Today’s groups are becoming more integrated with the rest of the church. In the 1990s and early 2000s, youth group culture relied on delivering fun and entertainment by any means possible: gross-out ...

The collapse of an older, activities-driven model has created room for a gospel-centered alternative. That’s what a high school senior told me during my first week as a youth minister nearly two ...

Christy Bazile, of Johnson City, likes to play air hockey, chat with friends and bow her head in prayer during a weekly youth program put on by Calvary’s Love Church in Johnson City. “We can have fun ...

I now go to church in which I haven’t been to since 2005.”Jeantia Berkeley, 16, said: “The thing I like most about this youth group is that you interact with people that are totally different than you ...

Even as a liberal, tree-hugging, laissez-faire parent, church mattered to me. My church youth group was the salvation of my teenage years, and I wanted my kids to have something similar to what I had ...