For years we’ve been bothered by the reality that our students are largely Bible ignorant. Most of them don’t read the Bible regularly or even have a strong grasp of how to navigate it’s pages. Part of this is is due to the fact that students don’t read much of anything in our culture and part of this is probably due to the fact that we as parents and youth workers are dropping the ball.
Our student ministry team is making an effort to think creatively on how we can get students into the Bible. Our first idea is embedded in our Wakes teaching series.
Wakes Bumper from LifeLine Student Ministries on Vimeo.
This is a four week teaching series on influence from the book of Acts. As part of the experience we invited our volunteers and students to read through the book of Acts together. We sent this bookmark home with each student and built this website: lifelinestudents.org/wakes. We built the website because students usually only read physical books if there is a grade dependent on it but they will often read voluntarily on their phones.
The beautiful thing about this project is that it cost us basically nothing–only printing and shipping for the bookmarks. Through a couple announcement videos and encouraging students to post to instagram and twitter with #lifelinewakes we’ve created a little buzz. So far so good. We’d love to hear your ideas on how you are getting students into the Bible.
Wakes – Acts Reading Plan from LifeLine Student Ministries on Vimeo.