Oxford Circle Mennonite Church
900 Howell St
Philadelphia, PA 19149
info@ocmcphilly.org
River Street, Blue Building, 1st. floor
5690-970 New york City

adolescence

April 17, 2024

Why Adolescents Need More Healthy Risk Taking Activities

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach Can healthy risk-taking help young people deal with failure and improve their mental health? All children are creative and risk takers …

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July 26, 2023

How Can We Help Young People Understand the Power of Responsibility?

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach Can young people develop into healthy adults without real world responsibilities? Since the end of the COVID pandemic, many large U.S. …

April 17, 2023

Great is God’s Unfailing Love

By Pastor Lynn, Lead Pastor Our church recently lost a 19 year old young man to gun violence.   At a time like this, when we’ve lost …

March 26, 2023

Lamenting to God on Behalf of Youth

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach Young Black men are killing each other indiscriminately. We must respond. On Sunday, March 19, OCMC had a service…we did …

March 8, 2023

Are Adolescents Disconnected from the Adult Community?

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach American adolescents need access to same sex adults, not peers. Western youth are increasingly living through an extended adolescence. This …

February 25, 2023

Isolation Comes with American Adolescence

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach Native born American adolescents embrace hyperindividualism at a young age that often leads to loneliness. Ten years ago, I was …

February 17, 2023

Youth Oriented Industries: Part 1

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach What if I told you that today’s youth oriented industries have helped extend adolescence with a profit motive? Youth oriented …

September 17, 2022

The Problem with Adolescence

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach As Philly struggles with rising crime among our youth, I have been thinking a lot lately about the confusion and …

May 17, 2022

Children and Youth are the Next Battleground

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach I was prayerwalking in the neighborhood today and asked God to reveal things to me. This is what came to …