Youth Work

With the help of God, her family, and many other people along the way, Diane's Kids off the Block morphed from a personal crusade to do what she could into a nationally known program that has helped more than 3,000 at-risk Chicago teens. In this powerful, energizing book, she tells her incredible story to men and women who are sick of sitting behind their keyboards watching the world crumble and are ready to do something to make a difference.

Can we trust the Bible, or has it been distorted over the centuries? If Christians believe that the Bible contains the very words of Almighty God, why have most never read it cover to cover or made it part of their daily lives? How did we get the Bible? How should one respond to legitimate criticism? Everyone believes something when it comes to religion. Atheists believe there is no God. Atheists are not unreasonable, they are just arguing from a different starting point. How should we think about atheism? Are angels and demons real, or just a Hollywood invention? If the devil exists, why ...

Youth ministry isn't just meeting with students and teaching them God's truth. It also involves a myriad of administrative and operational details. Youth Ministry Management Tools 2.0 provides youth ministers and volunteers with helpful insights, advice, and practical resources to successfully manage a youth ministry. Authors Mike Work and Ginny Olson provide you with quick and accessible answers to all of your management, administrative, and supervisory questions and needs.

If you long to reach kids and see their lives changed by God, this updated, comprehensive guide shows you how. Purpose Driven® Youth Ministry will do for youth ministry what Rick Warren's Gold Medallion award - winning The Purpose Driven Church is doing for pastoral ministry. It's an indispensable guide to creating and maintaining youth ministry for the long run. It will help you create a solid spiritual team that builds the foundations of the Christian faith into the hearts and lives of young people.

Comprehensive, yet practical, this book unveils the scope of church-centered work among teens. In a lively, illustrative manner Elmer Towns sets forth in sharp relief problems and solutions in this important area of Christian education. You are led from a scholarly discussion of the characteristics of teenagers to practical methods of teaching and counseling them. Mr. Towns deals with such specialties as music, camping, and recreation, too. His chapters on the total youth program and how you plan it are extremely useful. Pastors, youth directors, directors of Christian education, youth and ...

Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is a Christian missions movement like no other. Since 1960, it has launched wave after wave of young missionaries now into the millions who have impacted every nation on earth by simply listening to and obeying the voice of God. In Values Matter, YWAM Co-founder Darlene Cunningham shares inspiring stories of how God shaped YWAM into what it is today—a large and effective wave-maker for missions through the spiritual DNA carried within its Core Beliefs and 18 Foundational Values.

This audiobook provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting homeless couples, youth, and single adults. Chapters explore policy and research accompanied by narratives that trace a person's journey from homelessness to housing and beyond. The interrelationship between Homeless Outreach and Housing First is examined in detail to inform program development and hands-on practice.

What would it take for you to have the life of your dreams? To go from where you are now, to where you have always wanted to be? By tapping into the power of positive thinking,365 Great Inspirational Quotes offers you an easy solution to these important questions. Starting with a single quote per day, you can immediately begin to replace older, negative, self-limiting thoughts with new, empowering, positive ones. Thereby, unleashing your hidden potential for true success as you make your way toward the rich, full life that you deserve. So, why wait? NOW is the perfect time to make your ...

Youth mentoring is one of the most popular forms of volunteering in the world today, but does it work? Drawing on over 30 years of research and her own experience in the field, Jean Rhodes reveals that most mentoring programs fail to deliver what young people actually need. Many prioritize building emotional bonds between mentors and mentees. But research shows that effective programs go far beyond this, developing specific social, emotional, and intellectual skills.

This 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.

For youth workers, volunteers, denominations and other leaders who want the youth retreat to end in the parking lot instead of the emergency room.

This book is about the future world of work, where humans will work hand-in-hand with machines (we call this a marriage). Where most of the jobs will cease and new jobs will emerge to interface the marriage between humans and robots. This is the future to which we are heading, in which we will soon be living. The question is: can the skills we teach in our education system help us survive in the future? Follow us as we discuss this question in this book, The Future of Work in Tanzania: Preparing for Work That Doesn't Exist Yet!

This book of eleven chapters, are my personal stories in regard to supernatural and miraculous events I have witnessed and experienced during my lifetime as a Christian and Youth Minister. While I write these from a Christian perspective, I hope anyone interested in these type things, will read these chapters with an open mind. I have deep respect for my faith and for things pertaining to God and it is my intention to relate these events in complete factualness.