King’s Kids
Raising up young people who hear God’s voice — and have the courage to act on it. A hands-on discipleship and leadership program for the faithful few who are ready for more.
Deep discipleship for the faithful few.
King’s Kids is AGORA’s invitation-based discipleship program, adapted from a model developed by Youth With A Mission. Out of our broader youth ministry, leaders hand-select the students who keep showing up — the ones with a real hunger to grow in Jesus, a servant’s heart, and emerging leadership in them.
The heart behind it is simple: young people don’t have to wait to become the church someday. They can be the church right now. King’s Kids disciples them deeply — not behavior change, but heart transformation — and then puts real responsibility in their hands.
Students meet monthly for a three-day intensive weekend, and what they learn there follows them home — into their schools, their jobs, their families, and their churches.
King’s Kids at a glance
- Hand-selected from AGORA’s youth ministry — faithfulness over talent
- One weekend per month · Friday through Sunday
- Built on prayer, worship, Scripture, testimony, service, discipleship, and mission
- Teaching, one-on-ones, guest speakers, and real ministry assignments
- Graduates step up as Forerunners who help lead the next phase
Phase 1 graduates become Forerunners for Phase 2.
King’s Kids is not a program students finish — it’s a pathway they carry forward. The students formed in Phase 1 step up as Forerunners: emerging leaders who help disciple, serve, and lead the next group coming behind them. That’s the goal, and we build toward it from day one.
King’s Kids
Students are formed through Christian practices, teaching, and hands-on serving — learning to hear God and obey Him.
Forerunner
Phase 1 graduates are commissioned as Forerunners — student leaders who carry the culture from within.
Leading the Next Group
Forerunners help guide and disciple the next King’s Kids class — and the pipeline multiplies.
Hear God’s voice. Act on it.
Everything in King’s Kids drives at one skill that changes everything: learning to recognize the voice of God — through prayer, worship, and the Word — and then obeying it. Not someday. Not just at church. Everywhere they live.
Hear
Students learn intimacy with God — honest prayer, real worship, time in Scripture — until His voice becomes familiar, not foreign.
Act
Hearing is only half. Students are trained to respond in obedience — to step out, take the assignment, and trust God with the result.
Serve
Obedience takes shape in real life — students carry what God says into the church, the mission field, and their everyday world.
In the Local Church
Leading worship, running sound and slides, ushering, serving churches in need — trained students given real jobs in God’s house.
In Missions
Mission trips and outreach that stretch faith and build a mission lifestyle — students move from receiving ministry to carrying it.
In Daily Life
Praying for coworkers, leading Bible studies at school, praying over their families — obedience at home, school, and work.
One weekend a month. Three days that form them.
King’s Kids runs on a monthly Friday-to-Sunday rhythm. Each day has a job: Friday they lead, Saturday they learn, Sunday they serve. Practical enough for any church to run — deep enough to change a student’s life.
Students help run AGORA’s youth night — real responsibility, not busywork.
- Leading and running worship
- Sound, slides, and production (ProPresenter)
- Running group games and hosting
- Opening, closing, and caring for the building
A full day of teaching and formation, poured into them by leaders and guests.
- Biblical teaching and class sessions
- Guest speakers from across Texas
- One-on-one mentoring and discipleship
- Worship, devotional time, and prayer
Everything they learned gets put to work serving a real congregation.
- Deployed to serve a church in need
- Playing worship, running sound, ushering
- Team bonding and shared mission
- A servant’s heart, practiced — not preached
What happens when students actually obey.
These aren’t hypotheticals. They’re King’s Kids students from San Antonio’s inner city — many from homes marked by addiction, absent parents, and instability — learning to hear God and act.
Ministry at the workplace
A graduating senior working a part-time job started praying for his coworkers, hearing their stories, and sharing the goodness of God — thrilled to do what God called him to do right where he works.
A Bible study at school
A student with a heart for evangelism is now leading a Bible study on his own campus — leading classmates to Christ well beyond youth night.
Worship that reaches home
A student discovered a heart for worship, picked up the guitar, and now prays over his family — carrying God’s presence from the youth room into his own house.
Gifts put to work
A student discovered gifts in administration and creativity — now she makes videos, keeps the youth informed, and big-sisters the younger students as a trusted leader.
Bring King’s Kids to your youth ministry.
This page exists so you can see the whole model at a glance. King’s Kids doesn’t require a big team or a big budget — it requires a handful of faithful students, a monthly rhythm, and leaders willing to hand young people real responsibility.
AGORA has been running this pathway on San Antonio’s west side, and we would love to help you train your own youth — sharing what we’ve learned, how the weekends run, and how the Forerunner pipeline multiplies leadership from within.
What it takes to start
- A hand-picked group of faithful, hungry students
- One committed weekend per month
- The Christian practices at the center — not entertainment
- Churches willing to let students really serve
- AGORA’s coaching, training, and materials — just ask
A generation that can be the church — right now.
Whether you’re a parent, a pastor, or a student who’s hungry for more, we’d love to talk with you about King’s Kids.