Resources

Ways to Celebrate with School or Youth Groups

  • Develop resource guide on families for AYS leaders
  • Bring-your-parent-to-school day
  • Family field trip
  • School emphasizes family worship
  • School awards for family event participation
  • Provide a safe place/zone for youth to talk about family issues
  • Open your home to host youth/students away from home
  • Have youth/families go to different community service projects (regularly) and “Be the Sermon”
  • Children become “parents” for one day
  • Inter-generational connections: “big brother/sister”
  • Seminars on family/personal issues catered to youth
  • School as center of influence in community
  • Family celebration day in schools
  • Family curriculum in school
  • In youth SS, special program on family
  • Youth plan family worship service
  • AYS program on family
  • Pathfinders may participate in earning the newly revised Family Life Honor
  • Pathfinders in OshKosh may earn the Family Ministries Centennial Patch and get a centennial trading pin