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The Family Discipleship Podcast

#133 — Gospel Centered Youth Ministry with Cameron Cole and Anna Meade Harris

The Family Discipleship Podcast

The Family Discipleship Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0597 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Parenting teenagers can feel overwhelming—especially in a noisy, over-scheduled, screen-filled world. Cameron Cole and Anna Meade Harris from Rooted Ministry join us to talk about discipling adolescents with grace, clarity, and patience, and why parents still matter more than any algorithm or trend. They also dig into loneliness, technology, late-night conversations, and how churches can better support families (especially single parents).Resources Mentioned: Let this Mother’s Day be a reminder that she deserves care, too. Head to cozyearth.com and use our code FDP for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth from us here at The Family Discipleship Podcast. Follow Us:
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0:00.0

You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast.

0:11.0

Welcome to the Family Discipleship Podcast.

0:13.0

We're here to equip and encourage Christian parents to lead their families, and we're now posting every other Monday all year long.

0:17.9

This is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with my co-hosts, Mrs. Cassie Bryant

0:21.8

and Mrs. Chelsea Griffin. Cassie, what's the wildest thing you ever did when you were in student ministry? Ooh, what do you mean? Do you mean like, that was against the rules or like, what's the wildest thing our student ministry did together? Wait, but you mean, you mean when Cassie was an adolescent, not as a youth, not as a youth minister.

0:39.0

I mean either. I want to hear the wildest. No, no, no, you mean when Cassie was an adolescent, not as a youth,

0:37.7

not as a youth minister. I mean either. I want to hear the wildest. No, no, no, no. I just want to hear as a youth. Okay, as a youth. I honestly didn't do a lot of wild things. Our youth ministry, there were other kids that did a lot of wild things. Tell us that. I mean, okay, we would have students in my high school that would show up to our Wednesday night Bible study with sonic cups filled with like beer or liquor. Nice. Is that what you mean by wild? That is wild. I think that classifies, yeah. That is wild. That was wild to me. I didn't do that, but we could smell it. We'd be like, oh, that group over there has got something in their sonic cups. So that's Cassie Bryant,

1:11.4

the angel, who was sitting in the corner of the student ministry saying, God had really refined me.

1:15.6

Lord, thank you for not making me them, standing at the front saying, thank you that I am not

1:19.6

one of these tax collectors. She wrote her high horse into this podcast. Okay. Is that why she's

1:24.9

bouncing so much? Chelsea Lane, same story when you were in student ministry?

1:29.0

Was it just nothing but just polishing your halos?

1:32.2

What were you doing?

1:32.8

You know that my youth group was filled with all kinds of foolishness.

1:38.5

If the gospel was preached there, I did not hear it.

1:41.3

But I always want to leave that caveat because it might have been.

1:43.6

And I may have missed it.

1:45.6

But you know this, but our youth group, every spring break, we went skiing usually as a youth group.

1:51.4

And then one year, I was on the youth council and we voted to take a cruise instead.

1:56.4

And at the time, we had a Christian cruise.

1:58.8

Our church had no youth pastor and we, and we didn't have,

2:03.0

I just broke out in hives. And so we sent these, they sent these like young, very young,

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