Youth Culture

Summer is winding down, and soon all the students we have spent the summer building relationships with will head back to school. So, the question is: how do we best capitalize on the events of the summer to help our…

Perhaps you’ve seen the new Apple commercial taking the internet by storm.  The ad, entitled “Misunderstood”, features a teenage boy who spends most of his Christmas family time with his head buried in his mobile phone.  Whether it’s sledding with…

Teens looking at cell phone

  Sometimes ministering to students can feel as challenging as ministering to an unknown tribe in a remote jungle.  The language is confusing, the clothing is strange, the music is bizarre — even the food is unidentifiable!  However, if we are…

Social media has been around longer than most adults realize. Most of the middle school students in your church can’t remember life without Facebook or Twitter. Do you remember the very for 6 hours you spent exploring Facebook?…all in one…