Friendship

Teenagers are especially in need of valuable and meaningful friendships and can sometimes use extra guidance in maintaining them or understanding the keys to lasting friendship. This conversation guide can help you to support them as they learn to be Christian friends who love others in Jesus' name.

God has called us to love those around us with His love so that we can share redemption and hope in Jesus. With a combination of both practical skills and theology, this four session video based curriculum will help students to care for others in Christ's name.

In the second devotion tied to the My Roles Now and for the Future study, we think about how we serve God by intentionally serve our friends.

This study is intended to take the participants through the book of Philippians as we consider what it means to be a friend in Christ. This is a ten session study that is designed for young adults/campus ministries.

We know that true, deep and even intergenerational Christian community is essential: based on a need that God made us with, and planted deep inside our very essence and being, in His image. God made us for each other and draws us together in His Word and Sacrament. God places us in families, churches, youth ministry and more to meet our need for community

As churches continue to emerge from the challenges of the pandemic, it’s important to assess what and how we need to rebuild. In this article we will look at how we might rebuild relationships that need attention post-pandemic.

Teens need friends to help them weather the stresses of adolescence, feel accepted, and grow spiritually. This article talks to youth workers about how to equip students with the tools necessary to build and maintain solid friend relationships, especially those that point back to Jesus.

It’s a hallmark of young adulthood to survive the tumultuous years of changing friendships and significant others, and to navigate the tricky dance to independence with one’s parents. In this devotion, we lift up in prayer the relationships of young people.