{"id":3262,"date":"2025-09-04T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/youth\/?page_id=3262"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:32:13","slug":"youth-leader-small-groups-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/youth\/youth-leader-small-groups-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Leader Small Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div class=\"x-section e3262-e1 m2im-0 m2im-1\"><div class=\"x-bg\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"x-bg-layer-lower-image\" data-x-element-bg-layer=\"{&quot;parallaxSize&quot;:&quot;150%&quot;,&quot;parallaxDir&quot;:&quot;v&quot;,&quot;parallaxRev&quot;:false}\"><\/div><div class=\"x-bg-layer-upper-color\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e3262-e2 m2im-3 m2im-4 m2im-5 m2im-8 m2im-9\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e3262-e3 m2im-c\"><div class=\"x-text x-text-headline e3262-e4 m2im-e\"><div class=\"x-text-content\"><div class=\"x-text-content-text\"><h1 class=\"x-text-content-text-primary\">Youth Leader Small Groups<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-section e3262-e5 m2im-0 m2im-2\"><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e3262-e6 m2im-3 m2im-6 m2im-8 m2im-a\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e3262-e7 m2im-c\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e3262-e8 m2im-f\"><p>Youth Leader Small Groups' aim is to provide those who work with teens a monthly setting for mutual encouragement, support, and to assist one another with various ministry questions that come up through a life of service. While these monthly meetings do not emphasize any sort of formal training, they provide time for each group to engage in meaningful and encouraging conversation that spur participants onward both in their personal lives and ministry endeavors. (If you are looking for formal training for youth workers, check out our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/youth\/ymap\/\">Apprenticeship Program<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>If you know of someone else or a group of people you'd like to be with in a Small Group, there is a spot on the Sign-up form to make those requests. Otherwise, we'll assign you to a group. It can be a great way to get to know others.<\/p>\n<p>There is a $5 fee to participate in Youth Leader Small Groups. This fee helps ensure those who sign up are committing to setting aside time to meet regularly with their group and to offset the costs to design, print, and ship the booklets to each participant. This fee is due via online payment at the time of signing up. If you want to be part of Youth Leader Small Groups but the $5 fee is making that difficult, please let us know and we can work something out with you.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/youth\/wp-content\/uploads\/Small-Group-Booklet.pdf\">Download the booklet<\/a><\/strong> from Spring 2024 to get an idea of what sessions look like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Deadline to sign up for Youth Leader Small Groups was August 19.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"thrv_wrapper thrv_text_element\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e3262-e9 m2im-3 m2im-5 m2im-7 m2im-8 m2im-b\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e3262-e10 m2im-c m2im-d\"><a class=\"x-anchor x-anchor-button e3262-e11 m2im-g\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/youth\/wp-content\/uploads\/Small-Group-Booklet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><div class=\"x-anchor-content\"><div class=\"x-anchor-text\"><span class=\"x-anchor-text-primary\">Youth Leader Small Groups Booklet<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth Leader Small Groups Youth Leader Small Groups&#8217; aim is to provide those who work with teens a monthly setting for mutual encouragement, support, and to assist one another with various ministry questions that come up through a life of service. 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