Impact Parents and Students Sunday Noon  

I often lead an event for parents and youth over the noon hour, "Restoring Heart Connections between Parents and Teenagers." After the meal I lead parents and teenagers into some powerful experiences together. Youth leaders tell me that they see family relationships altered even in visible ways during this session.

For the noon event, the church will need to provide care for grade schoolers. After they eat they can go to watch a video or play in traffic. The sharing between the parents and youth will be focused and intense, and the grade schoolers really need to be somewhere else.

For the noon event, you will want to invite a few adults who do not have teenagers. They can be “substitute parents” for those teenagers who attend without parents present. We don’t want anyone left out during the times when we put families in sharing mode with each other.

We often lose valuable time waiting for long lines to be served. Consider two lines or other plans for speeding serving. Also, ask the hostess to serve the very first ones to arrive. Waiting for all to arrive before serving guarantees long delays. (Almost every Sunday those first to arrive find the line not prepared).

It is helpful to have a few boxes of tissues in the room since some families will experience tears as they restore heart connections.

We will need one hour from the time the folk finish eating for this final session. I will not run long, since child care is an issue.

No video projection is needed for this session, but a simple microphone and a stool are.