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Introduction

“Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I have for myself.”
Jamie Sullivan, A Walk To Remember

Wouldn’t it be great if your teenagers were wondering the same thing?

A Walk To Remember is a film that deals with a young man’s encounter with an outwardly plain girl, whose faith and love transformed his life into something worth living — a life he never imagined possible.

Warner Bros has created a rare opportunity for church youth leaders — the chance to engage teenagers in a conversation about how their faith can have a profound influence on the people around them. Others agree. Christianity Today has called A Walk To Remember “a remarkable film.” CCM magazine says A Walk To Remember is a “supreme creation — edgy, smart and in another league all together.”

This guide will help you integrate the movie into a solid, Biblically based discussion that will reinforce your young friend’s faith in God, and their understanding of His transforming power. This movie is also a superb occasion for your students to expose their friends to faith. Combined with the post-film discussion after the film, and the Sunday morning session included in this material, seeing this movie could be the first step that many teenagers will make toward a different way of living.

  The Movie and Your Ministry

As a youthworker, you are no stranger to using various teaching methods… everything from playing a game to playing a song can be used to drive home a point. A Walk To Remember can be one of those “teaching methods” you employ.

Going to a movie is a very common experience with young people. If you listen in on conversations between kids, you’ll catch many references to movie scenes. So, using a movie to make a point seems to be a natural thing. But young people are not conditioned to do the “thinking between the lines” that is sometimes necessary to extract the message from a movie. Therefore, you will want to set up this experience as a different kind of...