Dear Sir,
I am writing in response for your request for additional information in Block #3 of the accident report form. I put “trying to do the job alone” as the cause of my accident.
You said in your letter that I should explain more fully and I trust that the following details should be sufficient:
I’m a brick layer …
If students are to develop to their fullest potential as leaders, we must be willing to take five basic steps to assist them in the process:
Paraphrased for youth workers
Though I lecture with eloquence and use big words, but have not love, I am a discordant sound whom youth will not hear.
If I am extremely wise and have an answer for each youth’s problems, but do not listen, I am of little help.
If I give all I possess to aid the youth group …
A Mentor Helps a Protégé Reach Her or His Potential
Serve as a facilitator
Help them gain a vision of what should/could be accomplished and the personal benefits for them. Listen to their views and ask questions that help them gain insights. Share experiences that seem appropriate to the decisions they face but avoid giving advice unless specifically asked or …
Ordering
Telling the youth what he/she should do. For example, “Stop complaining that your Spanish teacher gave you a failing grade. Go into school tomorrow and talk to her about it.”
Threatening
Telling a youth to do something, “or else . . .” – suggesting there’s only one acceptable course of action. For example, “If you don’t start studying more, …
A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.
As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning …
How To Avoid Gridlock And Give Your Youth Ministry The Green Light
Sometimes in youth ministry it feels like being stuck at a red light with cars on the left and right. Nothing is moving! Frustrated drivers honk their horns! There’s no apparent way to move forward, nowhere to go. In every direction, for as far your eyes can see, …
The Fourth of July was coming up, and the nursery school teacher took the opportunity to tell her class about patriotism. “We live in a great country,” she said. “One of the things we should be happy is that, in this country, we are all free.”
One little boy came walking up to her from the back of the room. …
“Our souls were made to ‘mount up with wings’ and can never be satisfied with anything short of flying. Like the captive-born eagle that feels the instinct of flight, and chafes and frets at its imprisonment, hardly knowing what it longs for, so do our souls cry out for freedom. We can never rest on earth, and long to ‘fly …
“If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants.”
William Penn
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