Theologians and practitioners discuss the importance of supporting and walking with LGBTQ+ youth.
Ministry to LGBTQ+ Youth
Here you will find tools to help youth leaders accompany, work with, and support LGBTQ+ young people.
These resources include pastoral care approaches and programming tips for this particular subset of youth.
Training Modules
Theologians, psychologists and youth leaders discuss the importance of cultivating resilience in youth.
Theologians, philosophers, and pastors examine the importance of pastoral care to youth and their families as part of a robust youth ministry.
Leading theologians and pastors explore the importance of creating an environment where youth can develop trusted relationships with peers and adults, and the value of nurturing communities.
Curricular and Sample Materials
A multi-sensory lesson to demonstrate the heightened awareness one acquires in experiencing the every day trials of life.
This lesson will ask youth to look at current injustices in the world and consider how God may be working in the midst of those injustices.
In this lesson, youth will learn how faith can help them to deal with anxiety.
This lesson will focus on how sharing your biggest concerns with God can lead to a sense of hope.
This lesson asks youth to focus on the self that God gave them.
This lesson will explore creating a welcoming environments for teens of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
In this lesson, youth will learn that hospitality is not just about welcoming those they know, but about creating space for Christ.
Using Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. as examples, this meditation focuses on how Jesus calls use holy resistance, just as Christ did.
This meditation lifts up Martin Luther King, Jr. as an example of loving your enemies.
In this lesson, youth will be encouraged to look beyond themselves to the need in the world and Jesus’ call to love your neighbor.
This lesson focuses on teaching young people how to give and receive spiritual support.
Articles and Readings
A collection of books, websites and podcasts compiled by the Rev. Heidi Carrington Heath to support your work with LGBTQ+ youth.
Best Practice Videos
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