Ten Benefits of Using Wise as Serpents

Builds awareness among youth of the dangers they personally face through commercial sexual exploitation.
Pastors and teachers open up the Scriptures and catechism in a new way which equips our youth to face the fuile, recruitments, and lures of the world around them.
Pastors and teachers build relationships with youth and their parents in the face of a very real threat the world poses.
Pastors, teachers, and students see the Scriptures in a new way as how God equips us with Word, Sacraments, prayer, and Christian conversation and support.
Exposes the hurt of judgmentalism and the reality of treachery in daily life.
Builds compassion for those caught in many different traps.
Gives youth and their parents a chance to see what actions they can take to give a new kind of salty leadership in the church and community around them.
Builds in a real way one aspect of a congregation's commitment to be a "Safe Haven" for children and youth.
Helps youth realize the importance of being a disciple of Jesus and living out that discipleship right now.
Provides an opportunity for parents and their adolescents to get to know each other in ways to prevent much suffering they might experience in the future.

Created by Adults Saving Kids Minneapolis, MN (612) 872-0684