Partnership with parents

As youth workers, we are not called to step in and take the role of a parent in the students' lives, but rather be a support for both the parents and students. any youth pastors have struggled with this in the past and have stepped on the parents' toes with some things. The best ministry that can affect the youth the most powerfully is one that is done from a youth worker and from the parents, both of them supporting each other. It is important for youth pastors to understand the impact that they can have not only on the students, but more so on the parents, and then the impact that parents have on the students. Here is an article that talks more about it with helpful hints and verses about it.