18 Way's to Get to Know Your Youth!
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By Dr. Richard J. Krejcir
Visit their rooms: Check out bulletin boards. Look at books, magazines, CDs. Observe posters and pictures. Try to personally visit each youth once a year, and call them once a month (for large youth groups, for smaller ones double this....
18 Way's to Get to Know Your Youth!
1. Visit their rooms: Check out bulletin boards. Look at books, magazines, CDs. Observe posters and pictures. Try to personally visit each youth once a year, and call them once a month (for large youth groups, for smaller ones double this).
2. Read a teen magazine: (YM, Teen People, Seventeen, Rolling Stone, Thrasher, etc. )
3. Go to their sports events, for more points go to their practices!
4. Read the school newspaper
5. Check out the high school yearbook (s)
6. Get a FBI background check (just kidding, but you can do this...)
7. Interview a baby-sitter
8. Talk to parents
9. Interview pets
10. Visit their school at lunch, and for major points bring pizza!
11. Interview school personnel (teachers, counselors, principal, janitor)
12. Ask them what music they like
13. Ask them what hobbies they like
14. Notice their clothing style
15. Hang out at the mall or local gathering place
16. Survey your kids (use written survey to find attitudes, feelings, etc.)
17. Have kids wear T-shirts on which their personal problems are printed.
18. Read "Youth Worker Update" from Youth Specialties for current trends and resources in youth today
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Christian Youth need to seek out the great Commission, we can do this by training and facilitating programs of Discipleship.
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How to do Youth Evangelism!
This curriculum can be used to teach youth groups how to be an effective witness.
This is very important, because, when we venture out into evangelizing you may think you are asking someone to know our Lord, "would you like to be a Christian?" But, what we are actually asking people is, "Would you like to be like me?" Why is this?
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Common Objections
What I want to do is challenge you to see some of the root causes why people turn you off when you evangelize. By knowing these common objections you will understand why they respond the way they do, so you will not take things so personally. That way you will not be turned off from doing evangelism yourself. This will give you greater confidence, so you will know how people respond, and then be better listeners and evangelists. There are countless objections that people give and many different categories they can go into. But from my experience in youth and evangelism work...
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