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Books for Youth Worker Development & Growth
Do you feel a call to youth leadership but wonder how you can be an effective youth worker? Youth ministry requires commitment and a Christ-centered heart, but it also requires that you continue your own growth in being a good leader. Here are some books that offer inspiration and techniques to help you learn and grow: 1. Youth Aflame: Manual for Discipleship - If you do not know about Winkie Pratney's work, you need to learn now. As one of the foremost experts in youth ministry, Winkie's first book is one of the best guidelines for developing young disciples that are "on fire" for Christ. He combines a New Testament message, strategy, and teaching method to offer a plan of instruction that can be used in youth ministry to promote discipleship. 2. Ultimate CORE: Church on the Radical Edge - Winkie Pratney continues to inspire youth workers with his insight into the workings of youth ministry and student life. "The CORE" is about getting to the heart of youth ministry to raise students that have a deep faith and actionable heart. Written by Winkie Pratney and Trevor Yaxley, the book addresses a number of topics that students face in this millennium in a way that empowers leaders to be effective and powerful Christians. 3. Purpose Driven Youth Ministry - If you haven't heard of Winkie Pratney, you may have heard of Doug Fields, another prominent expert in youth ministry. If you have found it your calling to reach out to students and see God change their lives, Doug Fields uses fundamentals like evangelism, discipleship, fellowship, ministry, and worship to create healthy ministry. 4. Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry: A Personal and Practical GuideA sequel to the popular "Purpose Driven Youth Ministry," Doug Fields helps youth workers take the first steps in developing a healthy youth ministry. It is a helpful guide if you are new to ministry or want to add a new fire to your current ministry. 5. Handbook on Counseling Youth: A Comprehensive Guide for Equipping Youth WorkersMany potential youth workers avoid getting into youth ministry because they are afraid of facing the crises that Christian teens face. This book is an easy-to-use guide for anyone who is not quite sure how to approach teens facing things like emotional issues, abuse, addictions, family problems, and more. 6. The Be-With Factor: Mentoring Students in Everyday LifeOffering practical mentoring approaches that are patterned after Jesus' example of being with his disciples in a variety of real-life settings, Bo Boshers & Judson Poling offer a new way to reach out to students. By showing the impact of your faith in everyday life, the authors show how each person has the potential to reach an entire generation - one student at a time. 7. Small Group Strategies: Ideas & Activities for Developing Spiritual GrowthCharley Scandlyn & Laurie Polich offer strategies that help you develop meetings & activities that help push students faith to next level. The book offers tool-based approach to increase your students' spiritual maturity. 8. Shaping the Spiritual Life of Students: A Guide for Youth WorkersSet the pace with your students so that spiritual growth occurs along with natural maturity. Richard Dunn offers pacing techniques so that leaders move at the right pace with sensitivity to the unique spiritual issues that occur during teen development from junior high through college. 9. Simple Student Ministry - In Simple Student Ministry Geiger & Borton have brought the importance of discipleship back to the forefront of student ministry in a encouraging, stretching & dare I say simple book. Simple Student Ministry gives the means of how to turn your ministry around & impact not only the lives of the students in your ministry now but the lives of their friends and community. Simple Student Ministry isn’t another model or book telling you to do ministry the way they do, it talks about lots of student ministries across the country in case studies and examples. It is going back to the call of the church to make disciples & helps you in your struggle through connecting w/God to find the process for making disciples that best fits the context of your ministry environment. They work through the fact that the “process should be crystal clear (clarity) and move students to great levels of spiritual commitment (movement), all of your programs and leaders should be aligned (alignment) to the process God gives you and should leverage (focus) all your energy and resources on your discipleship process.” 10. Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family CollideFounder of the Orange Conference, Reggie Joiner looks at what would happen if the church and families combined their efforts to create a revolutionary strategy to affect the lives of children. Families and churches are each working hard to build faith in kids, but imagine the potential results when the two environments synchronize, maximizing their individual efforts. What can the church do to empower the family? How can the family emphasize the work of the church? They can Think Orange. Former family ministry director Reggie Joiner looks at what would happen if churches and families decided they could no longer do business as usual, but instead combined their efforts and began to work off the same page for the sake of the kids. Think Orange shows church leaders how to make radical changes so they can: 1. Engage parents in an integrated strategy 2. Synchronize the home and church around a clear message 3. Provoke parents and kids to fight for their relationships with each other 4. Recruit mentors to become partners with the family 5. Mobilize the next generation to be the church
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