Ten Things to Pray for Churches and Ministries
We’d like to invite the Rooted community to pray together this week. We hope you will join us in lifting each other up to our good God.
We’d like to invite the Rooted community to pray together this week. We hope you will join us in lifting each other up to our good God.
Of Rooted’s five pillars of youth ministry, partnering with parents is the one which strikes me as the easiest to take for granted. Youth pastors have to intentionally think and work with the other four in mind. Relational…
Gospel-centered parents and youth ministers know that Church History and Historical Theology (among other theological disciplines) would help strengthen and encourage teenagers’ faith in the historic gospel of Jesus Christ – if only we could figure out how…
Written as “a testament of a mother’s love for her son and of a sister’s love for the body of Christ,” Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope is a book the church…
Dealing with the reality of the covid-19 pandemic has no doubt brought a rise of fear and anxiety both nationally and globally: anxiety over uncertain job security and economic stability, and fear for our health and for our…
This one come to us from Rooted staff and steering committee member Chelsea Kingston Erickson, who serves as Pastor of Youth Families in Hamilton, Massachusetts. Erickson developed this for her church families who are practicing virtual worship together…
I pulled into a parking space outside the high school gym and grabbed my purse. I didn’t want to be late for the first varsity football parents meeting. My son had sweated through years of football to get…
What gifts do the teenagers of your church possess which could be of great benefit to the body of Christ as a whole? What are the best “next steps” you can take to develop those gifts for the glory of God?
A classic youth group game is ‘tug of war.’ I’m sure you know it. There is one large rope, and two teams who line up next to the rope, facing each other like jousting warriors. The aim is…
