Teen Prasso From Prasso Ministries ~ Review
This is one of my favourite bible studies for teens! With an engaging story, it will grab kids attention. Perfect for use in a family study or in a youth group.
Disclosure: I received a free copy of this product for review, all opinions are 100% my own.
This year our oldest became a teenager! This is a new stage that brings so many different challenges and questions.
I was looking for a great Bible study program to use with her this year so I was really excited to have the opportunity to review the Teen Prasso Teacher’s Manual and Teen Prasso Homework Manual from Prasso Ministries.
The word prasso is a Greek word that means to repeatedly, continually, and habitually practice. I can’t think of a better name for a Bible study!
The Teen Prasso bible study is made up of:
A Student Journal (homework manual) to be used daily
A Teaching Lessons book to be used weekly and includes stories, lessons, and group questions
Bible Study For Teens
The Teen Prasso Student Journal is specially made for teenagers, this could become a wonderful keepsake someday! It’s a 10 x 10.5-inch spiral-bound workbook with a beautiful antiqued cover. This book covers a LOT of topics over a 12-week period.
Lesson 1: God Your Heavenly Father
Lesson 2: God’s Love
Lesson 3: Why Doesn’t 1+2 Add Up in My Life?
Lesson 4: It’s All-Out War
Lesson 5: The Enemy’s Lies . . . And Where They Lead
Lesson 6: Pressure!
Lesson 7: Anger
Lesson 8: Forgiveness
Lesson 9: Two Brothers – Pride and Selfishness
Lesson 10: Refocus
Lesson 11: Prasso, Putting It All Into Practice
Lesson 12: The Journey
Each lesson is broken into smaller bites over a period of 7 days. Each daily lesson is about 1 to 2 pages in length.
In days 1 to 5 the student reads Bible versions, copies out specific verses and works on a memory verse. There are also study questions and lined writing space to record their answers in.
Day 6 has a rethink section where students think back over their studies from each day of the past week. Then they write down a verse or thought that meant the most to them from that day.
Day 7 there is a section for group discussion questions.
The Teaching Lessons book is for church group leaders or parents. It has a similar cover to the student version and is a 12 x 9.5-inch spiral-bound lesson book. This teacher manual is PACKED full of information.
Lesson Titles:
Lesson 1: The Right Beginning
Lesson 2: The Map
Lesson 3: The Bridge
Lesson 4: The Storm
Lesson 5: The Enemy
Lesson 6: Testimony
Lesson 7: The Two Opposing Fears
Lesson 8: Anger
Lesson 9: Forgiveness
Lesson 10: Pride
Lesson 11: Refocus
Lesson 12: To continually, habitually, and repeatedly practice God’s Word.
Lesson 13: Prasso – Eternal Eyeglasses
The teaching lessons focus around a story about 2 brothers who are really into wilderness survival. They decide they want to take a hiking/camping trip alone to a remote mountain area.
They know that their parents don’t really want them to do this alone but find a way to get their own way. They are so excited through the planning phase but from the start of their journey, they are having one problem after another.
They don’t have the experience to make the right choices and it leads them down some very dangerous paths.
The lesson manual breaks the story up into smaller sections and in between each is a prayer and message to do together with your student.
At the beginning of each lesson is an outline that is suggested to use if you're going to customize your lesson. It is like a point-for-point breakdown of the lesson content.
This is great if you prefer to adlib and add your own content in. If you prefer a scripted method then using the Teaching Lessons manual as designed is a perfect fit.
What Did We Think Of This Teen Bible Study?
Teen Prasso is one of the best teen Bible studies that I have used! I’ve been using this Bible study with my oldest daughter who turned 13 this year. I love that each week we have a meeting time together, we normally do this on the weekends.
During this time we pray and read the story and message sections together. We often have long conversations sparked by the topics in these messages and the discussion questions. We rabbit trail quite a bit!
During the week she works through the Student Journal. We have been using the journal a little differently than intended. Because we are working with dyslexia and dysgraphia large amounts of handwriting are very hard to do.
What I find that works the best is that she does the memory verse and Bible verse copywork. We do the rest of the questions orally. Sometimes we take more than one day on a “day’s” work if she wants to write the answers down.
Sometimes she also types the answers and her thoughts into a journal on her computer since that is easier than handwriting.
Teen Prasso is really intended for group study however I felt it was really very easy to adapt this to a one-on-one study with our daughter. The storyline is great and I have to say I skipped ahead to find out what happened!
