Cool Enough?

As youthworkers, we often wonder if our cool factor is sufficient enough to connect with kids. We might be double or triple their age, might be giving the best hours of the day to work and family or … simply have doubts as to whether we have what it takes.

But consider two irrefutable truths:

1. Most students want what we have to offer
2. All students need what we have to offer 

Their lives are full of people squeezing them; needy people whose emotional stability resembles a fireworks show gone bad. And it hurts. The pain of betrayal runs rampant among our students as their relational circles become more shallow, fragmented and mean.

Now re-examine what you have to offer. You may be the only stable person in their lives, the last authentic life-giver. It’s all about direction. When we intersect with their lives, the very fact that God’s energy flows from us to them is qualitatively different from most of their relationships.