WF YM: Purposely Celebrate Rites of Passage
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Without purposely doing it, we have turned over rites of passages to the peer culture. Prom has turned into all kinds of other “adult” behaviors away from the presence of adults such as drinking, reckless use of vehicles and sex. While graduation still involves the family, right after the actual ceremony the new graduate takes off with his/her fellow new graduates to celebrate minus the adults again in the same reckless “adult” ways. Then they take off for beach week or whatever week is in your area to live like what they see on MTV’s Spring Break.
Only they have to live with the results. Your youth ministry is a great place to take this responsibility back. It is a responsibility.To help both the parents and the youth workers to take this back, we have compiled a downloadable resource with all sorts of ideas. You can find it on our website here.
