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Purpose-Driven® Youth Ministry

Purpose-Driven Youth MinistryPurpose-Driven Youth Ministry is an easy-to-read textbook on youth ministry by a proven professional. Drawing from the same principles as Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Church, Fields (who is Warren’s youth pastor at Saddleback Community Church) gives the foundational principles …

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Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry

Revisiting Relational Youth MinistryPlease, read this book! This fascinating work represents the cutting edge of thinking theologically about ministry with children and youth (and, really, ministry with all people). Andrew Root’s penetrating assessment of popular conceptions of youth ministry speaks with a critical …

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Shaped by the Story

Shaped by the StoryThis is an amazing book and the DVD is such a bonus. It was great to see them go through the storying process and seeing the youth really get into God’s story. It makes such great sense to me. We …

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Simulation Games 1,2 and 3.

The purpose of Simulation Games can be:

1. To become aware of existing views on an issue.

2. To understand the social, religious, politicSimulation Gamesal and economical aspects of the situation.

3. To understand the feelings of those in the …

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Getting a Clue in a Clueless World

Recently I’ve looked at two different Youth Devotional books which I borrowed by mail from the Hewitson Library at Knox college; one for individual use and one for groups. “Getting a Clue in a Clueless World” by Dr Ross Campbell …

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Finding the Faith

Finding the FaithRecently I’ve looked at two different Youth Devotional books which I borrowed by mail from the Hewitson Library at Knox college; one for individual use and one for groups.

“Finding the Faith” is a youth ministry group devotional book which …

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From Eyesight To Insight

From Eyesight To Insight- Bruce and Barbara Thompson    

From Eyesight To Insight; this is an interesting little book (75 pages), written by Bruce and Barbara Thompson. In 2003 when this was written he was the Dean Emeritus of the College of Counselling and …

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