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Comment by Lucas E. Randall on December 8, 2008 at 1:49pm

It is important for the college freshman students to move to their age-grade ministry. Mine attend the college Bible study on Sundays, but still attend our large youth group time on Wednesdays. This occurs under a couple of conditions however: they are considered "junior volunteers" and are expected to interact with the group as an adult volunteer would, they do not hold leadership positions that are reserved for youth. Some college students, at times, can be a distraction in that they are still close friends with students in the ministry. I approach these students on an individual basis and discuss the situation and expectations. I also believe there should always be a "degree of seperation" in ministry. Therefore, my college students are used as leaders for middle school groups where as I use older adults for high school groups.

Comment by Andrew Huesing on December 4, 2008 at 11:02am

We're having a problem at church with getting the recently graduated (former) youth from moving on out of the youth group. It seems to me that it is important for these college freshmen to break out and join the young adults group and stop coming to youth group activities. This will allow the current youth to grow into the leadership positions previously filled by last year's seniors. Is it irrational for me to insist that they move on? Does anyone else have this problem? What did you do?