Games

Games
Author: Youth Specialties
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1997
Genre: Group games
ISBN: 0310220300

Containing a huge supply of how-to ideas for youth ministry, this book from The Ideas Library will provide countless hours of gaming entertainment.

Creative Meetings, Bible Lessons, and Worship Ideas

Creative Meetings, Bible Lessons, and Worship Ideas
Author: Youth Specialities
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780310220268

Nearly 200 ready-to-use ideas for hard-hitting Bible lessons and relevant worship services for teenagers! - Bible Study Meetings . . . Techniques and approaches for making any Bible lesson -- topical or scriptural -- appealing to unchurched teenagers as well as to preachers' kids. - Creative Bible Lessons . . . 'Martha and Mary Malpractice' (page 67), 'Noah and the Ark I. Q. Test' (page 43), and 70 more very different, very fun, and very solid Bible lessons. - Theme Lessons . . . Build an entire lesson on a specific theme. Try 'Feet Meeting' (page 118) -- foot games followed by a lesson on the symbolic importance of washing each other's feet. You aren't into feet? Okay, what about the hands of Jesus? Or the light versus darkness? They're all here! - Bible Games . . . These won't speed your kids into seminary, but they certainly go a long way toward making the Bible interesting to your students -- and fun, too! - Worship Services . . . Some are informal, others have a liturgical feel -- and all are innovative. Here are the ideas for communion, confession, music, prayer, and Scripture reading. And More . . . Full lessons (all the components are here, from opening mixers to closing prayers), board games (with reproducible game 'boards'), and ideas for using guest speakers and special projects. Whether you're a youth worker or a recreation director at a church, school, club, or camp -- Creative Meetings, Bible Lessons, and Worship Ideas is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.

Would You Rather . . . ?

Would You Rather . . . ?
Author: Doug Fields
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009-12-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310854008

Ask away . . . and get your students talking with these provocative questions. Would You Rather . . .? gives you 465 stimulating either-or questions that will get your students talking, laughing, debating, and thinking. Questions like Would You Rather . . . watch a soap opera or make fun of one? . . . be gossiped about or lied to? . . .get shot from a cannon or walk a high wire? . . . make a child cry or kick a puppy? . . . attend the Last Supper or discover Jesus' empty tomb? You can use these questions anywhere, anytime -- when you want to break the ice, spark a discussion, build community, get kids to wrestle with spiritual issues, or just have fun. And the convenient size makes it easy to stick in your pocket or in the glove compartment of your car. This is one resource you'll want for every member of your ministry team!

Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry

Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry
Author: Doug Fields
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 031024045X

This guide to the concept of Purpose-Driven( youth ministry addresses issues about where to start, dealing with discouragement, establishing heart essentials, becoming family friendly, being with students, and working as a team.

Guys

Guys
Author: Dan Jessup
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780310241386

Targeted for high school freshmen and sophomores, Guys presents 10 lessons dealing with what it means to be a young man in Christ. In a non-prescriptive way, this curriculum will give guys a chance to explore the concept of a being a godly man in the midst of an image-driven society.

Good Sex

Good Sex
Author: Jim Hancock
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2001
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0310237165

This journal is a whole-person approach to your sexuality and God.

Videos that Teach Two

Videos that Teach Two
Author: Doug Fields
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0310238188

Contains 75 more clips from recent movies you can use to illustrate topics you teach on all the time--with summaries of the movie and the clip, start-stop times, Scripture references for Bible study, and discussion-starting questions to provoke discussions on subjects that matter to today's adolescents.

School Library Makerspaces

School Library Makerspaces
Author: Leslie B. Preddy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 629
Release: 2013-10-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

An essential resource for intermediate, middle, and high school librarians that guides the planning, learning, and implementation of a school library makerspace. The roles of school library media specialists and school libraries themselves are ever changing in response to the needs of the community and the evolution of human thinking, interaction, and learning processes. A school library makerspace can provide patrons with a place for learning, doing, and creating. It offers a location for tackling inventions, fine arts, crafts, industrial technology, hobbies, e-textiles, foodcrafting, DIY couture, fabrication, upcycling, and STEM right in the middle of the information gateway—the library. This book completely explains the makerspace concept and supplies real-world implementation guidance and inexpensive programming ideas that can be used as-is or adapted to suit a specific library or community's needs. Readers will be able to hit the ground running to implement their own makerspace with practical project ideas they can put to use immediately.

Student Underground

Student Underground
Author: Youth Specialties Staff
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780310234449

What if your youth group were being hunted by something far more insidious than the other side in Capture the Flag? No, your students aren't being stalked. But millions of Christians around the world suffer political repression, discrimination, imprisonment, harassment, family division, rape, and torture because of their faith. Children of believers are sold into slavery for the cost of a CD. Every 3 1⁄2 minutes a Christian dies for the faith. In fact, during your hour-long youth group meeting, 17 Christians will be martyred somewhere in the world. Student Underground gently but inexorably forces open students' eyes to the anguishing, world-wide persecution of Christians-and how teenagers can start praying for, communicating with, and reaching out toward victims. Use these 4 sessions (along with the companion 60-minute, award-winning film Behind the Sun) as a high-impact retreat, a lock-in event, or a month of weekly meetings. Student Underground shows why to care. And how to help. Here's a clear, thorough, and convenient curriculum for leaders, including a plethora of quotable facts about how, why, and where Christians are suffering. Not to mention concrete and realistic plans for student action. Plus where to find a complete underground church service on www.YouthSpecialties.com-a simulation of what going to church is like for Christians in restricted countries.