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Retreats offer young people an opportunity to learn more about themselves, build relationships with others, and grow in their relationship with God. Retreats are occasions for conversion and a chance to get away from the busyness of life and encounter God. Youth Retreats for Any Schedule includes five retreats on a variety of topics that speak to the needs and daily experiences of young people. Ministry leaders can use each retreat as written or mine the book for resources to use in religious education classes, youth group meetings, mission trips, and so on. The retreats and activities can also be used as a springboard for creating new retreats.
If you're looking for exciting and meaningful ways to pray with your teens, Pathways to Praying with Teens is just the right guidebook. Each chapter features a prayer form to enhance the young person's experience, such as music, drama, and dance; storytelling and audiovisual aids; scriptural, shared, and quiet prayer; and traditional prayer.
Hands-on Ideas for Ministry with Young Teens is a collection of thirty-eight strategies for tapping into the tactile and intellectual creativity of young adolescents as a way of helping them learn about and grow in faith and spirituality. The strategies are organized into three sections. The first section contains activities for personal reflection, self-disclosure, and affirmation. The second section includes a variety of active strategies for learning and reviewing material. The third section is a collection of ideas for prayer and reflection that engage young teens at many different levels. Book jacket.
Like all of us, adolescents have a deep hunger for God. They have a need to make sense out of life and a desire to make the world a better place. They are people of endless hope, and have the capacity for deep sadness and profound joy. Their hungers, needs, hopes, and moments of sadness and joy mirror the experiences of biblical characters we meet during Lent and the Easter season. To meet the challenge of making Lent and the Easter season meaningful, parish and youth ministry efforts need to be intentional about bringing alive the Scriptures for each Sunday and special commemoration of the season. Ministry Ideas for Celebrating Lent and Easter with Teens, Families, and Parishes is a resourc...
This book is filled with a wide variety of relevant, action-centered resources to help young people better appreciate God's word in the Sunday Scriptures. The resources for each Sunday's lectionary reading of the C cycle include lectionary and Scripture citations, themes that relate to young people, a synopsis of the Scripture readings, a fully described and directed activity, and several activity ideas -- all aimed at engaging the participants with God's word. This is an excellent resource for youth ministers high school religion teachers, parish leaders, and liturgists working with youth.
Scripture-Based Retreats for Teens Ages 10-19 presents young people with the opportunity to grow in their faith, in their relationships with others, and in their understanding of and appreciation for God's holy word. Scripture-Based Retreats is a collection of six retreats for middle school and high school young people, written by six different authors from the field, including Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart, Marni Geissler, Ron Jacobson, Christina Semmel, Victoria Shepp, Ralph Stewart, and Erica Weber. The retreat themes are as follows: The Lectionary and the Liturgical Year: How Catholics Read Scripture Angels Among Us! Scripture Storytelling What's This Book All About? Exploring the Bible What Does That Mean? A Look into the Parables of Jesus The Book of Jonah
This collection contains ideas for two overnight retreats and four one-day retreats. The themes of the overnight retreats are self-esteem and being true to oneself; the themes of the other four retreats are Confirmation, discipleship, the Triduum, and leadership development.
"Understanding Catholic Christianity" offers a comprehensive overview of Catholicism for ninth graders, to serve as a foundation for other high school religion courses and faith formation experiences they will have. With pastoral sensitivity, the course's examples, stories, quotes and reflection activities bring to life the basic of the Catholic faith for adolescent hearts and minds.
"Invites both the novice and the veteran youth minister to create and foster prayer experiences that challenge teens to find God in the world around them ... Each easy-to-use prayer service comes with a list of materials needed, instructions on what to prepare ahead of time, the order of prayer for leading the prayer service, and resources and handouts to photocopy for the readers and the participants"--Back cover.
Finally! Fresh, easy-to-use, and customizable outlines for five brand-new themes help you plan senior high retreats, whether you have a weekend, a day, or just hours. Detailed descriptions for five gatherings are included: "Who Are You Waiting For?"--a half-day retreat "Parents and Teens: Bridging the Gap," an half-day retreat "A Pilgrimage Retreat," a one-day retreat "Call and Response," an overnight retreat "Jesus Calls Us," a weekend retreat