Working with parents in your youth ministry
Youth leaders: are the parents of your youth group kids an important part of your ministry, or are they strangers to the church youth ministry? Worse yet, are they “the enemy,” always seeming to fight or complain about your ministry?
Jim Burns of the Legacy Youth Ministry Resources site suggests that lack of communication between youth leaders and parents is an extremely common, but entirely unnecessary, problem. Burns talks about how he went about incorporating parents into his own youth ministry, and why increased awareness of kids’ family environments can be a healthy thing, both for your ministry and for the families.
