Youth Archives

‘You cannot love if your heart is not soft’

Posted April 10th, 2022

Alla Soroka is a 2017 International Peacemaker living and working in Odessa, Ukraine. She’s clearly devoted to her work with at-risk teenagers — even those who are beyond being considered at-risk and are incarcerated.

Beginning on Ash Wednesday, Journey to the Cross devotional series returns to d365.org website, app

Posted March 1st, 2022

Journey to the Cross, the devotional series for Lent, returns to the devotional website and app d365.org beginning on Ash Wednesday, March 2, and continuing through Easter Sunday on April 17.

1001 ‘New Way’ podcast opens new season

Posted October 14th, 2021

“I spent a lot of time pushing away the call that I had, even as a teenager and child. My grandmother told me I cut up her Bible when I was 3 years old. I think she wouldn’t let us watch ‘Hee Haw’ or ‘Love Boat.’”

Breaking the chains of poverty

Posted October 13th, 2021

Roland is now in high school and is among a group of student panelists presenting on the topic “Social Economic Reforms for Sustainability,” organized by the National Christian Youth Fellowship. The invitation to be a panelist is merited by outstanding academic achievement and each of the panelists performed exceptionally on this day.

Flyaway Books’ latest board book offers a modern retelling of the Parable of the Lost Sheep

Posted August 31st, 2021

Flyaway Books is proud to announce the release of “100 Sheep: A Counting Parable,” by co-authors Amy-Jill Levine and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and illustrator Margaux Meganck.

New picture book from Flyaway Books explores the history of the peace symbol

Posted August 31st, 2021

Flyaway Books has released its latest children’s book, “Three Lines in a Circle: The Exciting Life of the Peace Symbol,” by Michael G. Long and illustrator Carlos Vélez.

Vandals tore down their flags, so this church made them bigger

Posted July 23rd, 2021

Below Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church’s name on the church’s sign, it says, “Established 1857 by Abolitionists.”

Calling all heroes!

Posted July 2nd, 2021

For each of the past few years, a trio of Korean- and English-language congregations of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Community Church of Seattle with campuses in and around Seattle has hosted a communitywide Vacation Bible School called Toon Town. This summer, on the heels of the long and difficult coronavirus pandemic, Community Church of Seattle invites congregations across the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to join for an online VBS it’s calling Hero Academy.

New resources focus on youth mental health

Posted June 24th, 2021

Two new resources focused on the mental health and wellness of youth are now available for free download from the Office of Presbyterian Youth and Triennium.

Building faith connections that last a lifetime

Posted May 20th, 2021

In the late 1980s, when I was serving as a youth group leader in my local congregation, my pastor invited me to attend a gathering that I recognize now as the early stages of a new movement for youth in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Even as I was being drawn headlong into the phenomenon that was — and still is — the Presbyterian Youth Triennium, I had no idea how the lens through which I viewed the PC(USA) was about to change.