'Can I really expand my youth ministry &amp; maintain quality?' Yes, you can -- and Len Kageler shows you how. Len understands what it takes to grow a youth ministry. In this practical volume, he shares his own time-tested insights, input from nationally-known church growth experts, and the wisdom of hundreds of youth workers he's surveyed. Len takes a head-on approach to the real-life issues you face in expanding your youth ministry, including: - How to attract and keep new kids - How to overcome obstacles to growth your own church creates - What personality types are most effective in youth ministry - What to do when you don't have enough space - How to successfully welcome 'problem kids' into a growing youth ministry If you're ready to reach more kids with top-quality youth ministry, pick up How to Expand Your Youth Ministry.

How To Expand Your Youth Ministry

Kageler, Len

Religion & Spirituality

Zondervan

It’s more common in youth ministry than we want to admit—burnout and failure. Exhaustion, frustration, disappointment, and conflict bring many youth workers to a point where they either choose a new church, a new career, or someone makes that choice for them. After thirty years of youth ministry experience, Len Kageler wants to help youth workers avoid the pitfalls that are common to their calling, and give them the tools to not only survive, but also to thrive in youth ministry. Along with his own wisdom, Len offers insights gained from his 2006 survey of more than 300 burned out or fired youth workers who come from a variety of ministry contexts and denominations. If you’re new to youth ministry, or you’ve been at it for a while and feel like you may be on the verge of burnout, The Youth Ministry Survival Guide will help you: • deal with conflict and compromise • determine the causes of burnout (and how to avoid them!) • discover how your personality, and the personality of those you work with, affects the dynamics of your ministry experience • develop the best plan for working with senior pastors, church leadership, parents, and students, so you can… • do youth ministry in your 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond! Don’t let burnout force you out! Inside this book you’ll find steps you can take to help build fences against failure, and you’ll learn what it takes to survive and thrive in youth ministry.

The Youth Ministry Survival Guide: How to Thrive and Last for the Long Haul (Youth Specialties (Paperback))

Congratulations! You've agreed to serve as a volunteer-perhaps the most underrated, underappreciated, misunderstood role in youth ministry! But your role is also one of the most essential. Seriously-the healthiest, most effective youth ministries are built on a solid foundation of dedicated, talented, committed volunteers. The Volunteer's Field Guide to Youth Ministry will help you chart a course of growth as a follower of Christ and as a leader in your congregation. You can read it from front to back, or you can treat it like a reference tool-scan for topics that are relevant today, and save the rest for later. Chapter topics include:
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<li>Discovering your unique personality and the way God has wired you</li>
<li>Preparing for the adventure of youth ministry volunteer work</li>
<li>Understanding the teenagers you work with</li>
<li>Supporting parents as they raise their teenagers</li>
<li>Working with other volunteers on your team</li>
<li>Following leaders in your ministry and congregation</li>
 You have a family. You have a full-time job. You have other commitments and responsibilities. Yet you understand the rewards and blessings of serving as a youth ministry volunteer. The Volunteer's Field Guide to Youth Ministry will become one of your favorite tools as you serve teenagers and help lead them toward a Jesus-centered life.</ul>

The Volunteer's Field Guide to Youth Ministry: Practical Ways to Make a Permanent Difference in Teenagers' Lives

Simply Youth Ministry

Teen Shaping doesn't promise smooth sailing. But it does provide realistic strategies for not only regaining control, but taking the action steps necessary to confront and solve problems.

Teen Shaping

Fleming H. Revell Co.

In simpler, more homogenous times, youth ministry was a relatively straightforward activity. The church's youth gathered (occasionally inviting their unchurched friends from school), played together, sang together and listened together to a message from a bright, engaging youth minister, selecting from a relatively defined set of topics: "What does it mean to follow Jesus when it comes to _______?" Now Christian youth must make sense of their faith, with its exclusive claims, in light of their close friends who are Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, atheist, "other" or even "none." And increasingly other religions are taking their cues for rooting and establishing their youth from Christian ministry practices, so that our kids are being invited to outreach events sponsored by other faiths. Veteran youth minister and researcher Len Kageler digs into the data surrounding this exciting multifaith era and offers surprising confidence that our kids can be guided into mature Christian faith while simultaneously learning to love their neighbors of other religions.

Youth Ministry in a Multifaith Society: Forming Christian Identity Among Skeptics, Syncretists and Sincere Believers of Other Faiths

Helping Your Teenager Cope With Peer Pressure

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Group Pub Inc

“This book is a place where failures are allowed. This is a book about the decisions we made that we’d like to take back.” [THIS IS FROM THE AUTHOR’s INTRO. Might be nice to have it separate and above the rest of this, like a quote would be?] But this book about more than failure, it’s a book of help and hope as well. In a ministry world where “success” is demanded, it’s important to remember that our creative ministry programming ideas won’t turn out perfect every time and the relational proficiency expected in youth work almost always requires learning the hard way. “Perhaps you have heard the saying that ‘only one idea out of ten succeeds’ …This is a book about the other nine ideas." These stories, told first person from youth workers across the continent, include failures in the fundamentals of youth ministry, with youth themselves, with parents and volunteers, and with church and parachurch leadership as well. You’ll also find questions for personal reflection or group discussion, as well as youth ministry class assignments for college and seminary use.

Don't Do This: Learning from the Screw-Ups of Youth Ministry Leaders

Hobbs, Jonathan

Youth Cartel, The

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