2025 Graduate Recognition

• 40% of high schoolers experience persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness
• 20% of High schoolers seriously contemplated suicide
• 16% had even made a plan

"These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." — Deuteronomy 6:6-7 NIV

"Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation." — Joel 1:3 NIV

"Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord." — Ephesians 6:4 NIV

 Pray for this generation

• Pray for them to have a divine encounter with God
• Pray for them to be surrounded with divine favor
• Pray for God to bring them Godly friends & influences

Prioritize church

• When a child is first to find faith in Christ, about 5% of the time the family follows.
• When a mother is first to find faith in Christ, 22% of the time the family follows.
• However, when a father is first to find faith in Christ, 93% of the time the family follows.

“He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.“ — Luke 4:16 NIV

“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” — Hebrews 10:23-25 NIV

“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” — Acts 2:42-17 NIV

When you prioritize church:

• Feeling lonely drops 30%
• Anger issues drop 32%
• Bitterness in relationships drops 40%
• Alcoholism drops 57%
• Sex outside of marriage drops 68%
• Feeling spiritually stagnant drops 60%
• Viewing pornography drops 61%
• Sharing your faith jumps 200%
• Discipling others jumps 230%

Participate in the development of the younger generation

"But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,“ — 2 Timothy 3:14 NIV

1. Be an example
2. Be available
3. Be positive about them

Let’s chase after this generation.