Thank you for obeying God’s call to do youth ministry:
• Thanks for serving.
• Thanks for teaching God’s Word to students each week.
• Thanks for being silly and fun.
• Thanks for be serious, too.
• Thanks for listening.
• Thanks for especially to listening to “that one kid” who seems to bend your ear each week.
• Thanks for being a great husband or wife and modeling that to your students.
• Thanks for being willing to be an example.
• Thanks for pointing me toward Jesus.
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• Thanks for being cool with not getting as much thanks as you deserve.
• Thanks for loving God.
• Thanks for spending time with God regularly.
• Thanks for hurting when I hurt.
• Thanks for supporting my family. Thanks for believing in my teenager.
• Thanks for seeing the potential.
• Thanks for pushing me to join a small group and experience Christian community.
• Thanks for carrying burdens.
• Thanks for challenging students.
• Thanks for all of the inside jokes.
• Thanks for guiding me.
• Thanks for being there when my grandpa died.
• Thanks for what you gave up to be in youth ministry.
• Thanks for not needing recognition when you should be getting it.
• Thanks for taking care of your heart and soul.
• Thanks for helping me learn how to share my faith with my friends.
• Thanks for your affirming words to me about my children.
• Thanks for you quirks that make you original, I’m so glad you’re not the same.
• Thanks for doing your best every day.
• Thanks for your blog posts and Twitter.
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• Thanks for that encouraging word on Facebook when I was down.
• Thanks for your counsel on which college I should go to.
• Thanks for doing our wedding.
• Thanks for making an impact.
• Thanks for buying me a Coke.
• Thanks for telling me the truth.
• Thanks for shaping my life forever.
• Thanks for being there when no one else was.
(things we imagine students, parents and other youth workers saying to you this Thanksgiving)