Help! I'm a Small Church Youth Worker!

by Rich Grassel

Practical help for volunteer, part-time, and full-time youth workers in small churches Eighty-five percent of the churches in America are classified as small. This book provides youth workers with processes and ideas that enable them to address their particular needs as part of small churches.

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2002

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

Feb. 20--Most of this book is a list of straw men that Grassel sets up as problems then knocks down. The chapters on discipleship, mentoring, and investment in the entire church were the best parts of the book, but Grassel presents them as three different strategies for youth ministry rather than three essential aspects of youth ministry in the small church. Grassel is right: youth ministry in a small church is different than it is in a mega-church. Unfortunately, I don't think he provides much real help in this book concerning how to do youth ministry in a small church.

[Nick · Rating 3 out of 5]

It had some helpful information, but not as much as I had hoped. Once I got into it, I realized that my church is not quite the "small church" Grassel is used to. I was a good talking partner with several of the other books I have read on youth ministry, and it gave some insight into small church culture that is rarely addressed in youth ministry books with a mega-church focus.