Faith, Identity,and Belonging for the Young Generation with Newt Crenshaw| 421
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jerrad talks with Newt Crenshaw, President and CEO of Young Life. They discuss what Gen Z and Gen Alpha are really searching for, based on a global study conducted by Young Life. Newt shares what the research revealed about identity, relationships, and the deep need for connection in a world shaped by screens, pressure, and isolation.
What You’ll hear:
• Why 40% of young people don’t feel worthy of love
• What kids actually want from adults in their lives
• How social media affects boys and girls differently
• Why moms are still the top go-to, and why dads matter too
• What makes faith a key part of emotional and relational health
• How you can be a stable presence in a young person’s life
Tune in to learn how you can show up for the next generation—starting with the kids in your own home.
Episode Resources:
- Learn more about Young Life: younglife.org
- Read the Relat(able) Study: younglife.org/relatable
- Â Volunteer with Young Life: younglife.org/get-involved
-  Dad Tired Annual Retreat at Young Life’s Carolina Point
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, want to tell you about some dad tired events coming up, hopefully in your area. |
| 0:03.8 | We've got the dad tired annual retreat happening this week in just a couple days. |
| 0:07.5 | The team has told me that they will take signups up until the very last day. |
| 0:11.3 | So if you want to sign up for that, we'd love to have you. |
| 0:14.0 | You can go to dadd tire.com, click the annual retreat tab and join us on Friday, man. If you are listening at a later date other than the week |
| 0:22.0 | this episode was launched, make sure he sent up early next year for those. We do those once a year. |
| 0:26.6 | But we also do that tired one-day conferences all over the country and sometimes around the |
| 0:31.2 | world. We've got one the following week, September 28th, 2004, Knoxville, Tennessee. |
| 0:37.4 | We're going to be in joint base Lewis, 2004, Knoxville, Tennessee. |
| 0:37.5 | We're going to be in Joint Base Lewis, McCord, |
| 0:40.2 | in Washington on October 12th. |
| 0:43.0 | That is a event for our military men, so it's private. |
| 0:47.5 | But if you have a Department of Defense ID, |
| 0:50.6 | they tell me you can attend that. |
| 0:52.2 | We would love to have you be part of that. Meridian, Idaho on November |
| 0:56.0 | 9th, that's a dad tired one day conference, open to the public if you're in that area. Andover, |
| 1:01.1 | Minnesota, February 8th, open to the public. We'd love to have you be part of that. And then there's |
| 1:05.4 | a men's retreat in Paragold, Arkansas, if you want to be part of that, or if you're in that area, that's on |
| 1:12.5 | February 27th to March 1st. If you want to do one of these in your area, you don't see one in |
| 1:17.6 | your area and you would like to do one. We'd love to come to your church and partner with your |
| 1:23.0 | church. So we can do our one-day dad-tired conference at your church, and that's for all men. |
| 1:27.9 | They don't have to be dads. |
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