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Youth Ministry 2021: The Comeback

September 16, 2021 By Miriam McKenney 1 Comment

What’s your new year looking like? For one church, it’s a return to the physical building. Here’s how youth minister Miriam McKenney created a plan for maximum safety and fun in a big pop-up tent.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Prayer, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: bean bags, beanbags, Calvary, coronavirus, Jesus, ministry, Prayer, teenagers, teens, tent, youth, youth group, youth ministry

Keeping our community: spiritual connection and physical distance

April 15, 2020 By Miriam McKenney 2 Comments

What do we do when we can’t be together in person? Miriam shares how her youth group stays socially and spiritually connected while physically distant from one another.

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Filed Under: Easter, Health, Prayer Tagged With: connectoin, COVID-19, distance, Easter, God, Jesus, Prayer, social distancing, youth group, Zoom meeting

Chaos and the Book of John: The Good Book Club and My Beloved Youth Group

February 5, 2020 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

What happens when a youth group reads the Book of John for The Good Book Club? It’s hectic, chaotic, and perfect.

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Filed Under: Good Book Club, Spiritual Practices, Way of Love Tagged With: Bible, Jesus, John, Lazarus, Mary and Martha, Scripture, teenagers, teens, The Good Book Club, youth group

Summer Goals

June 5, 2019 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

Last Sunday, my youth group blessed themselves and each other when they set summer goals.

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices, Way of Love Tagged With: goals, Jesus, Spirit, Way of Love, youth group

How to Save Teenagers for Eternity in Three Easy Steps

April 26, 2019 By Meredith Baker 2 Comments

As a teen, my stomach sank whenever I boarded a plane. I wasn’t scared to fly, I was nervous about sharing the gospel with my seatmate. What could be more awkward than cornering the total stranger trapped next to you to inquire about their eternal destiny? Yet that’s what my evangelical preachers told me to do on flights. 

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: discipleship, grace, salvation, teenagers, youth, youth group, youth ministry

Following the Way of Love with Youth

September 26, 2018 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

Are you practice The Way of Love? Read about Bishop Curry’s call to us to follow the seven principles of The Way of Love: Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bess, Go, and Rest and see how one youth group begins their journey on The Way.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Spiritual Practices, Way of Love Tagged With: church, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, rule of life, spiritual practice, teenagers, teens, Way of Love, youth, youth group

My youth group is reading Exodus. They not-so-secretly like it.

October 19, 2017 By Miriam McKenney 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, my youth group joined Southern Ohio’s Diocesan Big Read, where we all read Exodus in community. What would my youth group think of my plan to have Bible study each week? Would extra snacks help? Here’s what happened.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Bible, Exodus, God, Moses, Scripture, Sunday, youth, youth group

Hiking our way: rebuilding our church’s youth group

September 20, 2017 By Miriam McKenney 2 Comments

“How did I get here?” I thought. “More importantly, how do I get out?”

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Prayer Tagged With: creation, God, hike, hiking, nature, Prayer, teenagers, teens, youth group

What Do Teens Want from Church?

May 15, 2017 By Kim Faasse 2 Comments

I asked our church’s youth what mattered to them.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: church, teenagers, teens, youth group

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