Betwixt: Crickets Chirping Into the Silence – Tackling Student Prayer

Rewind a few years back. It was my very first youth event at a brand-new church, and I didn’t really have a clue what I was doing. It was a stormy night, we were under a tornado watch, and I was meeting in an unfinished metal building with twenty kids inspecting their new youth leader with a critical eye. I had labored all week, writing the perfect Bible study and coming up with ice breakers just right for this group–but more importantly, a first aid kit and a flashlight were arm’s length away from me at all times. The...

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