YoungLives Handbook - Flipbook - Page 27
ESSENTIAL # 7:
CONTACT WORK WITH
TEENAGE PARENTS
Once the ministry foundation has been built, it is time to start reaching out to teenage parents. We call
this Contact Work. This method consists of going where kids are, building relationships with them, and
earning the right to be heard. Developing and doing great contact work is the framework for starting a
healthy YoungLives club.
Tom Hammon, Young Life staff member, says this about contact work:
There are an enormous number of Christian programs that say, 8Come to us.9 Contact
work puts the leader out there with kids. It puts flesh on the gospel. It9s the most
authentic you can get3the life of a person who goes into the world of lost kids.
Contact work isn9t just Young Life9s invention3it is based on the example of Jesus Himself, as we see in
John 1:14:
