Resources

Download the full leader guide here. The theme for the 2013 National LCMS Youth Gathering, LiveLove(d), was selected in January, 2011. The theme is based on 1 John 4:9: “This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.” (NIV […]

This Bible study series reviews five scriptural stories of people who were called out of some particular place or situation by God and into service to Him and to others. This series was originally created to serve LCMS Servant Events during their week-long programming.

In this six part Bible study and devotion series, we will look at what the a servant heart looks like. Explore how God is and makes us willing, prayerful, compassionate, brave, broken, and hopeful servants. This study was originally designed for 2018 LCMS Servant Events being held over a week.

Real. Present. God. is a six session study with parallel devotions that takes passages from the book of Psalms, full of material about our God's power and presence.

As a part of a series that draws connections between Growing Young and Seven Practices, we look at how Growing Young's Prioritize Everywhere is connected to 7 Practices Supportive Adults, Opportunities to Serve & Lead, and Live Out Their Unique Vocation.

God gave us Sabbath for a purpose but there are lots of ways we can misunderstand it. This skit is designed to help highlight (with a little hyperbole!) some of the ways we understand and misunderstand Sabbath.

We want our young people engaged in prayer, reading Scripture, confession and absolution, worship, and service. This study is designed to help teens to deeply understand these practices and discover how God desires to serve each of us through them. It should also give language, modeling, and ideas for practice so that as the Holy Spirit empowers them, they may regularly engage God’s gifts in these practices.

In this devotion we will be reminded that isolation is dangerous and God has given us community to care for us.

As we consider Christ in the manager, this skit helps us hear from the voices of in the nativity. We hear their stories and from God's Word to remind us that in Jesus we witness God's plan of forgiveness and love born for us in this child.

This devotion reminds us that God knows and sees us, even in difficult times.