Transcript All linked to the use of alcohol

Youth Alive Training
Adapted from International Conference Staff Manual, Copyright 1995
Institute for Prevention of Addictions
Berrien Springs, MI, USA
General Conference Youth, Education, Family Ministries
and Health Ministries Departments
Devotional
15-30 minutes
• Youth Alive conference is designed to
empower youth with tools necessary to
avoid risk behaviors
• They need power to prevent the use of
dangerous drugs
• That mighty power is Jesus Christ
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Alarming problems
• Caused by alcohol, tobacco, other drugs
and compulsive behaviors
• More than ½ all violent crimes
• More than ½ all traffic fatalities
• 70% all drowning victims
• 2/3 suicides
All linked to the use of alcohol
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Many people die from
drug & alcohol related problems
• 10 times as many deaths
due to alcohol-related
causes than from illicit
drugs combined
• 20 times as many deaths
related to smoking
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Damage to quality of life
• Alcohol and drug use estimated to cost: $800 per
year for every man, woman, and child
• Regardless if they used them or not
• This amounts to $200 billion in the United States
alone
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Seventh-day Adventists not exempt
from these problems
Study by Dr. Hopkins and Associates
among SDA youth attending 69
academies throughout US and Canada
(1994-1995)
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Study by Dr. Gary Hopkins & Associates
Substance used
by youth
Adventist youth
attending SDA
schools
Non-Adventist
youth attending
public schools
Alcohol
Tobacco
45.7%
31%
81.7%
71.3%
Marijuana
Cocaine
Hard drug (non
cocaine)
16%
3.5%
7.6%
37.2%
4.8%
18.4%
Injected illegal drug
0.9%
2.4%
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Study by Dr. Gary Hopkins
& Associates
Substance used
by youth
Adventist youth
using
drugs/alcohol
before 13
years old
Non-Adventist
youth using
drugs/alcohol
before 13
years old
Alcohol
Tobacco
20.2%
13.6%
32.4%
24.9%
Marijuana
7.6%
12.5%
Cocaine
0.6%
1.2%
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Study by Dr. Gary Hopkins
& Associates
Adventist youth and sexual
experience
(SDA schools)
Non-Adventist youth and
sexual experience
(public schools)
16.3%
53.1%
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Legal seductive drugs
(alcohol & cigarettes)
• Devil has produced seductive
drugs
• Cigarettes the most addictive
drug
• Addicts of alcohol, cocaine,
marijuana, or any illegal drug
have better chance to quit than
smokers
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1997 National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent Health
(involving 90,000 teenagers and 18,000 parents)
• Getting connected
with God
• Getting connected
with one another
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Getting connected with God
When religion and prayer
are important to an
adolescent,
they are less
likely to smoke, drink, or
become involved in
premarital sexual activity.
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Impact of drugs is
POWERFUL!!
Removing the
power of drugs
will make them
feel “lost”.
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JESUS CHRIST,
the Highest Power!
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“I can do all things through
Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Philippians 4:13
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Getting connected with one another
Independent of race, ethnicity,
family structure and poverty
status, adolescents who are
connected to their parents, to their
families, and to their school
community are protected from risk
behaviors such as sex, violence,
emotional distress, suicidal
attempts and drug use.
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Man is not an island
“For none of us lives to himself, and no one
dies to himself.” Romans 14:7
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Youth Alive combines two factors
• Two important factors of the program are
– Being connected with Jesus Christ
– Being connected with one another
• These make the difference in protecting youth from
at-risk behaviors
• Without these two factors, the program
is fun and entertaining, but not
successful in preventing addictive
behaviors
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Youth Alive spiritual principle based
on the Moral Law
“The first of all commandments is
‘thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind, and
with all thy strength;’ this is the first
commandment. And the second is
…Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself.”
Matthew 22: 37-39 KJV
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A strong, healthy
relationship with
God (vertical)
produces a strong,
healthy
relationship with
other people
(horizontal)
God
Spiritual
Self
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Pray for the presence of
the Holy Spirit
• Continually hook ourselves to the
power of Jesus Christ in all our
activities
• Experience the rapid
connectedness to take place in the
Youth Alive conference
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