Take our Assessment

We've created a short assessment tool that will help you determine what resource offerings that we’ve made will help your parish the most during this time. Before you do anything, take the assessment.

Basecamp

Basecamp is a show created by youth ministers for youth ministers. We discuss the mountains and messes of ministry, sharing best practices, and encouraging each other. Get familiar with our previous episodes, listed by topic, and mark your calendar for our monthly show so you can join us live.

The Frontier

Prepare your team and your ministry for the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead as we navigate a new frontier of youth ministry. The Frontier is a virtual conference the features impactful keynotes, practical breakouts, and a lot of inspiration. It can be done anytime and anywhere with your entire team. Discounted registration is available for subscribing parishes.

Implement Resources and Reach Teens

We've created five different ministry models that will help you accompany teenagers, regardless of your current situation. Use your results from the assessment to choose the model that is best for your parish. (Didn’t take the assessment yet? Take it now.)

The five models we’ve created to help walk with you as you walk with teens are:

“New Normal” Ministry

We’ve been working over the summer to adapt our Life Night, Edge Night, and Purpose resources to accommodate ministry in the “new normal.” You can use all of our recent resources in a live ministry setting with social distancing or a digital meet up that you host. Whatever your “new normal” looks like, our Life Support, Edge Support, and Purpose resources are ready for it.

The Mix: Life Teen’s Weekly Digital Gathering

The Mix is Life Teen’s new, “virtual” gathering for your parish community’s teens and core. With a new video offered each Sunday, The Mix will equip parishes with a toolbox of content and resources to plug in any day of the week and any time they choose. Bible studies, prayer experiences, interviews, interactive games, and more will be available to subscribing parishes to supplement all the additional resources Life Teen currently provides. The Mix is one more way for your teens to connect with faith in fun and unpredictable ways.

Beyond the Liturgy

Suppose your parish can meet for Mass or other liturgical celebrations but cannot hold ministry outside of those liturgical experiences. In that case, our hybrid liturgical model will help you reach teens through experiences that happen immediately following Mass and are liturgically centered. We’ve compiled outlines for XLTs, a reconciliation service, and a period of extended worship, along with several talk outlines that will help you continue to reach teens, even if you have other restrictions in place.

Core Team Led Small Groups

If you have a group of adults that can meet with teenagers in small groups, we have resources to empower them to help form disciples. We offer three distinct small group models - Summit, Unleashed, and our newest offering, Connect Groups - that provide outlines, supplementary video, and small group questions to help core members accompany teenagers in small group settings. Additionally, our Connect Groups feature a seven-day prayer plan for whoever facilitates the group, helping to keep your leaders rooted in prayer and formed as disciples as they help form young people.

Micro-Youth Groups

We believe that there is an excellent opportunity to connect parents and teenagers in the home during this time. Our Connect Group resource is available for parents to use in hosting groups of their teenagers’ friends as a small group in the home. We’ve also adapted this resource for a teen to use as a peer leader, allowing teens to gather their friends (digitally or in-person) to grow as disciples together.