CCYouth

This week we started a three-week study in Sunday School examining the topic of integrity. News headlines are filled with stories about noteworthy people who have failed to maintain personal integrity. But our teenagers don’t have to make choices that lead them down the wrong path; they can make a commitment to pursue, develop, and maintain personal integrity.

In this first week, our teenagers saw how Daniel 6:1-5 offers a roadmap for becoming people of integrity. We discovered that because of Daniel’s work ethic he was promoted and found favor with the king. We encouraged students to realize that they too can make choices and live with the same integrity that Daniel demonstrated. But it isn’t always easy to live with integrity; Daniel’s co-workers conspired against him and even attacked his faith.

During the week, as the opportunity arises, discuss with your teenager what it might have been like to have been Daniel. Here are some questions that could help launch your discussion:

• In what areas of your life do you struggle the most in maintaining your integrity?
• What are some ways you’ve grown in integrity? What choices or decisions or habits have helped you?
• What’s something you could start doing differently at your job, on a sports team, or at school that would communicate your integrity?

Talk with your teenager about how making a decision to be a person of integrity now will have a huge impact for a lifetime.

Also, just a couple of notes of things coming up with CCYouth:

1.    .e3 tonight at 7:30. – Help your student discern this is the place to be on Tuesday night as we seek to encourage and uplift your student. 

2.    February 17 – February 20 are the dates for our ski trip.  Be sure to put this on the calendar, cost is $177.57.  There should be some BIG news coming soon about the ski trip

3.    July 9 – 14 – Ccyouth high school (rising 9^th graders) will be going to Laguna Beach, Fl to the RYM conference (http://rymonline.org/page/senior-high-florida-conference-2012-week-2).  I will be sending out more information about this later this week.  Be looking for this info. 

4.    July 23-27 CCYouth middle school will be going to Ridge Haven Conference Center to the Calvary Presbytery Junior High Conference.  More information will follow regarding this also.

Exciting things happening at CCYouth!! Have a blessed week and if I can pray for you or your student please let me know.