2022 LCMS Youth Gathering Sessions. Denomination Domination: Communion Edition (Why Oreos and Chocolate Milk Won’t Cut It)

While Oreos and chocolate milk are delicious, they aren’t a means of grace. Why would bread and wine be different?

2022 LCMS Youth Gathering Sessions. How Will You Be Remembered? A Conversation on Personal and Ethical Leadership

For what do you want to be remembered? How will people describe you long after you leave school?

2022 LCMS Youth Gathering Sessions. Porn to Love: Talking About the Dirty Little Secret

Pornography affects so many, even those within the church, and we need to talk about it.

2022 LCMS Youth Gathering Sessions. Missionary Snapshots: Reaching Refugees and the Lost in the Land of Luther

Hear stories of how God is at work bringing people out of lands of darkness, to places where they can walk in His Light.

2022 LCMS Youth Gathering Sessions. Walking in Each Other’s Shoes

Stories teach us about many things. Our stories teach us about who we are. They also reveal who others are, both the stories they tell and the ones we tell about them.

LCMS Youth Ministry End Goals — Exploring the 40 End Goals: Vocation for What’s Next

DCE Amanda Jahnke joins Mark and Julianna to talk about vocation with teens now and in the future.

LCMS Youth Ministry End Goals — Difficult Conversations: Suicide

Megan Miessler, LCSW, joins Mark and Julianna to talk about how we can approach the topic of suicide and care for young people who may experience crisis around suicide.

LCMS Youth Ministry End Goals — Exploring the 40 End Goals: Life In All Things

Deaconess Emma Heinz and Deaconess Dr. Tiffany Manor talk about how we approach life issues in youth ministry and teach a full theology of life in all things to our youth.

LCMS Youth Ministry End Goals — Difficult Conversations: Drug and Alcohol Addiction 

Rev. Brian Earl joins Mark and Julianna to talk about ministering in the face of drug and substance use and addiction.