Intentionally accompanying your teenager in faith

Faith in your teens will help to inspire parents as they seek to develop Christian faith in their teenagers.  With the help of local voices, it is designed to enable any Presbyterian congregation to create a safe space for conversation between parents about how they raise and walk in faith with their teens, becoming more confident disciple makers.

It can be run by anyone in any congregation over one or two informal sessions, or can be adapted to work best for your situation. There are introductory exercises, two video clips and some optional discussion questions to help parents have a relaxed, positive and open discussion.  The video clips feature reflections from experienced parents, a minister and a psychologist with expertise in adolescence:

Clip 1 – Engaging with your teenager.  Recognising the challenges of adolescent development and considering how to keep relationship and communication strong in the teenage years.

Clip 2 – Walking with your teenager. Considering how parents can intentionally develop faith in their young people in the context of day to day family life.

There are two PDF files in the download box to the right – one is guidance on how to use the material and the other has some optional take home questions for parents to think about which relate to each of the two sections.  There is also a link to download the video file.

If you want to look for some follow-up material to use with or recommend to parents, you could download our booklet Resources for Christian families, look at our Family-friendly Youth Ministry resource, look at some of the resource reviews in the Congregational Life resource section. We also have a new PCI Family Ministry Facebook page for parents or anyone who wants to support family ministry in their congregation.