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A Little Difference is a Difference

TeenPact Leadership Schools, in conjunction with the Jimmy Brazell Foundation, presented the Eighth Annual Jimmy Brazell Impact Scholarship Second Place Award to TeenPact student Lauren Wagner from Florida.   Read her award-winning essay below, written in response to the topic question, “How have you impacted the world or your community through servant-minded, Christ-like love?”     […]

Horses, Kids, and Christ

TeenPact Leadership Schools, in conjunction with the Jimmy Brazell Foundation, presented the Eighth Annual Jimmy Brazell Impact Scholarship First Place Award to TeenPact student Katie Johnson from Oregon.   Read her award-winning essay below, written in response to the topic question, “How have you impacted the world or your community through servant-minded, Christ-like love?” The […]

You Want to be Inspired

INSPIRATION: A noun. The act of drawing air into the lungs; the inhaling of air;  a branch of respiration, and opposed to expiration.   You want to be inspired. Don’t believe me? What are you doing with your life right now? Ask yourself: why am I doing the things I’m doing? Why the classes? Why […]

Stop Romanticizing Love

This post was written by TeenPact Student Body President Toby Forehand of Georgia.   And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love […]

Brand Yourself a Man

Brands are captivating. The white apple with a bite out of it, the jingle that concludes with, “I’m lovin’ it”, and the red and white soda label stirs a particular ambiance inside all of us. Without fail, when these images or sounds intersect with our lives, they signify a specific brand – a brand of […]

Are You Ready For TeenPact 2020?

Before you know it, the TeenPact 2020 Season will be upon us, and we are so excited! We can’t wait to see how God will work through our record-breaking 61 State Classes in 48 states in 2020!   Registration for the 2020 State Classes will be available September 1st, but until then, mark your calendars […]

Prepare Your Heart for National Convention 2019

הַלְלוּיָהּ   We were made. We have a Maker. So, why, why did this Maker make you and I?   Our journey takes us back to the ancient Hebrew Scriptures. It is here we first learn about our Maker. His name is יהוה from which we get the English spelling Yahweh or in shortened form, […]

A Ministry of Excellence

The following are thoughts from Zach and Alexis Kaufman on their experience with TeenPact. After attending as students, Zach and Alexis served as Travel Staffers and Traveling Interns (2016). Zach and Alexis got married in 2018.   Many students heading to their first TeenPact State Class are filled with either fear or excitement. These polarizing […]

CELEBRATION

2019 Midseason Update           For the past five TeenPact seasons, this framed 20th Anniversary photograph has hung in my office. Today as I look up at it, we’re celebrating again – 25 years of seeing God change lives to change the world.     Last week, the 2019 Intern Team and […]

Count Me In

The following is written by TeenPact graduate Fuzz Thomson of New Mexico. After attending as a student, Fuzz served as a staffer, Traveling Intern, and Program Director (2009). When my mom, Wendy Thomson (TeenPact New Mexico’s State Coordinator since before New Mexico was a state… basically), told me and my siblings about the #alumnimatch, it immediately […]

Alumni Events 2019

    Are you ready to go deeper?   Join TeenPacters from around the nation at one of our 2019 Alumni Events. Intentional discipleship, hands-on learning, and challenging, new experiences will inspire and equip you as a leader. You’ll find all your favorite aspects of TeenPact – passionate worship, friendships to last a lifetime, incredible […]

Together on a Team

Happy New Year!   January 2019 is upon us, and at TeenPact that means we become laser focused on Intern Training, Staff Training, and the 2019 State Class season.     YOU NEED A TEAM One key focus of the TeenPact ministry is on the concept of teamwork. Teamwork is not simply a concept that […]

A Year in Review

Garbage?

This post was written by TeenPact Student Body Vice President Toby DeMoss of Pennsylvania.       Dearest Friends,   Six months ago I was standing in front of nearly one-thousand of you, shoulder to shoulder with my wonderful friend and running-mate, Carissa Gould.   What a journey it was, and oh, what a grand […]

Who is this kid?

Who is this kid and what has happened to my son?   Discovering that no TeenPact State Class was available in the state of Arkansas was a blow to our son, Mitchell. Moving to a new state was challenging enough, but no TeenPact? What even….   That year, 1999, Mitchell asked Mr. Echols if he could […]