Youth Ministries
Dear Parents,
As we all seek to navigate the craziness of life, we quickly get reeled into a frantic pace that can lead us to a crash. We sacrifice crucial aspects of well-being for the faux excitement of constant busyness. We struggle to slow down and turn it all off, fearing we or our kids might miss something or get left behind in some way.
We know that slowing down is important. It gives us the opportunity to rest, reflect, and recharge. When we slow down, we have the opportunity to foster meaningful connections and embrace a healthier pace for our family. This month’s parent resources offer some valuable suggestions and encourage us to adopt a different mindset. When we make the decision to take a step back, recharge, and cultivate a deeper connection with each other and with God, we begin to live in the way we were created to live.
Take a few moments to check out this month’s Online Parenting Class if you haven’t already. Maybe share it with a friend. Read this month’s blog article titled “Finding Real Rest.” Carve out some time to go through the Toolbox Resource, A Family Guide to Building Rest, which is designed to provide you with some practical steps to take over the course of four weeks to begin building habits and laying a foundation for developing a healthier pace that can help you to live in the way rest that God intends for you to live. These resources speak to the challenges many of us face in the fast-paced world. It’s an invitation to reconsider our priorities, create intentional moments of connection, and lead our families in a way that aligns with our faith.
To read the blog article or watch the video, click on the links below.
We are in this together! Let us know if there is ever anything we can do for you or your family.
Praying for you as you lead at home,
Douglas Mageski
A Family Guide to Building Rhythms of Rest
WHAT IS IT?
Learning how to build rest into our daily rhythms often requires us to be more intentional about implementing some specific practices and disciplines into our daily lives. Although these practices and disciplines are no “magic pill’ that will undo years of learned “addiction to being busy” overnight, committing to a more sustainable cadence of rest will, over time, help us to build the new daily rhythms we desire and so desperately need.
A Family Guide to Building Rest is designed to provide you with some practical steps to take over the course of four weeks to begin building habits and laying a foundation for developing a healthier pace that can help you to live in the way rest that God intends for you to live. Please note that this resource is titled A Family Guide to Building Rest, not A Parent-Only Guide to Building Rest. This is as important as it is intentional. Our desire is for this guide to encourage both you and your entire family to begin implementing these practices and disciplines into your daily lives. As a parent, your example of intentionally choosing rest over an addiction to being busy will help your teenager(s) to rethink and reconsider the prioritization of slowing down, resting, and connecting with the Lord on a regular basis. With that in mind, tweak these habits and practices to fit your family context, and feel free to simplify steps or only use those your teenager(s) can do along with you. Make sure to set aside a few minutes at the end of each week to talk together about what you learned through these exercises.
January 21st:
Youth Grades 5-6 at 6-7 pm in school gym