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New Podcast Episode: The Freedom Permit – Life Management

Today on The Launch Mission Podcast, we will introduce the second part of the Freedom Permit: Life Management. Life Management is defined as preparing to manage all of the aspects of your life that was previously managed or co-managed by a parents & other adult. This includes everything from time and money management to person responsibilities. After listening, check out daily blog posts this week for more insight on this topic.

 

Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-launch-mission-podcast/id1677806999

 

Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/4idjJJooUzWyJ1LONU35Jw

 

Google Podcasts – https://podcastsmanager.google.com/show?show=show%3A4hNZQ8gazTpZA6v9oMNypA

 

Amazon Music –

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Making This Year Special

Here are a few questions to help you think about making this senior year special for your senior and your family

 

How can you celebrate the major holidays this year in a special way as this will be the last year that your child will be a high school student living at home?

 

What “senior privileges” can your family adopt at home to make your senior feel more responsibility?

 

What are some family outings/trips that you can plan for this senior year?

 

How will it change the dynamic of your family to have this child out of high school in

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Looking Back to See Ahead

Life is made up of a series of seasons with transitional periods in between. How we handle one life transition will effect the next one as well.

 

For the majority of high school graduates, this is the first major life transition, or at least the first one they will make on their own. If you ask them, it can not come soon enough, but you and I know that they need every moment of this year to prepare.

 

When we make a transition in our life, it is up to us how prepared we want to be. We can wing-it

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What Legacy Will Your Senior Help Create?

Everyone remembers being a young high school student and looking up to the seniors of that day with respect and honor. Or, possibly, some might even recall looking at them and thinking that they aren’t doing anything impressive. The senior class should be the leaders of the school, setting an example for the younger students…but do they know that?

 

Even though some senior classes are stronger than others, every school (and church student ministry) needs for their seniors to step up and lead. The ones who do, create a legacy of change and make a difference in the lives of

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New Podcast Episode: Maximizing The Senior Year

This week’s Podcast episode features a youth ministry roundtable discussion featuring three student ministry leaders talking about the importance of staying connected during this last year of high school.

Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-launch-mission-podcast/id1677806999


Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/4idjJJooUzWyJ1LONU35Jw


Google Podcasts – https://podcastsmanager.google.com/show?show=show%3A4hNZQ8gazTpZA6v9oMNypA


Amazon Music – https://podcasters.amazon.com/podcasts/4be2f418-75bd-43e0-9cee-5d36db7630d3

Tommy McGregor

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Some Questions About Spiritual Development in you Senior

How would you describe your child’s spiritual level of maturity over the past few years?

 

What have been some of the main factors to the growth or lack of growth that you have noticed in your child?

 

How do you see that maturity level changing over to next year in college?

 

Describe your fears &/or excitements about having spiritual conversations with your child this year? How will you plan to introduce this process?

Tommy McGregor

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Why Is The Life Transition After High School So Difficult For Christian Teenagers? (PART THREE)

The struggles that a teenager faces during this transition is not a college-cultural problem, but rather a discipleship issue. Though it is true that many older teens wander through this next stage of life as they get caught up in a worldly lifestyle, but that goes back to the point that they are not prepared to stand firmly in their faith in that new setting.

 

So, how do you plan to help prepare your seniors for these challenges? Since holding their hand and becoming a helicopter-parent for the next 4+ years is out of the question (not to mention, spiritually

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Helping Your High School Senior Grow Spiritually (part 2)

Three Crucial Conversations:

Lastly, these three conversations with your child will help them be even more prepared spiritually to step into the freedoms and unknowns of college life.

 

  1. Developing a Personal Mission Statement – Let them know that a personal mission statement is a statement of values, priorities, and mission. Having this created and kept in a journal, on their mirror, or in their phone will help them as they face new decisions, relationships, and situations at school.
  2. Creating A Connection Plan – Connecting with a Christian community is crucial in the first few days/weeks of college. This usually does
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Helping Your High School Senior Grow Spiritually (part one)

One of the biggest factors that I have seen in students who struggle with the transition from high school to college is that they are what the apostle Paul called “infants” in Christ (1 Corinthians 3:1). Even if they grew up in church, many students are still feeding on milk, rather than solid food. 1 Corinthians 13:11 says, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” The months leading up to leaving for college are

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New Podcast Episode: Freedom Permit – Spiritual Development

Today on The Launch Mission Podcast, we will introduce the first of four parts of the Freedom Permit: Spiritual Development. This one is the first and most important. After listening, check out daily blog posts this week for more insight on this topic.


Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-launch-mission-podcast/id1677806999


Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/4idjJJooUzWyJ1LONU35Jw


Google Podcasts – https://podcastsmanager.google.com/show?show=show%3A4hNZQ8gazTpZA6v9oMNypA


Amazon Music – https://podcasters.amazon.com/podcasts/4be2f418-75bd-43e0-9cee-5d36db7630d3

Tommy McGregor

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