We are curious to know how you have been using the Fearless Advent devotional you received a few weeks back. What ideas and responses can you share with the rest of us? Been wanting to use it but have not gotten around to it? It’s not too late! There is still another week to Advent...
Yearly Archives: 2010
Dear Rolling Hills Family, Last night I received the following e-mail, and wanted to pass on to you how your faithfulness has impacted our community. Thank you for being a church that tells the story of Christmas the way God wants it told. You are an inspiration to our community! Lovingly, Faith I’m here to...
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I have been in full-time youth ministry for about six years now. I actually started as a youth pastor at the ripe old age of 20. So, think about that. I was a youth pastor just two years after I was a ‘youth’. The interesting thing I found right away was only two years out...
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December 7, 2010 - 11:07 PM
I agree 100% with your observations. But we do understand that the youth still need dicipline and must make sound decisions on their conduct. You are so “right on”, we as adults need to focus on the inward beauty of each of these very special individuals and allow God to make changes without creating rebellion. May God bless your efforts as you help guide the youth to provide us a solid God fearing future and understanding of His purpose in their lives.
1 Timothy 4:12
December 8, 2010 - 10:01 AM
The most prized commodity that adults have is TIME. Our children are starving for an adult who takes the TIME to sit and BE with them, LISTEN to them, LAUGH with them and if necessary CRY with them. They are seeking our full attention, unplugged from the news or our iphones. Preaching to them or at them is not what they are in need of. If we are not living the life of faith they will not listen to our agenda filled speeches. This generation can spot and CALL out a hypocrite in a split second. This generation appreciates when we can share our own failures and experiences with a genuine heart. Time is all they are asking for and this generation of youth is over scheduled and neglected in a very different manner than generations of the past. It appears as though all of the “advantages” we offer by way of tutors, private lessons, excellent college level courses in high school; all which are based upon their performance is not giving them a better chance or a “leg up”. It is creating a loneliness within and often creates young adults that either feel they don’t measure of or they give up. Once example, most kids don’t even work at getting their own drivers license….how bizzare. We have a generation of lonely young adults that are burnt out by 25. This is just what I am experiencing while raising two pre teens and one teen……
December 9, 2010 - 10:48 AM
thanks for writing such a sick article! SNAP! that’s why I love working with young adults…they keep me current.
the latest word I’ve learned is chuuuch….as in AMEN! it’s CHURCH! (a good thing) My students crack up when I use it appropriately.
January 12, 2011 - 9:33 AM
lol more grown ups should look at this i think you said it in just the right way 
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Before you know it, Christmas Day will be here! It is so important to capture the season with those you love; to create a rhythm that allows you to not only be with family and friends, but to grasp the immensity of God’s love. Christmas is the amazing story of God tabernacling with us, which...
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I am constantly amazed at the growth of our high school students. The thing I love about this generation is that they do not shrink back. When they feel called, they go. We are seeing our students take the commission of Jesus in Matthew 28:18-20 and living their lives on mission. Recently a small group...
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