I did a 5-minute promo to our High School Ministry volunteer small group leaders this week. I talked for about 5 minutes describing The Landing and why hurting students would need to go. I also explained the packet which contained the items below: 1. A snazzy envelope with our bookmark printed on it along with [...]

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I put together a journal for the journaling station at The Landing the week we did lesson 39. The lesson does not come with small group questions because the students are expected to spend the entire time doing the prayer stations. These journals also served as a source of questions small groups could work through [...]

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Download the free PDF by clicking here Here’s the handout I gave parents at this year’s Meet & Greet for Life Groups. This year I added a requirement that students need to respect their parents to be part of my Life Group. It seems a lot of the counseling I do with families comes down [...]

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Even though I’m a volunteer, I started a tradition of meeting with parents of students who attend my small group Bible study. It’s great! Parents typically don’t contact me because they don’t want to intrude on their kid’s world. I don’t contact parents because I think they’re busy. Since I started this last year, my [...]

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Tonight at The Landing, we played a trivia game to illustrate the stress in our lives brought on by things we won’t admit to. It worked out pretty well. Supplies needed: – Random props of various sizes (we had about 50 – ranging from a straw to a huge stuffed animal to cinder blocks) – [...]

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Tonight we’re having a training for camp counselors of our upcoming high school ministry summer camp. Since I’m the director or The Landing (our recovery program for Jr High and High School students), I’ve been asked to train the counselors about: 1. Which students should attend The Landing 2. How to get to know students [...]

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I taught this lesson to my small group guys tonight. It seemed to hit home pretty well. — Subscriptions I have: – Gym membership – a smoking great deal at $50/year – Disneyland – $30/month – Cell phone – $94/month These are all subscriptions I have. I can cancel them at any time. I might [...]

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If you’re using The Landing program at your church, you may be interested in this handout I made for lesson 14. Click here to download it as a PDF document

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Last week we did a night where students owned The Landing. It was a praise and worship night with student poetry and testimonies mixed in between the songs. Students also ran the games, etc. We did not do our regular lesson. The adults did the same thing for large group time. We will pick up [...]

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This was a short game we put together for The Landing last Friday. It’s not an original idea, but it was a fun way to get the students involved. Students ran the entire service. The setup for this game was that the computer was playing with the students. The student on stage was kind of [...]

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