This document discusses empowering young people through participation in church and religious activities. It defines empowerment as promoting individual and community control, political efficacy, and social justice. Empowerment means reclaiming oneself as fully intelligent, powerful, and human. The document suggests empowering young people by creating opportunities for them to speak about theological ideas and providing them experience and language to do so effectively. It provides an example of a young person, Rachael Evans, who became empowered through her participation in a church youth group and went on to take leadership roles within the church and her school.