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The Youth4Life podcast answers THE question of today's generation: Why should I be 4 Life? Recorded with a live youth audience, each Youth4Life podcast focuses on a single life topic and provides facts, discussion starters, and opportunities for youth to become Gospel-motivated voices 4 Life!

Like the episode? Let us know!How do we uphold life through our vocations? Join Michelle Bauman, Director of Y4Life and YA For Life, as she explores how vocation and life are connected. This week, Michelle talks with Deaconess Sarah and Deaconess Miller about the work that deaconesses do to uphold life in churches, schools, and communities.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Deac. Sarah Longmire serves as deaconess at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Lee's Summit, Missouri.Deac. Patti Miller serves as deaconess at Village Lutheran Church in Ladue, Missouri.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Lutherans For Life and Y4Life are funded by donors like YOU. To support the mission and ministry of LFL and Y4Life, you can donate at LutheransForLife.org and Y4Life.org.Support the showDiscover your Gospel-motivated voice 4 Life at Y4Life.org.

Like the episode? Let us know!How do we uphold life through our vocations? Join Michelle Bauman, Director of Y4Life and YA For Life, as she explores how vocation and life are connected. This week, Michelle talks with Pastor Schneider and Pastor Keller about the work that pastors do to uphold life in churches, schools, and communities.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rev. Schneider serves as pastor of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Brownstown, Indiana. You can reach him with questions at pastor@stpetersbrownstown.org.Rev. Keller is a retired LCMS pastor, currently serving as a vacancy pastor for churches in Southern Indiana. You can reach him with questions at revkeller219@gmail.com.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Lutherans For Life and Y4Life are funded by donors like YOU. To support the mission and ministry of LFL and Y4Life, you can donate at LutheransForLife.org and Y4Life.org.Support the showDiscover your Gospel-motivated voice 4 Life at Y4Life.org.

Like the episode? Let us know!How do we uphold life through our vocations? Join Michelle Bauman, Director of Y4Life and YA For Life, as she explores how vocation and life are connected. The first episode of this series features an interview with Lutherans For Life Executive Director, Rev. Dr. Aric Fenske about his work as executive director of a for-life ministry.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Rev. Dr. Aric Fenske is a 2011 graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Since that time, he has served as the pastor of two dual parishes in the North Wisconsin District – LCMS, where he has been active in several different pro-life organizations. Dr. Fenske earned his Doctor of Ministry in 2019, again from Concordia Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Marie, have four daughters—Madison, Alexis, Hailee, and Marta—along with two grandsons, James and Rustyn. Dr. Fenske assumed his duties as Executive Director of Lutherans For Life on May 1, 2025.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Lutherans For Life and Y4Life are funded by donors like YOU. To support the mission and ministry of LFL and Y4Life, you can donate at LutheransForLife.org and Y4Life.org.Support the showDiscover your Gospel-motivated voice 4 Life at Y4Life.org.

Like the episode? Let us know!Join Y4Life Director Michelle Bauman and Y4Life Assistant Cori Meier as they discuss how youth and young adults can get involved 4 Life in their schools, churches, communities, and world! Find resources and events mentioned in the episode at y4life.org, yaforlife.org, and lutheransforlife.myshopify.com.Support the showDiscover your Gospel-motivated voice 4 Life at Y4Life.org.

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Like the episode? Let us know!Join the Y4Life team as they dive into answering YOUR questions! The Y4Life Mailbag episodes will feature questions asked by youth with answers from the Y4Life team. Episode five focuses on marriage.Support the showDiscover your Gospel-motivated voice 4 Life at Y4Life.org.

Like the episode? Let us know!Join the Y4Life team as they dive into answering YOUR questions! The Y4Life Mailbag episodes will feature questions asked by youth with answers from the Y4Life team. Episode four focuses on family.Support the showDiscover your Gospel-motivated voice 4 Life at Y4Life.org.

Like the episode? Let us know!We often think about the right that all children have- the right to life. But what about a child's right to his or her biological parents- both mother and father? Katy Faust, author of Them Before Us, joins us this week to discuss the life issues that surround children, marriage, and families.Katy Faust is the Founder and President of Them Before Us, a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father. She publishes, speaks, and testifies widely on why marriage and family are matters of justice for children. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, The Federalist, Public Discourse, WORLD Magazine, The Daily Signal, the Washington Examiner, the American Mind, and the American Conservative. She is on the advisory board for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Katy helped design the teen edition of CanaVox which studies sex, marriage and relationships from a natural law perspective. She detailed her philosophy of worldview transmission in her book, Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City. She and her pastor husband are raising their four children in Seattle.Find Katy's book Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement here.Support the showDiscover your Gospel-motivated voice 4 Life at Y4Life.org.