Josh GriffinMore PostsCaring for the Needs of Your Students

Journaled a little bit last week about pastoral care – how we’re called to care for the wounds of the students that have been entrusted to us as youth workers. In the setup we’re launching soon, we’ll have a 3-pronged approach to helping students with the hurts in their lives. Here’s the breakdown:

Small group leaders
One of the most effective groups of pastoral care volunteers in our ministry are the small group leaders. Students that have taken a step beyond the entry-level program of the weekend service come to experience being known, loved and cared for. When they have a problem (or a celebration, for that matter) they most often turn to “their pastor” – a title we’ve quick to award these amazing leaders. The majority (that part isn’t represented well in my Moleskin drawing above, sorry) of struggles and issues are addressed personally and directly here.

Pastoral care volunteers
This is the area where we have a great opportunity to build, we don’t have this yet so I’m talking in more ideal than real. What if there was a team of adults who pray for, counsel, guide and respond to students in need? If a student doesn’t have a small group leader, or needs more than what that leader can provide, we have a response. When a student is looking for prayer on the weekend, there’s a place for them to go. When they finally get up the nerve to call or Facebook, someone is quick to respond back.

The Landing (check out this program in detail here)
On the other end of the spectrum there are kids dealing with major life issues perhaps considered to be “above the pay grade” of the care team or their small group leader. And while we hope leaders know they can take on anything, we want to offer a program with specifically trained and called volunteers who’ve “seen it all” and can help coach and love these students through recovery. That’s where The Landing comes into play – a Celebrate Recovery for students that is available every Friday night of the year.

How do you care for students? Just thinking out loud today – hoping it triggers and idea to care for your students, too!

JG

TagsComments 1 View Comments August 17, 2010

Josh GriffinMore PostsCelebrate Recovery for Students

I’m excited to announce that in January we’re starting a new program to help the hurting students at Saddleback. It is called The Landing and it is a year-long version of Celebrate Recovery program. Our church leadership has been wanting to run a parallel program to Celebrate Recovery for adults and children. This is it! Life Hurts, God Heals is still a great option as well – you can check that out right here as well. Either way, stop for a minute today and think about the hurting kids in your ministry and what you can do to serve them.

The Landing is an all-new, year-long program that helps teenagers travel the path to freedom, healing, and wholeness. This dynamic resource mirrors the content presented in the successful Celebrate Recovery program. The lessons deliver hope-filled truths and real-life strategies for giving young people the tools for making wise choices and developing healthy patterns for living.

Use The Landing as a way to minister to teenagers in your church and community who are struggling with life-controlling hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Or simply implement the curriculum in your small groups, Sunday school classes, or midweek program to give all of your students insights on following the path to freedom. This resource will complement your efforts if you church is using the Celebrate Recovery ministry for adults and the Celebration Station content for kids–but it also flourishes as a stand alone option!

JG

TagsComments 4 View Comments August 10, 2010

Josh GriffinMore PostsLife’s Healing Choices Campaign This Fall

This fall we’re headed into a church-wide campaign called Life’s Healing Choices, based on Beatitudes. The series will really help focus adults into Celebrate Recovery and students into Life Hurts, God Heals groups. You can join us, too! Hit the link for more details:

Did you know that Jesus’ Beatitudes are one of the most effective teachings on the topic of personal spiritual healing and renewal in the Bible?

Now those teachings are available this fall in a brand-new, 8-week church-wide spiritual growth campaign called Life’s Healing Choices and the experience will transform your church. Join Rick Warren and Saddleback Church for this 8-week journey on the Biblical road to total spiritual renewal for every member of your community.

JG

TagsComments Add Comment July 1, 2009

Josh GriffinMore PostsCelebrate Recovery Podcast Drop In

Today I got to drop into the Celebrate Recovery Podcast with Johnny Baker – I was the pastor on call today and happened to be walking by when I saw them recording their latest show. I talked about Life Hurts, God Heals – which is a recovery program for students based on many of the same principles and steps. If you haven’t checked out Celebrate Recovery, hit up their new website and see if it might be something to help your church with people dealing with addicitions.

JG

TagsComments Add Comment May 28, 2008

Josh GriffinMore PostsGoogle Searches That Lead Here: Volume 42

Here’s a few of the 341 different phrases people used in Google to find the blog this past week. Some of them are crazy!

  • christmas day service saddleback church
  • youth ministry lemonade
  • when was jesus born
  • youth group christmas games
  • atmosphere in your home
  • evil empire of western civilization
  • mini sturgis ky
  • a poem with these word parents, presents, powerplay, xbox360 and games
  • astrovision cable in panama
  • avocado.intranet
  • celebrate recovery with the men of valor ipod
  • christmas responsive reading
  • christmas skits labor of pain
  • christmas special walmart
  • cincinnati sci-fi lewis waif
  • colts popcorn
  • creflo ministry organization chart
  • dane cook tsa
  • dangerous surrender
  • david ulrich saddleback church
  • desperate housewives preview for 1/06/2007
  • dinner time games to play
  • do people’s eyes dilate when they are lying
  • dog chewed gamestop gift cards
  • dwight schrute sayings thirty percent of all attacks
  • funny speech for a staff christmas lunch
  • goober peanut butter
  • great park church
  • great talks for youth ministry
  • heather mckee deal or no deal winnings
  • i can’t believe you actually picked me
  • insight into a halo loving guitar rocking shy confident guy
  • josh griffin water conservation baptism
  • justin guarini blog bay
  • kabahla podcasts
  • koulots
  • let’s be the revolution that lives for holding nothing back
  • maranatha baptist bible college legalism
  • moleskin journal
  • porcupinetaxi
  • rockies championship markdowns
  • sample 2 year plan youth ministry
  • snowglobe glycerin to water ratio
  • unicorns, noah
  • why did doug lockhart leaving zondervan

JG

TagsComments Add Comment December 28, 2007

Josh GriffinMore PostsGoogle Searches That Lead Here: Volume 37

Here’s a roundup of some of the more interesting search phrases that people actually used to find this blog in the past 7 days. I kid you not:

  • robot costumes
  • free razors
  • volcom wallet
  • kono’s cafe
  • youversion alpha
  • christian augliera
  • endless summerfest saddleback
  • how to count church attendance
  • my eharmony profile
  • swimming in the shallow end
  • wasabi peanut
  • waterproof bible
  • 2007 espn monday night football sucks
  • 2007 tony of vol church emails contact in indian
  • 30 days to livea new kind of youth ministry
  • benefits of the small church vs. the megachurch
  • bill daily saddleback church
  • blog midlife crisis jesus faith
  • book reviews the dip
  • brandon g. from california who died in a surf accident
  • church gimmicks
  • corsicana mattress review
  • create a tv showdon’t believe in marriage counseling
  • erwin mcmanus mosaic church miami pray mia
  • espn monday night football awful or terrible or horrible or sucks or blows
  • if you don’t believe in god what happensis chris treece the anti christ
  • john baker celebrate recovery
  • love of my life joshrockharbor church dance
  • roscoe’s chicken and waffles in alpharetta, georgia
  • snausages
  • software “send it to my screen” 24 tv show
  • sunday morning worship jokes
  • the book your church doesn’t want you to read
  • we wish you a merry christmas popcorn tin with puzzle
  • what happens if you get a star on a tootsie pop
  • what is it called when you have no arms or legs
  • youtube ryan johnson hits bird

JG



TagsComments Add Comment August 31, 2007

Josh GriffinMore PostsBook Review: Life’s Healing Choices

Just about done with the new book by Celebrate Recovery author John Baker. Managed to snag a copy of it up at the Summit this week. It is going to be a very popular book, especially for those in the most intense darkness – there’s some powerful testimonies of people in all sorts of situation that found healing and recovery, and included are all of the principles that John speaks about every week at the CR meetings.

My favorite part of the book, one that he keeps hitting on every few pages, is life-changing salvation from Jesus Christ. So often people question the “higher power” of AA and programs that offer recovery, but this book will leave no doubts in the minds of the readers: true recovery is incomplete without Christ.

And that’s a message we all need to remember.

JG



TagsComments Add Comment August 17, 2007

Josh GriffinMore PostsCelebrate Recovery Summit


These people are excited! What an exciting year for Celebrate Recovery and the Summit (going on right now on Saddleback’s campus). They’ve got a new book, and amazing new Bible, a brand new podcast and a whole bunch of blogs. So awesome!

JG


TagsComments Add Comment August 16, 2007

Josh GriffinMore PostsPanera Bread Bummer

Just finished lunch at Panera Bread with Johnny Baker from Celebrate Recovery.

this posted edited at the request of Panera Bread

JG



TagsComments Add Comment April 18, 2007

Josh GriffinMore PostsPassion Service This Weekend

Had a really fun Passion venue weekend at Saddleback, we’ve got some donuts and coffee greeting people as they enter, it’s starting to turn the tent into a somewhat welcoming environment. Pastor Tom spoke this weekend on Psalm 23 – a great challenge to get rest from our busy lives and go deeper in our walk with God. Good stuff – had a testimony from the Celebrate Recovery Summit, too, and I managed to work in my “Shrimp Grits” story in the introduction. Fun!

In the middle of the message, they had scheduled a song and we instead opted for some background music while everyone rewrote Psalm 23 in their own words, shaped by the context of their personal lives. I think the temptation with Scripture is to always read it in the general, and never see it intersecting with real life. This particular idea was one I experienced at Granger back in 2004. A powerful exercise …

Getting ready for the big SHAPE series this Fall. Look out!

JG

TagsComments Add Comment August 20, 2006
Previous 2 of 3 1 3 Next