I'm curious how you think people and groups can live out values in their everyday life?
Large Group Topics
Large Group will resume Sunday, Feb 9 with a series exploring worship.
Student Ministry Needs
Large Group will start back up in February and with that we have a new snack sign up. Please visit the sign up genius to reserve a week to provide snacks for our students.
A few months back, I received some topical ideas that you as a parent would find helpful. To begin the New Year, and decade, I am going to take one of those requests and share some thoughts and resources on it for the next three issues.
That topic that was suggested? Well the teenage brain and what is going on inside of it?!? Is it as big a mystery as we treat it? Are all teenagers the same? Does it even function correctly?
In brief, yes, teenagers' brains function correctly, but they do function differently than your fully matured adult brain. Their brains are still developing, but that doesn't mean they are broken.
That is one of the big hurdles to get through with how teenagers are wired. It's not that they are broken, it's that they are still developing. I love how Mark Ostreicher says it when he talks about the teenage brain, "Teens are not in need of fixing, but are wonders to behold."
So that is my challenge to you, and really anyone who works with teens: question if your assumption is that teens are in need of fixing or are they wonders of God's creation to behold?
The Resource Trail
The Teenage Brain
For the next three months we will share resources about the teenage brain. Start with these two blog posts by youth ministry guru, Mark Ostreicher.
