Harvest Baptist Church Youth Ministry.
Curtis Hendershot - Associate Pastor and Youth Director
We invite you to come be apart of the Navigator youth group at Harvest Baptist Church. We meet every Sunday morning from 9:45 - 10:30 AM for Bible study. Every Sunday evening from 5:25 - 5:55 PM we meet for Tea~N~Time. We have iced tea , hot chocolate, have a devotion, then have games that promote fellowship and unity for the youth group.
On the second Sunday of each month after the evening service, we have S.N.A.C. Time .(Sunday Night After Church) We have games in the gym exclusively for teenagers until 8:45 PM.
On the second Sunday of each month after the evening service, we have S.N.A.C. Time .(Sunday Night After Church) We have games in the gym exclusively for teenagers until 8:45 PM.
TEEN CORNER by Curtis Hendershot
February 2010
When Children Fail
Love is the key for turning failure into triumph. God gives the pattern for love, but we must apply this pattern to our hearts for love to be effective.
This pattern is to love our children unconditionally even when they fail. Colossians 3:21 says, Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Provoke means “to rouse to anger.” How often when children fail, parents growl, scream, condemn, fret, complain, and are always finding fault with the child, never being satisfied with what they do? Children are people too, with feelings, thoughts, desires, hopes, and faults, just like grown ups.
The reason parents are not to provoke their children to anger is so the child does not become discouraged, meaning dispirited or disheartened. There are many times a parent will have to break a child’s will, but a parent is not to break a child's spirit. Breaking their spirit can destroy their desire to do well or to lose their effort of wanting to please.
A parent can show unconditional love by giving their child support when they have failed. A child needs to know that even though they have failed, they are not alone in life, that there is someone who cares enough to join them in their difficulty.
Unconditional love can also be shown by giving them guidance after failure. A parent can help a child through a situation by showing how to make wise choices in responding to the consequences of the failure.
A child does not only need to know they are loved by their parent but that they are loved by their parent.