Teen Ministry
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates." Deuteronomy 6:4-9
The Teen Ministry is devoted to helping the students in our church to achieve a strong relationship with God and one another. The desire of the teens is to develop strong relationships with one another, enhance personal spiritual growth, participate in a variety of fun activities, while being an example to the world around us.
We are excited to announce Mark and Jami Johnson are our Teen Sheparding Couple. Our focus has been shifting from a youth only ministry to a family ministry where we focus on the family structure as the primary means of spiritual development.
What's Happening this Month
Read the Teen Newsletter
- Teen Calandar
- Jan 16 to 18 - Heartland Youth Rally
- Jan 20 - All Teen Midweek
- Jan 23 - Teen devo at Lanning's
- Jan 23 - Teen disciple lunch
- Jan 29 - Teen & parent devo
2010 Heartland Youth Rally
Lessons from the rally are now available!
Teen Study Books
The Teens will be studying the following books in their lessons over the next couple of months.
Family- Based Youth Ministry
by Mark Devries
Have you tried all the new youth programs? Have you planned one too many wacky activities? Are you frustrated about the size of the youth group? Here's an approach to ministry that takes youth work seriously.Family-based youth ministry is about adults discipling teens one-on-one and in groups. It is about involving not just the nuclear family but the whole church family--from singles to older adults. More important, it's about incorporating youth into the life of your church.So stop worrying about the size of your youth group or your budget. Mark DeVries's refreshing approach to youth ministry will show you how your church can reach today's teens and how you can keep them involved in the life of the church. Whether you are a parent, a youth pastor or a church member who cares about teens, you will find in this book an entirely different approach to youth ministry that will build mature Christian believers.
Dateable: Are You? Are They?
by Justin Lookadoo and Hayley DiMarco
Passion. It's the fuel for success, for dreams, for life. But too many teens focus their energy and passion on the wrong thing-the wrong person. Dateable pulls no punches in telling teens the truth about dating while also directing their passion toward a greater purpose in life. Teen relationships seldom last, the authors point out, so why should teens invest so much of themselves emotionally, physically, and spiritually? The answer? They shouldn't. Instead, they can protect their hearts, live with excitement, and enjoy relationships in a way that enhances rather than detracts from those they'll have in the future. With Justin and Hayley "telling it like it is," teens will learn how to be dateable and how to evaluate the dateability of their latest crush. And they'll get some much-needed perspective on sex, his/her communication, clothes, God-even "chick flicks." Dateable also includes sidebars, quizzes, callouts, and more.