Check out what a leader in the youth ministry learns about teens and their technology!
Definitely some interesting statistics!
http://www.dougfields.com/posts/inforgraphic-teens-wired/
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Welcome! How To Get Started!
Welcome to the First Church Student Ministries Blog!
The purpose of this blog is to equip and encourage parents of teenagers! The goal is to send out emails to parents every other Tuesday with helpful information and resources that might be useful to you as you spend over 3,000 hours with your child this year! After each email, the information will be posted to the blog so you may come back to it at any time and reference it.
This blog will include links to valuable websites, important information, and hopefully a sounding board for you as parents. The blog also links to our First Church Students Facebook page as well as to the First Church Students YouTube account (which has students' testimonies that you can watch). Please feel free to comment or ask questions!
The first few initial posts below include information we went over from Sunday's parent meeting.
The graph below is an example of being INTENTIONAL and PURPOSEFUL during natural times that families are able to spend together. The graph explains the time, what type of conversation that naturally comes from that time period, your role as a parent, and what your intentional goal is during that time. For instance, as you drive from one place to another with your child, turn off the radio, DVD player, etc. and listen up. There is nothing else to do in a car except talk with one another. The conversation is not very intimidating for the teen because you do not always make eye contact. You can learn a lot simply through a drive to Fort Wayne and back. And you role, most often, during these moments is not to teach, but simply to be a friend and understand life together.
The purpose of this blog is to equip and encourage parents of teenagers! The goal is to send out emails to parents every other Tuesday with helpful information and resources that might be useful to you as you spend over 3,000 hours with your child this year! After each email, the information will be posted to the blog so you may come back to it at any time and reference it.
This blog will include links to valuable websites, important information, and hopefully a sounding board for you as parents. The blog also links to our First Church Students Facebook page as well as to the First Church Students YouTube account (which has students' testimonies that you can watch). Please feel free to comment or ask questions!
The first few initial posts below include information we went over from Sunday's parent meeting.
The graph below is an example of being INTENTIONAL and PURPOSEFUL during natural times that families are able to spend together. The graph explains the time, what type of conversation that naturally comes from that time period, your role as a parent, and what your intentional goal is during that time. For instance, as you drive from one place to another with your child, turn off the radio, DVD player, etc. and listen up. There is nothing else to do in a car except talk with one another. The conversation is not very intimidating for the teen because you do not always make eye contact. You can learn a lot simply through a drive to Fort Wayne and back. And you role, most often, during these moments is not to teach, but simply to be a friend and understand life together.
What's Most Important
Family Values
#1 What matters more than anything is that my kids have an
authentic relationship
with God
#2 My wife and I are not the only adult influences my children
need
#3 My children need to know I will never stop fighting for a
right
relationship with
them (I will fight for their heart)
#4 My relationship with God and with my wife affects my children
more
than I realize
#5 Just being together can never substitute for interacting
together in
a meaningful
way
7 Things Every Teen Needs To Know
The Seven Checkpoints:
Seven
Principles Every Teenager Needs to Know
Andy
Stanley & Stuart Hall
Authentic Faith
(putting your trust in God)
·
Principle: God can be trusted; He will do
all He has promised to do.
·
Critical Question: Are your students
trusting God with the critical areas of their lives?
·
Key Passages: Proverbs 3:5-6, Hebrews 11
Spiritual Disciplines
(seeing with God’s eyes)
·
Principle: When you see as God sees, you
will do as God says.
·
Critical Question: Are your students
developing a consistent devotional & prayer life?
·
Key Passage: Romans 12:1-2
Moral Boundaries
(paving the way for intimacy) (how holy
can I be?)
·
Principle: Purity paves the way to intimacy.
·
Critical Question: Are your students
establishing & maintaining godly moral boundaries?
·
Key Passage: I Thessalonians 4:3-8
Healthy Friendships
(choosing friends for life)
·
Principle: Your friendships determine the
direction & quality of your life.
·
Critical Question: Are your students
establishing healthy friendships & avoiding unhealthy ones?
·
Key Passage: Proverbs 13:20
Wise Choices
(walking wisely in a fool’s world)
·
Principle: Walk wisely.
·
Critical Question: Are your students making
wise choices in every area of their lives?
·
Key Passage: Ephesians 5:15-17
God as the Ultimate Authority
(finding freedom under God)
·
Principle: Maximum freedom is found under
God’s authority.
·
Critical Question: Are your students
submitting to the authorities God has placed over them?
·
Key Passage: Romans 13:1-2
Others First
(considering others before yourself)
·
Principle: When you make yourself nothing,
you’re really something.
·
Critical Question: Are your students putting
the needs of others ahead of their own?
·
Key Passage: Philippians 2:3-11
Sunday Night Calendar 2012-2013
Sunday Nights 2012-2013
Doors open @ 5:30pm (enter
door #11 or 15). Programming from 6-7:30pm in the youth worship center.
Date Sunday
September 16th Fall Kick-Off
September 23rd Sunday
PM
September 30th Sunday
PM
October 7th Sunday
PM
October 14th Sunday PM
October 21st Sunday PM
October 28th Church-Wide Family
Fall Festival
November 4th Sunday PM
November 11th Sunday PM
November 18th Sunday PM
November 25th Thanksgiving Sunday
(No PM)
December 2nd Sunday PM
December 9th Sunday PM
Christmas Party & Christmas Program
January 6th Sunday
PM
January 13th Senior High
Winter Retreat
January 20th Sunday PM
January 27th Sunday PM
February 3rd Super Bowl
Party
February 10th Sunday PM
February 17th Junior High
Winter Retreat
February 24th Sunday PM
March 3rd Sunday
PM
March 10th Sunday
PM
March 17th Sunday
PM
March 24th Sunday
PM
March 31st Easter
(No PM)
April 7th Spring
Break (No PM)
April 14th Sunday PM
April 21st Sunday
PM
April 28th Sunday PM
May 5th Sunday
PM
May 12th Mother’s
Day (No PM)
May 19th Final
Sunday PM of School Year
Save the Date:
Winter Weekend
Senior High Winter Retreat (9th thru
12th Grade)—January 11-13th
Junior High Winter Retreat (6th thru 8th
Grade)—February 15-17th
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