Youth ministry isn't just meeting with students and teaching them God's truth. It also involves a myriad of administrative and operational details. Youth Ministry Management Tools 2.0 provides youth ministers and volunteers with helpful insights, advice, and practical resources to successfully manage a youth ministry. You'll find sample budgets, release forms for trips, and clear direction for screening applicants for volunteer positions. Authors Mike Work and Ginny Olson provide you with quick and accessible answers to all of your management, administrative, and supervisory questions and needs. Sprinkled throughout the manual are brief personal anecdotes by actual, in-the-trenches youth workers, case studies of church-office debacles, pivotal lessons learned over decades of ministry, nightmare scenarios to avoid, and glorious successes to emulate. No other book provides everything a youth ministry leader needs in one place at such an affordable price.This revised and updated edition of a youth ministry classic includes bonus online content, copy-ready pages and forms, and loads of other highly practical material.

Youth Ministry Forms 101 is a resource book for those involved in youth/student ministry that need help with using forms properly, as well as examples of forms that can be used in their ministry. This book will help you get organized and get the risk management of your ministry under control. Topics include types of forms, using forms properly, the purpose of forms, as well as over 20 sample forms for you to use in your ministry.

Features 50 two-page journaling devotionals sends students straight into the words of Jesus to discover the truth--then it dares them to live that truth today.

This is a manual for quick and convenient access to the spectrum of administrative and managerial tasks that face youth workers every day with a companion CD-ROM that includes not only a student contact database, but all the book's forms in editable format.

Hmm. Teenage sexuality and God--in dramatic-sketch from ... With Good Sex Drama, you and your kids will enter the complex worlds of 16 very human, very flawed, very real characters--all loosely connected to each other--and journey with them over the course of 24 sketches as they wrestle intensely with sexual topics of perennial importance to students, including: Sexual temptation The results of sexual brokenness Technical virginity Pregnancy Sexually transmitted diseases Sexual abuse Alcohol and sex Sexual addiction When role models fail sexually Jim Hancock, co-author of the widely acclaimed Youth Specialties curriculum Good Sex, is also a filmmaker/script writer/theater expert, and here he unearths amazingly real characters who overflow with depth, rib-tickling humor, devastating heartache, and--true to life--don't resolve their issues by the end of the sketches. over several weeks. Some are short, subtle monologues. Some are volatile, intense dialogues between two or more characters. And each sketch ends with a healthy dose of discussion questions that'll get your kids digging even deeper into the topics at hand. type--you'll get all the help you'll need to pull off unforgettable performances. That's because Hancock provides an extensive introduction, offering tips on presenting the sketches, discussing them, stagecraft, what to do if you stir up trouble, and resources and referrals for help with sexual issues. small group leader, CE director, or volunteer, Good Sex Drama will prove a unique, exciting, laugh-and-cry-as-you-learn resource that engages students and gets them examining their lives and their souls while trying on the personas of some unforgettable characters.