Youth Pastors
Olivia and I had some visitors tonight; friends of mine from college. Chad and Michelle are youth pastors in central PA, and they made the drive out to meet up for dinner. It was nice.
Speaking of church youth pastors…I just wanted to highlight how many of these people give so much of themselves to help our kids grow and make good choices. If you want to be proactive about your kids spiritual growth, a good place to start is to meet with the youth pastor and discuss how you can partner together. As parents, we are undoubtedly first and most influential in our kids lives, but a unified support system from different areas is pretty powerful. So, if you are a church-type person, call you youth pastor aside after church and ask her to dinner. Even if you aren’t creative enough to figure out good ways to work together, an invitation for a meal will certainly make her feel appreciated (a feeling people in that arena rarely experience).
Anyway, Chad and Michelle are heroes of our faith. They love the students so greatly and invest so much. I wish their were more people like them floating around.
Click HERE for some pictures I snapped while they were here:
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What great shots! Do you have a portrait studio set up in your home? I am looking forward to more of your blogs on Photography 101. Any tips on how to set up a simple at-home backdrop and lighting so I can do some portraits of my children?
thanks for recognizing the youth pastors. my husband is a “director of youth” and it is amazing how difficult his job is. seems as if, they are given little support and hear a good amount of negative. to have a job however, that allows us to watch kids lives change from bored and apathetic, to caring and desiring God, is all worth it.
Hi Darren, Thanks for the support and teaming up with parents would be great! It’s always better to talk with them and see where their kids at and whats going on at home and in school-we don’t always get the whole pic from the teens. I also love the female reference to the youth pastor-there’s so few of us! LOL You and Olivia are in my prayers. This site is such a blessing!