Partnering With Parents: A Family Ministry Must
When I first began my journey in Student Ministry, I had a mentor tell me that I will never be a successful Youth Pastor if I don’t partner with parents. He said that parents would be my best friends in ministry, even if it seems like they don’t like me.
For the first few years I tried doing Student Ministry without parents – and never succeeded. The only time I connected with parents was when they were in my office frustrated at me for not communicating clearly about an event, charging too much for a summer trip, talking about specific topics without their permission, or the worst – telling a student their parents didn’t know what they were talking about.
I learned pretty quickly that I had to do whatever it took to partner with parents. I had to reach out to them, talk with them, go to lunch with them, get to know them, make myself available to them, allow them to speak into the ministry, and yes, even allow them to lead areas of the ministry! Read More
Other Family on Mission Articles
- Experiencing a Confusing Culture
- Pruning Our Layers
- 7 Habits of a Healthy Family
- The Heart of Family Ministry: Equipping Parents to be Pastors
- Living as a Family on Mission: Part 2
- Living as a Family on Mission: Part 1
- The 7 Best Things to Say to Your Kid Everyday, Reblogged from Todd Drake
- Two Lies that Keep Families from Being Missional, Reblogged from Verge Network
- Our Kids’ Identity Crisis: Equipping Hearts for Jesus
- Listening to Your Kids: Creating Space to Hear Their Voice
- Healthy Balance Between Family and Work
- Family on Mission
- Parenting a Family on Mission, Mike Breen – 3DM
- How do you Build an Extended Family on Mission, Mike Breen – 3DM
- Writing a Family Mission Statement – J.D. Greer
- Writing a Family Mission Statement – Focus on the Family
- Examples of a Family Mission Statement – Happy Family, Happy Life
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