youth parent meeting

Parenthood is never easy. Every single one is individual and unique. Even between brothers and sisters, between twins, or even between your own five fingers, each and everyone have their own personalities and functions.

The other day our church has a youth parent meeting which is held periodically, so parents can know what’s going on their kids’ church lives. Who are the pastors, the advisors, what do they do every time when they are out of your sight.

And there’s a quite big issue about that one of the parent suddenly found out that her kids are getting out the worship meeting earlier without anyone to inform her and also her kids has some problems on getting along with other kids. Parents and advisors give their own opinions and thoughts and feedbacks and even provide some way trying to help.

Some of them are, “their kids also encountered the problems before”, and that’s how some other parents try to think of a way to help out.

There’s one advisor’s feedback really caught my attention, “you don’t switch your second priority with the first priority, otherwise, you’ll lose both of them in the end”, truly, the first priority is your relationship with our Lord. Yes! Peer pressures always play a crucial role on coming to church or not specially for young people. But it’s not all.

The advisors’ parents also speak out for their kids, “the manpower is not that much, they volunteer their time and energy and everything trying hard to take care of their younger brothers and sisters, and it’s tough”

“There’s something that we can do and there’s something that we cannot do and there’s something that we all cannot do, only our Lord can do.” This is the combination between son and father’s feedbacks, pretty touched.

But in my own opinion, parents play the most important roles on their own kids’ faith lives. They’re watching your faith lives. Show and show use any way that you really concern about their church lives by talk to them, encourage them to take part of the church activities, volunteer your time to help out on their events, listen to your kids voices. Here what I meant listen to your kids are not just by physically use your full ears to hear, also observe with your own eyes, ears and hearts too.

No one or nowhere will or is the babysitters for your own kids.