I believe it is an important responsibility to support young people at school, although my own involvement in the local Christian Union ebbs and flows. Do you know if your teenagers or younger children have a Christian Union or club at school?
As a youth leadership team think what you can do. You can pray for them, offer to visit, provide Bible Study resources, train the leaders, and invest in outreach projects. Don't forget about your youth group when they go home on Sunday night. On Monday morning they head for their battleground and try to live for Christ in one of the toughest places they will encounter - a 21st-century school.
A Christian group in a school naturally has strengths and weaknesses. Many groups lurch from week to week without ever stepping back and asking 'what is it all for?' Christian Unions often lose their way because they try to behave like churches. Inevitably, with a mixture of backgrounds, members argue about the same things as churches and the CU ceases to function well.
