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Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry, by Andrew Root
When I started in youth ministry, the primary approach to youth ministry in the local church was an approach borrowed from the successful parachurch ministry Young Life. Young Life founder Jim Rayburn...
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Youth Ministry Essentials: 6 Steps to Helping Hurting Students
You probably didn’t get into youth ministry to help teens deal with abuse, addiction, parental divorce, abandonment, premarital sex, cutting, suicidal thoughts, anger issues, and other painful life...
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Relationships Unfiltered, by Andrew Root
Author Andrew Root describes Relationships Unfiltered: Help for Youth Workers, Volunteers, and Parents on Creating Authentic Relationships as a “condensed, concentrated” version of his first book...
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Sustainable Youth Ministry, by Mark Devries
Sustainable Youth Ministry: Why Most Youth Ministry Doesn’t Last and What You Can Do About It is the in-the-weeds, how-to resource on youth ministry architecture that many youth pastors, youth workers...
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Reinventing Youth Ministry (Again), by Wayne Rice
Every youth worker, senior pastor, youth pastor, or family pastor with an interest in where youth ministry has been over the last half-century and where youth ministry is headed, should read this book....
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OMG: A Youth Ministry Handbook, ed. by Kenda Creasy Dean
Those of us who are connected with adolescents on Facebook know exactly what OMG means to them. As Kenda Creasy Dean mentions in the introduction to OMG: A Youth Ministry Handbook, her objective in...
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Teenagers, Sexual Brokenness & the Gospel
Students are broken over pornography, voyeurism, oral sex, sexting, “hooking-up,” sexploitation, sexual abuse, sexual pressure, sexual addiction, same-sex attraction, date rape, virtual sex,...
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Dealing with Sexual Abuse in the Life of a Teenager
The harm caused by sexual abuse is well documented. Victims of sexual abuse deal with a kind of violation that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. And what makes this kind of abuse so...
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Social Media Meets The Gospel at The Christian Path
Joey Morgan (@thejoeymorgan on Twitter) is a 16-year-old Marcus High School (Flower Mound, TX) freshman who desires to bring other teenagers into a closer relationship with Jesus, and he is doing just...
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Helping the Student Who Self-Injures
Self-injury (sometimes called “cutting”) is the intentional infliction of injury to self without the aid of another person for the purpose of venting anger or self-justification. The intent is...
View ArticleUnlocking the Potential of Volunteers
Adult volunteers are the backbone of any healthy student ministry. In my work with both church and parachurch student ministries, I have found that there are three keys to unlocking the potential of...
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