the ground for John Quincy Adams. It was rumored that he would fall asleep at his desk while serving in congress and listen to the other parties’ conversations because the acoustics where his desk had allowed him to hear everything. Whether this rumor is true or not, may never be proved, but we do know that the Capitol has a whispering spot where someone on the other side of the room can whisper something and you can hear them better than if they were next to you.
The transition from children’s ministry to student ministry is not an easy one. It may seem like a very exciting change in the lives of the tweens in your church, but underneath the excitement, your kids are dealing with the anxiety of soon becoming the small fish in a big and unknown sea. It can be very scary, especially for children who may not have older siblings in student ministry already. There are a few things that youth pastors, youth interns, and the church in general can do to make this transition easier for kids and their parents.
