Author : Doug Fields
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 1993-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310575516
A guide to assist the new youth worker on working with teenagers, as well as ideas for the professional youth worker to better reach young people.
Author : Rich Grassel
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 031023946X
Provides those in small church ministry--including volunteer, part-time, and full-time youth workers--with a process and procedure that enables them to address their particular needs as a small church.
Author : Mark Oestreicher
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 031085220X
To Be a Junior High Youth Worker . . . takes a distinct kind of adult, just as junior highers are a distinct kind of people. Betwixt and between though they may be, early adolescents are as capable of a genuine spiritual understanding and growth as high schoolers.It’s just that junior highers absorb Bible teaching and demonstrate their spirituality—well, differently. Help! I’m a Junior High Youth Worker! is your primer for understanding young teenagers, then teaching them with a mind-set and with methods that fit them.First Things First. Three axioms that define your territory as a junior high youth worker.So Just What Is a Junior Higher, Anyway? The essence of early adolescence: the need for appropriate rules . . . the dilemma of throwing sixth graders and eighth graders together in the same program . . . small is good.Developmentally Speaking. Changes junior highers enjoy and endure cognitively, emotionally, socially, spiritually . . . their changing relationships with parents . . . individuation and hair under their arms.Time to Teach! Your required dose of pedagogy: the case for fun learning . . . ten top teaching topics for middle school ministry . . . how simulations, role plays, and storytelling can be your best teaching methods for early adolescents.Faith Outside the Youth Room. Spiritual discipleship for middle schoolers: they don’t have to be high schoolers to begin forming habits of prayers, service, and outreach.Help! I’m a Junior High Youth Worker! is help at hand surviving and thriving in ministry to early adolescents.
Author : Dennis Tiger McLuen
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310873894
As profound, as relevant, as funny as you are . . . teenagers still listen to each other more than to an adult youth worker.You may grimace, but you can’t deny it--students talking to each other usually means more to them than adults talking to them.The Student Leadership Training Manual helps you equip your senior highers for leading their peers and taking charge of as much of the ministry as they want or are able--helping and evangelizing their peers . . . organizing ministry teams . . . planning and executing their own youth ministry programming.Here are 31 training sessions for discipling student leaders in a small-group setting--sessions that start in the Bible and reach deep into teenagers’ experience . . . ready for you to implement a clear and effective program that trains your students for higher levels of leadership, regardless of where they are now.Plus 24 pages just for you, a veritable primer on how to cultivate student leadership:The role of adultsAuthority vs. responsibilitySetting student leaders up for successTeaching students not just the whats, but the whys and howsHelping them discover their spiritual giftednessPerfect for youth workers, CE directors, associate pastors, and small-group leaders--anyone who works with a youth group’s core kids.
Author : Steven Case
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310577039
There are so many benefits to being a youth worker: You get to hang out with teenagers, watch their lives transform, and help them become adults who live for and love Jesus. But when you signed on the dotted line to work in youth ministry, nobody mentioned the negative side effects: isolation, criticism, a general feeling of being constantly overwhelmed, relentless questioning from parents and church leaders. The list can go on… But your frustration doesn’t have to overtake you, or take you away from ministry. Inside the pages of this book you’ll find humor, comfort, and encouragement for those times when you feel like you can’t go any further. Youth ministry veteran, Steven Case, will help you through just about every scenario that adds to your discontent, including complaining parents, dealing with tragedy, and deciding when to leave a bad situation. Find practical tips to help you deal with the challenges of youth ministry, and get soul-renewing ideas to help you continue on, despite the struggles, so you can get back to enjoying youth ministry like you used to!
Author : Laurie Polich
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310852323
So you're leading a small group? Your small group can accomplish big things in the lives of your teenagers. And in Help! I'm a Small-Group Leader! you'll find methods and approaches you can use. Foibles and minefields to avoid. Solutions and tips that will help you nurture your small group into a growing community, whatever you goals. Inside you'll discover -- How to put small groups together - How NOT to lead a small group - How to start a discussion -- and KEEP IT GOING - How to ASK QUESTIONS that get responses - Three kinds of BIBLE STUDY questions to ask - How to work with DIFFERENT personalities in a small group - How to help you kids LEARN TO PRAY - 10 ideas for BUILDING COMMUNITY in your small group . . . and to top it off are 20 pages of questions (100 questions, to be exact) that you can use in your small group Bible study, on the most common subjects discussed in junior and senior high small groups. All this in a no-frills, straight-to-the-point style -- perfect for volunteer small-group leaders, or for youth pastors or youth directors to lead their staffs through.
Author : Helen Musick
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 031022652X
Veteran youth workers Helen Musick and Duffy Robbins dip into their bag of tried-and-true teaching tricks to present this collection of 52 of their most effective object lessons. Easy and fast to prepare, these lessons are perfect for use in devotionals, Sunday School lessons, talks at camps and retreats, and even sermons for both junior and senior high groups.
Author : Jim Hancock
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0310237165
This journal is a whole-person approach to your sexuality and God.
Author : Mike Yaconelli
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310525012
This collection of ideas to get your youth group talking contains over a hundred separate ideas for programs based on creative discussion -- enough to keep your youth group happy and involved for a long time!
Author : Ginny Olson
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310235960
This is a manual for quick and convenient access to the spectrum of administrative and managerial tasks that face youth workers every day with a companion CD-ROM that includes not only a student contact database, but all the book's forms in editable format.
