Jonathan,I'm working with an inner-city youth group that is a real difficult group to work with. One of the most frustrating things is when we try to have fun and play games with them, they end up finding ways to destroy the game or cheat at it so that nobody ends up having fun. I don't really want to...
Hi Jonathan,I feel guilty about a mistake I feel that I made. I will never forget, and the consequences were catastrophic. I had one of those troubled kids who gave me nothing but problems. Every time I turned around I was dealing with this kid. He had a lot of issues and came from a broken home. It seemed...
Jonathan,I have leaders that act as bad or worst than the youth. I don't like to be hard, but I feel that I must be with leaders. They even don't obey the rules that we ask of our youth. Then the youth ask why their don't have to obey the rules.Where do I go from here?AllynAnswerAllyn- thanks for the...
Jonathan,How do you have closure for a youth group when there is a change in leadership? My wife and I are working with a youth group. In the beginning we were the only leaders, we had no staff, or volunteers- so we got really close to the teens in our group. There is now 3 other Male adults that...
Dear Jonathan,I am a very young youth just getting into evangelizing. I go to a secondary school and I find it hard to get a hold of my classmates, especially to talk about God. We have religious instructions (r.i.) about once a week and even after r.i. they still don't want to talk. Also, when they have certain problems...
Jonathan,I have been planning to start a Christian Youth Fellowship club at my public school. I have a friend who has wanted to help lead it with me. She has many other ideas about it though. She doesnÕt think that it should be an outreach club. She believes that it should only be for "devoted Christians". One of the...
Jonathan,I thought that I was following what the Bible says but all the complaints I got from parents was unbelievable. I am having youth sign a "Covenant" form before our new school year starts. The "Covenant" was not a problem, it has been done it the past. It goes over rules and information about our meetings. Different this year...