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Family-Based Youth Ministry, By Mark DeVries

Family-Based Youth Ministry

Revised and Expanded Edition

by Mark DeVries

Family-Based Youth Ministry
Paperback
$29.99
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.25 in
  • Published: April 06, 2004
  • Imprint: IVP
  • ISBN: 9780830832439
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Have you tried all the new youth programs? Have you planned one too many wacky activities? Are you frustrated about the size of the youth group? Here's an approach to ministry that takes youth work seriously.Family-based youth ministry is about adults discipling teens one-on-one and in groups. It is about involving not just the nuclear family but the whole church family--from singles to older adults. More important, it's about incorporating youth into the life of your church.So stop worryingabout the size of your youth group or your budget. Mark DeVries's refreshing approach to youth ministry will show you how your church can reach today's teens and how you can keep them involved in the life of the church. Whether you are a parent, a youth pastor or a church member who cares about teens, you will find in this book an entirely different approach to youth ministry that will build mature Christian believers.

REVIEWS

"Family ministry as a concept is spreading rapidly throughout the youth ministry culture. Mark DeVries's work demonstrates that he has been and will continue to be a pioneer and pacesetter for that movement."Richard Dunn, Chairman, Department of Youth Ministry, Trinity College
"This important book by a seasoned minister to youth argues for a Christian approach to young people by way of families--nuclear and ecclesial--rather than pied pipers. It is thoughtful, suggestive and groundbreaking."Thomas W. Gillespie, President, Princeton Theological Seminary
"Mark DeVries has given us a very clear and readable rationale for rooting our youth ministry within the family structure. This will be one of those books that youth workers find they must read."Duffy Robbins, Chairman, Department of Youth Ministry, Eastern College
"Mark DeVries has done us all a great and necessary favor by thinking through what's for too long been a missing link in youth ministry. When we fail to consider the primary role parents play in the spiritual nurture of their children, we can makethe mistake of assuming we can fill that role. Family-Based Youth Ministry will challenge and guide you to build families and stimulate the spiritual growth of students by consciouslyengaging, rather than ignoring, student's families. I continually point youth workers to this valuable and timely resource."Walt Mueller, Center for Parent/Youth Understanding
"I appreciate Mark's thoroughness and desire to risk as well as his venture into uncharted territory. Effective youth ministry has always begun in this way. I endorse his premise and support the idea that youth ministry is in a new day requiring new approaches."Cliff Anderson, Interim Director, Institute for Youth Ministry
"Mark is candid, honest, realistic, practical and down to earth! Family-Based Youth Ministry is a great resource and a must-read for all youth workers and parents. "Russell J. Sanche, National Director, KKI Canada, Youth With AMission
"Welcome to the book that put family-based youth ministry on the map. Mark DeVries--as only he can do it--points out that the task of nurturing faith belongs to the family, not the youth group, and the sooner the church becomes an 'extended' family for young people, the better chance youth have of becoming mature Christian adults. With the wisdom of a pastor, the insight of a theologian, the sympathy of a parent and the humor of your favorite youth counselor, Family-Based Youth Ministrymakes gracious, thoughtful ministry look second-nature. If only we had all read it sooner."Kenda Creasy Dean, Associate Professor of Youth, Church and Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Director, Tennent School of Christian Education
"The revised Family-Based Youth Ministry is must reading for pastors and youth workers. The additional insights build from the shoulders of his groundbreaking reframing of youth ministry done a decade ago. In so doing Mark DeVries integrates more than ten years of experimentation and reflection into a cohesive concept of family-based youth ministry."Mark H. Senter III, Professor of Youth and Educational Ministries, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1. Something's Wrong: The Crisis in Traditional Youth Ministry
2. Is Anybody Out There? The Growth of Teenage Isolation
3. The Developmental Disaster: The Impact of Teenage Isolation
4. It Only Makes Sense: The Vision of Family-Based Youth Ministry
5. Sitting on a Gold Mine: The Power of the Nuclear Family
6. The Critical Care Unit: The Peculiar Crisis in Today's Christian Family
7. Beyond the Cleavers: The Challenge and Opportunity of Ministry to Nontraditional Families
8. Beyond the Teenage Family: The Power of the Extended Christian Family
9. Walking the Tightrope: Family-Based Youth Ministry and the Developmenatal Need for Independence
10. A Different Gospel: Youth Culture Comes to Church
11. God Calling: Thinking Theologically about Youth Ministry
12.Making it Work: 117 Ideas for Starting a Family-Based Youth Ministry
Appendix A: A Matter of Perspective
Appendix B: Has the Traditional Family Really Died?
Notes

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ABOUT Mark DeVries

Mark DeVries

Mark DeVries is the founder of Ministry Architects and author of Sustainable Youth Ministry, Sustainable Children's Ministry (with Annette Safstrom), and Family-Based Youth Ministry. He served for twenty-eight years as associate pastor for youth and their families at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville.

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