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The Adolescent Journey
Adolescence is a time of individuation--children are slowly finding their identity as adults, separate from their parents and other adult influences. Such a critical time of psychological development is complicated by cultural influences that shape their expectations of adulthood and color how they relate to other people and even God. The task of the youth pastor becomes to help adolescents navigate this often treacherous journey, helping young people reconcile their experience of childhood to the reality of their impending adulthood, and rooting and establishing them in a faith that can sustain them through their adult journey as well. Drawing on the insights of sociology and psychology, Jacober reveals youth ministry to be an act of practical theology, and helps youth pastors find their footing as they guide young people through adolescence.
Redefining Perfect
Theology and disability have not always had an easy relationship. The interactions have ranged from downright hostile to indifferent or unintentionally excluding over the centuries. This theology book chooses instead to include those with disabilities after more than a decade of consideration and study. This results in a re-examination of major theological topics and the impact on the lives of those with disabilities, their family and friends, and the community at large. The focus of the book is to move the church beyond welcome to inclusion--where those with disabilities move from a guest of the community to equal and valued member of the community. While the book is about the theological inclusion of those with disabilities, its implications reach far beyond. It sets an approach for all people to find a place where they too may live in the fullness of Christian community. Stories of personal encounters are blended with explanations of doctrinal perspectives giving the reader a chance to connect knowledge with wisdom born from real life experience.
The Pastor's Guide to Youth Ministry - Adobe Digital Edition
For pastors and youth leaders who want to build successful, Christ-centered youth ministry that will integrate youth into the total life of the church. (From the book) The Top Four Signs of a Christ-Centered Youth Ministry 4. Your group shows a change in their thinking, attitudes, and behaviors that reflects time with God and the Bible. 3. Your house or office has been "decorated" at least once in the past 12 months. 2. You and your leaders are more refreshed than drained. 1. Your youth grow up to be life-long followers of Christ. This book will: Help you use prayer as the foundation of your youth ministry. Help you recruit, supervise, and keep volunteers. Help you grow your youth to be life-long followers of Christ. Help you cultivate accepting youth who will reach out to others. Amy E. Jacober is Assistant Professor of Youth Ministry at Azusa Pacific University. She is an experienced youth leader.
Nelson's Annual Youth Ministry Sourcebook 2005
For busy youth workers needing a foundational resource for planning an entire year of youth worhsip services. Each week is packaged with dynamic "kids-talk" sermons, plus suggestions for energy packing songs and activities. Mid-week lessons are teaser introductions for the upcoming Sunday lesson. Accompanying CD-ROM enables the children's worker to customize and print lessons with their word processor and provides access to the Bible in the NKJV translation.
A Body of Praise
Do our physical bodies really matter in corporate worship? Isn't our soul the most important part of us? Aren't our bodies, at best, negligible to worship and, at worst, a hindrance? The answer to this last question is categorically no, as Christians have attested throughout history and across the global church. The purpose of the body instead is to offer to God in worship what only it can offer--and what must be offered to God. By drawing on the wisdom of the Bible, church history, and theology, and by taking advantage of the unique insights of the arts and sciences, ethics, and spiritual formation, a respected theologian and pastor argues in this book that there is something for our physical bodies to do that decisively forms Christlikeness in us within the context of corporate worship. What we do with our postures, gestures, and movements in worship matters. How our senses of sight, scent, sound, taste, and touch are involved in worship matters. How our spontaneous and prescriptive activities form us in worship matters. All of it matters to faithful and fulsome worship for the sake of a body that is fully alive in the praise of God.
Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2013-2016 (Set of 26)
The Guidelines booklets, one for each ministry area, are tools that enable you to help get new lay leaders off to a good start. Each booklet includes the basic ""job description"" for the leader as well as practical ""how-to"" information important to implementing ministry effectively. Brief and to the point for the busy, but spirit-led leader, these Guidelines take some of the unknown out of leading these ministry areas. One booklet for each title makes up this set of 26 Guidelines, perfect for making them available to all church members. The twenty-six Guidelines, one for each ministry are.
Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2013-2016 - Ministries with Young People
You have been called to ministry with young people-those journeying through adolescence and those emerging from their teenage years to find themselves navigating the unpredictable and full-of-firsts years of their twenties and thirties. This sacred and exciting leadership role comes with dozens of challenges to be addressed, countless opportunities to touch lives, and a myriad of blessings that you might never anticipate. Your position as a leader with young people is the basis for building relationships and leading by example. This Guideline, formerly called Young Peoples Ministries, covers a.
The Pastor's Guide to Youth Ministry
Outlines steps, strategies and resources for recruiting and supervising youth, youth workers and volunteers.
Youth Beyond the Developmental Lens
What happens when we stop thinking of young people as projects and recognize them for who they are, here and now? Wesley Ellis exposes the insidious impact of developmental psychology upon youth ministry and practice, arguing instead for a theological anthropology of youth that can help us see all people--including adolescents--as uniquely created in the image of God. Propelled by the conviction that ministry requires us to see youth as beings rather than becomings, Ellis demonstrates how we can reorient our vision toward ministry that prioritizes relationship and inclusion over rigid developmental frameworks. A veteran youth minister across multiple denominations, Ellis knows his subject de...
Embodying Youth
Embodying Youth: Exploring Youth Ministry and Disability seeks to help close the gap between disability theology and youth ministry education. What is youth ministry? And who is it for? Christian youth workers and ministers in the West have been answering these questions either implicitly or explicitly for decades. The ways we answer these questions, and the ways in which we go about answering them, have huge implications with regards to the faithfulness and effectiveness of the church’s ministry with young people. These questions have not always been pursued with the experience of disability in mind. In fact, it is often excluded, not only from the academic field but from the church’s p...
