I am a junior in school. I worry about paying for college. I want to get a job to help with the college fees. I do not have a job. Sometimes I attend bible study. I don't read bible on the weeks I don't go to bible study. I haven't spoken to anyone at church. I am willing to help my local church community.
I am religious and study the bible. I enjoy my church community. I am a lay leader at my church. I think church would love to support Speaker 1's educational goals. I am retired and sometimes my friends like to hire young people to help themselves. I have a son who used our pastor as a reference for college and first jobs.
How old is your son? I would love to meet him and maybe talk to him about the church support He's 24 years old.  He'd love to answer any questions you have about it, I already ran it passed him. Ah he's at the point is his life where he is transitioning into being his own leader.  I would love to get to know him better, it's nice to have a mentor who's a little bit ahead of you, but still somewhat close in age. Yeah I think it would really be beneficial for both of you.  He also has a decent job that he was able to find through the church.  May be able to kill two birds with one stone! Wow that sounds absolutely terrific, I've been looking for a job for a while now without any success and I was starting to feel down on myself.  Do you know anyone else who's roughly my age at church? I'm thinking maybe we can form our own young person support group. Absolutely!  Our church actually has quite a few young adults that attend regularly.  As far as I know there aren't any groups yet, you could really make an impression!  Not just with the people your age, but the whole organization.   That would be wonderful, I know my attendance to some of the things I've signed up for hasn't always been great.  But this time I really want to face my problems head on, and I think having an environment with more young people would be perfect for keeping me accountable. I agree 100%.  Not only that, but these people are encouraging and are also there to make positive changes in their own lives.  You'd truly be helping yourself by helping others, and might even be able to change some of those habits into positive ones! Would you be willing to work with me to help get this group started?  I feel like we could really use your expertise and credibility early on. I would be happy to.  Let's start by getting you into a bible study class and get you acquainted with the members, then we can propose the group thing.  I feel it would be best for everyone to get to know one another before pitching the idea. Okay I think that's fair, I know I haven't been going to bible study regularly, but I certainly should start being more consistent to prove myself and get to know the community better. I don't think that you need to necessarily prove anything, it would just be good to get to know a few people first.  I don't think that the bible study is the main focus of attending, it's building good habits as well as making and following through on commitments.  It's a good skill to master now that will really come in handy the older you get.