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Seven Practices of Health Youth Ministry

Connecting pragmatic research with realistic practices to help you care for youth in your church.

The Gathering is more than five days. Find a variety of resources tied to the LCMS Youth Gathering help you develop ongoing healthy youth ministry.

Resources designed to help you use teen’s gifts and skills in service to others.

AI chatbots have become more popular and widely used in the last few years. Rev. Dr. Trevor Sutton shares some guiding principals for helping yo...

Teenagers are especially in need of valuable and meaningful friendships and can sometimes use extra guidance in maintaining them or understandin...

The post-Confirmation teen years may be ones where teaching the Catechism may be more difficult. Teens want to know how this material, like the ...

The culture tells us that denying ourselves keeps us from happiness. This article discusses how that messaging measures up to what we believe ab...

Young people can be concerned and avoid trying new things because they want to be perfect. This piece can be used to help better support youth o...

"We want to build up teens who are willing to serve in the church, and as appropriate, might consider careers in professional church work. As we...

At every LCMS Youth Gathering we ask participants to take the Lutheran Youth Poll. This is the executive summary for the 2025 Gathering held thi...

Teens in our youth ministry are wrestling with how to use AI, not just for schoolwork, but in their person lives. This article is designed to he...

Calendars fill up fast but you can be in the moment as we celebrate Christmas. This devotion reminds us that Jesus showed his love by coming to ...

We might have a bad day, but God always keeps His promises to us. This devotion reminds us that joy comes from our salvation in Jesus.

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