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

This jam-packed, junior high sensitive assortment of thematic programs communicates life themes in imaginative, exciting ways.

Creative Junior High Programs from A to Z Volume 2 (N-Z)

Dickie, Steve

Pearson, Darrell

Containing 101 ingenious intros for just about any Bible lesson, Kickstarters will get your kids enjoyably immersed in your lesson..

Kickstarters

Bundschuh, Rick

Finley, Tom

The dilemmas in Keep 'Em Talking! Reflect turn-of-the-century choices, ambiguities, and predicaments that teenagers face these days. But they're real -- as real as the high schoolers in your youth group -- and they'll push your kids to grapple with situations like these: - Sexual 'solutions' to stale relationships. - Parents who don't pull their support -- and their money -- from a child who doesn't choose the college of her parents' choice. - A pregnant friend with abortion on her mind, who trusts only one friend. - A youth group that criticizes one of their own for irresponsibly giving too much money to a street woman. - Dating across racial lines in a way that reflects what Christianity is all about -- if only church members saw it that way. - A confession of abuse at home, and a plea not to tell anyone -- With Keep 'Em Talking! you can explore these problems with your kids - and provide them with a biblical way of thinking about tough ethical dilemmas, on topics like sexuality, parents and family, school, friendship, truth and deception, spirituality, and a teenager's relationship with God. Here are 60 discussion-starting dilemmas, complete with reproducible pages . . . Thorough suggestions about navigating your kids through authentic discussions on real-life topics . . . Riveting quotes by kids that spotlight the subject at hand . . . Questions you can ask that invite teenagers to speak their feelings . . . Statistics that put a tough but typically adolescent situation in a larger perspective . . . And Scriptures that speak to the issue. Ignite discussions in small groups. Launch Bible studies. Illustrate points in your youth talks. Open the eyes of parents and adults to their teenagers' world. Hard situations call for hard decisions -- and Keep 'Em Talking! will give your kids practice at making them.

Keep 'Em Talking!

Yaconelli, Mike

How do 16-year-olds live out their Christian faith in class? Flipping burgers? In youth group? By being roaring lambs, that’s how. Roaring lambs? They’re Christians--your high school students--who leave the Christian ghetto and take the salt of the gospel with them into mainstream culture. This six-session curriculum shows students how to decompartmentalize their faith--to intentionally bring their faith out of the youth room and let it saturate all aspects of their lives--schools, jobs, friends, romance, home, and more--to be a Christ-follower, rather than merely do Christ-things. With topics like this: Bleeding Hearts in Bleating Sheep. Unless your love of God is transformed into outward behavior, you’re only a bleating sheep instead of a roaring lamb. Welcome to the Ghetto. Are you in a Christian-programmed culture--a Christian ghetto? Then tear down the walls so you can see the world and the world can see you. Welcome to the World. You’re not in Kansas anymore. Here’s the difference between being in the world and being of the world. The Salt of the Earth. In praise of a high-sodium diet. You’re the flavoring and preservative of the world! Careers 101. Will the real Christians please stand up? Pastors and missionaries are not the only ones who serve God. The curriculum includes a music CD (produced by Squint Entertainment) of all-new songs from top CCM artists, including Jars of Clay . . . Sixpence None the Richer . . . Burlap to Cashmere . . . Delirious . . . Ashley Cleveland . . . Steven Curtis Chapman . . . Michael W. Smith . . . Ladysmith Black Mambazo . . . Over the Rhine . . . and more. For youth workers, Sunday school teachers, small-group leaders, camp counselors, DREs, pastors--anyone who wants to help teenage Christians take their faith out of the youth room and into the world. And become roaring lambs. Inspired by the Bob Briner best-seller Roaring Lambs

Roaring Lambs

Youth Specialties / Zondervan

What if your youth group were being hunted by something far more insidious than the other side in Capture the Flag? No, your students aren’t being stalked. But millions of Christians around the world suffer political repression, discrimination, imprisonment, harassment, family division, rape, and torture because of their faith. Children of believers are sold into slavery for the cost of a CD. Every 3 ½ minutes a Christian dies for the faith. In fact, during your hour-long youth group meeting, 17 Christians will be martyred somewhere in the world. Student Underground gently but inexorably forces open students’ eyes to the anguishing, world-wide persecution of Christians—and how teenagers can start praying for, communicating with, and reaching out toward victims. Use these 4 sessions (along with the companion 60-minute, award-winning film Behind the Sun) as a high-impact retreat, a lock-in event, or a month of weekly meetings. Student Underground shows why to care. And how to help. Here’s a clear, thorough, and convenient curriculum for leaders, including a plethora of quotable facts about how, why, and where Christians are suffering. Not to mention concrete and realistic plans for student action. Plus where to find a complete underground church service on www.YouthSpecialties.com—a simulation of what going to church is like for Christians in restricted countries.

Student Underground Leader's Guide

Andrew, Brother

Open Doors With Brother Andrew

Doors, Open

Anyone up for FizzerTag? Pucks and Pigskins? How about Missile Mania? You'll find something for any group -- regardless of age, ability, or skill -- in this revised volume of Play It! Inside are more than 150 of the hottest games from the original bestsellers Play It! And Play It Again! Inside you'll find outdoor and indoor games, games for small and large groups . . . relays . . . summer and winter games. . .water games. . .active and non-active games. These community-building games are simply fun! In addition to complete rules and helpful diagrams, Play It! helps you: -Make the most of the games. -Pick the right game for your group. -Adapt the rules or equipment to fit your circumstances. -Choose teams creatively. Play It! contains activities for nearly every occasion and event for use with Sunday school classes, summer camps, children's groups, vacation Bible school, youth groups of all ages, and even groups of adults. It's the perfect resource for teachers, youth workers, group leaders, event coordinators, pastors, and parents!

Play It!

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

Contains a discussion guide plus 14 on-the-street segments of teenagers answering variety of real-life questions.

Word on the Street: 14 Scence from the Scrapbook of Life [VHS]

Does This Sound Familiar? 'Hey, Gimme a Break!' 'Aw... You Just Don't Understand!' 'Try to see it my way for once!' ... the lines of every teenager through history, right? Not this time! The dirty little secret is that your parents were actually your age once. Believe it or not, they went through a lot of the same junk you're going through now (including with their parents!) ... and another dirty little secret is that some day you'll be trying to make sense of your kids and their lives. Read This Book Or You're Grounded! gives you six chapters with a lot of sound-bites and cool 'boarding-inspired cartoons, plus wisdom and common sense with an attitude. Read This Book Or You're Grounded! includes two chapters on understanding, two on getting along one on special needs and concerns; and a final wrap-up of marching orders to put all this wonderful wisdom into practice. God is here, too: author Wayne Rice lays a spiritual foundation for mutual respect, common understanding, and getting along with parents in all ways. This book can change your life... change the life of your family... and change your relationship with those sometimes-weird parental units who hang around the kitchen, hog the TV, and act like it's their own house.

Read This Book or You're Grounded!

Rice, Wayne

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