Leveraging School Transitions to Remind Teenagers They Belong
Because Jesus has radically welcomed us into his family, we have the opportunity to remind students that we belong to each other.
Milestones should promote God’s call for faithfulness and sanctification, regardless of where students fit on a cultural sliding scale.

Because Jesus has radically welcomed us into his family, we have the opportunity to remind students that we belong to each other.
Each spring we as youth ministers are faced with various transitions in the lives of our students as new sixth or seventh graders enter our middle school ministries, eighth graders promote to high school, and another class of seniors graduates and leaves us.
Our aim must be to point students to the promises of God—the only expectation that will stand when all else fails.
There comes a point as a student pastor when you realize that no matter how loudly and clearly you preach the gospel, the message your students hear at home is always heard more loudly and more clearly. As…