This is Doreen. She works the land next to the future site of Miracle House in Nakuru, Kenya. When we were praying for the land, she saw us and yelled across the barbed wire fence, “come, help me hoe the …
With the passing of film director John Hughes this week has come a blog post that is catching all sorts of attention, written by a woman who as a teenager became Hughes’ penpal.
Habits are funny, because whether good or bad, they develop slowly through every choice we make. When it comes to developing Christian habits in students the process looks very similar:
One of the most important questions youth workers can ask themselves is, “Am I helping or hurting students become authentic followers of Jesus?”
“Today I woke up and everything in the world was black or white.”
This week I’m starting a new adventure. I stepped out of leading one of our congregation’s worship teams in order to develop a student worship team for our middle school ministry. I have the privilege of leading this group as …
- Megan Hutchinson Interview
- Resilience: Helping Kids Bounce Back
- Peacemaking in Families
Guest blog from Megan Hutchinson shared with permission from Secret Survivors: Real-Life Stories to Give You Hope for Healing. Listen to an interview with Megan here.
Our kids face obstacles every day — difficulties with friends, stress at school, issues with boyfriends or girlfriends.
But many of the students we work with also face larger obstacles-poverty, violence at school or in their neighborhood, parents getting divorced, …
Brad Griffin interviews FYI Advisory Council member Megan Hutchinson, youth pastor and author of Life Hurts — God Heals and Secret Survivors: Real-Life Stories to Give You Hope for Healing, about working with hurting and broken kids and families even through our own brokenness.
