Parent Permission Letter

Dear________________ ,

As you know, our youth ministry goal is to help teenagers have a real-world relationship with God. That means we need to address real-world issues in our youth group, and we need your help to do it.

Our kids are growing up under the influence of a media-saturated culture. If we refuse to engage them in biblical discussions about what they’re watching and hearing, we make it easy for them to compartmentalize their faith and put it aside when they move beyond the church walls.

Through discussions that reveal either the gospel’s presence or absence in popular culture, we help young people develop a biblical filter that shines the light of Jesus’ truth on media messages; encourages them to live their faith authentically at school, home, and church; and engages the Holy Spirit’s discernment in their lives.

As part of our youth ministry program, we’ll sometimes be using short video clips as discussion starters. Occasionally some of these clips may be excerpted from R-rated movies. We plan to use clips from R-rated movies only when we believe they offer powerful illustrations of biblical themes and when it’s likely that a large percentage of our youth group members have seen the films from which the clips are taken.

The clips from R-rated movies will contain no R-rated material, and we’ll communicate clearly to our young people that our use of a particular clip is not an endorsement of the movie. We’ll voice this disclaimer as well for any PG or PG-13 movies that contain offensive material.

Please contact me if you have any questions or need more information. If you understand and approve of our plan to occasionally use clips from R-rated movies when we believe it’s appropriate, please indicate your support by signing and returning this letter.

Thank you for your continued prayers.

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Mother (or Guardian)

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Father (or Guardian)