Try offering a JAM (Jesus And Me) time periodically during your youth group or every week, for that matter. Keep spiral bound notebooks with your students' names handy at all times--during youth groups, retreats, etc. This is a guided quiet time experience where you have your group break out into groups (of one!) to just journal, pray and worship God quietly on their own.
You can give them questions to answer, Bible verses to look up, a free writing suggestion and so on. You may want to start small--say five minutes or so--but it may catch on. My students often crave more and those who don't and can't sit still will benefit from learning how to sit still for a few moments out of their day! Your adult leaders can help keep students on task. I would suggest that they don't journal during this time but spend this time praying over your students. (They should be having their own daily quiet times anyhow!)
The hope is that being exposed to some quiet JAM times in our youth ministries, this would develop into a daily habit in their lives. Not to mention the power of gudiing your leaders to pray over each student by name.
Consumed is all about equipping students and their youth ministries for greater impact in God's Kingdom. I have a huge desire to see you change the world for Jesus Christ, and I am tired of seeing ineffective us-4-no-more youth groups. It’s time to create a movement impacting our schools and communities! Thanks for stopping by, and let me know if there is anything I can do. Andrew
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