Resources for Encouraging Stewardship among Young People

We offer two areas of free resource for stewardship activities with young people. In addition, CPAS and Christian Aid also provide resources.

Episodes

"Episodes" contains 6 different sessions for use with youth groups and young people to explore a range of stewardship issues.
The sessions use an active learning process – where having successfully completed a challenge, teams then reflect on the experience, and finally consider a bible passage in the light of the challenge, and its application to Christian stewardship.

The sessions cover a range of issues including :

Talents and spiritual gifts,
Working for the common good rather than individual goals,
Using our resources wisely,
Generosity.

In addition, these activities also encourage young people to work effectively together as a team, and support building communication skills, and identifying, agreeing and implementing strategies to reach a goal. It can be downloaded for free by clicking here.

Teen Talk

The Giving in Grace website includes "Teen Talk" - a range of resources for teenagers which aims to enable teenagers to begin to address the question of giving in a way that is meaningful to their world as they experience it now. The resources will help teenagers to develop formative and sustainable habits that will promote generosity as they get older.

The resources offered are as follows:

Introduction for youth leaders outlining how to use the TeenTalk resources.
Session 1: Lifestyle matters, exploring issues of personal choice that young people have to make and the advertising and consumer pressures that makes these decisions so complex and difficult.
Session 2: Ethical matters, raising some of the serious issues around fair trade, poverty and international debt.
Session 3: Giving matters, focusing on the decision to give as a lifestyle choice and the value of forming early habits of generosity.
Session 4: So What? : A final session encouraging young people to make their own response and do something about what they have been discussing.

STEWARDSHIP & YOUNG PEOPLE

Our teenagers are a part of our church and it is appropriate that stewardship teaching should be extended to them as well as to the adult congregation.

However, the way in which this is done must be sensitive to their needs. As young people they experience a significant amount of advertising pressure and a great deal of peer pressure. The range of disposable income that they have varies tremendously.

In addition the youth groups they attend range from bible based study groups attended by the children of committed church going parents to young people at open youth clubs who never attend church at all.

The Episodes and Teen Talk resources offered here seek to provide relevant, engaging activities that help young people consider wider issues of stewardship.