TCC Students Parents

We are praying for your students this summer! We are praying that they can be the light of Jesus to all their friends and all they come into contact with. We are praying for a recharge for them, and that they will return to school this fall to shine Jesus' light in their schools! Join us in praying that over your students!

Yesterday was Memorial Day and we are so thankful for the men and women who paid the price for our freedom. This week, let's pray for the recent graduates who will be entering the armed forces and their families. We are thankful for these young people making this commitment.

Been a busy season of graduations, graduation parties, and much more! Continue to pray for the 2024 HS and College Graduates as they embark on new journeys. Pray for their families as they try and help their students adjust!

Check out the Parent Cue app for great parenting resources that are delivered straight to the app regularly! Great stuff to help you parent your teen and any of your kids of any age!

This Sunday is Graduation Sunday for the class of 2024! Please be praying for these graduates as they go into this next stage of life and for their families!

Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for the class of 2024! Be with them as they embark on this new journey. Help them to turn to you and count on you in their darkest times. Help us to support them and cheer them on in all that they do. Be with the parents and families as they watch their loved ones head into this next stage of life. We praise you for Jesus! Amen!

Happy Mothers Day moms! Thank you for all you do for your students!

This week we want to have a prayer prompt each day to help you pray for your teen. These are from the Desiring God website that was founded by Pastor John Piper.

Day 5-Lord, make them holy.

“Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” (John 17:17)
As we faithfully hold on to the reins, as we pray for wisdom to provide both roots and wings to our growing children, it’s a relief to know that we can also release our teens into an independent pursuit of truth through God’s word. The questions they bring to the dinner table that make us choke on our meatloaf as we grope for a response are a good sign that internal processing is going on behind their eyes.

Pray that the Holy Spirit will use Scripture verses your children memorized in their elementary years. Introduce your teen to classic Christian literature and favorite podcasts that set the table for a feast on truth.

When parents pray over an open Bible, the words of Scripture wrap themselves around the desires of our hearts and give us the words we don’t have. Jesus ends his prayer for his disciples by offering himself, totally set apart for the Father’s will. Perhaps this is what our teens need most: parents with a single-minded determination to follow him. We will not do so perfectly, but our own stumbling progress toward discipleship puts us on the same road as our teens — and what a joy it is to be traveling toward Christ together.

This week we want to have a prayer prompt each day to help you pray for your teen. These are from the Desiring God website that was founded by Pastor John Piper.

Day 4-Lord, give them your joy.

“But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.” (John 17:13)
Aware that joy might be in short supply among his disciples, Jesus prayed that they would go looking for it in the right places. The hatred of the world cannot quench the joy of the Lord.

Teens with indoor plumbing, high-speed internet, and access to antibiotics can still be chronically dissatisfied with life. The classic John Piper quote “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him” forms my prayers for all my children. Jesus was consumed with rightly representing God’s glory (John 17:4), and my sons’ greatest joy will also be found in cooperating with God in the fulfillment of his will for his glory.

This week we want to have a prayer prompt each day to help you pray for your teen. These are from the Desiring God website that was founded by Pastor John Piper.

Day 3-Lord, keep them from evil.

“I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.” (John 17:15)
On a dark night when evil seemed to have the upper hand, Jesus prayed for protection for those he loved. He knew that their effectiveness would require intimate contact with the world and all its messiness, but he put his trust in the power of God to keep them pure, faithful, and unstained.

One moment of inattention, a slip of judgment, an immature lack of discretion: there are ten thousand ways for a teen to fall unintentionally into evil. (And then there’s the strong possibility that they may go looking for it.)

Rather than allowing my imagination to manufacture hair-raising scenarios, I strive to follow the counsel of Paul Miller in A Praying Life. When we “turn our anxiety toward God,” he says, “we’ll discover that we’ve slipped into continuous praying” (57). That’s not a bad formula for surviving the teen years.

This week we want to have a prayer prompt each day to help you pray for your teen. These are from the Desiring God website that was founded by Pastor John Piper.

Day 2-Lord, make us one.

“Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.” (John 17:11)
Jesus was born into a divided world. The us-versus-them of Jew-Gentile interactions that characterized first-century Palestine had been painted on a canvas of Roman occupation. He chose twelve disciples whose ideological bandwidth ran from political zealot to professional tax collector, and his prayer for unity among believers still reverberates along today’s ethnic and racial fault lines. In our pews and in our homes, God calls us to be one.

With the increasing independence and the natural pulling away of these teen years, I continue to pray that our family unity will be unharmed by the tug of opinions and politics or by the stretching that comes with geography and schedules. I pray that Jesus himself will unite us, despite all our differences and distance.

There is also an internal oneness or integrity that can feel elusive but is crucial to the spiritual formation of a young adult. Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard defined purity of heart as the ability “to will one thing,” and my prayer for my believing young adults is that this “one thing” would be the glory of God.

This week we want to have a prayer prompt each day to help you pray for your teen. These are from the Desiring God website that was founded by Pastor John Piper.

Day 1-Lord, they are yours.

“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me. . . . I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.” (John 17:6, 9)
Jesus was aware that each of his faithful disciples was a gift from God. He said it out loud as he prepared to leave them, trusting in the sanctifying power of God’s word to keep them (John 17:17).

Handing our children over to God when they were infants was relatively easy compared with the task of entrusting them to God’s care now that they are jingling car keys in their pockets and making their first financial decisions. “Lord, this boy is yours, and your love for him is more perfect and pure than my own” becomes an important admission on the way to a quiet heart. The power of the word and the Spirit is still at work, and is not diminished by my fear or my faithlessness.

Rooted Ministries has a great page of resources for parents on their website linked below. Rooted's mission is "Our mission is to equip and empower churches and parents to faithfully disciple students toward life-long faith in Jesus Christ."

https://rootedministry.com/parenting/resources/

The Parent Cue app we have been talking about also has an online store with great parenting resources!

Parenting Books

Check out Focus on the Family! They have great resources for parenting, marriage, family, and SO MUCH MORE!

https://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/

Focus on the Family has lots of GREAT resources for parenting your teen! Here are two YouTube videos to a seminar from Focus on the Family! Check out their website as well for more great resources!

Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CONWTRDILN0

Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVhyZN0_E8

We have complied a list of great books for parenting your teen!

Check out my list on Amazon

The Parentcue App is a great resource! Download it today!

The Parent Cue app has great resources, including conversation starters for you and your student. Download the app from the App Store today!

The Parent Cue app is a great resource for parenting tips and resources! Download it today!

We want to invite you to our Good Friday service at TCC and then our Easter services this Sunday! There will be a special service for our 6th-12th grade students during the 10:00 AM service!

The goal of this page is to help you parents navigate parenting your student. Below are some resources for you to help your student.

Teen Parenting Books:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1PFVGPXGDOKLT?ref_=wl_share

Focus on the Family:
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/13-18/

Living Hope Counseling Center:
https://livinghopecounselingcenter.org

Parent Cue:
https://theparentcue.org/

Axis:
https://axis.org/?utm_source=google

Focus on the family is a great organization that is solely focused on the family. They offer great insights from a large group of awesome writers. They have great resources for marriage, parenting, faith, and more! There is a link below that will take you to their parenting teens page. This page has great articles that target many of the issues our students are facing daily! They also have a great app you can download as well!

https://www.focusonthefamily.com/13-18/

If you haven't already, download the Parent Cue app for great weekly resources for your student regardless of their age!

Jon Acuff is a great writer who has some awesome books out there. "Soundtracks" is a great book from him about battling overthinking. The book is linked below. Jon is also a great follow on social media!

Soundtracks:
https://www.amazon.com/Soundtracks-Surprising-Overthinking-Jon-Acuff/dp/1540900800/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?crid=2E9LC2MDLTZ3P&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.7p2DOdEKnzn3Y1MJbwQCDE3bCSXYbyr795sihbCIGX2o69kc-IHIgONzi9cpc4z9Wndl-gpDrAMti2x9d-M4eDLS6XClbbvOeyN9eAydiRAuh1e0-vntYWcc3OX3xbSPtXqONj4Sk7OCzvIc86sXG7SutejYSsARnMze92_A7CDZdT99pbeEGGYCUgZ9u4477rGOSRGu9VTYFy6QNdLNr6DvzMktFDfTVrU55Gezax_q_31RypN-r-z7U7Tlj3cdjUM82qC32xYiQiUyCfuISZ1uBOA2m7gCEfa3nx36DxQ.eIvxuzw9-KqfDnATDs747kDrfSoiSIDN5uvI0jR0JTo&dib_tag=se&keywords=jon+acuff&qid=1710780724&sprefix=jon+acuff%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-3-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1