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Reaching Out

Reaching out to others in your community is an excellent way to start your battle and further His Word. These stories show what others have done in their communities and offer suggestions on how you can get started saving your generation today.

 


Skillet raises the battle cry

If you think that bands write music simply to make money, “make it big”, and have fun, then you’ve got another thing coming when you meet Skillet’s John Cooper, Korey Cooper, Ben Kasica, and Lori Peters.

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From Discouraging Disability to Developing Leader: An Honor Academy Success Story From the Frontline

With knife in hand, Kyle Phelps was at rock bottom and ready to take his own life in the spring of 2004. A freshman in college, he was having a hard time adjusting to life on his own and he hadn’t been able to make any close friends at school. He was flunking all his courses and felt helpless to change.

However, before he went through with his suicide, it suddenly struck him that he didn’t know what would come next.

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Understanding Cutting

Self-injury affects as many as one in five young people in America. It is a complex issue that is difficult to understand. Although it can seem overwhelming, there is hope in Christ to escape this cycle of self-defeat! You can find the freedom you’ve been longing for, or you can help the young people in your life break their addiction. Dive into these resources to get started.

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Children of broken promises:
The Life-long Impact of divorce

The long-term effects of divorce on young people.

Divorce is one of the most traumatic events that a young person can go through. It leaves them wounded and scarred long after their parents separate. Every year, one million kids experience the anguish of divorce. For them, happily ever after is only a fairy tale.

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Take Back Your Generation

To us, a whole generation may seem just as big as the nation of Israel seemed to David. He was willing to go for it and we must be, too. It doesn’t matter what the past looks like or even who thinks we can do it. God wants us to be leaders in our generation just like this king was in his.

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How to Mentor Teens

On a regular basis, this generation of young people is faced with things we could have never anticipated. The increasing level of influence society has on them is continually justified while the teenagers of today are slipping farther and farther out of the grasp of the church. It’s going to take concerned adults like you to rescue them from the clutches of the enemy that is luring them away ever so subtly.

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depression and teens

1 in 10 teens are seriously depressed.

If you do the math, that’s 2.2 million young people. What exactly is depression? Youth workers and caring adults can be strong counterweights--if they know how to help. Read this article to find out how you can respond.

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FRIENDSHIP FACTOR

The key ingredient to church (and youth group!) growth

Those who attended church with a best friend are more likely to have better attendance, feel cared for, and worship and pray everyday.

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SELF INJURY: WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP

Jose Cano, Counselor, Teen Mania's Honor Academy

PART 3: FOR THOSE DESIRING TO HELP