Partner With Young People Reaching Their Generation

 

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about HowToLife Movement.

 

HowToLife is a global movement helping young people reach, disciple, and mobilize their generation for Christ.

 

The movement began in 2015 when a group of teenagers organized an evangelistic outreach to reach their friends for Jesus.  Since then, HowToLife has grown across the United States and around the world as young Christians have stepped into meaningful responsibility for reaching and discipling their peers.

 

Today, HowToLife works through young people reaching young people, ongoing discipleship communities, retreats and intensives, and practical training for life and mission.

 

Please Watch: HowToLife for Youth Workers & Ministry Leaders (link above)

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Our youth worker explainer video gives a helpful introduction to HowToLife’s student-led event model and explains how local churches can participate.

 

A quick note: This video was created in 2023 and primarily explains HowToLife’s student-led event model.  Since then, the movement has continued to grow internationally and has expanded its emphasis on ongoing discipleship communities, retreats, training, and follow-up.  The heart of the video – young people reaching young people, partnership with local churches, clear Gospel proclamation, mentorship, and meaningful follow-up – remains the same.

 

[WATCH THE VIDEO]

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HowToLife loves the local church.

 

We encourage young people to become meaningfully rooted in healthy local churches where they can worship, grow in Scripture, live in Christian fellowship, receive pastoral care, serve others, and participate in the life of Christ’s body.

 

HowToLife also has a particular missionary assignment: helping young people reach their peers, grow as disciples, develop other disciples, and live faithfully on mission.

 

We believe these realities belong together.

 

HowToLife seeks to work alongside healthy local churches – not replacing their role, but helping young people cross church and community boundaries, develop as missionaries and leaders, reach people outside the Church, and put discipleship into action.

 

Young People Carry Meaningful Responsibility

 

One of HowToLife’s convictions from the beginning has been simple:

 

Young Christians don’t need to wait until adulthood to participate meaningfully in Christ’s mission.

 

Young leaders pray, build teams, share their testimonies, proclaim the Gospel, disciple others, pioneer new initiatives, serve their communities, and reach their peers.

 

Adults have an important role too.

 

Pastors, youth workers, parents, and mature Christian mentors can encourage young leaders, pray with them, help them grow in biblical wisdom, open doors, provide practical support, and offer guidance without unnecessarily taking their responsibility away from them.

 

We want adults behind young leaders, beside young leaders, and investing in young leaders – while still allowing young people to genuinely lead.

 

If a Young Leader Has Approached Your Church

 

A young person in your church or community may be exploring a HowToLife evangelistic event.

 

HowToLife events bring young people together from multiple churches and communities to reach their peers with the Gospel.  Young leaders pray, build the team, invite friends, share testimonies, proclaim the Gospel, and call their peers to respond to Jesus.

 

Your church can help by:

 

• Praying for and encouraging the young leaders

• Inviting young people to participate

• Encouraging students to invite friends who don’t know Jesus

• Helping connect the team with other churches and leaders

• Providing mentorship and biblical wisdom

• Potentially providing a facility or practical resources

• Helping financially when appropriate

• Participating intentionally in follow-up after the event

 

You do not need to take over the event.

 

One of the most valuable things adults can do is help young people carry meaningful responsibility themselves.

 

Follow-Up Is Part of the Mission

 

Our goal is not simply to see someone respond at an evangelistic event.

 

We want young people to follow Jesus.

 

HowToLife works with local leaders and churches to help those who respond to the Gospel understand their response, take meaningful next steps, and become connected with healthy Christian community.

 

Whenever possible, friends who invited someone to a HowToLife event should remain involved relationally afterward.  Local churches also play an essential role in welcoming, discipling, baptizing, teaching, and helping young followers of Jesus become rooted in the body of Christ.

 

Our growing HowToLife Discipleship Communities can provide another relational bridge – helping young people continue in Scripture, prayer, Christian friendship, obedience, and mission while encouraging meaningful connection with a healthy local church.

 

Beyond Events: Discipleship Communities

 

HowToLife is increasingly becoming more than a movement that gathers young people for individual evangelistic events.

 

In many places, event teams have naturally grown into ongoing communities of young people following Jesus and living on mission together.

 

In other places, communities form first and eventually give birth to evangelistic initiatives.

 

HowToLife Discipleship Communities gather young people around Scripture, prayer, friendship, surrender, obedience, and mission.

 

They are not intended to replace the local church.

 

Rather, they provide intentional missionary and discipleship community where young people can be known and challenged, develop as disciples, reach their peers, disciple others, and participate together in Christ’s mission.

 

How Can a Church or Ministry Leader Get Involved?

 

Encourage.  Give young Christians meaningful opportunities to participate in mission.

 

Mentor.  Invest biblical wisdom, experience, prayer, and encouragement into emerging leaders.

 

Partner.  Participate in local evangelistic events, discipleship initiatives, training, or other appropriate opportunities.

 

Help with follow-up.  Welcome young people who are beginning or returning to life with Jesus into healthy ongoing Christian community.

 

Pray.  Pray for young leaders, missionaries, local communities, and those who do not yet know Jesus.

 

Give.  Churches and ministry partners can financially support HowToLife missionaries, local and regional initiatives, and the broader global movement.

 

Let’s Serve the Next Generation Together

 

We are deeply grateful for pastors, youth workers, churches, and ministries faithfully serving young people around the world.

 

We aren’t interested in building HowToLife for its own sake.

 

We want to see young people know Jesus, become faithful disciples, reach their peers, make disciples, and live surrendered and sent wherever Christ places them.

 

If HowToLife can help your church equip young people to do that, we would love to work together.