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September 12, 2019

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?”     […]

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September 12, 2019

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 […]

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September 09, 2019

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 […]

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September 06, 2019

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 […]

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August 20, 2019

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 […]

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May 12, 2019

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, […]

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March 21, 2019

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 […]

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March 04, 2019

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 […]

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January 07, 2019

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 […]

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December 17, 2018

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 […]

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December 03, 2018

Celebrating 25


Twenty-five years of changing lives to change the world! This is more than a slogan, a vision statement or a tagline – it is the legacy of TeenPact Leadership Schools as we look forward to the 2019 State Class season. What started in 1994 as a single class of 18 students in the Georgia State […]

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