Take a break from booking an expensive speaker or spending hours preparing youth talks. We’ve crafted this youth group retreat curriculum with teaching tools and activities that help you put FYI’s Faith Beyond Youth Group character formation compass into action. This digital download resource includes easy-to-use leader guides for 4 interactive, discussion-based retreat sessions featuring:

• leader testimonies

• art and activities

• student journaling

• Bible exploration

• prayer

Your students and leaders will enjoy a fun and meaningful retreat where they explore what it means to trust God and grow closer as you become a faith-filled, trusting community.

Take time out to build trust 

Trust is a necessary building block of healthy communities. It’s what makes teenagers feel like they belong in your ministry. Research shows that trust is also critical for forming the Christlike character in teenagers that fosters long-term faith. 

This 4-session retreat guide for middle and high school youth groups explores biblical stories about Jesus and Peter as your students grow to understand that God is trustworthy and sticks with us even when we struggle to trust. 

As you lead this retreat, you’ll play together, make something together, have fun together, and explore Scripture together in ways that will create conversation, lasting memories, and deeper bonds. 

Ready to talk about trust in your youth group but not planning a retreat? Here are some other great ways you can use this curriculum:

• Lead a 4-week interactive teaching series during weekly youth group.

• Incorporate the teaching and activities into mission trip training.

   Preview the retreat guide