Welcome Parents to our student ministry newsletter. This newsletter is a source for you to "be in the know" about what we are doing, teaching, and planning. We also hope to give you a little encouragement/support because parenting is hard and it doesn't come with a manual.
Make sure to check out the EVENTS & IMPORTANT DATES section below!
Join us for Student Ministry Weekend Service on Sundays!
Middle School: 4:00pm-5:10pm / High School 6:00pm-7:10pm
***Our Registration will now be done through our church database ELVANTO. Our weekly registration will be put out at the same time as adult registration (Thursdays) and will close 12:00pm on Sundays.
MS Registration:
HS Registration:
REMINDER:
All students will be required to:
-Register prior to the event
-Wear a mask
-Social Distance
-Be picked up and dropped off promptly (Max 10 mins before and after)
-Follow building flow protocol as provided by ministry team
-Show no symptoms relating to Covd 19 prior to attending
We are back!!! Registration is open for student ministry grow groups. Here is some important info:
-Groups Start on Jan. 13
-You don't have to have participated in last session to join this session
-Leaders will be reaching out to your group for meeting time and place (day of the week might change for your group)
-Registration can be found HERE on our website
All Student Services are cancelled. We encourage students to watch 9:00am or 10:40am service one of three ways during covid:
1. Worship with your families
2. Worship with your family and another family
3. Worship with your small group
A three-week series on comparison.
Week 1 (1/10): God doesn't compare you to others.
Week 2 (1/17): When we stop comparing we can better celebrate others and ourselves.
Week 3 (1/24): God wants us to see ourselves the way he sees us.
To find the Daily Devotionals for this series in the YouVersion Bible App, just search for the series title in the Reading Plans section of the app.
Your students all have a tendency to compare themselves to others. The grades they’re getting, the people they’re dating, the
friends they have, the clothes they wear, the highlight reel on their Instagram feed—it all feels like one long list of what others
have that your students just don’t! In this series, we’ll help them discover that comparison not only keeps them from liking
others, it holds them back from being able to like themselves! And the further they move away from comparison and toward
contentment, the more they’ll be able to love who they are just as they are!
Week 1 (1/10): Don't compare your worth with their posts.
Week 2 (1/17): The more I celebrate others, the more I like me.
Week 3 (1/24): I can like me because God loves me.
To find the Daily Devotionals for this series in the YouVersion Bible App, just search for the series title in the Reading Plans section of the app.
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To find the Daily Devotionals for this series in the YouVersion Bible App, just search for the series title in the Reading Plans section of the app.
Two recent studies have reinforced earlier research and conclusions about different parenting styles:
1) Parents who utilize a so-called "strength-based parenting style" identify their children's strengths, affirm these strengths in their kids and assist in helping their kids build them. Kids whose parents employ this style of parenting were found to be better able to cope with stress and adapt to new life situations.
2) On the other hand, helicopter parents, those who are overinvolved in their kids' lives and prone to control, solve problems, make decisions and intervene in their children's conflicts were found to produce negative effects. Researchers discovered that children of helicopter parents were more likely to have low self-esteem and engage in at-risk behaviors.
What Can Parents Do?
- Understand that parents who are controlling don't help their kids to become healthy adults. In fact, controlling parents become obstacles to their teens' development into healthy adulthood.
- Kids flourish and become healthy with parents who are involved, but not controlling. Involved parents provide a lot of support and affirm strengths they see in their kids, but provide them with the space to learn how to solve their own problems, experience consequences for both good and bad decisions, and to learn from their mistakes.
- Take some time to evaluate your own parenting style. How does your parenting style serve to help your teenager become a healthy adult? How does it serve to stunt your teenager's development? What changes to your parenting style should you make in order to become a more effective parent?
Check out this simple podcast for some tips and encouragement: