The Purpose-Driven(R) Youth Ministry Training Kit is here to help you and your leadership team (both adults and student leaders) build a purpose-driven ministry. Designed to prompt group interaction with you as facilitator this kit contains five sessions for your team. If you're starting a youth ministry, look here for firm foundations. If you want to take your existing youth ministry to the next level, turn here for insights and applications that can take your team a quantum leap forward. This clear and easy-to-follow facilitator's guide walks you through each session so you can escort your team into discussion, discovery, and ministry-transforming decisions. Get ready to cover more ground, reap more rewards, and have more fun building a truly purpose-driven youth ministry than you ever dreamed! Build a vigorous, purpose-driven youth ministry with these key concepts: Tap into the power of God - the foundation for any effective ministry. Chart the course of your ministry - clearly with a carefully conceived statement of purpose. Identify your target audience - know your students' various spiritual levels and needs. Develop purpose-driven programs that reflect the biblical goals of evangelism, worship, fellowship, discipleship, and ministry. Build a healthy leadership team whose members love each other as they love students.

Table of Contents

Contents Welcome to Purpose Driven(R) Youth Ministry Training Making the Most of Purpose Driven(R) Youth Ministry Training Session 1: The Youth Leader's Spiritual Life How is your heart? Session 2: Why Your Ministry Exists 5 biblical purposes for youth ministry Session 3: The Students You Can Reach Targeting different audiences Session 4: Matching the Right Purpose with the Right Audience Developing programs with purpose Session 5: Growing Together Building a healthy team

Accolades

Winner of Christian Book Award 1999.

Author Biography

Doug Fields a respected youth ministry leader for over two decades, has authored or coauthored more than 30 books, including Purpose-Driven Youth Ministry and Help! I'm a Student Leader. With an M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary, Doug is the youth pastor at Saddleback Church, president of SimplyYouthMinistry.com, and a frequent presenter at Youth Specialties events. Doug Fields tiene casi 20 anos de experiencia en el ministerio con jovenes y es escritor y co-escritor de varios libros incluyendo "La Lecciones Biblicas Creativas en la Vida de Cristo, Videos que ensenan, Melodramas Espontaneos, Ministerio de Jovenes con Proposito." Doug, es pastor de jovenes en la comunidad cristiana de Saddleback en el Sur de California y con frecuencia sirve de maestro en los entrenamientos de Especialidades Juveniles.