Coming Out Young and Faithful

The stories of gay, lesbian and questioning teenagers told in their own voices will help youth workers and parishes affirm and meet the needs of young people in our midst.

branded: adolescents converting from consumer faith

This book addresses the consumer-focused culture, dreams that adolescents will move away from that and suggests a process for freeing teenagers to do just that.

Hungry Souls, Holy Companions: Mentoring a New Generation of Christians

A smorgasbord of ideas, stories and practical suggestions on how to be spiritual companions to young people; sharing the richness of their faith while riding along on their awesome and often surprising journeys

Soul Searching The Millennial Generation: Strategies for Youth Workers
This book “soul-searches” this fascinating generation, helping adults understand how to create programs that fit these teens' needs and aspirations. This book points out that that developing good youth programs can be a major challenge, for the youth world is quite different from the adult world.

Connecting: The Mentoring Relationships You Need to Succeed in Life
This resource is the fruit of over 40 combined years of experience as well as research into the lives of more than 600 past and present leaders. This book will show you how to find the right mentors and how the three dynamics of successful mentoring can guarantee rewarding relationships. It provides dozens of illustrations and ideas on how mentoring can and does work.

Single Digit Youth Groups: Working with Fewer than 10 Teens
This book brings together a great blend of just the right help for single digit youth ministry. It includes Bible-based rationale, structure and design helps, permissions and disclosure forms as well as useable program ideas.

Teaming Up: Shared Leadership in Youth Ministry
The team approach to youth ministry is the new buzzword. This resource is what you need to help you take a long look at your youth ministry and decide if the team approach will improve the youth ministry program in your parish. The team approach is outlined for both small and large churches and includes plans of action and many supplemental handouts.

The H E L P Series
This series consists of several books full of purposeful ministry strategies to use with both junior and senior youth groups. The series contains over 150 field-tested ideas that catechists, teachers, youth ministers and other adult leaders can use as building blocks for a solid youth ministry component to compliment activities geared for adolescents. Titles include: Community-Building Ideas, Justice and Service Ideas, Retreat Ideas, Holiday and Seasonal Ideas

Small Church Youth Ministry Programming Ideas
With these creative suggestions and ideas you'll discover the value, importance, and rewards of being a small group leader. You'll find insights on teaching as Jesus taught and become an active-learning expert.

Creative Resources for Youth Ministry
This resource offers those working in youth ministry and related fields numerous practical strategies such as ice-breakers, retreat strategies, discussion starters, and recreational learning models. This is a non-denominational resource that provides 175 different scenarios with directions for stimulating discussions on topics that concern young people today

Developing Leaders for Youth Ministry
This is a great resource for those just starting out as leaders in youth ministry. It offers outlines for meetings, name games, and much more.

Student Impact: Student Ministry for the 21 st Century
This is a must-read resource for anyone who wants their youth ministry to move from being a mediocre ministry to a ministry that is life-changing and world-impacting. Today's youth live in a culture that changes almost by the minute. This resource offers a practical guide for giving direction to your youth ministry as creating a strategy and structure to live it out.

Building Youth Ministry in the Parish
A guide to help parishes begin, develop and continue a healthy youth ministry within their parish.

Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry: A Personal and Practical Guide to Starting Right
Employing his wisdom and humour- the author disarmingly relates stories and principles from his own success and failures over 20-plus years in youth ministry. This resource offers treasure troves of practical advice, all in the hopes that new youth workers can travel a smoother path and achieve real longevity in a church culture that all too often chews them up and spits them out.

Let's Talk About It: How to Lead Discussions with Youth
Helping the youth group leader get through those awkward silences, with a number of discussion topics and workshop ideas to get those teens talking!

Five Circles of Youth
A Sociological research paper on youth from 1970.

Relational Youth Ministry: A Core Team Model
This resource focuses largely on regional youth ministry. It contains exercises and discussion topics based on scripture and relating it today's youth.

Small Group Strategies: Ideas & Activities for Developing Spiritual Growth in Your Students
With this resource you can effectively guide teens toward the most important relationship they will ever have- a lifelong relationship with Christ. This book offers over 30 years of collective youth ministry experience to the proven ideas it contains.

When a Friend Dies: A Book for Teens about Grieving & Healing
Shelve every idea you have about self-help books. This resource speaks directly and simply to anyone who has suffered the loss of a friend. This book furnishes teens with important information on understanding grief. Its unique format allows the reader to reflect on his or her own personal experience.

Teens and Parents: Sessions for Growing in Faith Together
Saint Mary's press delivers a wonderful assist for parish youth ministry with Teens and Parents. This resource is an invaluable implement in any youth ministry tool box. It is full of ready-to-go strategies, built-in flexibility, and sound praxis.

Practising Discernment with Youth; a Transformative Youth Ministry Approach
This book is about one thing- inviting youth to be disciples of faith. The author approaches youth ministry in such a context that it embraces the more dramatic changes that have occurred in this ministry. Youth ministry once understood itself as supplementing and supporting body. Recent shifts have set cultural norms and values at odds with Christian faith placing even more importance on youth ministry. The author describes a place where youth can together discover their incarnation centered discipleship.

Youth at Risk: Ministry to The Least, The Lost, and The Last
All teenagers are at risk. At risk is a common trait to all adolescents. This is an insightful read and a must for anyone who works with or minister to youth. It emphasizes the imperative of the Christian community to respond to these needs. This book provides helpful narrative illustrations for difficult yet rewarding ministry.

Open Space Technology: A User's Guide
This resource is a guide to the Open Space Technology approach to leading meetings, especially those dealing with controversial issues.

Programming with Purpose
In this resource your will find a guide to developing a program that will have impact. Great when planning Sunday school programs, youth programs or just general meetings.

Administration, Publicity & Fundraising for Youth Groups
This resource offers more than 250 time-saving tips and creative ideas to organize, promote, and fund your youth ministry. This collection of practical youth ministry programming sets the pace for 21 st century youth ministry. It helps leaders reorganize from the inside out.

Sexuality and Dating
A book designed to help the Youth Worker tackle such issues, with their youth group, from a Christian perspective.

Falling off Cloud Nine and Other High Places
Ninety-one short devotionals geared toward teenagers and their most pressing questions.

Friendship: A Window on Ministry to Youth
Based on sociological testing, hard fact, and psychological testing, this book explains the best approaches to use when working on ministry with youth.

Meet the Family
This pamphlet is offered by the Anglican Church of Canada describing Anglican diversity in Canada .

Called to full Communion
This resource3 constitutes a draft declaration and study resources from the working group of the Evangelical Lutheran church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada.

Teen Trends: A Nation in Motion
A powerful book on Canadian culture and youth, which depicts 10 directions youth are taking in the world today.

Celebrating Youth Ministry
(Maturity Ministry Vision) A “how to” book describing how to work with youth on ministry, how to generate discussions around scripture, and offers detailed understandings of what might happen.

Effective Youth Ministry
Geared towards a congregational approach to Youth Ministry, this book demonstrates how congregational leaders can do a variety of things for the youth in their church.

Building an Effective Youth Ministry
This book concentrates on the theory and theological bases for the establishment of an effective youth ministry.

Sacred Earth, Sacred Community: Jubilee, Ecology and Aboriginal Peoples
This is a book full of verses, readings and prayers designed by the Theology Committee of the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative dealing with the topic of the renewal of the earth.

Facing Your Future
This is a guide for those youth group members who are moving on in life and heading to University/ Collage.

Abortion: An Issue for Conscience
A report from the Anglican Church of Canada dealing with the topic of abortion (please note: published in 1974, some of the legal notes may be out of date).

Leadership for Youth Ministry
This book brings together the principal theories of youth ministry with practical approaches and concrete, useful strategies for the recruitment, training, and support of youth ministry leaders.

Let's Put Young People in their Place
This resource contains 10 case studies of Youth groups from across the country.

When Kumbaya is not Enough
This resource is a practical guide with stories, prayers and suggestions for activities for theological youth ministry.

The Emerging Generation
The authors of this book surveyed 30, 000 teens to find out what they think about the world. The book is the final report of their findings about today's teenagers.

Like Unto A Mustard Seed
A book geared towards helping leaders create a great community. Philosophical roots based on the symbolism of the mustard seed.

Canada 's Youth : Ready for Today
This book is a sociological study, done by the Canadian government. Available in both English and French, this book contains a number of quantitative discoveries about youth.

Disorganised Religion: The Evangelisation of Youth and Young Adults
This book contains 25 essays, which explore what is needed to help youth and young adults encounter God.

Youth Ministries: Thinking Big with Small Groups
This “how to” book deals with the dilemma of leading a youth group with only four to six members. This book is a “tool kit” complete with activities and games for such a small group.

Teaming Up: Shared Leadership in Youth Ministry
This resource is a practical guide to a team of leaders preparing to take on Youth Ministry in their church. This book is complete with a variety of activities and discussion topics.

Catching the Rainbow
This book, based on a total concept theory, is jam-packed full of games and activities for any youth ministry group.

Growing a Jr. High Ministry
This book has many practical tools for working with those challenging jr. high teens.

Introduction to Child Development
A great resource to help the leader understand the children/youth they are working with to ensure that all needs are met and that everyone has a great time.

Being Anglican
A report which captures the essence of the Anglican communion through the sermons, hearings, and resolutions from the 10 th meeting of the Anglican Conservative council in 1996.

Sexual Harassment and Teens
This is an excellent resource for all adults working with youth. It is an essential curriculum; the first of its kind and much needed. This comprehensive program brings people together to explore and understand the causes and consequences of sexual harassment and sexual violence.

The Big Book on Small Groups
This Jeffrey Arnold books breaks down the dynamics of small groups to develop leaders who know how to lead small groups effectively. He also explores the basics of Christian community: prayer, worship, bible study, outreach and mission. Interesting discussion questions for emerging leaders.

The Five Love Languages of Teenagers
Gary Chapman's popular Love Languages framed for your teenagers – a tool for parents to learn to express their love for their teenagers in a language that makes sense to the teenager.

Coming Out Young and Faithful
The stories of gay, lesbian and questioning teenagers told in their own voices will help youth workers and parishes affirm and meet the needs of young people in our midst.

Branded: Adolescents Converting from Consumer Faith
This book addresses the consumer-focused culture, dreams that adolescents will move away from that and suggests a process for freeing teenagers to do just that.

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