Feels Like Home: A 5-Week Series

This series opens up a conversation about home from many different angles. Whether it is a healthy home, a difficult one, or a spiritual one, it’s time to talk about home.

Details:

5 lesson plans and student handouts (PDF format)
Leader’s guide for activities and discussions
Social media and keynote graphics

$30.00

Weekly Summaries

Week 1 – Homecoming

Homecoming plays a special role in our culture as a huge celebration to gather friends of both past and present across generations to remember our shared histories and continue to make new memories together. It is a time to reflect on who has come before and what the future holds. In this lesson, your group will dive into what that means as a community of faith.

Week 2 – Jesus Wants to Make His Home with Us

This lesson is focused on God’s movement towards us through Jesus. This session focuses on the profundity of God coming to be present with us, not just in spirit, but in person.

Week 3 – When Home Hurts

This lesson confronts the reality that home doesn’t always feel as safe as we’d hope it would. Sometimes a home can hurt. Home can go from safe to a place where you don’t feel like you can be yourself. Tapping into what our faith says about suffering. We will explore Jesus’ experience of hurt in his own home and witness his response.

Week 4 – Home Heals

This session is about the healing nature of home and how home can be a refuge. Home can be a place to find rest and retreat, a place to breathe. For some home is the place you live, for others, it’s a sports team or youth group. Students will learn the importance of embracing home as a healing space.

Week 5 – Home Cooked Meals

Who is invited to the dinner party? There are more people than you could imagine, even those you didn’t think might be. This week, your group will have a conversation about communion and the Lord’s table. This table is ultimately a representation of what it means to be a part of the kingdom of God. The invitation is always open and is there. We cannot control the distribution of invitations, who accepts it, and who rejects it.

Testimonials

“Holy Disruptions is everything I've wanted in a youth group curriculum! It engages our teenagers' questions and ideas without offering overly simplified answers.”

- Laurel Capesius, Director and Campus Minister at Winthrop Wesley Foundation

“Holy Disruptions gave our leaders a teaching foundation while also creating and fostering space for our students to do their own theological exploration.”

- Nathan Wheeler, Youth Ministry and Young Adult Coordinator, Cumberland Presbyterian Church

“This material has allowed students to process through what God is teaching and speaking to them.”

- Kelsey Fisher, Program Coordinator, City Service Mission

What makes Holy
Disruptions different?

Holy Disruptions series are designed to delve into the unique experiences of today’s youth, spark deep theological reflection, and foster transformative discussions. Our three-part methodology empowers students to align with God’s vision and desires for the world.

Interruption

Facilitate a disorienting experience – where students are most receptive to growth.

Reflection

Invite students to investigate their reaction to the disorienting moment.

Holy Disruption

Ask students to explore what God says about it.