Youth Ministries category: 573 books

A lot of churches and youth ministries have given up on the idea of small groups, writing them off as too tedious, too difficult to manage, too hard to find volunteers for, too expensive to provide materials or curriculum for, or any other number of reasons. In A Volunteer Youth Workers Guide to Leading...

Every youth leader, volunteer, or pastor has failed at some point in their communication or interaction with their teenagers parents. Its inevitable. We are human, most youth workers are still pretty young themselves, and most parents are guarded and protective of their kids. These factors combine to...

This fully-researched, eight-session guide takes participants through a variety of engaging materials that will enable youth leaders, Christian teachers, and parents to strategically teach truth to the next generation. These authors are both parent’s and have been youth leaders (and Sean has been...

• Gift book for youth and young adults—confirmation, graduation, birthday, holidays, etc. • Helps youth apply core values of Episcopal identity to practical terms and practice • Foreword by Katharine Jefferts Schori Building on the success of Call on Me: A Prayer Book for Young People, this...

Many parents have taken a defeatist approach toward understanding their teens, and not without good reason; it does often seem hopeless. But thats where you, the volunteer youth worker, come in. Mark Oestreicher shows that Understanding Todays Teenagers is both possible and rewarding, if one has the...

A lot of people have questions about the Bible. Who decided what books should be in the Bible? Why are there so many translations—and does it matter? Since the Bible was written by ordinary people, how do we know if its trustworthy? How We Got Our Bible: Youth Edition answers these questions and more...

Confirm Your Faith. Your Commitment. God’s Call. Too often confirmation has been downgraded to the role of a checkpoint along the faith journey. The Confirm family of resources reclaims confirmation as the first step on a journey that leads to a mature, adult faith. Confirm treats confirmation...

Most youth workers across the world look for ideas, inspiration and practical advice to help them with their ministry, and most of us don't look beyond our own country for advice. Yet there is an incredible wealth of practical wisdom available from vastly experienced youth pastors around the world...

If we are going to have a victorious church tomorrow, we must focus on the youth today. In this book, Comiskey lays out the biblical base for youth ministry, highlights the felt needs of today’s youth, and then shows why small groups are the most effective way to make youth disciples today. Comiskey...

The Abingdon-Church of the Resurrection Ministry Guides are the first choice for recruiting, motivating, and developing lay leadership for specialized ministries from A to Z—from adult ministries to ushering. Each inexpensive, 64-page Guide brings together Church of the Resurrection’s can-do attitude...

There are many philosophies and strategies that drive today's youth ministry. To most people, they are variations on a single goal: to make faithful disciples of young people. However, digging deeper into various programs, books, and concepts reveals substantive differences among approaches. Bestselling...

This book offers a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of the intersections of contemporary Christianity and youth culture, focusing on evangelical engagements with punk, hip hop, surfing, and skateboarding. Ibrahim Abraham draws on interviews and fieldwork with dozens of musicians...

Teens and emerging adults don't feel at home in the church because they are not fully included in the church body. How can congregations nurture young adults, welcome them as siblings into God's household, and empower them to become fully embedded contributors within and to their faith community? Integrating...

This trust curriculum has been refreshed, while keeping everything you love about the resources. Bible Lessons for Youth is a comprehensive 6-year Bible-to-life curriculum that helps teens apply the Bible to their real-life. Its teacher-friendly format is built around a step-by-step sequence with...