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| | Pastor, Protect you youth!! Lots of young men with less than honorable ideas about what youth group is all about. And lots of young girls in the church who are easily misled. God bless
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| Hello. We have a very similar situation in our youth group with one of our boys who is handicapped. He is technically done highschool and needs to move on, but with the size of our church the college kids tend to stick around with youth events and such. Unfortunately he consumes a lof of the leaders time and energy and really a lot of the students don't really know how to deal with him. If there is no way to have him not part of the retreat maybe you could find an adult or another college student that could "buddy" up with him for the weekend - knowing that they would be responsible for spending time with him and getting him involved in things. Just a thought.  It's such a tricky thing to deal with! |
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| | I would let college students help me with ministry things behind the scenes if they wanted to do that but other than that no. God Bless, Josh T. in Ohio
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| | I am new here.. my old sign in no longer worked have NO idea why... I am the director of our children's ministry and I don't know what I would do without our college kids! The most popular teacher that we have with our kid's is a Jr in college who the kid's adore. We have been including our late teen to college in with teaching in our Kids' Club and I have to say this has been amazing. Last year alone 3 of our our Sr in HS kid's who were teaching went on to college and are now majoring in teaching. The Jr in college... He originally decided that he wanted to be a nurse and decided on this many years ago. But, after working with the kid's he decided to major in pediatric nursing. His heart and many of our other teens/college kid's are dedicating their lives to teaching kids. I do agree that this is not for all of them. I have had some that I had to request to step down. But, what I do is insteading of asking them to leave, I direct them to another a ministry that I feel they might enjoy and get more out of. I would not feel comfortable telling a Teen/young adult that they would have to leave. Just my thoughts. Nancy SKC Director
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| I appreciate you comments, we too have used HS students in Children's ministry, but that is not the subject of my original post. There is a great deal of difference between a HS student helping in Children's ministry and a college student helping in youth ministry.
Many parents are not comfortable having their 14 y/o daughters being led by 18 y/o guys. We are now working to develop guidelines under which a college student can work in youth ministry and at what age a young person becomes an adult volunteer.
Thanks for your response.
Alan
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| I apologize, I think I misread what was being said. However, I would still not tell them no without giving them a different direction to go if they feel the need to be a part of a ministry where they can serve. Just my thoughts.
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| i know you posted this ages ago.. but it really caught my eye...
im not going to lie, the idea that college age students should not be allowed to work in the youth department is quite foreign to me. maybe it is because i came from a small time church, or its that my my heart and my calling is to youth, but if i had been told that i could not work with the youth i would have been devastated..
on the flip side, most of the churches that i read about have way more in attendance than mine, so i dont know what kind of a role that plays.
i think the heart and the motivation of the college aged student should be questioned. my youth group always had college aged leaders and it really helped break up the load for the youth pastor. just because there are college aged students working, does that meant the youth can not lead also? split bible studies or they can plan events?
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| Thanks for you response.
There are three issues we are wrestling with.
1. What is the motivation for college students to stay in youth. If it is a sincere desire to minister then they need proper guidance and mentoring themselves.
2. Who will do that supervision, what are the guidelines?
3. If college age students are in leadership positions with the youth, how do HS students learn how to lead?
These are the issues we are working with now.
Thanks for all of your responses.
G. Alan Cassady
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| | Hopefully I can bring a new perspective to the table. I AM a "college aged" youth leader. I am 22 year old female, who graduated college with an Associates of Film and Video production at age 20. I work part-time as an associate producer, babysit a few times a week, and have been planning our youth ministry discussions/activites since January. My experience with youth group in my home town was great. We got a new youth minister when I was a sophmore in high school and he revitalized our programming. Some weeks we had 100+ high schoolers in attendance. I made my best friends there and had a place to go when I needed support or answers. He left at the end of my senior year because he was having an affair with the married faith formation director...So much for the maturity of "adults". After college (I was still only 20), I returned home but was weary of returning to the church. Finally, I went to visit the youth group. Some of my best friends little brothers and sisters were still there. Some of the kids I had led in vacation bible school and 8th grade confirmation were still there. Some of them were my neighbors and friends of my family. One of my 1st cousins was there. But all the lesson plans I saw were "convenience food items". They were prepared, packaged, generalized lesson plans, and the kids could care less about them. The youth minister |
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