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These last few years have been full of ups and downs for all of us. Between the pandemic, unstable church attendance and crazy social and political issues, staying motivated and focused on our purpose as student ministry workers has been hard at times. We have had to navigate Zoom youth group, masks, social distancing, the return to normal services and the rise in the anxiety of our students. The only real constant in student ministry is change, but we have had a crazy time of it ...
If we aren’t careful, our hearts can be focused on the completely wrong things during the holidays. It doesn’t matter if we are 14 or 45. We tend to reflect our culture, which has consistently moved away from a Christ-focused Christmas. We can turn on “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and hear Linus share Luke’s account of Christmas, but that doesn’t make up for all the other junk we focus...