It happened again last night. I’m so happy when it does because it gives me more respect for parents. A student I was taking home after small group told me that his mom had looked me up online and has gained a lot of trust and respect for me. I’ve written about this before, but [...]

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Nathan, a volunteer youth worker, took the challenge to start a weekly parent letter. He sent this note to me sharing how it’s enhanced his communication with parents. I also included his parent letter below. There wasn’t anything super like WOW in the responses, some were like: “my son takes this certain meds at certain [...]

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By sending a small group update to parents of my small group students each week: – I’ve built friendships with parents where there was not a connection at all – Parents are finally getting the information I want them to know (instead of just hoping students will remember to pass it along) – Parents feel [...]

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This is a weekly e-mail I send to parents of my life group students. I’m going to post them on this blog in case they might somehow be useful as a template for other youth workers or a good source to mine ideas from. Recap of this week Each night we focused on different verses, [...]

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This is a weekly e-mail I send to parents of my life group students. I’m going to post them on this blog in case they might somehow be useful as a template for other youth workers or a good source to mine ideas from. Parents, This week was kind of fun. We started out building [...]

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This is a weekly e-mail I’m going to send to parents of my life group students. I’m going to post them on this blog in case they might somehow be useful as a template for other youth workers or a good source to mine ideas from. Parents, We had a great small group this week! [...]

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Every year I have the good intention of impacting my students on the family level, not just in small groups. This year I’ve actually got some good ideas to make that happen. I’ve begun copying parents on e-mails I’ve sent to the entire group so they know specifics about what’s going on; not what my [...]

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