These twenty dramatic scripts will help youth workers reach kids where traditional preaching and teaching has failed.

Dramatic Pauses

Hancock,Jim

Religion & Spirituality

Youth Specialties

In this practical, easy-to-use guide, Jim Hancock gives youth leaders a number of specific ways to help kids put their faith in action.

Compassionate Kids

Zondervan Publishing Company

You can give your teenagers a biblical grounding for their sexuality one of two ways: try to override the lifelong influences of culture and their own experiences, or enter the very process that's influencing them. Good Sex is a very different, very honest, very direct, very biblical curriculum. Call it a whole-person approach to sexual formation. After all, it's no secret that sex is a whole-person experience, which is exactly how God designed it.Good Sex drives your students into the Bible for all things sexual. There's a ton of Scripture driving the leader's guide, student journal, and discussion starting video. But we know you have your own ideas about this subject , too. Your own approaches that fit your own group. Which is why Good Sex offers you options galore. You can pick and choose among more activities, discussion starters, and Bible studies than you'll ever need.In fact, you'll find all the flexibility here you want, activities and studies to use, ignore, or tweak for your own purposes. Or if it's specific direction you want, that's here too, in complete sessions, all ready to go.

Good Sex: A Whole Person Approach To Teenage Sexuality And God

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Whether 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.

Good Sex Leader's Guide

Powell, Kara E.

Powell, Kara Eckmann

Zondervan/Youth Specialties

Sex is everything. Sex is nothing. So which is it? The way some people talk, you'd think sex is like food--three meals a day or else we starve and die. On the other hand, you know sex definitely isn't nothing. It's too potent, too instinctive to simply deny. Sooner or later, everybody deals with it. This journal, What (Almost) Nobody Will Tell You About Sex, is a whole-person approach to your sexuality and God. In other words, sex is more than pelvises and plumbing. Sexuality is woven throughout all of you--your body, your mind, your spirit. It's the way we're wired. The way God wired us. Which means that if you want the ultimate enjoyment from sex--the right person, the right time, the right motives--you've got to appreciate and work with that body-mind-spirit connection. And this journal helps you do just that, with large doses of your own perceptions about sexuality and insight from the Bible--insight that just may surprise you, from the One who wired you to be a sexual being in the first place. Here's some of the stuff you'll find inside: Sextalk--Cultural and biblical messages about sex Sexual identity--How people think about sexuality Intimacy--Dating and nonsexual closeness Desire--The difference between appetites and needs Boundaries--How far is too far? Responsibility--Our sexual responsibilities to God and each other Do-overs -- Mercy, repentance, forgiveness, and restoration

Good Sex: What (Almost) Nobody Will Tell You About Sex

'...Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed, defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.' Many American kids today---even in Christian churches---don't have a full idea of the challenges presented by brutality, by crying children, by grieving widows; not what in the world they can do about it! That's about to change. The Justice Mission is a video-based curriculum that depicts the stark facts about oppression and injustice around the world...and presents a Bible-based approach to dealing with them! In the video segments, students will follow the visit of four American teens to squalid corners of India. They will be prompted to think again, and again, about the evil they find...and about bullying, prejudice, and attitudes that God hates in their own neighborhoods and the hallways of their schools. The Justice Mission is a partnership between Youth Specialties and the International Justice Mission, an organization that, through educating the church and mobilizing effective intervention, serves those who cannot rely on local authorities for relief. The Justice Mission surely will ignite holy passion for the oppressed victims of injustice. It will change lives---of your students in these sessions, and of untold numbers of victims across God's earth. Here, In One Kit: 5 video segments 5 leader-prompted sessions of depth and foundational clarity--- Oppression What God Hates Joining The Fight Against Injustice God's Vision Do It Now An abundance of worksheets, action items, group activities, journaling assignments, web links, and agenda-items!

Justice Mission, The

International Justice Mission

". . . learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow."For kids raised in contemporary American churches, these words from Isaiah might ring true but they wouldn’t have many ideas about how to do those things. They just haven’t heard much in Sunday School about actually creating justice.That’s about to change.For 25 years Jim Hancock has been a youth worker and creator of youth ministry resources like The Compassion Project (to help adolescents make a difference for the poor), EdgeTV (to help youth workers create safe places to talk about unsafe things) and Good Sex (to help kids wrestle with sexuality). Now, collaborating with The International Justice Mission, Hancock has created a process to engage youth groups in God’s call to seek justice on earth.In the last decade of the 20th century, The International Justice Mission emerged as an effective global instrument for extracting children from forced labor, releasing girls from prostitution, bringing murderous cops and soldiers to justice and restoring stolen land to poor farmers--all in the name of Jesus. Now they’re telling the American church what they’ve learned about the character and methods of oppression, God’s passion against injustice and how to join the fight against evil. What a story!There’s nothing like The Justice Mission. In four sessions youth workers will engage their group in understanding and embracing four very big ideas:* How injustice works (and how to strike back).* How much God hates injustice (and how to hate what God hates).* How to answer God’s call to fight injustice (beginning where they are).* How to trust God’s resources (doing God’s work, God’s way).Beyond summer mission trips, beyond child sponsorship, beyond personal piety, The Justice Mission is the next step in doing what Jesus would do. This curriculum includes a music CD featuring music by top Christian artists, produced by Squint Entertainment (producer of Roaring Lambs), and a video for use with the leader’s guide.

Justice Mission Leader's Guide, The

HarperChristian Resources

Hmm. Teenage sexuality and God--in dramatic-sketch from . . .Isn’t that a bit raw? Maybe too real? (And dare we say it . . . kinda risky?)With Good Sex Drama, you and your kids will enter the complex worlds of 16 very human, very flawed, very real characters--all loosely connected to each other--and journey with them over the course of 24 sketches as they wrestle intensely with sexual topics of perennial importance to students, including:Sexual temptation The results of sexual brokenness Technical virginity Pregnancy Sexually transmitted diseases Sexual abuse Alcohol and sex Sexual addiction When role models fail sexuallyJim Hancock, co-author of the widely acclaimed Youth Specialties curriculum Good Sex, is also a filmmaker/script writer/theater expert, and here he unearths amazingly real characters who overflow with depth, rib-tickling humor, devastating heartache, and--true to life--don’t resolve their issues by the end of the sketches.Each of the two-dozen dramas can stand alone--or you can use them in a series over several weeks. Some are short, subtle monologues. Some are volatile, intense dialogues between two or more characters. And each sketch ends with a healthy dose of discussion questions that’ll get your kids digging even deeper into the topics at hand.And even if your group isn’t into drama--or you’re just not the dramatic type--you’ll get all the help you’ll need to pull off unforgettable performances. That’s because Hancock provides an extensive introduction, offering tips on presenting the sketches, discussing them, stagecraft, what to do if you stir up trouble, and resources and referrals for help with sexual issues.So whether you’re a youth worker, associate pastor, Sunday school teacher, small group leader, CE director, or volunteer, Good Sex Drama will prove a unique, exciting, laugh-and-cry-as-you-learn resource that engages students and gets them examining their lives and their souls while trying on the personas of some unforgettable characters.

Good Sex Drama

Zondervan

“Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed, defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.” Many American kids today―even in Christian churches―don’t have a full idea of the challenges presented by brutality, by crying children, by grieving widows; not what in the world they can do about it! That’s about to change. The Justice Mission is a video-based curriculum that depicts the stark facts about oppression and injustice around the world … and presents a Bible-based approach to dealing with them! In the DVD segments, students will follow the visit of four American teens to squalid corners of India. They will be prompted to think again, and again, about the evil they find … and about bullying, prejudice, and attitudes that God hates in their own neighborhoods and the hallways of their schools. The Justice Mission is a partnership between Youth Specialties and the International Justice Mission, an organization that, through educating the church and mobilizing effective intervention, serves those who cannot rely on local authorities for relief. The Justice Mission surely will ignite holy passion for the oppressed victims of injustice. It will change lives―of your students in these sessions, and of untold numbers of victims across God’s earth. Here, In One Kit: 5 video segments 5 leader-prompted sessions of depth and foundational clarity― Oppression What God Hates Joining The Fight Against Injustice God’s Vision Do It Now An abundance of worksheets, action items, group activities, journaling assignments, web links, and agenda-items!

The Justice Mission Curriculum Kit: A Video-Enhanced Curriculum Reflecting the Heart of God for the Oppressed of the World

You’ve seen it on the news too many times to count. School shootings, adolescent addictions, bullying, eating disorders, depression and suicide, cutting, pregnancy. There is no lack of bad news to be told about teenagers today. Maybe you believe that will never happen to “my child.” And maybe it won’t. But crises aren’t always the stories that make the evening news. The spectrum of crises an adolescent may face can range from something as (seemingly harmless) as getting caught cheating on a test to dealing with the breakdown of the family, to acting out and getting in trouble with the law. And the reality is that someone they know will likely experience some kind of crisis—and that can affect your teen significantly. Either way, when a crisis affects your teen, wouldn’t you want to be prepared?
Rich Van Pelt and Jim Hancock, both of whom have raised teenagers into adulthood and have spent decades in youth ministry and crisis management, bring together their expertise and insight to help you identify and understand what a crisis is and how you can help your teen live and grow through it. Inside, you’ll find practical responses for issues like:
<ul>
<li>Suicidal thoughts or behavior</li>
<li>Accidents</li>
<li>Cheating</li>
<li>Death (of a friend or loved one)</li>
<li>Divorce</li>
<li>Eating disorders</li>
<li>Hazing</li>
<li>Pregnancy</li>
<li>Sexual abuse</li>
<li>Sexual identity confusion</li>
<li>Substance abuse or addiction</li>
<li>And more…</li>
</ul>
In addition to learning appropriate responses to crises, you’ll learn how to prevent some of these issues, and how to get professionals involved when necessary. Whatever it is your teen is dealing with, your influence in their life is still the most important one. So be prepared to walk them through their crisis with wisdom, compassion, and the tools to help them heal.

The Parent's Guide to Helping Teenagers in Crisis (Youth Specialties (Paperback))

Van Pelt, Rich

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