When the world feels out of control, when school shootings are a tragic norm, when national tragedies activate our stress, terror and trauma, we will provide a ministry of presence, spiritual care and resilience.
Our cultural attitude toward adolescents can foster, or inhibit, their movement toward becoming more integrated as individuals and as members of a larger society, welcoming them in to participate in how we shape our world...
Music minister Matt Meyer has a song list of his favorite songs for community singing, but couldn't find recordings for a number of them. So he got together with some friends and made these!
Having agency, feeling emboldened, being empowered, sustaining hope: these are the ways teens can process the national traumas of things like school shootings. Invite them into discernment, action, and reflection with you.
