Walking With Teenagers Through Tragedy
Fellow youth ministers, when you step into heavy moments of pastoral care, I encourage you to come prepared with a way to set the tone of grace.
If you work with children, youth, or families long enough, you will encounter tragedy, and you will necessarily have to rise in leadership in those moments.

Fellow youth ministers, when you step into heavy moments of pastoral care, I encourage you to come prepared with a way to set the tone of grace.
As we walk with our students through their hurts and disappointments, Psalm 33 shows how the Lord’s unfailing love comforts and heals their broken hearts.
In a world that tells students to grin and bear it, put on a happy face, and veg out until you can’t name your feelings, Scripture sings a different song.
The more we remind our students of God’s faithfulness in the past, the easier our students will navigate their uncertain present.
In this timely talk from our Rooted 2020 micro conference, Cameron Cole examines the value of pain and suffering in the lives of teenagers.
In one way or another, our students will be faced with reconciling suffering and the “good life.” As youth pastors, we need the resources of the gospel to point teenagers to a biblical perspective on suffering.