PARENTS of High School and Middle School students,

You should have received an email from me the other day reminding you that this Saturday is our first not-so-big meeting this year.  We’re going to conduct these meetings a little differently than we’ve done in the past.  My plan for our four not-so-big meetings is to split up parents and teens so that we can spend time equipping parents of teens to do the hard work of passing on the gospel to the next generation.  I’ll be talking to parents (with assists from the other pastors) while Uncle Vinny spends time with the teens.  Here is a sneak preview of the topics I have planned:

• 09/20/08 — BACK TO BASICS: Parenting Objectives for the Teen Years
• 10/18/08 — A HEART FOR GOD: Internalizing the Gospel
• 11/15/08 — SIBLING REVELRY: When Families Rejoice to be Together
• 01/17/09 — SPARE THE iPOD, SPOIL THE CHILD: Discipline for Teenagers
• 02/21/09 — MEDIA MATTERS: The Upside of the Download.

You may know that typically, not-so-big meetings are limited to High School students and their parents.  This is still the case for students, but I want to invite all parents of teens to attend, even if you only have a kid in Middle School.  I think you will benefit from these meetings and I want to encourage you to attend, even if you are leaving your Middle School kid at home.

We’ll be starting the meeting at the usual time: 6:30, although if you would like to come early for Pizza & Ping-Pong, that begins at 5:15.  As always, these meetings will be recorded in case you wish to download them for review later.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Categories: Thursday Thoughts For Parents