They could be a positive role model, showing teens that parents do care and are involved, in a healthy way, in the life of their children
Parents are normally very reliable. The bottom line is that they want to help. After all, they help with sport teams, school activities and community events. Why wouldn’t they be able to help with church stuff? So having some extra bodies around to help set up, clean up, serve and be there with the students was something I could trust they would do really well. I could rely on them.
By having parents involved, it provides an extra avenue of promotion because they will be telling all their friends who have teens that they are coming and encourage them to come.
It takes the burden off of you to do one more thing. For example, providing food for an event. If parents help out and serve in this capacity, you can focus on other details of the event rather than worrying about every little detail.
The benefits of having parents involved are there. It benefitted me years ago and it still benefits me today. The perfect example was the Super Bash ’12 that we did (I’ll be blogging about next week). Without their help and support, our Super Bash would have never been as successful as it was. And when I decided to really utilize them in my ministry, that became a GAME CHANGER for me.
What about you?
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