How is the ministry at your church among teenagers? Student ministry is frequently a challenge in congregations. All too often, adults feel like they have to dream up activities to “entertain” the youth in a “Christian environment.” Increasingly, I see a good trend among high school students. They are open to serving. I was at a church a couple of weeks ago where all the high school students teach Sunday school, either during the early or late service of this large church in Ohio. They each have a mentor who is an adult and a mature Christian who not only works with them to teach Sunday school, but also throughout the week becomes their mentor, coach, discipler. They have some fun activities, of course. However, the interesting observation is that it is the service that has impacted the high school students the most. This has led to other areas where they are providing service including work in the inner-city cleaning up homes and trash in the streets, and annual trips to Mexico to help build ministry facilities for churches there. The idea of having students teach Sunday school reminds me of my own high school years. When I declared to my pastor that I wanted to become a pastor, he put me in a 5th grade Sunday school class as a teacher. At that point, I told him I didn’t know much about the Bible. He said, and I learned what this church in Ohio has discovered, when you teach the Bible, you learn it and perhaps in the best way. You also learn to be a servant to others. These high school kids are also a tremendous role model for the young children in the Sunday school to look up to them.