Smaller Church Youth Ministry highlights the big impact small churches can have on the faith journey of their young people. It is designed to encourage and help small churches start, build, and lead effective disciple-making youth ministry. Topics include a biblical foundation, practical helps, tools and activities.

Drawing from the experiences of ministers in smaller churches from coast to coast, leaders and members alike will find motivation and resources for vision casting and strategic planning in the ministry setting of the smaller church and community.This book addresses topics including outreach, evangelism, missions, youth ministry, children’s ministry, working with volunteers, and planning for growth.

Energizing Chilren's Ministry in the Smaller Church helps you with your smaller church chilren's ministry make a huge and mega impaact. Part of the ESCN product line.

Bestselling Christian educator Ginny Holderness refocuses the attention on leadership in the youth ministry to young people themselves. Holderness and coauthor Robert Hay expand on her original team approach to include young people in the leadership team. Successfully implemented in many church programs already, this expanded approach to team-building ensures that young people take ownership of their youth ministries.

Releasing the Power of the Smaller Church provides leaders and volunteers in smaller churches with practical principles and workable ideas for more than a dozen areas of ministry. Each chapter addresses a felt need of smaller churches and is written by someone who has credibility with leaders and volunteers in smaller churches.

Provides those in small church ministry--including volunteer, part-time, and full-time youth workers--with a process and procedure that enables them to address their particular needs as a small church.

In all of those years, hes seen too many young pastors walk away from ministry too early, and he hopes to help change that. He believes that, if we can prep young up-and-coming ministers earlier and give them a true view of what ministry entails, then maybe we can help these young ministers stay longer in their roles. And if they do, it only benefits these students!

One size does not fit all, especially when it pertains to a church’s role in ministering to a community and its people. It is a fact that most churches in America are small in size. Many of these churches are steadily shrinking. As a response to this need, there have been many books written about Church growth and Church health. Books regarding ministry and church leadership are often written by pastors of large churches that may not have the same perspective about Ministry In The Small Church. Ministry In The Small Church focuses on working in the hearts, minds, and attitudes of ministers and the leadership of small churches for the glory of Christ. It is a call to renew the ministry that God has apportioned to all His people. The goal of Ministry in the Small Church is to encourage and aid the focus of ministers of all types in small churches. The author, Tyler Somers, has a unique love and perspective for Christ’s Church, particularly in the small church setting.

A first-of-its-kind study of Protestant youth ministers reveals the hopes, frustrations, and effectiveness of today’s youth workers.Of the 7,000 youth workers assembled in 1996 under Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, a sample of 2,130 full-time youth ministers from dozens of Protestant denominations and parachurch organizations answered a battery of exhaustive, deliberate questions covering:What they liked best about youth ministryWhat particularly pleased them in their work with youthWhat they found most encouraging or discouragingTheir biggest obstacle to an effective youth ministryTheir biggest concern in youth ministryTheir answers revealed a dedicated group of professionals, concerned a out the students in their ministries, but troubled with a variety of perplexing issues. And their answers form the backbone of Youth Ministry That Transforms, a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking study (funded by the Lilly Endowment) focusing on the hopes, frustrations, and effectiveness of today’s youth workers.Spearheaded by Merton Strommen--one of America’s most exemplary and influential thinkers and authors in youth and family ministry--the research-writing team is joined by Karen E. Jones and Dave Rahn of Huntington (Indiana) College’s Link Institute for Faithful and Effective Youth Ministry, and acknowledged leader in the task of undergirding youth ministry with a research base. These three deliver thorough analysis and sound interpretation regarding the state of youth ministry at the dawn of the 21st century.Youth Ministry That Transforms belongs on the desks and in the classrooms of all who are concerned with this developing profession, including denominational and parachurch leadership, professors, youth ministry students, and thoughtful youth workers themselves. It is also an insightful resource for any who want to understand youth ministers and their profession: senior pastors, executive pastors, and other individuals and committees charged with hiring and supervising youth workers.