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10-Minute Devotions for Youth Groups - 52 Quick Devotions to Involve Teenagers
Type: BOOK
Author: Collingsworth, J.B.
Author: Collingsworth, J.B.
Perfect for meetings, retreats, Sunday school, worship, camps - any youth activity. These fast devotions deepen faith with little or no preparation; each comes complete with scripture reference, attention-grabbing learning experience, discussion questions, and a closing.
56 Devotions on Short Notice
Type: BOOK
Author: Wallace, Robert A.
Author: Wallace, Robert A.
Resource designed for people who are asked, on short notice, to lead a brief devotional or worship service. Each 20-minute service is complete on 2 facing pages for easy presentation. Each includes a call to worship, prayer, scripture, suggested hymn, meditation, and closing prayer.
Asian Pacific American Youth Ministry: Planning Helps and Programs
Type: BOOK
Author: Ng, Donald
Author: Ng, Donald
A first-of-its-kind resource prepared by Christian educators with an intimate knowledge of the pressures experienced by Asian Pacific American Christians of the pressures experienced by Asian Pacific American adolescents. Contains a historical review, discussion of theological foundations, teaching methods for a variety of situations, ideas to stimulate discussion, and guidelines for developing a program for your specific needs.
Blessed to be a Blessing: How to Have an Intentional Healing Ministry in your Church
Type: BOOK
Author: Wagner, James K.
Author: Wagner, James K.
How to Have an Intentional Healing Ministry in your Church.
Build-A-Meeting Book Vol. 1
Type: BOOK
Author: Group Publishing
Author: Group Publishing
300 year-round programming ideas for youth, including crowd breakers, affirmations, discussion-starters, prayers, snack ideas, and closings.
Building Community in Youth Groups
Type: BOOK
Author: Rydberg, Denny
Author: Rydberg, Denny
Here's how to transform your group into a close, caring family. This book helps you build bonds, open up, affirm each other, take risks, and set and share goals in a ready-to-use format.
Christmas Pageants and Plays: 12 Complete Pageants
Type: BOOK
Author: Minshull, Evelyn
Author: Minshull, Evelyn
Wide variety of program materials for full-length pageants and plays. Versatile material can be used in full or in part to combine with your church's traditional program. Designed to create painless holiday productions that are entertaining and meaningful.
Church's Ministry with Older Adults, The
Type: BOOK
Author: Taylor, Blaine
Author: Taylor, Blaine
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Aging
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Clergy
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General
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Laity
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Ministry
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Older Adult
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Pastoral Care
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Pastoral Skills
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Programming
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Handbook for pastors and churches seeking to better serve people over 65. A toolbox of suggestions, illustrations, and program ideas designed for clergy and lay people committed to ministry with America's fastest growing population segment.
Complete Youth Group Checkup and Other Great Retreats, The
Type: BOOK
Author: Salsgiver, Tom
Author: Salsgiver, Tom
This book has the prescriptions for your group's spiritual well-being and continuing good health. It comes with adaptable schedules and planning guides, helps for older and younger youth, worship that's integrated with the topic, and creative and meaningful activities.
Connect: Life & Christian Faith for Young Teens Vol. 10 - Leader's Guide
Type: BOOK
Author: Cross, Jacobsen, Rasche, Saunders and Vickers
Author: Cross, Jacobsen, Rasche, Saunders and Vickers
Curriculum for young teens. 14 sessions in each volume. Teacher book with reproducible student pages. Sessions (short and lively) address real issues of younger adolescents. Activities and preparation included. This issue: Will the real David stand up?; Shtick and God's funny ways.; Is life fair? The challenge of faithful living in an unfaithful world; The point of parables.
Creative Bible Studies: 401 Experiences to Help Youth Crawl Inside the Scriptures
Type: BOOK
Author: Benson, Dennis
Author: Benson, Dennis
This mammoth resource draws creative methods from the Bible to involve your students in the Word of God. It offers 401 complete Bible studies from ALL of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts. Experience the Gospels and Acts through he use of common, inexpensive objects such as slides, newspapers, magazines, finger paints, clay, cassette tapes, buttons, and rocks. Includes a how-to section and a cross reference section.
Creative Leadership Series: Keys to Building Youth Ministry
Type: BOOK
Author: Ludwig, Glenn E.
Author: Ludwig, Glenn E.
This helpful book shows how to get the whole church involved in an effective long-term youth ministry. It shows how to make the youth program an ongoing success, so that the program is still intact and thriving when each generation moves on.
Creative Programs for the Church Year
Type: BOOK
Author: Shotwell, Malcolm
Author: Shotwell, Malcolm
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Bible Study
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Christmas
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Church Holidays
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Church Year
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Easter
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Family
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General
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Lent
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Liturgy
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Mission
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Prayer
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Programming
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Retreats
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Stewardship
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Vacation Bible School
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Worship
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Help with planning holidays, special emphases, and seasonal events.
Dramatic Readings for All Occasions
Type: BOOK
Author: Crisci, Elizabeth Whitney
Author: Crisci, Elizabeth Whitney
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Children
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Christmas
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Church Holidays
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Drama
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Easter
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General
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Holidays
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Programming
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Thanksgiving
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Programs for Christmas, New Year's Day, July4th/President's Day, Easter, and Thanksgiving. Requires only 1 rehearsal, parts are to be read, and cast may be good readers of any age, children through adult.
Faith Development in the Adult Life Cycle: Report of a Research Project
Type: BOOK
Author:
Author:
Results and implications of a study conducted between 1981 and 1986 examining a variety of factors relating the processes of aging and faith development among adults. Study involved over 1000 persons in North America
Fast Forms for Youth Ministry
Type: BOOK
Author: Sparks, Lee
Author: Sparks, Lee
Time-saving, ready-to-copy checklists, schedules, job desriptions, letters and forms for a more effective ministry.
Go For It! - 25 Faith-Building Adventures for Groups
Type: BOOK
Author: Marcum, Walt
Author: Marcum, Walt
Cure the Sunday school blahs! Liven up youth group times! Recreate selected challenge initiatives from the popular ropes courses in your space - indoors or out. Link each challenge with Scripture! Make learning an adventure in faith-building. This book provides 25 challenge initiatives that require a youth group to communicate and work together as a team to solve. Excellent for summer Sunday school or retreats.
Grow Up!
Type: BOOK
Author: Varenhorst, Veerman, and Kochenburger
Author: Varenhorst, Veerman, and Kochenburger
13 ready-to-use junior high sessions with reproducible student sheets, plus sixth grade and youth group options. Help young teens understand changes in their relationship with parents, feelings about the opposite sex, fait and friendships, and lots more!
Growing a Junior High Ministry
Type: BOOK
Author: Chaheen, David
Author: Chaheen, David
This book has practical help for starting or revitalizing your ministry to young adolescents. It has proven help for tough questions about jr. high behavior and thoughts as well as ministry-building tips and practical ideas.
Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker!
Type: BOOK
Author: Oestreicher, Mark
Author: Oestreicher, Mark
50 ways to survive and thrive in ministry to early adolescents. Helps you understand junior highers, and then teach them with a mind-set and methods that fit them.