Relationships That Matter

Brain Food

Who is in the stands cheering for you in the marathon of life?

We’ve all had people in our past who believed in us when we didn’t have the strength to believe in ourselves. Being a youth worker means that you get the privilege of doing this for someone else. So keep up the good work. Keep encouraging. Continue to remember names. And dive deep into the lives of the students you are walking through life with.

A teenager’s life includes his or her family. Even though parents might sometimes be the scariest people in youth ministry, get to know them as well. Not only will connecting with parents show the student how much you care, but as parents get to know you, they will give you more and more trust and freedom to hang out with and mentor their son or daughter.

Like they say...

“The Christian leader is called to help others affirm this great news, and to make visible in daily events the fact that behind the dirty curtain of our painful symptoms there is something great to be seen: the face of Him in whose image we were shaped.”—Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society

God's Word

“All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God’s grace in all its truth.”—Colossians 1:6