Youth Resources
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth…
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Our mission is to empower young people with the inspiration they need to thrive in their journey as sons and daughters of God.
UCG Youth Website
Enriching resources for young people seeking the wisdom of God are available on the United Church of God website (USA). These include sermons, articles, and study guides. Search by topic.
Live Bible Class
Vertical Thought Bible Classes are available for live viewing online. Archived classes are also available, including:
- Prudence—The Better Part of Valor
- Why God Created Woman – Her Vital Role in the Human and Divine Family
- MAN TO MAN: How does Jesus Christ define a “man” today?
- How to Be All Things to All People
- Dating True Love
- Right Versus Wrong: The Power of Discernment
- Childlike: To Be or Not to Be?
- A Missing Dimension of Leadership: Good Followers
- The World’s Most Radical Scripture About Jesus Christ
- Integrity of the Heart – Or What Would You Have Done at Gibeon?
- The Clash of Titus and Modern Society
Questions and Answers
UCG pastors welcome your questions on any Christian living or biblical subject that is of interest to you. All questions will be handled confidentially. They will reply by e-mail unless you request otherwise.
A compass is an instrument that helps guide us to where we need to go. It represents finding the way to a destination and keeping us from losing our way. Compass Check magazine is here to help young people point their spiritual compass in the right direction—towards God.
All of us have lots of questions about what life will bring. What will you be doing for the rest of your life? What will you need to study to learn a life-long skill? Who you will marry? What’s the best way to have the best possible relationship with a person for the rest of your life? What about the world around us? What’s going to happen to it?
Compass Check publishes articles to help answer those questions, and give you the tools to answer them from the Word of God yourself.
Life is a journey. Let’s walk together where we need to be by using the best compass of all—God.
Discussion Guide Series
Discover and understand the wisdom of the Bible with our Teen Bible Study Discussion Guides.
Created by volunteers, including young adults, ministers and concerned parents to offer some meaningful subjects to discuss with your youth group, the guides are not meant to be the definitive doctrinal paper on any subject but rather discussion starters. Use these at home in family discussion, with your friends, or with your church teen study group.
Ways to make the study discussion guides more profitable, include:
- Seek proofs,
- cite examples, and
- relate experiences.
Youth Magazine
Compass Check is a biblically based quarterly magazine for young people of the United Church of God, an International Association (UCGIA) aged 12-19. Our name, Compass Check, describes youth pointing their spiritual compass toward God.
The goal of the magazine is to inspire Christian youth to respond to the gospel message.
Teens — this magazine is written specifically to you and it is our hope that Compass Check will be encouraging and instructive for you and your family.
Compass Check magazine is available online in New Zealand.
"Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity."
1 Timothy 4:12
Enjoy getting serious about the Bible.
12 easy lessons covering foundational life themes for Bible students of any age.
