EPISODE RECAP

• Self-awareness of students’ life situations helps ease awkwardness and embarrassment (2:08)
• Adriana and Jamie Howard share their experiences working with lower-income students (3:30)
• The problem does not start and stop with money (8:36)
• The bigger conversation about what’s going on in students’ homes and economic situations (9:11)
• Four out of 10 American students are living in situations where their basic needs are unmet (10:01)
• The importance of small group leaders (10:44)
• Assumptions youth ministry workers make (11:01)
• Ways youth ministry leaders unintentionally offend lower-income students (15:24)
• The value youth ministry resources can give lower-income students (20:00)
• How to orient your messaging and programming to make sure you’re serving lower-income families well (20:36)
• Your involvement with lower-income families has to be highly strategic (26:04)
• How to train and equip your small group leaders (31:15)
• Partnering with parents of lower-income families (33:21)
• Finding common ground with students through authenticity (35:26)

QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE

A big part of mentoring is contextualization. If we fail to put things into a context our students can understand, we do them a great disservice. —Jamie Howard Click To TweetMaking small adjustments in the way you talk communicates that you see your students. —Adriana Howard Click To TweetYou can’t serve any student without knowing them first. —Adriana Howard Click To TweetDiscipleship is very inconvenient. —Jamie Howard Click To TweetConnecting with lower income families has more to do with building relationships with families and less to do with writing scholarship checks for camp. —Charlie Conder Click To Tweet

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

Book: There Are No Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith