Teen Leadership Initiative includes six different component parts . . . Teens learn the characteristics of groups and explore biblical concepts of team development.
Teens taking the initiative can help their youth ministry programs support and care for teens.
Teens explore their own leadership strengths and identify how they can use their gifts in effective leadership. Designer, DCE Kurt Mews, Napoleon, Ohio, helps teens learn basic learning theory and how to use it with their peers. TCT helps teens develop their peer ministry skills and how to care for each other. TAT is based on Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets of healthy youth and helps youth be more aware and proactive of these assets in their lives. Nearly every LCMS district has young people trained in these components.