Lead a Weblog for Young Adult Leaders

Break the norm this holiday season. Instead of scratching your head about what to buy family members or friends who already have everything, consider packing a shoe box for a needy child in their honor through Operation Christmas Child. Millions of children around the world are waiting to hear the good news of God’s love, and simple gift-filled shoeboxes are breaking down barriers in places where the gospel has previously been blocked. Do something a little different this Christmas—go shopping for shoe boxes and change a child’s life for eternity.

A teacher who lectures is undoubtedly very prepared, very educated, and very willing to dispense information. But real learning and real life transformation comes when a teacher’s information ceases to be their information and starts to be someone else’s information. And that doesn’t happen through lecture. It happens through discovery.

All of God’s creation is important to him, down to the last sparrow and blade of grass. The story of mankind in the Bible begins in a garden and ends in a restored garden. The first commission to God’s people is found in the opening chapters of Genesis, which exhorts us to be caretakers of the gift of creation. But why?

This is one of the bigger issues in our churches today—the tendency for young adults ages 18 to 22 to completely drop out of church. In fact, two out of every three church attenders leave the church at some point in this time period. Some of them never come back.