• Richard Ross is husband to LaJuana, who has joined him in a lifetime of loving teenagers. They are parents of Clayton. Richard served as youth minister for thirty years and now is a volunteer with teenagers and parents at Wedgwood Baptist in Fort Worth. Richard is professor to the next generation of youth ministers at Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth. Since its inception, Richard has served as the spokesperson for the international True Love Waits movement. He has written 23 books for youth leaders and parents and speaks in over 35 conferences and churches each year.

How to Connect With The Heart of Your Teenager

How to Connect With The Heart of Your Teenager

Relationships are central to making a spiritual impact on children. Children and teenagers tend to embrace their parents' faith if parents have heart connections (relationships) with them. If a parent and teenager grow distant from each other, the parent will probably...

Time for a ‘Radical Reevaluation’ of Youth Ministry

Time for a ‘Radical Reevaluation’ of Youth Ministry

This year I am celebrating my 50th year focused on teenagers and the adults important to teenagers. What a blessing it has been for the Lord to give me this ministry focused on youth for my lifetime. Yet, after a half-century in this vital ministry, I've come to the...

Spiritual Orphans and the Church

Spiritual Orphans and the Church

In the beginning there were children and adults. But then, around 1900, cultural shifts in American education, industrialization, and the law led to a new stage of life—youth. At first youth were a high priority to parents and culture. The majority had their most...