Drawing students to deeper spiritual practices many times just requires an invitation. Finding what you are specifically calling students to can be the difficult part. Perhaps this article will help frame your thoughts for your ministry during this season or next.
Engaging with Broken Families
"Changed Parent = Changed Family= Changed neighborhood= Changed community=Changed world"
Many of the specific situations of our students can be overwhelming in our broken world. Finding practical ways to engage with these families proves to be challenging. This article uses our senses as a guide to engage broken families with Christ's love and grace.
A Groupthink for the New Year
We're only three days into the new year and already I've heard of many of my friends re-evaluating their online presence. Whatever platform you use, it's worth the time to process how you will manage the endless barrage of posts, tweets, polls, pictures, graphics, gifs, videos, and messages on your social media. Possibly even more worth your time might be engaging the students or parents of students you work with on this same topic.
Below is a link to a possible lesson plan, or better yet... it could be the start of your own lesson plans (since you know your own group best) to engage your students or adults on how to manage one's social media presence.
http://ministrytoyouth.com/youth-group-lessons-on-social-media/
Show Me the Money
Let's face it... many things in youth ministry cost money. In order to pay for those trips, events, service opportunities, or supplies it's important to be creative in our fundraising. Here are 10 fundraising ideas for youth ministry that could spur you and your students on toward your next retreat or event.
http://youthspecialties.com/blog/top-10-free-fundraising-ideas-for-youth-ministry/