Help Im A Volunteer Youth Worker 5 Pack

Destined to be invaluable for volunteers and youth workers, this practical sourcebook will give first-time and veteran volunteers all the help they need to conduct effective youth work. Topics include building relationships with students, recruiting and training other volunteers, getting along with the pastor and youth director, and more. A Youth Specialties/YouthSource book.

A guide to assist the new youth worker on working with teenagers, as well as ideas for the professional youth worker to better reach young people.

Help! I'm a Small Church Youth Worker 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.

Youth ministry with inner-city teenagers is cross-cultural with a capital C. Everything's different. And this addition to the best-selling collection of Help! books will help you cross into the urban culture and do effective ministry there-whether you're an inner-city dweller or a commuter and whether you're a volunteer or a youth ministry professional. Here is informed, practical, and realistic direction and insight from a urban ministry veteran, packaged for personal use or for use in a small group of volunteers or students who will be ministering to urban teenagers. Get one for each of your leaders!

Thank you for making the decision to be a volunteer youth worker—you give the gospel a flesh and blood presence and show God’s compassion for students in a way no one else does. Being a youth worker can be exciting, intimidating, fulfilling and challenging, and until now there was no “manual” on how to be a volunteer in a youth ministry. After more than twenty years as a paid youth worker, Jim Hancock left and became a volunteer in a student ministry. That experience taught him things he may never have learned as a youth ministry professional, and now he wants to empower others who are passionate about being volunteer youth workers. Inside this book you’ll find practical help, like: • tips about what to do on the first day • ideas on how to build and develop relationships with students • ways to combat youth “culture shock” • how to prepare students for life after youth group • how to say goodbye when it is time to leave …and many more indispensable insights that will make your experience as a volunteer youth worker valuable and rewarding for you and your students.

When it comes to the teenagers in our ministries, giving our best matters. The reason why is simple: "Getting better at youth ministry is worth the effort because teenagers are worth the effort," writes veteran youth worker Kurt Johnston. With that in mind, he put together this compact, practical, and approachable book for youth ministry volunteers, brimming with insights and wisdom from his decades in youth ministry-including some memorable and hilarious stories of the mistakes that taught him along the way. Broken down into ten essential topics, the contents here apply to all youth ministry volunteers, whether you've been involved for decades or days, and regardless of your age, gender, or the square footage and general awesomeness of your youth space. A roster of seasoned volunteer youth workers provide commentary to round out each chapter, offering perspectives and important lessons learned from their individual contexts. Whether you read these words on your own or collectively with others on your youth ministry team, who knows: what you find here just might help you become the best volunteer youth worker in the history of the world!

This practical guidebook for developing an effective volunteer youth ministry team is the culmination of two decades of youth ministry experience for author Les Christie, a nationally-recognized expert in the field of volunteer youth ministry development.

Activity-based learning removes fears and prepares adult volunteers for more effective ministry to teens.

Meet 50 of the Bible's most outrageous and amazing people. You'll find out what happened when God went major rad with His Wild Truth--and you'll discover how God can do the same thing right now in your life. Check out some of the people you'll get to know: - Skipper (pulls off major animal style Rescue 911) - Hammerhead (gives a bad dude a permanent headache) - LAZ (a dead guy. . Until You-Know-Who comes along) - Moe's Mom (sends her son on THE river-rafting trip of all time) - Bad Luck Boils (overcomes major zit problem) . . .and dozens of other folks you've just gotta meet! Open up Wild Truth Journal - and dare to discover the power of God's love.