18 Way's to Get to Know Your Youth!
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By Dr. Richard J. Krejcir
Visit their rooms: Check out bulletin boards. Look at books, magazines, CDs. Observe posters and pictures. Try to personally visit each youth once a year, and call them once a month (for large youth groups, for smaller ones double this....
18 Way's to Get to Know Your Youth!
1. Visit their rooms: Check out bulletin boards. Look at books, magazines, CDs. Observe posters and pictures. Try to personally visit each youth once a year, and call them once a month (for large youth groups, for smaller ones double this).
2. Read a teen magazine: (YM, Teen People, Seventeen, Rolling Stone, Thrasher, etc. )
3. Go to their sports events, for more points go to their practices!
4. Read the school newspaper
5. Check out the high school yearbook (s)
6. Get a FBI background check (just kidding, but you can do this...)
7. Interview a baby-sitter
8. Talk to parents
9. Interview pets
10. Visit their school at lunch, and for major points bring pizza!
11. Interview school personnel (teachers, counselors, principal, janitor)
12. Ask them what music they like
13. Ask them what hobbies they like
14. Notice their clothing style
15. Hang out at the mall or local gathering place
16. Survey your kids (use written survey to find attitudes, feelings, etc.)
17. Have kids wear T-shirts on which their personal problems are printed.
18. Read "Youth Worker Update" from Youth Specialties for current trends and resources in youth today
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A.C.T.S is an acronym or axiom that points us to the Lord's Prayer and other Scripture, and gives us precepts so we can divide up our time and purpose to engage in prayer with a correct devotion and attitude. "ACTS" refers to the percepts of prayer-the categories of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication.
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First off, there is no "method" or process on how to pray, as there is no specific principle on how to talk to your mom or best friend. We just do it. Yes, there is edict, attitude, and good ways versus bad ways to communicate. Thus, God does give us a pattern as a checklist to make sure our time and attitude are lined up to more of His will and less of ours. We must make sure we use our payer time with purpose and effectiveness.
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What if I have never been taught how to personally pray or to talk to God? What if I grew up in a church that never had conversational or personal prayer? What if I offend God? But if you know how to talk and listen then you know how to pray!
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