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Scott Thompson on Youth Ministry

Tags: C.S. Lewis, counseling, Duvall (WA), helicopter parents, high school, homesickness, ice blocking, junior high, kingdom of noise, parenting, Redemption Church, summer camp, teenagers, youth, youth ministry

Scott Thompson, the youth pastor at Redemption Church in Duvall (WA), reveals his insights into running a youth ministry. We discuss the daily operations of a youth ministry as well as some of the challenges facing junior high and high school students and how a congregation in a rural Washington town attempts to attract and retain students in religious life. This is the third in our series of interviews looking at Redemption Church and includes a special guest appearance by the host’s eleven year old son.

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Byron Johnson on Religion & Delinquency

Tags: abstinence programs, Amachi, Boston Miracle, church attendance, crime, delinquency, drug use, public policy, sexual promiscuity, teenagers

What effect does religious participation have on reducing teenage delinquency? Sociologist Byron Johnson, director of Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion, reviews a number of studies on how church attendance leads to lower levels of deleterious behavior among teens and young adults. (To download, right click on the button to the right and choose “save target as….”)

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