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Looking Forward
Shower for Savannah May 8

Tuesday,

Diapers or diaper-related gifts, 6 PM, home of Julie Roggli

Senior Sunday Night May 13 #HASHTAG Begins in Refuge May 23 Middle School Bowling Saturday, May 19

What did graduating high school seniors wish they had more of in their youth groups? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Time for deep conversation. Mission trips. Service projects. Accountability. One-one-one time with leaders.

How do we raise kids who serve? How can we plant a vision for kingdom service so deeply in our kids that they cant help but offer love and hope to those in need?

Service and Justice

Justice is a Biblical value and theme.

If your church is uncomfortable with justice, then your church hasnt read the Bible. The Bible talks about justice as one of Gods core attributes, and its a word that we have to reclaim. Justice is a part of Gods mission.

Table Talk
What are your initial thoughts on the word justice? What would change in your life if you saw justice as a core attribute of God and a major theme of being a Christian?

Young people want to be involved in service and justice work.

While mission trips are important, service is stickier when it hits closer to home.

It needs to be in their home literally, as we as parents exemplify, encourage, and actually participate with our kids in righting wrongs around them. It needs to hit close to home thematically, as we help our kids understand how particular injustices relate to their lives. It needs to hit home personally, as we expose our kids to actual people who have been oppressed, thereby giving injustice a face and a name. And justice ministry needs to hit home relationally, as we help our kids serve others in partnership with

Find sticky causes that matter to your kid.

What is it that strikes close to home for your children? If you dont have an answer to that question, get one by asking your kids.

Serve together as a family.

Make justice work not an event but a process.

Develop ongoing relationships with those you serve.

Make justice part of everyday life.

Many (maybe even most) teenagers will show way more enthusiasm for talking about Jesus to a little girl in Inner City Chattanooga or visiting the Dominican Republic than they will for being more kind to the troubled girl in 2nd block at school.

Table Talk
What are some ways we can promote and work for justice in our homes, community, and through our church? Come up with some specific ideas.