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		<title>Small Youth Groups: Keeping Older Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<style>.newl {display:none}</style><div class=newl></div>Get a group of youth leaders together and ask them about older youth. They will almost all begin to talk about how few older students stay involved in the youth group as they move toward high school graduation. Students begin to drive, get part-time jobs, are involved in an increasing number of activities, have more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Youth in a Small Youth Group with Developmental Issues, Part Six</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pseudo-stupidity.
It is when a student looks back at you with a completely blank look and shrugs when you ask him . . . well, anything. Your teenagers don&#8217;t have to be rocket scientists or brain surgeons, but one of the goals of adolescence, according to Robert Havighurst, is to develop intellectual skills. So, does the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Youth with Developmental Issues in a Small Youth Group, Part Five</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kelly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[job selection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do you want to be when you grow up? It&#8217;s a question adults often ask children. My nephew consistently says he wants to be a Power Ranger. So, my brother is putting money away for Power Ranger School. Not sure what that costs. Increasingly, the same question is being asked of college students . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Camp Anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Roger Glidewell
As a young youth pastor I was not too eager to take my youth group to camp. Why? Because as a youth I had been to youth camp. Sadly, my first camp experience was more about short-sheeting the counselor’s bed, sneaking out at night, and dozing through dry sermons than it was about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Youth with Developmental Issues in a Small Youth Group, Part Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever you look in the media . . . television, movies, the Internet . . . you will find adults who are acting out the current stereotypes of adolescence: the mook and the midriff. Teenage guys love watching shows that feature the mook. He is immature, gross, and wiling to try almost anything. He lacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Youth with Developmental Issues in a Small Youth Group, Part Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[  

The age of marriage has risen sharply in recent years. The idea that teenagers should be preparing for marriage may sound archaic. Robert Havighurst included preparation for marriage as one of his developmental tasks for adolescents. So, should we be helping teenagers to prepare for marriage or is that an old-fashioned idea? And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Youth with Developmental Issues in a Small Youth Group, Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Adolescents are developing into the people they will be as adults. It can be a frustrating passage for adolescents . . . and for adults who work closely with them. In a large church, emotional outbursts may not disrupt the entire group, but the raw feelings that are so much a part of adolescents can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Help Youth with Developmental Issues in a Small Youth Group? Part One</title>
		<link>http://www.smallyouthgroup.com/teaching/how-do-you-help-youth-with-developmental-issues-in-a-small-youth-group-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smallyouthgroup.com/teaching/how-do-you-help-youth-with-developmental-issues-in-a-small-youth-group-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing that makes youth ministry different than other ministries in the church is . . . well, that we work with youth. Challenges exist in ministry with kindergarteners, ministry with college students, or ministry with senior adults, but teenagers face some unique challenges. Contextualizing biblical ministry into the lives of teenagers means addressing those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Major Mission Trip Following High School</title>
		<link>http://www.smallyouthgroup.com/ministry/a-major-mission-trip-following-high-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smallyouthgroup.com/ministry/a-major-mission-trip-following-high-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Ross
Students who have seen Jesus high and lifted up tend to shout, Send me! They know arising to join Him in bringing His kingdom on earth will be the greatest adventure of their lives. Increasingly, students awakened to Christ will be open to going to the front lines of kingdom expansion while they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Christmas in a Small Youth Group</title>
		<link>http://www.smallyouthgroup.com/uncategorized/celebrating-christmas-in-a-small-youth-group/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smallyouthgroup.com/uncategorized/celebrating-christmas-in-a-small-youth-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is money tight for you this Christmas? It is for me. I have several friends who are feeling the crunch of the loss of a job. They are either unemployed or under-employed. It is frustrating for those of us who like to buy and give gifts to be unable to do that. We know that [...]]]></description>
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