by | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog, news, Service, Teen Life, Teens Making a Difference
Brandon Jackson is a teenage hero. He’s eighteen years old and since he was fourteen, he’s raised more than 150,000 dollars to help Honduran orphans. He also travels there to work with the children at his own expense on a regular basis. He first learned of the project...
by | Oct 19, 2010 | Blog, Encouragement, Teen Life
I was reading an article today about a man who was bodysurfing one day when he hit his head on a rock and became a paraplegic. (See Disabled author chooses to laugh, Author: Carma Wadley, Source: Deseret News, 11 October 2010 11:30am.) At first, he thought his life...
by | Sep 30, 2010 | Blog, Teen Life, Youth
Teenage Mormon girls can now do the Personal Progress Program on the Internet and leaders and parents can monitor it there. Personal progress is a fun program for girls in the Mormon youth program, called Young Women. The girls in the program are given a list of goals...
by | Sep 14, 2010 | Teen Life
So you’re going off to college… Gary and Joy Lundberg published an article for Meridian Magazine in September of 2010 with some great advice for new college students. This is a short summary. To read the entire article, click here. Examine your reasons for wanting...
by | Sep 10, 2010 | Encouragement, Friends, Service, Teen Life, Youth
Friendship is usually pretty important to most teenagers. Not having friends can make a teenager frustrated and lonely. Having the wrong kinds of friends can cause all sorts of trouble for teens. When you have a best friend, and it’s a real best friend who loves you...
by | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog, Encouragement, Teen Life, Teenagers in the Scriptures, Youth
Next in our series of articles on teens who changed the world, we’re talking about David and Goliath. Saul was the king of God’s people and he had a huge problem—literally. His giant problem was a huge Philistine named Goliath. Everyone was terrified of him. Goliath,...
