A collection of professional articles and reflective writing focused on care in moments of crisis—exploring trauma, grief, presence, and the practices that help us meet others with compassion when life feels fragile.
Trauma-Informed Youth Ministry:
The Good Samaritan Way
A three-part series exploring how awareness, intentional presence, and compassionate response shape trauma-informed ministry with young people. Grounded in Scripture, lived experience, and the way of the Good Samaritan.
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Trauma Informed Youth Ministry: Becoming Aware
Read more: Trauma Informed Youth Ministry: Becoming AwareTeenagers today live under constant pressure, exposure, and scrutiny—while also navigating real, lived trauma at higher and more visible levels than many generations before them. Violence, loss, instability, and prolonged stress shape their inner worlds in ways we don’t always see. Trauma-informed youth ministry begins with awareness: noticing, being moved with compassion, and choosing presence…
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Trauma Informed Youth Ministry: Creating Space
Read more: Trauma Informed Youth Ministry: Creating SpaceSome of the most sacred moments in youth ministry arrive quietly—when someone risks telling the truth, the room pauses, and we realize we are not alone. These kairos moments don’t fix circumstances or answer every question, yet everything changes. Trauma-informed ministry recognizes how deeply trauma disrupts connection and belonging, and intentionally creates space where isolation…
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Trauma Informed Youth Ministry: Crisis Response
Read more: Trauma Informed Youth Ministry: Crisis ResponseWhen crisis strikes, young people need more than answers—they need presence, safety, and steady care. Trauma-informed youth ministry prepares leaders to respond thoughtfully in the midst of acute distress, drawing from the way of the Good Samaritan to offer help, hope, advocacy, and continued support when life feels overwhelming.
Related Care & Crisis Articles
Related Care & Crisis articles grounded in professional disaster response, trauma-informed care, and coordinated leadership during times of acute need.
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Offering Hope through Connection
Read more: Offering Hope through Connection“The church is not the doctor, not the treatment center, not the counselor—but the one who walks alongside.” This 2020 interview explores how faith communities can offer hope through connection, presence, and partnership in mental health and crisis care.
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Closer Than the Storm: Caring in Disaster
Read more: Closer Than the Storm: Caring in DisasterIn the wake of disaster, care is rarely dramatic—but it is deeply intentional. This article reflects on real-world disaster response, highlighting how trauma-informed leadership, coordinated systems, and steady presence help communities navigate the earliest moments of shock and loss.
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Resting Somewhere Deeper
Read more: Resting Somewhere DeeperThrough sorrow, uncertainty, waiting, tenderness, hope, and sacred moments at the edge of grief and delight, I’m slowly learning that I do not have to become every thought that passes through me—that there is a deeper way of inhabiting life with presence, groundedness, and Love