A quick rundown of what Seb is all about in case you didn't play Paragon and there are some differences between Paragon and predecessor. He has a passive that allows him to gain souls if he gets the last hit on a minion or hero with any ability. It used to be only soul siphon would do this but now it's any ability. Each soul sack gives him an extra 0.5 magic damage on his soul siphon ability and two additional health. When you reach certain amounts of the stacks your shoulders grow and you get additional health and magic damage. The soul siphon is his Q, it's a frontal cone of magical damage. His E ability is subjugate. This roots targets in the area.  Now I am not a jungler. I consider myself a support main that dabbles in mid and off lane a bit. I usually don't set foot in the jungle but I wanted to play as many heroes and positions as I could for you guys.  I'm going to try to do a better job in this particular video of pointing out the various features of predecessor's jungle.  With Cevrog I want to start with the blue buff.  This is going to help me with my clear as I'm trying to get my soul stacks.  So I get there we go. We got two stacks with one subjugate or one siphon. That's kind of the name of the game with Cevrog is getting as many stacks with one siphon as you possibly can. Through experience of playing the game these but these camps that have one large minion and two small ones give XP these camps with a whole host of minions are they give more gold than the other camps. So it doesn't really matter if you do a full clear you're still going to get the same amount of gold next to you anyway but these I like these smaller camps better with Cevrog because you just you just get more stats off of them right and yeah it wasn't worth waiting I think for that particular one and let's see if we can get that one the subjugate there we go. So as long as I'm landing abilities to get these last hits I'm in the clear. So at three minutes the river buff spawn this is a green buff this will give me a shield which is quite good for junglers and I'm going to as I'm passing through even if this gank isn't successful I do want to just at least show my presence and help our bellica get that other jungle camp as long as their mid laner knows that we're in the area they're gonna they're gonna be a little a little cautious you know what I mean so just showing your face is oftentimes enough and while I'm going through the jungle I will be looking for any opportunities where the enemy team is pressed up just a little too far so I can get that gank in. Now we'll go ahead and clear the red buff camp it's worth mentioning you see the item it's called hunt you see that in my action bar it looks like a dagger what that does when minions large enough minions it doesn't work for the small minions but camps like fangtooth the red and blue buffs or the prime or the mini prime will get auto executed once they get to a certain health threshold this automatically gives you stacks as well so you don't have to finish these minions with an ability because your hunt will do that for you and give you those stacks and now the subrog is pushed up pretty far so let's see if we can get a gank we know that we don't have to worry about the off laner the jungler is here I wanted to come in and counter jungle but Kalari I'm not afraid of her I've got a level up on her I've got red buff I don't have full mana but I'm not afraid of an early game Kalari when the subrog and then here comes Fing Mal to help out as well and he he was nice enough to back up and give me the stack that's a good thing now right there thanks buddy a first back I'm picking up brimstone which radiates damage around you I thought this was a mistake because I thought the brimstone was killing off minions and not allowing me to get stacks turns out if minions died to the radiating damage or around you from brimstone you still get the stacks from that so this is definitely a worthwhile item to pick up one subrog hopefully it'll be that way in the future and right here you go see my inexperience getting the best of me should have focused sparrow in this fight but I saw this low ass Darbash and I thought I could get a stack with the with subjugate on him but I couldn't poor Kalari if you don't see her coming she's very dangerous but you see her coming like this and it's just easy easy kill and we get the subjugate which means we get soul stacks off of that so thank you for the soul stacks Kalari if jungler and support are dead this would have been the optimum time to get fangtooth but instead I'm just going to counter jungle the middle lane bellica just isn't pushed up far enough for me to effectively gank either so it's just better to just starve out the enemy jungler of their camps while getting more stacks for myself and now she's pushed up a little further yeah dig that up went ahead and grab the river buff more for stacks than anything but it did give me purple which is a extra ability damage and that works on heroes or minions and now I'm finally making the call to go for fangtooth should have done this a lot earlier fang tooth is very important the first time you take fangtooth it increases your buff duration for your entire team not a big deal but the second time you take fangtooth it gives you 8% increased movement speed when out of combat that's for everybody on your team that is huge way bigger than you think it is the third time you take fangtooth you get 6% increased magical armor physical armor magical of power and physical power for your entire team and then if you take it a fourth time you get another 6% and then another it just keeps adding up it's a it is really nice to get as many fangtooth buffs as you possibly can I think enough enough fangtooth buffs just cancels out or prime because or prime is it permanent a fangtooth buff is permanent the jungle camps and predecessors level up and give you even more gold and experience the more times you kill them but they only level up when they're dead so that it is worth it to keep going back in and clearing your jungle over and over again I ended up playing this extremely poorly I did I didn't get either the severog or the sparrow with that subjugate just poor targeting or my part lack of experience with severog another thing I have my ultimate I should be throwing a subjugate well diving in throwing a subjugate and then knocking someone out of this tower so that my team could pick up the kill on them I sparrow took tower shots for no reason luckily I got that subjugate on the enemy sparrow where she would have been dead but um yeah I played that very poorly I could have done way better and I don't I have no idea what happened with my initial initial subjugate there I should have gotten both Narbash and sparrow he thunk me afterwards like I'd already targeted it and threw it down so I don't know what exactly happened there maybe it was a bug maybe it was just me fat fingering shit you know I don't know that should have been a kill on both of them we didn't end up getting an ultimate kill on Narbash which gives us some soul stacks would have preferred I have killed the sparrow I went ahead and just cut out some of the time I spent the item shop I spent way too much time searching digging through items in predecessor that's kind of what you want to do with severog you just want to pull it off way more smoothly than I did just now you want to bat them away with your ultimate and then catch them with a subjugate whenever they land that's like a kind of like a classic severog combo right there grabbing our second page of the game again we should have been taking these a lot more a lot more often this is the one that's going to give us out of combat we're heading to prime right now and it just hit 20 minutes so this is the big prime this is the prime major whatever you want to call it it's no longer mini prime and I've got to hand it to Omeda Studios they really made the objectives tough like you definitely have to have your team there whenever you're taking these objectives you see steel is almost dead I get crushed almost immediately when it focuses attention on me this is definitely a team objective or a or a Chimera objective if you got a good Chimera this thing's crushing us so we have got to get out unfortunate I'm fucking fortunate when you do take the the or prime your entire team gets a 30% damage increase for a set period of time and when you're around your minions they get a buff that gives them I think attack speed and power and it makes them a little stronger it just gives your minions a boost makes it easier to take down towers and objectives and you see right there I was waiting for siphon for those minions however it seems like the radiating fire blossom whatever the hell damage thing I have actually gave me stacks we've got a big fight going on mid I want to focus in on sparrow but man I missed my subjugate and then Narbash starts the channel crash bang boom so I knocked him away to stop that I should have just stayed on sparrow did not think Mal took her out in that fight but yeah that's that's my one death this match and it's because I screwed up I should have stayed on the sparrow I should have hit that initial subjugate but it happens I'll learn from it the team is taking another shot at four primes I'm gonna come in here and help out steel soaking up all kinds of damage good on him and now we're gonna come in and we do have a little bit of healing for this and we do have our hunt which will well I mean it's been upgraded to buy now but it'll still give us stacks and give us an execute on the orb prime boss and this is going to set up our team for a nice final push and you saw that even though it had still had quite a bit of health left I was able to execute it with that with that item that I picked up at the beginning so very important predecessor to pick up correct jungle items if you wish to jump and from here is just a matter of force jamming our beefed up minions into their tower without dying and we do that long enough we're gonna win this video game we probably could have ended this match much sooner if I would have been a more aggressive several that pretty much wraps it up I hope you guys enjoyed the video hope you found it informative I know I made tons of mistakes on several like I said I'm not a jungle player I certainly don't hardly ever play several in the jungle I like rocks like rocks in the jungle but yeah that is going to be it for now folks if you like 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This is the beginning of Lyndon's campaign for the Senate in the spring of 1941. He's arriving in Austin stepping briskly Herbert Henderson on the left. He was our brain trust of the and Ray Roberts on the right and that's Charlie Marsh out of the paper. Here's Herbert Henderson and That's Harold young following him either then or later. He worked for vice president Wallace a campaign billboard That was present all over the state of Texas You remember the famous picture it came from where he was shaking hands with Rosewood in the middle with Jimmy Already and all of us taken out now. Here we are shaking hands with Carol Keach He's about to begin Campaigning by car all over the state with Carol Keats to drive him and Herbert Henderson to go along Help him write speeches. He is leading Temple Texas where he was in the hospital It's gotten white clinic At the very beginning of the campaign a Huddle John Connelly on the left now governor Herbert Henderson a very much slimmer lenders Lendon, this is a rally in Austin We are being met at the airport by a group of friends and this is the bus that went all over the state a Caravan of airplanes off in a cup nager and in those posters Now here's one of our opponents Martin dies this is on the courthouse square of some little east Texas town Nacogdoches, I believe in a moment. We'll see Look in a moment and you'll see how difficult it is to campaign Across about 30 feet of concrete when you're trying to really look into the eyes of your audience He probably was mad at his advanced man Nacogdoches, that's right You see your audience in those days Wasn't too numerous and he's giving them all the old glad to see you partner Congressman Martin dies was in at the height to this theme as head of the unamerican activities committee His name was known throughout Texas Look at the faces of the Texas voters as they fire past Now here's another opponent man the young attorney general called a little red arrow because he had been a Famous football player You will notice the same gesture repeated. He is on the steps of the courthouse at Marshall my hometown home town Once more take a look at their electorate As they listen with varying degrees of interest I'm happy to say he's since become one of our strongest friends and supporters and Here is another opponent W. Lee o Daniel who flashed like a comet across the Texas political scene and this This is on the courthouse square at Marshall also You see there's his His daughter will appear in a moment taking up a collection In a little barrel and these are the voters assembled to hear Their hero like an old Confederate veteran in those days. It was always one a never political crowd and This is his band a famous word about him was used to when he'd come to a question that he didn't know quite how to get into he is a strike up a piece and here comes Strike up a piece Leon and here's a W. Leo Daniel himself Pat the old annual Patty and that is the Confederate Monument there. There was always one in every courthouse square That is his daughter Who lately went to Hollywood and married several times Molly with her name very pretty girl She's taking up the contributions. There's the old veteran saying hello Solitary listener now there is my little niece Diana Taylor. She's going around distributing leaflets for Johnson You'll notice once more The picture that we use so much with Jimmy already blacked out in the middle of blessing He wouldn't mind. He was our greatest helper Now here's a little plane that Lyndon flew all over Texas in He had just been on a trip to the valley as I recall and He is landing at Marshall not much of an airport as you'll observe He's being met by Cameron McElroy on the left and Here he is with his band We called her the Kate Smith of the south This is also on the courthouse square at Marshall. It's just about sundown. That's why the light is so poor That is Harfield Weedon the emcee of the show on the right There's the courthouse square at sunset and here's another one. We had 28 opponents in that race This is one of the lesser ones John C. Williams Too bad there wasn't enough light left Because I'd be sure to pick out a lot of friends in the crowd. I look at the careful expression on the face of voters Now here on the courthouse steps at Denison The speaker's district look at the mustaches Mustaches and overalls and blue shirts and sweaty faces. It was a hot day That is me just writing the whole writing Miller's mother of Bonham Now it's a sound truck that went with us or preceded us rather all over the state sometimes there would be more than 20 Speeches a day. It was a grueling pace The area is shaking hands with all the voters. There's a man telling him just how to do it And here are the state headquarters and the Stephen F. Austin hotel in Austin Rose Rose Jean Lasseter and here is a scenographic pool very capably run and And there's Betty Long. It is Bob Long one of my and there's John Connelly and Jake Pickle now congressman and Nellie Connelly now the first lady of Texas Maybe rather our secretary for ages Doug Singleton of Houston John wary at the end of a day's work Herbert Henderson's younger brother Charles Mrs. Johnson in the bed in the moment. You'll see her voting And a bunch of the girls waiting to receive us in temple. Mrs. Johnson is in the hospital at temple Harold young and here is London being met by a group of young supporters Buck hood Carol Keats who drove us all over Texas editor of a small town newspaper now Son-in-law of San for and there I am that hat in suit went all over Texas a Night rally some of the gestures have persisted through the years Wait was not his problem then Sometimes he's sweat down three or four soups a day Harfield Weedon over on the right the MC All I did in those days was wait and look this is in competition with a carnival never try to do it I believe that this rally was in Dallas. There's Herbert. I think they see how weary he is Alice Hopkins was in the belly Hopkins on the left What's the editor mrs. Baldwin on the right? There's mrs. Johnson just out of the hospital at Scott and white a Little girl presenting roses and at Lendon's two sisters Lucia on the left. Josefa on the right and there's mrs. Arthur Scott Mayor Tom Miller the never was but one mayor like Tom Miller on the left and Now that's a long line of cars Malcolm Bardwell of San Antonio I hear we all are on the stage mrs. Johnson his two sisters and I For a big rally and I believe San Antonio There was not much air conditioning in those days And you'll notice that styles are different too Ellie Jones in the back My old familiar hat and suit Ed Cape of San Marcos great lawyer great friend Dottie mucker Roy with whom Lendon had a date the first night. We met Ellie Jones on the right There's mr. Ed Cape at his summer retreat where we've had so many happy times Jean boring a lasseter Who introduced me to Lendon? My brother TJ Taylor of Jefferson He was our county manager in Marion County and deep East Texas in every election that we were ever in his wife Sarah his business that Jefferson holds their grocery and Some of his clerks and his wife Girl of the second on the left is now mrs. Curtis Barnes who's with the foreign service and stationed all over the world one of the few Negro voters in Marion County He voted in every election and there's Dottie mucker Roy Johnson going in an Old Texas newspaper man Mayor Reese Lockett of Brennam Roy high-pines of Houston the best campaigner that ever was here's Roy He was our manager in Houston Put in just about as many hours and as much vitality as Lendon did there is a very weary candidate At the end of some long hours Back with our entertainers once more Half your weed and always managed somehow but to be immaculate good showmanship too Notice the flag Ain't Jesse I believe Now here we are in Blanco It is election day and Lendon has stopped in Blanco to see some of the hometown folks Here we are walking up to the courthouse in Johnson City. That was a sheriff cast Paris here We are voting in the old County courthouse into Johnson City Notice the big X There's Lendon with his mother and here am I at least I had a different blouse There's the sheriff mr. Cast Paris. He's telling him high Had order been done Lendon and his mother on the front porch of the house where he spent his growing up years His cousin Tom Martin master of ceremonies. There's Uncle Tom Johnson Tom Martin's waving his arms. There's the assembled citizenry of Johnson City welcoming their hometown boy The last day of the campaign Colonel E. O. Thompson and there on the platform with us is dr. C.E. Evans president of Southwest Texas State Teachers College gave Lendon his first job Nobody got more enthusiasm out of my life campaign than he did Tom Martin on his left is the porch off the house and there is mrs. Johnson making a speech and a very wonderful speech It was I can remember it still The boyhood home in Johnson City the porch of the boyhood home in Johnson City Well, and I'm there from about 1913 so until we married Except when he was off at college on a job There's dr. Evans How happy he was There's Aunt Frank mrs. Martin from whom we later bought the ranch house where we now live Mrs. Glidden the postmistress One of the old trail drivers There was always an old trail driver at every one of our speeches in those days There are no more left and in here is the barbershop in Johnson City Once Lendon aged about eight or ten Had a shoe shining job in just such a barbershop I think it was across the street then and most of his customers were returned Servicemen from the first world war He put an ad in the Johnson City record courier Best shine in town, but his daddy didn't like it at all And there's Lendon in front of Casparis cafe greeting some of the old-timers and there's corky cops his little cousin and Look at the headlines. This is the night of the election Johnson leads in state And there's Lendon with Carol Keach watching the returns and Lendon's mother and his sister Rebecca on the left His sister Lucia There's Lendon and there's me. We're watching what's happening Bill Deeson on the right Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Perry Two of the few aristocrats who with us and wealthy people Ray Lee newspaper editor Volome Odom miss Jamie Odom We lived in the hotel for about three days. It was a long count on Saturday night We were so much ahead that then you asked John on the left there's senator works on the right But the newspapers announced us elected the Texas election bureau, which is the Dallas news Gave out our election. We received over 3,000 congratulatory telegrams. We worked toward hiring a staff That's mr. Sam Ford editor the small town newspaper in Floresville there's Mrs. AJ works there We are on the back porch of the senator's home, but to get back to the story They lead narrowed some counties in deep east Texas and Martin bias district began to come in on Monday With substantial differences here. I think we must be getting the news is getting worse now I think it's still getting worse it's narrowing on Monday and Tuesday and on Wednesday O Daniel pulled ahead with about 1,300 in something there's Mary rather one smile That's Gordon Fulcher editor the paper About three days that we lived in the hotel at the mrs. Buck hood Excellent feature story writer We are all putting on a Brave front there The last sequence of this film is lost. It was just about my favorite Lost somewhere in the last 20 years and 20 or more moves It was London in a ruffled seersucker suit, but a very jaunty smile and a in a jaunty walk Going out to catch a plane to return to Washington in July of 1941 About a month later. He cast a vote in the house of representatives to keep the draft at the urgence of Speaker Sam Rayburn The vote won by a margin of one So it was all right that we lost Sometime you are in the right place at the right time and sometimes it Seasons you and strengthens you and Gives you an opportunity to learn But I'll always remember the campaign of 1941 It's just about my favorite campaign


I am with Grace Kinotea. She is a psychologist to help us in this discussion. Karusana Grace. Thank you. How are you feeling? I'm good. Thank you so much. Okay, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. We are talking about mental health awareness and particularly reducing suicide. If you look at these numbers, look at the reason. It's just recently that we had a particular student, a pupil, who was accused of stealing pencils and committed suicides because of that. When you look at these numbers, what comes through your mind? One, we have two ways of looking at it. Is it that now we are getting the number because we are more aware of there's been now the conversation on suicide or what's happened before but you are not aware. Okay. But then it also means that especially during COVID, the numbers tend to have increased because of pressure, societal expectations, struggles, issues, change transitions. When things get unpredictable, it means it has an impact on your mental health as well. So it means it tends to go on the rise because one again, did we have support systems to ensure that mental health was taken care of, which is a no. So you tend to see that the numbers have been increasing. Then also again, when you also look at it this way, most of the time now because we're in the suicide awareness month, suicide is not like a one type thing. This is something that has been building up. So once we get the triggers, then you find that's why we are working time bombs. So once you trigger, then most people think, what next, suicide? What next? And that's the first thing that comes in your mind. I'm looking at men and women. Okay. Why are we seeing men doing it more than women? What is it that we need to change to have these numbers reduced, especially from the side of men? Because as a man, I'm also concerned. Okay. The highest cost of whatever contributes highly is depression. And you find that depression is very high among men. The African culture ideally I think world oil. Men are inbuild to shut down, go silent on the issue and not speak more about it. Why else compared to women? For a woman, if I meet a fellow lady here and say, hi, most life issue, how are you doing? And I'll complain you, the traffic 1, 2, 3. I can meet a fellow lady and start complaining about the kids or whatever has happened. But men are built to be, how is it? I'm trying. I'm okay. But then you find that they're building in a lot. And what happens when you build in a lot? Depression comes in or it starts by being, it could be mild then it turns out chronic. So you find that men tend to be at higher risk. Then also the way the African society has built us is more like it's a weakness to ask for help as a man especially. It's a weakness to say I can't do it. Then there also, it's more demanding to be a man than it is to be a woman. As much as the roles, a man feels like, as a lady I can say, you know what, my finances are not okay. Who will I go to the man? But for a man before you get to the point whereby, you know what, my finances are not okay. I need help. It's a bit hard. They don't have anyone to go to. They don't have themselves. No really, because I believe there are a lot of people who have no idea that men are struggling. Because most of the time men have a skill masking up or maning up what they have been taught. So you find that at times if you ask maybe around anybody who has a man who is depressed or a man struggling with mental health issues or even the ladies around you could ask, have you ever had a man struggling? They would be like yes, how long did it take you for you to know that? They would be like when they were breaking down at the end point. Because you find most likely men don't come straight forward and say, you know what, I'm struggling. You know for a lady she is going to hit her toe and she is going to complain about it the whole day. But I think maybe it's that men have not learned the skill of communicating and speaking out. And also I think because it's an ego issue whereby that's where they hold their ego. They need to look all good having it all together. All macho. Yeah exactly. You must be compact. You are the one who should be in charge. Let's talk about something different by the way ladies and gentlemen. If we are to have this particular discussion we need to have solutions. Let's talk about how can we approach men? How can we tell our men to be open with us? It's okay to cry. It's okay to let go. Is this something that women have a big role to play when it comes to changing the perspective of the men? True because you find that. I normally challenge men because there is this conversation whereby men most of the time are going to say, you know you have empowered the girl child, you have left the man behind. But then most of the time you will ask, who is empowering the girl child? We will ask you. Who empowers the girl child? The whole society, everybody. Women started complaining. So the women are empowering the girl child? Exactly. If you find that it's very easy for me to jump even on the streets and see a lady suffering. I'll be like, no, something's wrong. I need, how can this lady end? Nothing might disturb a lady the whole day or even call somebody and come in and help. But for men you'll just pass by and that's okay. But most of the time, when was the last time you met a young boy or you thought you needed to step up for a young gentleman? You find that men don't do that. But then by the end of the day you want to say inequality. You know women are the ones who have been given more. Women are doing this, women are doing that. But it's women who stand in for each other. But men don't have that thing. We have meant that to that. But also you find that even us women are still the same people who are standing up for the boy child. And then we still need to convince the gentleman to stand in for the boy child. So, okay. And I'm drawn from the psychological point of view as a psychologist. I'm drawn to this narration where somebody hears a man saying mum's stressed. I'm worried. I don't know what to do. I feel like giving up. They say, be a man. Be a man. But I am the woman in this house. You be the man. Is that what should be said? Is that how it should be addressed? Stress? No, because again you find that mental health is another. It's like a illness, like any other. So if your man comes home and says I'm having a headache. Most likely it's like can I get you painkillers? Can you rest? If you say I'm having a backache, you need to get checked by the doctor. How comes to make it so different when it comes to mental health? It's because I think one is lack of awareness. This whole concept, I think we started recently understanding. I don't know when was the first time you had the term suicide. How old were you? Suicide. I don't know. I can't tell. Mental health? Mental health I've been hearing it like forever. And initially I was associating it with madness. And maybe that's maybe when you're in campus or something. We were above 18 or something. So you find that we have not been educated that mental health is an illness. Like you know the way you can have anything else in your body undergoing. And then it's chronic. You've not been taught like these are sickness like any other.  It doesn't happen like that. You need to be empathetic. You need to look for ways to get for help. So for anybody else, when you come from the point where you understand this is an illness like any other, then it makes you more human. You sit down and say how can you step in? How can I help you? So I think that's the first point. So we need to have discussions where we are asking each other how can I step in? How can I help you? As a man it's okay for you to do this. And then we will help the men. Let's talk about the women. Mental health, suicide rates particularly. We are seeing women although the numbers are fewer than men but it doesn't mean that it's not as important. How can we also help our women in terms of reducing this suicide rate? I think again we should import mental health as a agenda issue whereby you see when you talk about cancer, HIV, ETC we don't specifically say how do we help men with HIV? How do we help women with HIV? When we look at it generally as a health issue I think the bigger question is how do we step in for the society? But then again because you asked about women how do you support women? I think it comes from education awareness because most people don't even understand. Like when most people are undergoing mental health people don't know how to watch out when I'm being depressed. People don't know how to watch out when I'm being suicidal. I'm looking at it from this angle as Grace and this is one discussion that I've had several where I've seen people ask about the men. It's all about men, men, men. Unless you have I rarely hear a discussion where we are saying that let's talk about it generally All I hear is men reducing suicide in the man, in the man, in the man. Is it not so? It's the same thing. Also when you look at things that now contribute most of the things that contribute to men being suicidal is gender based violence. But then again you find that the flip side now of gender based violence people don't talk about men being undergoing gender based violence, GBV they talk about women. And suicides we talk about men. Not understanding it's something that happens on both sides. So then again when you look for suicide in women I think the question would be why? What's the common dominator among the women who have been committing suicide? Most of the time you find it's relationship issues financial issues most of the times and work stress related issues. Good, good, good. So you agree with me? Yes. I've just said the flip side of gender based violence. Okay, okay. Now I'm looking at the high rates in terms of our children our school going kids. Yes you say as a society we need to talk about it. But what is the role of our education institutions our education system our learning institutions when it comes to this suicide prevention and awareness. Because we had recently a pupil who committed suicide in school after being accused of stealing a pension. There's another who committed suicide after failing to acquire a certain grade in class. How can we reduce that? What we need to do for our education sector? Okay, there are schools that have been open to having psychologists in personally like we run programs in schools there are schools that have been open to come to the basics of mental health. You see like how you teach the basics about hygiene there are people who have been open to integrate be it once a week or something which starts with awareness. Once these kids are able to learn this is what mental health is this is how I know when I'm stressed this is how I know I can reach out to anybody then it becomes easier for them to be able to recognize then when you give the soft skills the life skills that we need how do you know failure is not the end of life how are you able to tackle challenges how do you know if somebody accuses you it doesn't have to impact your identity that's a them issue what are you issue how do you stand up for yourself how do you seek for help or how do you you know sit down and have this conversation how do we even teach our kids not to bully each other you know in terms of if somebody has told you something how do you report to the right person and say hey this is how and even the conflict resolution methods the basic soft skills that we need as human beings so if those are integrated in schools then we would bring up a generation that has less trauma less mental health issues because people have the skills because these are still the same things that we are struggling with as adults and even as talk about it teachers in schools also need to have an approach towards it do you think do you agree with that and is there a way that our teachers can help our kids whether it's good because now for example in boarding the parent isn't available it is the teacher that's available how can the teachers play a role in regards to how they interact with students I think it begins with self-awareness is the teacher aware of mental health because you can't give something that you're not aware of so if the teachers were trained to recognize or to monitor these things once you know like this is how somebody is sick when they start coughing the sense and symptoms if every teacher was equipped in this then it means that's the basic part whereby they're able to know a student is not okay this is how schools have peer counselors and then they can take that further from the psychological perspective because that's your profession what are some of these scenarios that you've encountered during your time as you interact with people that have stood out when it comes to this issues of suicide case and just to mention just but a few and how have you managed to go through them and handle them and how do we copy paste that approach to the world where we say you know what in cases like this we need to do this and that for me the greatest thing that I've learnt over time is life skills is key or skills people need and then that's something most people have lack because most of the time by the time somebody is ending up into society as I said when you try and maybe backtrack how did this start what happened you find most of the three the three things that have found that people are lacking or maybe four things is one people lack self awareness when it comes to the identity whereby the identity is attached to a lot of things so once if your identity is attached to your family once your family has gone your undergoing separation or divorce that's it you know you feel like your life purpose is over then something else we've not been able to integrate in our society is self care we were never taught how do you take you know create your boundaries how do you take care of your mind how do you take care of yourself that's something else I've learnt how to you know people lack the skills of how to go by the other thing will be transition whereby people don't know like for example when COVID happened we didn't have an idea like when hard times come this is how you transit this is how you move very fast most people were confused and people got into you know depression stress, etc because things were changing very fast so another thing you know when people lose their jobs people don't get warnings like you know at times you go to your work and you told in the next one week we are retrenting people and that's it when people undergo things like death this gravy process so transition most of the things people don't know how to transition from one state or we don't have the skills to enable us transition the other things that are found now leading to society is finances and relationships combined so you find that most people or even stress and depression you find that most people are going to end up depressed because they lack financial management skills so you ask them you ask them why you stress but when you follow up it's because I don't have money so even if you take this person through therapy even if you take them they're down like for a whole year if they don't have money they'll never be okay because they need you know be it entrepreneur skills how do they get their money or things in order that's what they need to learn when it comes to relationship if somebody is not in the right relationship or they don't know how to be in the right relationship you find even if you sit down talk to them and they're still in the abusive place or talk the place or they don't know how to handle it then it's a cycle and do we have those cases that you've interacted with that's what we do for a living so you find that those are the common issues every time somebody walks in I was even telling a friend the other day most of the time you can even there's a season especially from July going downwards I think it was mostly relationship issues and we were speaking to professionals like okay I hope today we can get something different other than me each day we get a different channel because you sit down and every day the relationship and you're like okay you're not becoming a relationship expert by the end of the day so you end up specializing with one thing but you find that most of the things that's what has been happening now Grace I want us to narrow it down let's bring it home to the family to the basic level where we are looking at an interaction between a parent and a child and we are looking at changes because you mentioned awareness etc how should we address suicide rates at the family level from the home where we have people who stay together every single day it starts from communication conversations when we are teaching our kids I'm a parent now by virtue of that when we are teaching our kids by whereby we are teaching them hygiene we take time to teach them this is how you wash your hands this is how you do one, two, three when we are teaching most of our kids about sexual health reproductive literacy we take time to do the whole disclaimer which there are some problems that have a problem with that still which isn't it there is the importance of that or either way when you are teaching your kids strangers danger how to protect yourself we say are we able to start these conversations from the basics we eat even three years old how was your day and the child would say good what made it good you start in that conversation and the child can say bad what made it bad and if they are not able because you also learn something interesting I've learned for adults most adults only know emotions good but okay fine and if you ask them anything past that anything beyond that they don't know what to label their emotions but if we are able to go down for the kids and teach them how to label the emotions and teach them why and it is not small talk it doesn't mean you don't have anything to say they just concern you are trying to make them open up to understand themselves better yes and when they are able to do that if they say I was frustrated what made you frustrated a certain kid 1, 2, 3 okay where do you think they did that what was your role in it and they can say nothing if they say nothing maybe if you see a role they played you empower them enough to have that conversation and if they feel maybe bullied their esteem is down that's the part you start training them have to have a better esteem or higher esteem so that by the next time they are feeling frustrated they don't they are not struggling how do I go home and say I was frustrated but because there's a conversation that started early enough they know even frustrated or even feeling helpless I can always call somebody and they will listen to me because most of this young adults or teenagers that are struggling is because that is not a conversation they've ever had and that's why families need to have discussions at home talk about how their day has been talk about how their mind how they feel talk about sexual issues talk about sanitization talk about everything at home so that if your child goes through something in school they'll be able to come and tell you that this is what I've been going through because you started it at home and it's very important because you find that your child will never be bullied your child will never be harassed by a policeman because even if I make a mistake home is a safe place I can go admit at home I made a mistake and there's no shame there's no bullying I won't feel guilty about it because home I have people who are going to sit down and correct me and tell me you know what yes you made a mistake this will be the consequences but how do we learn to do better because families are different and sometimes having these discussions isn't as easy as we make it sound on TV talk to a parent today who is wondering how can I reach to my child because some parents have the struggle I'm trying to reach out to them I've tried nima muliza ma suali I've asked him questions I've tried to engage him but I'm not reaching out because some say he's just an introvert yet we are seeing children committing completing as some say suicide is it possible for a parent to detect it on time and handle it amicably and how can they do that yes it's possible one you need to be to learn your child because anybody who is most of the time there always the signs there always the same terms you need to be very you need to be attuned to your child you need to be attentive to your child you need to pay attention of the small things and you need to offer that safe space and this only means that it doesn't attempts also speak about your rough days at work to your child exactly it doesn't mean necessary you're trying to vent them out but you can speak to them when you know the boundaries of how you're supposed to represent yourself attempts our kids don't think we're struggling as adults the kids will look up to their parents at perfect human beings and for them the greatest issue is how can I be like my mum how can I be like my dad they have no idea so they feel like if I come to you you won't understand but are you able to say attempts work is but this how we manage it and they are able to come back and ask this what I am going through how can I manage it if you feel you're not understanding your child attempts you can even walking for family therapy or counseling or it is here with the child and start that journey together because it's never too late okay yeah is it possible for a parent to pick up suicidal tendencies from the child yes from whom yes okay most of the time if you learn your child is acting differently if you learn your child has been stressed if you learn your child is having a hard time and maybe they don't want to go back to school they don't want to engage certain family members you say the part where they say no and you think no you just been spoiled that conversation if they say no are you able to sit down and say why are you saying no if they say I don't feel like talking about it to you can you offer can I get you a professional or can you talk to your aunt who are you comfortable speaking with because maybe they are now 16 and you've never had that conversation so it's not something that is going you know start into it and they're going to start opening up and they're going to say you know when you're serving this one but if you offer them and also it's been mature enough to understand I can't do it if I can't do it I'll allow somebody else to do it who are these people that parents should feel free with to allow their child to talk to because I'm looking at a scenario where a parent is asking themselves this question who is the best person to talk to my child and they're confused so they end up doing nothing and they end up wanting to address these issues on their own so when you can ask your child I think you're undergoing something and I'd like you to talk to a trusted person you can come to me you can go to a teacher or you can go to a professional once you offer those then family are different there are people who have good family structures they have good sisters brothers you can go to your aunt or your uncle so you can offer the child and the child can say okay yes I'm going to speak to a certain aunt and the aunt thereby can decide you know your family and you know how the level of capacity people are capable of if not you can decide let's go to for a professional counselor it's going to be confidential you can go speak to somebody and that's it do religious also play a role here yes they do I know there's this conflict between professionals and religious leaders but then again you find that you know when suicide was very prevalent of very high when the time covid we never went for churches or something the only some some of the people are holding it or they have faith or hope is because they're able to go to church if you take away their religion out of they don't have somebody who struck me and woke up today because they know God exists or their higher power exists whoever they believe in and that's what's keeping that person going on now some parents get a complaint from a child say dad I will kill myself and the parent says go do it I'll bury you and you'll move on what do you think about that so as again I say mental health is not in illness it's not like something to sit down and opt you know what I'm going to it's not a choice but the time it gets then also we need to society is the last result it's normally the last thing that we see or the last way of communication that it means something has been building up within them it's been long time and you are not able to pick up so this is the end part whereby you've seen you know you've just seen at the tip where these have been there down and it's just rain of the tip so I think the thing would be are you able to want it's an illness they didn't choose they didn't wake up today and decide what do I want to do once you understand you're dealing with a sick person it's a process it's a process then that becomes easier for you to know a sick person needs to be in hospital so do not address your child like that no, not even your child even your friend even your friend it's an illness and something else you need to know that person is a danger to you in the society what if they decide they're going to suicide bomb themselves you're also involved if they decide to do it in the house what if they decide they're going to do it with the other kids or whoever if they if it's a colleague they decide to do it at work and everybody's at work so once we understand there's an illness and we need to seek for help and ask for help and tell people you know what this person needs support let us give them the right support system now I want us to bring this discussion to a close let's go to the workplace we've seen people commit suicide because of work how can we help here again having systems in the workplace that allow us to communicate having teachers who are empowered enough to notice these things having supervisors and manager your positions people who are able to be empowered there are also workplaces there is one that is it the UK just came up with whereby we have established systems in the workplace and they train people to do that and I think it's also been replicated around in Benin, Africa whereby we empower people in the workplace whereby they're supposed to just learn how are you able to create a non-toxic workplace a place that is able to have mental health integrated in the workplace especially the sea suits because they are mostly given so much stress the sea suits kinds of people so we need to have a department in every institution that talks about that does cancelling and guidance yeah we also need to have whereby like the workplaces whereby you need a mental health report to every year you need to have attended sessions so they ensure it is stamped by the professional and every time when you the year is starting maybe it's every January or every July you have to take it there wow yeah I want us to bring this discussion to a close and I want to give you time to have a final word what would be your parting short and I would like you to talk to all Kenyans while watching you this fine Monday morning especially the youth that is your camera your parting short as we bring this discussion to a close okay I'll say again as audience so said is an anas mental health is an anas sick help it's an emergency if you find somebody who is undergoing who has societal tendencies societal thoughts societal attempts that's an emergency and it's okay not to be okay you can always reach out wow and how can they get a hold of you okay Instagram jitunze.com Facebook jitunze Twitter jitunze wellness numbers is plus two five four seven triple one double eight three hundred say it one more time plus two five four seven triple one double eight three hundred and of course on Facebook is that jitunze yeah jitunze get a hold of her let's talk about this it will help you okay because we need each other and of course we love each other express love show love and mean it true love is what makes the world go round exactly does Grace thanks so much for coming I appreciate it thank you for having me and of course that business to the end of this morning conversation right here on matters concerning health remember it has been all about suicide prevention and awareness I hope you've learned something I sure have my name is Ram Aguko it's been a pleasure being with you we're taking a short break right now in the morning but we'll be back with more in a bit


Hi everyone, welcome back. Hope you got something to refresh yourself, water, coffee, chai. Alright, let's continue discussing what we were discussing. Some of the challenges that the youth are facing in the last session, we discussed both the challenges that the youth pastors are experiencing, youth ministers, youth leaders, and then we began to look at some of the challenges that the youth of this generation, of this DNA, are experiencing. We began with mental health and loneliness and the number of choices that's available and with time. And some of the more challenges that we all are aware of is, say, sexuality, sexual purity in society where pressure and temptation exists and identity.  We are living in a day and age where media is just teaching or the culture is kind of portrayed where sex has no consequence and it requires no commitment. Sex before marriage is fine, having multiple sexual partners is fine and starting at a very young age is absolutely fine because that's the idea it's been portrayed. And I say media, mainstream media, I'm talking about every stream of media from movies, etc. Movies are one of the big things, but yes, it's not the only thing. I'm talking about identity. You know, again, the loneliness is kind of birthed out of this place saying self-birth is not there or insecurity. Everything is based on looks and so sexuality, identity and absence of a father figure. The point is more so in the North American continent and it might not be entirely accurate to every other demographic but that is a very real point. The absence of a father figure or a broken family can be relatable in a multicultural context. Negative media influence, right? To be worthwhile, you must be beautiful and avoid pain and pursue pleasure at all costs. You have one life, go to whatever you want to do, right? And yeah, as I mentioned, sex is a recreational pursuit. There's no consequences and everybody does it so no big deal. It's a recreational pursuit. There is no consequences and because there's no consequences that leads to young people advocating for a pro-choice. That's the big debate now. One of the big debates now is pro-choice versus pro-life.  So that's another challenge there. And these are all very real challenges, right? And then violence and vengeance, money brings happiness. This constant pursuit of just the dependence of technology like we've spoken already, right? So these are all the challenges. Now, challenges is a good starting place for us to know how we can approach and minister to young people because knowing the challenges alone is not enough. Let me be very clear, okay? We can know their challenges and continue to ignore them completely and continue to live our own lives or continue to ignore their challenges completely and then just teach what you want to teach. I don't care what the young people are going through. I'm not going to address any of their challenges or their issues. I'm just going to teach what I think and feel is important, right? And so I'm talking about the posture of it. It's important that we teach that you instill what you feel is important, but then I'm talking about the posture of the heart and how you approach administering young people, right? So knowing their challenge is not enough. It's a good starting place. It's a good starting point. But then that's where the actual journey begins is that as ministers, we must, you know, carefully work on, okay, what can we do now? How can I serve my young people well, okay? So how you're going to go about doing that is up to you. I'm not going to say this is how you have to do it, but then nevertheless, I have mentioned a few topics that you can consider doing in your youth ministry, okay? These are some of the topics that I have done with the young people and we continue to do as well. So based on their challenges, some of them are, for example, identity. There is a resource APC publication called Who We Are in Christ that you can use, but there are a lot more resources online. Foundations, just based foundations. It talks about business foundation on prayer, faith, worship, et cetera. No gossip I think is a good one. Sexual purity. These are some of the topics, guys, overcoming and just as the overcoming can be subdivided into so many subcategories or sub topics like overcoming depression, overcoming anxiety can be a topic for another Sunday and overcoming fear, overcoming addictions, temptations, emotions that destroy like anger. That's what I mean by that, right? And overcoming peer pressure, et cetera, intimacy with God, worship as a lifestyle, salvation, baptism of the Holy Spirit. You can begin to add in a little bit of doctrinal theological stuff as well because it's important that we equip our young people while we address the challenges that they are facing going through. We also give them the tools and to make them, their foundations stronger. And that's why we talk about baptism of the Holy Spirit, basics of apologetics. How can they defend their faith in the marketplaces, in their colleges, in their offices, et cetera? Loving relationships, fulfilling God's purposes. And there's so much more, guys. I've just listed down a few things, okay? This is just to give you an idea of the topics that you can cover. Okay, so that is chapter five and I hope that was helpful. We are going to continue to... I want to paint this as like one big chapter, even chapter six, understanding youth culture. Because now that we've understood their challenges, remember understanding their challenges or knowing their challenges is just a starting place. But we're going to go just a little deeper in chapter six. When we say this generation, we've heard about the millennials. Now, millennials can be generation X, Y and Z are considered as millennials, more so with generation Y and generation Z. After Gen Z, we have generation Alpha. That's where we're at as a world, as a society. That's where we're at. Gen Alpha. But let's take a moment to understand and try different generations from the early 20th century. Okay, so now generations are typically defined in the 15-year brackets. That's how they do it. I've done it. But let's take a look at it. Okay, so the first generation we are going to look at are known as builders or traditionalists or also known as the silent generation. This generation of builders, they were born pre-1945. The silent generation where they sacrificed their needs and those for their families. This is the generation that went into fight in the Great Wall who endured the British rule in India, colonization and all of that. In the North American continent, this is the generation that endured great depression. The great depression that happened in the late 20s, 1920s and it was very bad. This is the generation that witnessed World War I and World War II. They've given up a lot. They've sacrificed a lot in this generation. Then the generation that comes after that are called as either boomers or popularly called as boomers but they were known as the baby boomers. This generation were the children of the silent generation. Everybody was born between 1946 and 1964. Now they embraced consumerism. We have to remember there was a little bit of a boom that was happening after the war and Great Depression and what not. India is free, British have gone back to their region, country and so there's a growth economically as well, politically and all of that. Slowly countries are beginning to do well. Economies are growing. The children of the silent generation embraced consumerism. They began to pursue money and things and in excess they were not satisfied. That is the baby boomers or the booming generation. Then we have the generation X, all those who were born between 1965 and 1979 and then generation Y where the millennials come in between 1980 and 2001. That's the gen Y. They've given them 20 years. It's cooler. Then we have the generation Z, gen Z, post-millennials. It's born post-2001, 2001 onwards. Now, why is this important for us to understand is that for the first time in history, for the first time in history, we have some of them, we have some of them from the silent generation who are still alive and then we have, if not some or most of them from the boomers generation who are still alive and then we have a lot from generation X who are still alive and generation Y who are still alive and then we have gen Z. For the first time in history, we have five generations that is kind of co-existing in the society, in the churches, in the communities. Now, why is that big? Because all of these five generations want to be heard. Are you with me? All of these five generations, they want to be heard. They want to express themselves. They want to be listened to, right? And this is pretty big, guys. It's not a joke. It's a very serious thing to consider. And among all of this, among all these noises, we as youth ministers are trying to reach a certain group. You know, that could be generation Y or generation Z, gen Y, gen Z, millennials. And so we are going to intentionally kind of learn just a little bit more about millennials because they are the current existing young people, the youth of our generation, right? And gen Y, gen Z, and gen Alpha. Just to know how do they live? How do they get here? Where will their parts take them? What does their faith look like and all of that? Because I have mentioned the youth are changing. This generation, among the five generations, they want to be heard. They want to voice their opinions, et cetera, right? They are changing socially. They are changing intellectually because of the abundance of knowledge or information that is available, right? Just 15 years ago, 20 years ago, I couldn't Google core charts. Right. If we have to learn lyrics for any song that we liked, CD player or cassettes, if any of you remember cassette tape recorders, revined, revined, revined, revined until that film comes out of the cassette, put a pencil inside that and start revinding it. That's how we revined it, you know, if it is working and listen closely to the song lyrics and with their accents and try to write their lyrics down and all of that and try to learn the song, try to get the right chords and all of that. But now you can just Google the whole thing, right? I'm just saying that, you know, intellectually, because of the availability of information at how easily it is accessible is changing young people. Intellectually as well, intellectually as well, emotionally, morally and spiritually, they are changing, right? They're constantly looking for answers like, okay, who am I? Who are my friends? Where am I going? What are going to be my life choices? Et cetera, et cetera, right? Because there are so much of outside influences that's shaping all their values. What's causing them to change? From their peers, the colleagues, et cetera, et cetera, right? And out of all of that, some of the trends that's affecting the young people this day and age, some of the trends that are affecting us, I've mentioned a few in the notes you see is secularization. Okay, and this is a very real trend. What's happening is in secularization, you know, religion and religious values associated with it disappear from the culture. So there is no accountability for anything related to morality, right? I'm talking, I'm not necessarily only about Christian, I'm just talking about religion in general. I'm talking about the secularization from its perspective, what it is doing to the communities and societies, right? Religion, all the values associated with it is gone. Gender revolution, I don't need to say more. It's becoming more fluid. Genders are fluid. It's no longer just male and female. There are, every day the numbers keep increasing on the number of genders that there can be from 40-odd to 70-odd genders and binary, which was male and female, it's become non-binary, right? Anybody can wake up one day and say that, okay, today a man can wake up and say, okay, today I identify as a five-year-old kid, so I'm going to dress up like a five-year-old kid. Today an adult man can wake up and say, I feel like a woman, so I'm going to identify myself as a woman and I expect everybody to identify me, address me as a woman. It's a very scary trend, securization, gender revolution, privatization and pluralization and all of this. I mean, we can go through it. I'm just going to go through them. You can look into it in more detail. Technology revolution, we are aware of where we are and the impact that technology has had. Not necessarily bad because we have to remember, right? Technology got us through COVID, okay? Without technology, churches wouldn't have continued to meet during COVID. It helped us. So all of this is not to paint a picture and say, okay, this is bad, this is bad, this is bad, this is bad. No, it's just being misused or manipulated, I should say. And all of this, all of the above is kind of linked with hyperindividualism. It's all about me. You see the stark difference from silent generation pre-1945 that gave up their lives, that sacrificed everything to in this day and age that it's all about me, how I feel, how I look. I will wear what I think is right. Why should I care about others' values, et cetera, et cetera? Hyper, it's not just individualism, it's hyperindividualism. And any points or remarks that's made against a certain individual in this category is very easily offended, right? And because of that, they're not going to come to church. They're not going to come to this youth meeting or whatnot. Are you guys all with me? Yeah, are you following? There's a study that says by 2030, 75% of the millennials will represent global workforce. This is scary number, 75% of millennials around the world will represent global workforce. How many of them will represent your church? In Judges chapter 2 verse 10, it says, after that generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the Lord or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel. We've read that scripture in the previous classes. We owe to the next generation an encounter with God. Among all of these noises of the world, what is the church doing? How can we actively engage the young people? Is the question that we all need to answer on a regular basis? How can we use the very thing that is impacting them negatively to have a positive impact? How can I use technology and social media to have a positive impact on that? Because we need to realize that technology is the new Sunday. We learned that during COVID. So impacting millennials with good use of technology and social media and relational leadership. This is huge because the young people of this day and age no longer recognize or acknowledge authoritarian leadership style. That worked in a certain day and age. I've just put an image taken from John Maxwell's one of the books called The Five Levels of Leadership. If there are 100 books in the world on leadership, John Maxwell has written 90 of them. Any topic on leadership, I think he's just covered it. He writes something very interesting on leadership on relational leadership. I'd like to take us through it. First one at the very bottom. We have position and base leadership. People follow you because they have to.  They will follow you because you have the title called leader. If they have to salute you, they will salute your rank and not the person, so to speak. That's the positional leadership. Then you have the permission. The second level is people follow you because they want to. There's a sudden shift.  They will follow you because they want to. The third level of leadership is production-based. Results are seen. People now follow because of what you have done for the organization. The leader, you have paid some price. There are sacrifices that you have made. They want to acknowledge that. This person walks the talk seriously. They are sacrificing themselves for the betterment of the organization. That's the kind of person I want to follow. That's the person who is there first and leaves the building last. People follow because of what you have done for the organization. Then there's the fourth level of people-development-reproduction. People follow because of what you have done for them. Now it gets a little bit more personal. It's not just they follow you because for the organization, which is general, but now you're taking it up a notch by saying, they want to follow you because you've done something for that individual personally. Finally, the fifth level of leadership is people follow because of who you are and what you represent. There comes a place in leadership where they will no longer follow you for what you have done for them or what you have done for the organization, but it comes a time in leadership that they will follow you simply because of the person that you are, for your character, for your values, for integrity, and what you represent. I believe that this is the kind of leadership that young people are looking for in this day and age is that they really don't care how much you know until they know how much you care for them. If you're still interested in this topic of leadership, one of the books that's impacted me, it's not a Christian book, it's called Turn the Ship Around. I've mentioned it in the notes. Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet, who is now a retired captain of the US Navy. It's a beautiful book that you have to read and just one of the quotes there, it says, leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers. I agree with the first half of it, for the most of it, but then he goes on to say creating leaders rather than forging followers. It's important that we have followers as well. I did a session on being a good follower in one of our mentoring classes, mentoring hours, but it is important that a good leader or a leader in training will always be a good follower, so that goes without saying. But that's a good book, it's a good read. I would recommend that for you to get it if you can. How can we impact millennials or the young generation of this day and age, good use of technology and social media, relational leadership, build a rapport with them, get to know them, spend time with them, go for a coffee with them, et cetera, et cetera. And remember the conversations that you have with them. For example, if my last conversation with, this is just an example, if my last conversation with, say, John was on the exam that he was about to write, remember that the next time you meet him and say, hey, how did that exam go? Or it could be anything. The last conversation could be, I was going through something bad or an interview, et cetera. Don't forget to follow up and say, how did the interview go, how did the exam go, how are you feeling today, et cetera. All of that is relational leadership, which is very, very important. Because in this day and age, people will not respond to authoritarian, they might, but because they simply have to. And in addition, have a dynamic youth events, youth programs for young people that will impact, have a solid impact, have a review meeting, have ask questions like, okay, what was good about this youth meeting? What was bad about this youth meeting? What was missing in this youth meeting? Or was there any element of this youth meeting that was confusing to the young people? Is it in the material or was it the topic? Or was it a communication? For example, it was not communicated. Where are we going to meet? When are we going to meet, et cetera? Was there any confusion in the building up to the event, et cetera, et cetera. And so these were the four questions that I would kind of do with the core team. Okay, was there anything good about this? What went well? What were the wins? What went wrong? What did not work, et cetera. Having a good review meeting with your team constantly will help you a plan for a more dynamic events. Okay, this is, I'm talking only about events. And have a solid depth in spiritual leadership, et cetera, et cetera. Are you all with me so far? Any questions? Because I feel like I've been talking too much. Is it making sense? Okay, thank you so much. Okay, this is coming down to the 6.4 at the bottom of page 29. How do young people commit to being part of a community? Consistency was a big discussion, isn't it? So how do we get young people committed to being part of a community? How can there be some consistency? So there are two things in building people who are committed to a community is one is culture. Culture is huge, right? You want to set a culture. You want to see a culture for your ministry, whatever that may be. Because again, the culture that you are creating is the culture that you will allow. Okay, again, if you do not set the culture for your youth ministry, it will be set for you. If you as a leader are allowing a culture of gossip, that's the culture that is being set, because you as a leader are not confronting or addressing that. At the same time, on the other side of the coin, if you are setting a culture of honor, that's what will be seen, right? Everybody who steps in will know, hey, in this youth ministry of so-and-so church, everybody is honored. And because that's the culture, right? And again, culture always will be set. The culture that you are creating is the culture that you allow as a leader. It flows from the top, okay? So this was some of the points that I would share with the core team and the young people as to the culture that we are going after as youth ministry at APC. So what was the first thing is, come as you are. Okay, nobody is going to be, we have to make very clear that, okay, it doesn't matter who's coming in, they are welcome as they are. It doesn't matter, you know, where they've been, what they've done, how many tattoos they have, how many piercings they've got, their looks should not matter. What they've done should not matter. But they come as they are, but they don't leave the same. They, you know, they encountered Jesus, right? And so come as you are. There needs to be a culture of encouragement. No constant ridicule or criticize, you know, too much of criticizing that happens or insults that's thrown around or efficiency five, it says, right?  So, but instead of that, let there be a culture of encouragement. Okay, and then knowing the why, why are we doing what we are doing? And so if you as a leader, one know why you're doing what you're doing and then if your core team knows why you are doing what, you know, what they're doing, and then if the young people understands and sees the why, there is a culture of consistency that's being built. Okay, they will, they will submit to that. Okay, I see what they are doing. I see why they are doing what they are doing. And I, you know, I'm come in agreement with that. I understand that. And so there's, you know, consistency that's being built. And that leads to commitment eventually. All right, so first thing is culture. We can dwell on talk about this all day, but it's, but culture is important guys. Okay, the culture that is being set or being created is the culture that you allow. And so be careful as a leader, as a pastor of what culture is being set in your ministry, in your church. And secondly, finally is community, right? What is the difference between a community or a group of people? This is a question, by the way. What is the difference between a community and a random group of people? Come on guys. What is the difference between community and just a group? Okay, Jeffyna says, I believe the community takes care of each other while the group is just a group. Okay, there is union and community. Yes, and what about the group? There's no union? Not necessarily. Not necessarily, okay. Abu, can we hear you? Community comprises of groups, different comprises of groups of people with different ideologies, different mentality, ethnicity, different ideas. But a group is a set of people that have the same idea, the same goals, the same focus, the same plan. So it's clear. Okay, thank you. All right, yeah. I think Subashish says something interesting. A community have a mission. They have an objective, a purpose as a team or as a group of people. While a group of people can, it could just be a get-together. Okay, we are just meeting for a barbecue and we're just going to have a nice time there. That's not necessarily an objective. The only objective could be, okay, we're going to meet for a barbecue. But there's no mission or a vision per se, right? Like Rosalind is saying, like-minded people build community and a group is only people who don't know why they have come. I'm sure they know why they have come. They've come to have a good time or whatnot. But I think what differentiates is that a community has a vision. They have an objective. They have a purpose, like a very clear, which lasts longer versus a group can, they'll be done after whatever they got together to do. So that's the difference between a community and a group. But what should a Christian community look like? I've mentioned a few scriptures in your notes. From Romans 12 to Matthew 18, where two or three I gather together as my followers, I am there among them. Hebrews 10 verse 24 and 25 says, let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good work. Let us not neglect our meeting together as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. So you see that from the previous section, from the previous points, we looked at come as you are, encourage one another, having a clear idea of the why, et cetera, is all kind of clearly laid out in Hebrews 10. Let us not neglect our meeting together, but encourage one another, motivate one another in acts of love and good works. In multiple scriptures in Proverbs 11, 15 and 24, we see that where there is no counsel, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. So it's saying that in Christian community should be like a multitude of counselors where people find safety. So why is community is important? It's simply because we were created to be relational. We are not designed to be alone. Yes, we are not designed to be alone. God said it is not good for men to be alone. So boom, community is birthed there. We are created to be relational. And secondly, or finally, God loves people. We as a church cannot say, I love Jesus and not love people. God loves people. And so it's what we kind of look at, and we all know the love chapter from 1 Corinthians 13, love is patient, love is kind, et cetera, et cetera. And if you have your notes with you, if you have your PDF with you, there's an image with the simple addition there. Do you all see that? Yes? Okay, so tell me what you see. That's a test for you guys. Everybody's looking at the notes, right? Okay, guys, so there's a test over there on the PDF for you all. What do you see? Is Jefina the only one who's looking at the PDF? It's not a tricky question. I'm sure it's not a difficult test. Okay, we have page 32. Can I get the... Yes, sir. Yeah, yes. Okay, I'll even share the screen. Okay, there you go. Is this fine? Okay, so what do you see? Yeah. This is a simple test, right? So this has been done so many times. And the answer that we get is what you would normally say is that, okay, the third one is wrong, one is wrong, one is wrong, one is wrong, one is wrong, one is wrong. But, you know, no one has ever said there are three right answers. So the point is, except for JP now, who remembers this. You know, the point here is, again, you know, it's very easy for us to find fault, right? It's very easy to... That seems very natural for us to find mistakes, but it takes... You know, somehow the mistakes blinds us from seeing three right things in a person trying to draw a parallel, right? And so that's how a Christian community should be is like, you know, so full of love that we accept people, but at the same time we equip them to build a better life, like the life that Jesus has commanded us to live, right? And there are more points and scriptures given about how we can be a Christ-centered community. Right? So guys, that's pretty much about it for youth ministry in general is... That's the kind of conclusion is... I want to leave us with just this one point is, as a leader, as a pastor of the ministry, if you're asking this question about how we can ignite passion among young people, and the answer is very simple. Like, they want to see how passionate you are for Jesus. What are your choice of words when you describe Him, when you define Jesus, when you talk about Jesus? So what is the language? What kind of words are you using to describe Him, and define how passionate are you? And so if you want to see passionate young people in your church, it all begins with you. That's a simple answer to that question. How do we ignite passion among young people? It begins with you.  Because fire cannot be ignored and will not be ignored. And when young people see that you are authentic and that you are genuine, that you are genuinely burning with zeal and passion for Jesus, they will be filled with passion for Him. Okay. So I hope this course has been helpful. As I mentioned, this is just an introduction to youth ministry. We looked at who the young people are, through the organizational aspect of it, and some of the challenges that ministers and young people face this generation and how we can impact them. Okay. Any thoughts, anything that you want to share? Okay, if not, today will be the last class. We will not have classes from the following week. Please continue to work on your assignments and submit them before the deadline date. All right. Thank you all for joining. Once again, I hope you've learned something from this course. God bless you. See you around.


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Glenn Geist, Technical Director East Coast Academy. Excited about this program. In keeping with the old art age, it takes a village to raise a child. We are pleased to be part during the Ministry of Equity under the Youth Empowerment Program to bring you interventions through sports. Very nice program, very impactful program, which where we use basketball or sports on the whole as a vehicle to guide the social development of young people of Saint Lucia. Very happy to have gotten a very willing partner in the Ministry of Equity. And yeah, we are looking forward to something like this. So far we have like at least 75 kids in the program ranging from the age of 6 to 16. We are one of two 18-year-olds but between 16 and 16 is the main group and we have the program in every day except Fridays. With the older kids on Mondays and Wednesdays and the younger ones 6 to 11 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Saturdays and Sundays are for more skill development. We are partnered with different social entities. For example, we have counsellors on board who come to talk to them regularly, talk to the kids about goal-setting and social and emotional intelligence. We are also working now closely with an officer at the Ministry of Agriculture to get a program going called Plant Grow It, which also has a facet of goal-setting in it as well. So as you can see the kids are excited, we get a lot of kudos from the parents and we also monitor their behaviour both on and off the court in terms of their academics or even their social behaviour, their behaviour out there. We try to keep a close look on that and at least try to give them a home, give them a base, East Coast Academy as a base, as a home, as an outlet, somewhere that you can feel safe, a safe space, you know what I mean? And they love it. The program has been growing from strength to strength and at least every other week we have, we get two or three new participants and only by referral, you know what I mean? Only from referral. And thanks again to the Ministry of Equity for providing us with the strength and the resources, some of the resources necessary to keep this program going and keep the kids excited and engaged as much as possible in this, especially in this socially challenging times. You know what I mean? It is a very good initiative, we welcome it, we thank the Ministry of Equity and we look forward to a long, very long-standing relationship and to increase the programs, increase different facets of the program, add different social aspects of the program like camps and what not. Thanks again to the Ministry of Equity and the Youth Empowerment Program.


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