Best-Ever Games for Youth Ministry

Best-Ever Games for Youth Ministry
Author: Les Christie
Publisher: Simply Youth Ministry
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-09-11
Genre: Group games
ISBN: 9781470722166

The Game Guy is geared up and ready to give you tons of great games--including some brand-new ones--that are easy to pull off and field-tested with teenagers in many settings. Here's what you'll get: - Classic games with new twists - Indoor and outdoor games - Games that teach - Games that build community in your group The book includes ideas on how to: - Lead games - Select games - Save games gone bad You also get: - Supply lists - Tips and bonus ideas - Notes on group sizes Plus, this legendary games expert exposes some of the worst games every played, and shares his philosophy of fun when working with teenagers. You'll be equipped to lead young people with the best collection of games--ever!

The Gigantic Book of Games for Youth Ministry

The Gigantic Book of Games for Youth Ministry
Author: Group Publishing
Publisher: Group Publishing (Company)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Church group work with teenagers
ISBN: 9780764420894

Get ready for the biggest and the best game book ever! With brain-stretching games, friend-making games, and holiday games kids will have a blast. Over 300 games are included.

Holiday Ideas

Holiday Ideas
Author: Youth Specialties,
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310862477

Over 200 festive ideas for cranking up celebrations for every holiday imaginable! - Christmas . . . Here's your one-stop Christmas programming center. You'll find everything you need for the merriest Advent and Christmas season ever -- goofy games, crazy carols, outrageous outings, and silly skits to fill even the biggest Christmas stocking. And, of course, Christmassy meetings and lessons to help your kids focus on the real reason for the season. - Easter & Lent . . . Worship activities, reenactments, Bible lessons, meeting plans, and service projects, all designed to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Plus games, puzzles, craft projects, and scavenger hunt ideas -- all tied to an Easter theme. - Valentine's Day . . . Play a memorable February 14th with these icebreakers, games, songs, activities, and Bible lessons -- all about love, whether human or divine. - Thanksgiving . . . Wait until you see the potful of ideas that youth workers from Cape Cod to all points west have cooked up for you -- Thanksgiving craft projects, skits, outings, parties, service projects, and Bible lessons. Plus More . . . All kinds of party and meeting ideas for St. Patrick's Day, New Year's, Halloween, Super Bowl Sunday, April Fool's Day, Mother's and Father's Day celebrations, and graduation. Whether you're a youth worker or a recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp -- Holiday Ideas is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.

99 Thoughts for Small Group Leaders

99 Thoughts for Small Group Leaders
Author: Joshua Griffin
Publisher: Simply Youth Ministry
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Church group work with teenagers
ISBN: 9780764446801

Insights, tips, and suggestions for small group of leaders. When put into play, these bite-sized, consumable pieces of wisdom help leaders "knock it out of the park" and set them up to win.

The End of Youth Ministry? (Theology for the Life of the World)

The End of Youth Ministry? (Theology for the Life of the World)
Author: Andrew Root
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493420178

What is youth ministry actually for? And does it have a future? Andrew Root, a leading scholar in youth ministry and practical theology, went on a one-year journey to answer these questions. In this book, Root weaves together an innovative first-person fictional narrative to diagnose the challenges facing the church today and to offer a new vision for youth ministry in the 21st century. Informed by interviews that Root conducted with parents, this book explores how parents' perspectives of what constitutes a good life are affecting youth ministry. In today's culture, youth ministry can't compete with sports, test prep, and the myriad other activities in which young people participate. Through a unique parable-style story, Root offers a new way to think about the purpose of youth ministry: not happiness, but joy. Joy is a sense of experiencing the good. For youth ministry to be about joy, it must move beyond the youth group model and rework the assumptions of how identity and happiness are imagined by parents in American society.

Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry

Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry
Author: Cameron Cole
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-02-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433546981

Youth ministry is an essential part of most evangelical churches. And yet, there is a surprising lack of resources written specifically for youth workers focused on viewing all aspects of youth ministry through a gospel-focused lens. Featuring contributions from a host of experienced youth workers from a wide variety of churches, this how-to manual offers guidance related to every facet of youth ministry, from planning short-term mission trips to working with parents. Theologically rooted yet eminently practical, this handbook will equip youth leaders to effectively shepherd the young people under their care—training them to live faithfully in their homes, churches, and schools.

A Biblical Theology of Youth Ministry: Teenagers in the Life of the Church

A Biblical Theology of Youth Ministry: Teenagers in the Life of the Church
Author: Michael McGarry
Publisher: Randall House Publications
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2019-05-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781614840961

Michael McGarry explores the foundation of youth ministry in the Old and New Testaments and brings that together with Church history in a compelling way. McGarry presents a thorough biblical framework to think about youth ministry as the church's expression of partnership with the family for co-evangelizing and co-discipling the next generation.

Thriving Youth Ministry in Smaller Churches

Thriving Youth Ministry in Smaller Churches
Author: Rick Chromey
Publisher: Simply Youth Ministry
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Church group work with youth
ISBN: 9780764440519

A small youth ministry has the flexibility and qualities to be nimble and relational, two qualities that will serve teenagers better than a big budget. This resource demonstrates how to create a ministry teens will love to be a part of. (Ministry & Pastoral Resources)

Thriving Youth Groups

Thriving Youth Groups
Author: Jeanne Mayo
Publisher: Simply Youth Ministry
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780764426803

Youth ministry expert Jeanne Mayo grew her youth group from 30 kids to over 1000. Here Mayo shares practical principles for growing ministry through a friendship culture.