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Deal With It
$19.99Add to cartEven though anger is a regular part of every teen girl’s world, there are godly and appropriate ways students can respond to situations that make them angry. Deal With It is a curriculum that will help girls deal with their anger. Through activities that include reading and responding to stories about Maria, a fictional teen, students will learn to recognize their anger and find healthy ways to express their emotions.
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Footprints Of The Future
$10.99Add to cartYoung people today are experiencing overwhelming feelings of loneliness and rejection. They need to understand that the Savior, Jesus Christ, understands their emotions. He is our High Priest who “can” be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; and that He, like us, was tempted, but He was without sin. This generation faces unique pressures and difficulties. Dr. Proctor helps address these issues with insightful and spiritual advice. In Footprints of the Future: A Youth Journal, Dr. Proctor provides both practical and spiritual answers to pertinent issues facing this generation. These issues include: Anger Attitude Bitterness Forgiving Others Obedience Prayer This book is a must-read for every young person because at some point in their lives, they will confront these emotions. Dr. Proctor has written a book that is very easy to read and he has included ready references and space for journaling.
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Youth Pastor : The Theology And Practice Of Youth Ministry
$18.99Add to cartYouth Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Youth Ministry provides a biblical and theological grounding for the many jobs a youth minister does, explains what each of these jobs entails, and helps youth pastors identify where their gifts lie and where they still need to grow. Whether you are a first-time youth minister or a seasoned youth ministry veteran, Youth Pastor gives you valuable tools for evaluating your ministry and vocation. It also serves as an excellent text for undergraduate courses in youth ministry.
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Cultural Intelligence : Improving Your CQ To Engage Our Multicultural World (Rep
$29.99Add to cartAs twenty-first-century society grows increasingly complex, pluralistic, and multicultural, it behooves Christians to communicate effectively between and among diverse populations. Research indicates that missions often fail because of cultural collision and lack of empathy and understanding between different peoples. David Livermore proposes a meta model–based on sound research principles and social science methodology–for helping Christians intelligently navigate the multicultural maze in Cultural Intelligence. The much-needed skill of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) both at home and abroad is the ability to work effectively across national, ethnic, and even organizational cultures. Livermore explains that CQ is not simply learning how to externally modify behavior but is based on inward transformation. His work is replete with assessment tools, simulations, case studies, and reflective exercises. Professors and students of missiology, practical theology, ministry leadership, intercultural studies, and sociology in Christian colleges, seminaries, and lay training programs will glean needed knowledge to become culturally sensitive, aware, and intelligent. This addition to the Youth, Family, and Culture series will help individuals and organizations share the Christian message with those of different backgrounds.
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Middle School Talksheets
$22.99Add to cartThis book provides youth workers with 50 lessons, using the “talksheets” format, that focus students’ attention and interest on the life of Christ. Each lesson attempts to connect students to the story and its biblical and practical implications. The lessons are in approximate chronological order, but each talksheet is self-standing and can be used independently or linked with two or three others to create short series.
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High School Talksheets
$22.99Add to cartThis book provides youth workers with 50 lessons, using the “talksheets” format, that focus students’ attention and interest on the life of Christ. Each lesson attempts to connect students to the story and its biblical and practical implications. The lessons are in approximate chronological order, but each talksheet is self-standing and can be used independently or linked with two or three others to create short series.
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Good Sex 2.0 Leaders Guide
$18.99Add to cartWhether you’re a youth worker, associate pastor, CE director, or volunteer, this book is an upfront, truthful, process-centered resource that invites students to consider and understand their sexuality in light of the God who loves them and who made them sexual beings.
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Sustainable Youth Ministry
$22.99Add to cartOne of the big problems in youth ministry is the constant turnover of youth ministers. Mark DeVries addresses the problem with a systematic answer: churches need to take corporate responsibility for establishing a vision and structure for effective ministry, rather than leaving it all up to the youth minister.
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Downtime : Helping Teenagers To Pray
$24.99Add to cartA practical book for youth ministers, pastors, parents, and teachers who want to teach prayer to teenagers. The book will be written in short, meditative chapters that provide readers with the appropriate history, theology, pedagogy, and examples for introducing teens to the life of prayer.
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10 Minute Talks
$24.99Add to cartYouth ministry regularly calls for moments where the “short talk” is the perfect solution. No three points and a poem, no long fancy outlines, just a ten minute talk that tells one point loud and clear through a powerful story. When you’ve only got ten minutes to make your point, give em’ something that they’ll remember.
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Congratulations Youre Gifted
$12.99Add to cartBased on the popular S.H.A.P.E. book for adults, this teen version walks through the same process of discovery with students. Written by the bestselling author and pastor at Saddleback Church, Doug Fields, this book will help teenagers understand who they are, how they can serve, and why they serve.
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Me Myself And I
$13.95Add to cartBeing a “tween” – it can be a very awkward time in anyone’s life. You’re not a full-fledged teenager with cars, dates, and high school, but you’re not a little child anymore, either. You can still feel pulls in both directions, wanting to be a child and have fun, yet wanting more responsibility as a teenager. It is definitely not easy being a “tween.”
Me, Myself, and I was written for this group of people, guiding them through this time of transition through stories and Bible studies, reassuring them of God’s love and understanding. With study questions at the end of each chapter, this book can be read privately at home as a personal devotional or in group settings, such as Sunday school, children’s Bible studies, or through Christian-based organizations for young people.
Going through the tween years can be a harrowing experience, but the wisdom offered in Me, Myself, and I can help make that journey a little easier with the reassurance that God is present every step of the way. -
Hope And Healing For Kids Who Cut
$9.99Add to cartCutting. It’s become a buzzword lately, but very few books address it from the perspective of a youth worker or concerned friend. Marv Penner has lived in this world for the past few years, talking with teenagers online and meeting with them to understand what drives them and why they self-injure. In this timely and helpful book, youth workers, coaches, teachers, and others will get the information they need to begin to understand and help (or point to help) kids who cut.
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Peacemaker : Student Edition (Reprinted)
$17.99Add to cartTragic confrontations at schools throughout the past two decades are striking evidence that teens need help and training in peaceful conflict resolution. God knows each conflict a teen goes through–with their families, friends, and teachers–and he is in control. In this student edition of The Peacemaker, Ken Sande and Kevin Johnson show teens, youth leaders, parents, and pastors, how they can apply biblical principles to conflict situations, allowing for forgiveness and reconciliation instead of hatred or violence. With an approachable style that treats teens with respect, this much-needed resource can be used individually or as part of a small group or youth group study.
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Toward A Prophetic Youth Ministry
$28.99Add to cartFernando Arzola addresses the gap in the literature of youth ministry resources conceived and realized in an urban setting. He brings together three dominant paradigms–traditional, liberal and activist–to create an approach that is informed by Scripture and the contemporary realities of adolescent development in an urban setting.
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Youth Ministry 1.0
$12.49Add to cartThe youth of our nation are struggling. They are disconnected and adrift. Jesus has called us to reach them and those who feel the call often feel overwhelmed and unprepared as they face this seemingly insurmountable task. This book is written to give not only hope and encouragement, but tools that work. Even starting with nothing in a small church with a tiny budget you can be effective in reaching the youth of this generation, even if you don’t have a bible college degree. Hang on, this could be the greatest job you will ever love!
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Searching For The Perfect Youth Ministry
$12.49Add to cart“Searching for the Perfect Youth Ministry” was written for the sole purpose of making youth ministers aware of concerns and problems prior to their conception. This will allow each minister to evaluate his or her situation and search for practical and positive ways to either prevent these trials from happening, or at least diminish their potentially dangerous effects. Ultimately, the purpose is to provide youth ministers with longer and more prosperous tenures.
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Youth Workers Guide To Helping Teenagers In Crisis
$24.99Add to cartIf you work with students, you will encounter crisis. Leading crisis-management expert Rich Van Pelt and respected author and youth worker Jim Hancock unfold step-by-step plans for managing the fallout from all sorts of worst-case scenarios, from substance abuse to natural disasters. This comprehensive manual also includes action items geared to help prevent small crises from escalating to huge ones.
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Creative Bible Lessons In Job
$24.99Add to cartHow do we live for a fair God in an unfair world? Giving answers to students and families seems challenging at best and impossible at worst. Biblical pat answers serve only to set people up for more disappointment or unrealistic expectations. Get ready to explore the book of Job for real answers that will matter and make sense to your students.
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Experiential Youth Ministry Handbook Volume 2
$22.99Add to cartMore than just a handbook of games, Experiential Youth Ministry Handbook Volume 2 goes to the heart of learning. Giving you the tools and ideas to create experiences and events that will help shape and form your students, this book will equip you and your
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Getting Students To Show Up
$19.99Add to cartThe heart was there, the vision was set, the motives were genuine . . . but no one showed up. The book will help youth workers program to an audience that they’re not used to reaching. Programming an outreach event is much more than booking a band and a speaker. Unfortunately, most people don’t know that-and the students they wanted to reach aren’t making it there . . . they don’t show up.
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Crisis Manual For Christian Schools And Youth Workers
$14.99Add to cartThe suicide of a youth group member. The drowning of a teen on a summer missions trip. A school shooting. These are frightening scenarios that Christian school staff members and youth workers sometimes face. One of their biggest fears is facing a tragedy and not knowing what to do. Most Christian school personnel receive inadequate instruction on what critical steps to take to prevent their school from being paralyzed by tragedy, and few youth workers receive the training needed to counsel their teens after a crisis. As a high school counselor who was on the scene at Columbine, Sandy Austin has faced tragedy. Sandy Austin knows how important it is to already have a crisis plan in place in order to minimize the panic or chaos that often occurs during and after a tragic situation. In the Crisis Manual for Christian Schools and Youth Workers, Austin uses her experience and expertise to give youth workers step-by-step instruction on how to plan ahead and handle tragedy should the need arise. Having this peace of mind is highly important when it comes to dealing with the lives and well-being of young people. Step-by-step processes include: * Formulating a Crisis Team * Prevention and intervention strategies * Communication through the crisis * Helping the families of impacted youth * Conducting funerals and memorial services * Debriefing * Education regarding residual effects of the tragedy
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Beyond The Myths
$17.00Add to cartAuthor and professor Daniel Bagby’s latest book, Beyond The Myths: The Journey To Adulthood, addresses some of the unique challenges confronting today’s emerging young adult. Exploring that gray area between adolescence and adulthood, the book identifies their unique struggles in regard to personal identity, sexuality, intimacy, vocation, personal choice, and spiritual definition. The book further explores pastoral care options for ?would-be adults? as they experience the challenges of confusing options, unclear identities, dysfunctional family messages, vocational choices, and spiritual winters on their way to full adulthood.
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Not The Same Old Done It Before Youth Meetings
$32.99Add to cartSeveral youth are on the way to your church anticipating an evening with friends. They seek direction from their youth leaders, which will engage them in activities that bring them together. Whether five, fifteen or fifty are in the group, “Not the Same Old, Done-it-before Youth Meeting” has ideas for you. From the simulated court dramas of “The Jury Speaks” to the interactive “Trust Exercises” youth will find fun, friends and faith. The “Olympics” describes seven weeks of events which equally challenge athletic and intellectual skills. “Flashlight Sing” will get the most introverted youth singing while “Walking on Water” brings them into the presence of Jesus, himself. The structure and indexes of the book make it easy to find just the right activity for your youth group meeting. The book gives youth leaders the tools to creatively plan events, which meet each group’s unique needs while having fun, making new friends and enhancing the faith of all participants.
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Not The Same Old Done It Before Youth Meetings
$21.99Add to cartSeveral youth are on the way to your church anticipating an evening with friends. They seek direction from their youth leaders, which will engage them in activities that bring them together. Whether five, fifteen or fifty are in the group, “Not the Same Old, Done-it-before Youth Meeting” has ideas for you. From the simulated court dramas of “The Jury Speaks” to the interactive “Trust Exercises” youth will find fun, friends and faith. The “Olympics” describes seven weeks of events which equally challenge athletic and intellectual skills. “Flashlight Sing” will get the most introverted youth singing while “Walking on Water” brings them into the presence of Jesus, himself. The structure and indexes of the book make it easy to find just the right activity for your youth group meeting. The book gives youth leaders the tools to creatively plan events, which meet each group’s unique needs while having fun, making new friends and enhancing the faith of all participants.
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Serving From The Heart For Youth (Workbook)
$12.99Add to cartIs adapted from Church of the Resurrection’s Serving From The Heart spiritual-gifts program for adults. The adult program has helped more than 40,000 people find their gifts, purpose, and passion to serve God through the church. When believers find their gifts and God-given passion and give them to the service of the church, ministries thrive.
Young people who go through this study will learn about spiritual gifts and what they mean for the church, discover their gifts, and find ways to offer their gifts to further God’s work through the church.
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Gimme Five : 500 More Ways To Get Your Students Talking
$10.99Add to cartGimme Five is the tool to have when you want to get your group talking on a ministry night, retreat, road trip, in their small groups, or at your home. These provocative and charming lists will get kids talking, laughing, debating, and thinking anytime, anywhere. A great tool for volunteer youth workers who need something to get conversation going!
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John
$19.99Add to cartTake your hands off the keyboard, there’s no need to rewrite these questions for your students. What you’re holding in your hands are 25 studies covering all of John, ready to roll. Grab a group of students, a Bible, and this book and you’re sure to have a great small group meeting.
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Creative Bible Lessons In Genesis
$24.99Add to cartIn the book of Genesis–the first communique from the Creator to creation–God demonstrates an unchanging commitment to us, engaging with us personally. This book takes that rock-solid truth from there, providing material to challenge your students’ faith as they discover what it means to be made in God’s image and understand their original connection to God–and each other.
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New Kind Of Youth Ministry
$19.99Add to cartThis book guides you on the way to discovering, developing and practicing a new youth ministry design. As your youth ministry’s principal architect, you have the opportunity to realize a rhythm of disciple-making that more effectively engages youth with God, through Jesus, as they journey toward a life of continual spiritual finding and evolution. This resource will provide you with a ministry design that more influentially encourages students to live, lead, and love in the way of Jesus.
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Skits That Teach
$24.99Add to cartIf you’re looking for fun and creative ways to involve your students in learning, you can stop looking. Skits That Teach provides you and your students everything you need to act out funny and compelling skits with confidence. Search by topic or by group size to find the perfect comedic or dramatic sketch to help illustrate a point or just start a dialogue. The Skit Guys, Eddie James and Tommy Woodard, have tested these skits on teenagers around the country, and they’ve brought some of the best together for this great resource. Plus they give you everything you need for each skit-overview, characters, location, Scripture reference, props, direction pointers, and a complete script.
The Skit Guys avoid the cheesy dialogues and scenes typically found in Christian dramas and instead bring fun characters, witty dialogue, and
entertaining situations to their skits, all categorized for you by:
* Skits for Idiots (it would take an idiot not to be able to do them right!) * Monologues * Duets/Ensembles * Comedy * Drama * Scripture Readings
You will want to have this book around for those energetic, creative students who are always looking for ways to help.
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Girls Ministry 101
$19.99Add to cartChances are that half or more of the kids you minister to are females. Regardless of whether you are the same gender as these young women, ministering to girls presents its own set of challenges and opportunities. Girls Ministry 101takes you from zero to full speed in your calling as you:
* Define your job requirements * Discover the secrets of building relationships with students * Explore the world of the girls in your group * Recruit and empower volunteers * Create opportunities for young women to grow
* Develop young leaders * Expand your ministry * Manage your time and commitments * Maintain a life apart from your ministry
Packed with the experiences and wisdom of real girls ministers, this book gives you ideas for events and retreats, questions to spark conversation, reproducible handouts to help you get to know your students, and more.
Ultimately, this book is a jumping-off point. Take the ideas between these pages and run with them, adjust them for your group, modify them for your circumstances, and come up with a ministry that is tailored to the needs of your girls. Whether you’re a lady or a gentleman, a veteran or a newbie, on payroll or a volunteer, this book will provide the tools to more effectively convey the love of Christ to the girls in your life.
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Choose Your Top 3
$19.99Add to cartThis collection of 500 discussion prompts will get your students laughing, thinking, sharing, and getting to know each other. From the silly to the insightful, these “Top 3” choices are great for icebreakers, time killers on road trips, and much more. Here’s a smattering of what’s inside:
* What are your top 3 fast food restaurants? * What are your top 3 fears? * What are your top 3 cartoon characters? * What are your top 3 names of God?
While these prompts may seem elementary, they are effective, efficient ways to get inside your students’ heads and hearts. Think of them as gateway questions that can lead to deeper revelations of what’s really going on with your kids.
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Deep Ministry In A Shallow World
$22.99Add to cartDeep Ministry in a Shallow World will show you a new way to prayerfully reflect on the questions you face in your youth ministry every day so you can find the answers that will take it to deeper places. That’s because authors Chap Clark and Kara Powell have gathered significant research findings that will help shift your ministry paradigm.
Did you know that:
* the typical strategies we use to build relationships with kids might actually cause them to trust us
less because of what this generation has endured?
* recent research on communication could help us move past the witty talks and funny stories we work so hard to develop and instead actually connect the Bible to kids’ lives?
* studies show that offering students “just Jesus” and not helping them at home, school, and in their neighborhoods might not help them very much at all?
The authors’ research also led to their development of the Deep Design problem-solving process-a revolutionary model that will give you better tools than ever before to address every last issue you’ll encounter in youth ministry.
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Jesus Christ For Youth Student (Student/Study Guide)
$8.99Add to cartMore than 100,000 youth have deepened their relationship with Jesus Christ through this far-reaching classic, now updated. Youth leaders and workers can give teens an opportunity to meet Jesus face to face.
The student edition gives youth a comprehensive picture of the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Its workbook format engages youth, helping them encounter Jesus as a living presence and guide for their lives and faith. -
Teenage Guys : Exploring Issues Adolescent Guys Face And Strategies To Help
$22.99Add to cartYouth workers need to fully understand the inner workings and development of adolescents in order to really meet their needs. In Teenage Guys, Dr. Steve Gerali presents the stages of development that adolescent guys go through, providing stories from his own experiences in ministry and counseling as well as practical research findings to equip youth workers (both male and female) to more effectively minister to teenage guys. With advice from counselors and veteran youth workers, you’ll find helpful suggestions on how to minister to teenage guys and their families. Each chapter includes discussion questions to help you and other youth workers process the issues your own students face and learn how you can help them and mentor them through this tumultuous time. In addition to concepts like mentoring and rites of passage, Dr. Gerali also walks readers through the seven areas of development young guys go through. You’ll understand more about: Cognitive development – Identity formation – Social development – Emotional development – Physiological development – Sexological maturation – Faith formation
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Teenage Girls : Exploring Issues Adolescent Girls Face And Strategies To He
$22.99Add to cartGirls are more than just sugar and spice. We’ve all figured that out. What we haven’t figured out completely is how they’re wired, why they do the things they do, how the world around them affects their choices and opinions, and what that means for youth ministry-until now. In Teenage Girls, you’ll find advice from counselors and veteran youth workers, along with helpful suggestions on how to minister to teenage girls. Each chapter includes discussion questions to help you and other youth workers process the issues your own students face and learn how you can help them and mentor them through this tumultuous time. In addition to the traditional issues people commonly associate with girls, such as eating disorders, self-image issues, and depression, author Ginny Olson will guide you through some of the new issues on the rise in girls’ lives. You’ll understand more about issues related to: Family – Addiction – Emotional well-being – Mental health – Physical welfare – Sexuality – Spirituality – Relationships
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Living A Life That Matters
$9.99Add to cartIf It Makes You Happy … – If It Makes You Happy … It Could Be Very Bad – Who Knew Pleasure Would Be So Disappointing? – If It Feels Good, Do It? – What Does It Mean? Fill in the blank: My life would be meaningful if _________________. If you’re observant, you’ll see all kinds of ways people are trying to fill in that blank. Some want more money, more influence, more pleasure-MORE. So, does it work? Will devouring all that the world has to offer lead to satisfaction? The book of Ecclesiastes is about by someone who tried to answer that question. Whether it was sex, drugs, money, power, food, relationships, or knowledge, King Solomon tried it all and documented what he discovered as he searched for a purpose to his life. Look Around lets you gaze over Solomon’s shoulder as he indulges every pleasure, exercises every power, and emerges with a radical conclusion about how to live. You’ll find ways that his search for meaning connects with yours, and how your story can connect with your friends’ as they seek meaning in the world.
