Parental support: Be sensitive to ways in which you can minister to parents, knowing that they have instructions from God to train their students.

Prayer: Willingly spend time praying for the students.

Preparation: Be in the Scripture yourself, and deal with sin in your own life. Think about what is happening in the hearts of the students. Consider what scriptural guidelines and mandates are involved.

Questions: Welcome questions without ridicule. If you do not know the answer, honestly tell the students you don't know, and then find the answer. You may even include the students in the process.

Tools: Give the students "tools" for handling things themselves rather than you doing things for them. Remember their developmental level in the process. Give them the scriptural basis for issues in their lives.

Structure: Provide appropriate structure. Consistently give clear, firm, loving guidance. When you do whatever you feel like doing whenever you feel like doing it, students become confused. They lose sight of God's requirements. They learn to respond to you and your moods rather than to God and His requirements.

Trust: Expect God to work through you to communicate His truth to the students. We are hypocrites if we think we have answers apart from God.