The Coffee Hour — Set Apart to Serve: Connecting with Young People in Church

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How can we use conversation to connect with young people in church? Tim Oberdieck (Youth Director at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Seward, NE) and Annie Ryan (Director of Church Ministries at Bethlehem Lutheran in Delmar, NY) join Andy and Sarah to talk about how they each get to serve in their ministry contexts, how they see personal relationships making a difference when connecting with young people, how changes in social media and technology pave the way for investing in real-life and in-person leadership opportunities, how they see youth and adults in the church interacting in informal yet meaningful ways, and how youth perceive interaction with adults in the church.

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Faithfully Formed by Andy Wright – cph.org/faithfully-formed-the-lutheran-confessions-in-daily-life
My First Catechism from Concordia Publishing House – cph.org/p-34256-my-first-catechism
Luther’s Small Catechism for Kids from Concordia Publishing House – cph.org/luthers-small-catechism-for-kids

Christ’s church will continue until He returns, and that church will continue to need church workers.

Set Apart to Serve (SAS) is an initiative of the LCMS to recruit church workers. Together, we pray for workers for the Kingdom of God and encourage children to consider church work vocations.

Here are three easy ways you can participate in SAS:
1. Pray with your children for God to provide church workers.
2. Talk to your children about becoming church workers.
3. Thank God for the people who work in your congregation.

To learn more about Set Apart to Serve, visit lcms.org/set-apart-to-serve.

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Today’s episode of The Coffee Hour is underwritten in part by Concordia University, Irvine. You can learn more about Concordia University, Irvine at cui.edu.