Most youth workers across the world look for ideas, inspiration and practical advice to help them with their ministry, yet most of us don't look beyond our own country for advice. Yet there is an incredible wealth of practical wisdom available from vastly experienced youth pastors around the world to help answer core issues such as: how to look after your own soul; relate to parents and senior church leaders; get organised; lead in evangelism; communicate effectively with young people; lead a team; care for youth; balance ministry and family life; work with schools; and how you know how you are called (to youth ministry) in the first place! The publisher spent over two and a half years painstakingly bringing together the wisdom and stories of eleven experienced youth pastors from ten different countries on each and every one of these core issues. The book contains over 160 years' worth of international youth work experience gained over the last three decades! Inspiring, practical and educational this book will provide you with brilliant nuggets of wisdom you'd never thought of. You will find yourself comparing and contrasting their stories and reflecting on your own ministry, wherever you live. Many of the contributors are still serving as local youth pastors - men and women serving in different nations, cultures and denominations. Despite significant challenges they have lasted the distance and have seen God do amazing things in the lives of young people. This book will open your eyes to see that God reigns over the nations and is clearly at work in the lives of young people and youth workers across the continents!

Youth Ministry Across The Continents: Eleven Youth Pastors From Ten Countries On The Key Building Blocks For Effective Youth Work Leadership In The Local Church

Religion & Spirituality

Keay, Fraser

Christian Books & Bibles

First Half Leadership

Youth pastors in other countries have much they can teach us. It can also help open our eyes to how God is working in other nations. 
The second edition of Youth Ministry Across the Continents now features local church youth pastors from all six continents, a compilation of stories and insights from youth workers who have been ministering to young people for many years. New contributors include people from Japan, Chile, and a large church in Ohio, USA that has grown as a home group-based ministry for more than 30 years. 
Readers can compare and contrast the advice of seasoned youth pastors across the globe on the same youth ministry topics. Some of the differences in approach and style reflect personality, and some reflect culture; others are to do with the church or denomination the youth worker belongs to, be it Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Anglican, Baptist, Independent Evangelical, or Assemblies of God. 
Core issues covered include how to look after your own soul, evangelism, schools work, parents, and the youth pastor's vital relationship with their supervisor, often the senior pastor, minister or associate pastor. In addition to being organised by topic and not contributor, end-of-chapter discussion questions better enable readers to personally reflect, or share their thoughts with others, on the key issues. 
Read alongside a book like Operation World by Jason Mandryk and Patrick Johnstone, youth workers can also consider what God is doing in each of the countries they are reading about. The book would make informative compulsory or additional reading for a youth ministry or missions class, helping to expand the students' view of the world. 
It offers wonderful nuggets of wisdom and supplies a broad range of perspectives while reinforcing principles common to youth work across the globe. Inspiring, practical and educational, this book provides readers with ideas and situations they may have never considered. As veteran youth worker and professor, Len Kageler, writes in the foreword, "I had several 'I never thought of that' moments as I read along." 
So, grab yourself 150 years' worth of international youth work experience - all in one book!

Youth Ministry Across the Continents: Eleven Youth Pastors from Ten Countries on the Key Building Blocks for Effective Youth Work Leadership in the Local Church

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Youth Ministry Across The Continents: Eleven Youth Pastors From Ten Countries On The Key Building Blocks For Effective Youth Work Leadership In The Local Church

Youth Ministry Across the Continents: Eleven Youth Pastors from Ten Countries on the Key Building Blocks for Effective Youth Work Leadership in the Local Church