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When you're face-to-face with hurting teens

I must admit this is an area that's not one of my strongest so I love learning from people who's passion is in this area.  I can have a tendancy to respond too quickly when i'm face-to-face with a "hurting student" so i'm soaking all this free training in. I loved these words of wisdom from Megan Hutchinson.  (Megan's one the high school ministers at Saddleback and wrote the popular "life hurt...God heals" which we used last semester as a midweek study for teens who needed to work through some hurting times in their life.) In an article HERE, she wrote: 3 Valuable Lessons when you're face-to-face with a HURTING student: 1. Sometimes the best experience of church is away from the church itself; just you as a youth worker, alongside a hurting student, over a cup of java. 2. Sometimes the greatest prayer is a silent one when you haven't a clue what to say next. Trusting that God will show up. 3. Students need tangible, practical and often, ongoing care. Offering Life Hurts-God Heals gives hurting students life-long tools to help them through their pain. To check out this curriculum click here: (www.simplyyouthministry.com) 6 words every HURTING student needs to hear: 1. I believe in you 2. I am here for you 3. You are going to get through this 4. You can make good choices 5. You are talented, gifted, rare 6. You matter