Purpose-Driven® Youth Ministry Training Kit Participant's Guide

by Doug Fields

The Purpose Driven® 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 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.

Genres: Young Adult, Church

80 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2000

Reviews

[Daniel Green · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very practical guide to establishing a healthy youth ministry. It does not address the heart of the youth minister themselves as much as I would want, but that is somewhat expected given the title of the book.

[Kermet Key · Rating 2 out of 5]

Want to hook them young and make them like long cult members? Here's how! I must've studied this book relentlessly over 20 years ago when I was a cultist in an evangelical church and wanted to become a youth pastor. I got better.

[Rob Markley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sound sensible advise for youth leadership

[Christian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice book

[Brandon Siwula · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had this book on my shelf and for some reason read it. Doug has some good ideas and I am using his concept of giving a resource to help my students develop spiritual habits. Ultimately this book encourages feeding the consumerism that is our American society and does not leave a lot of room for adapting to individual context. At the very least it was an entertaining read and will give you a good grasp of what modern day youth ministry philosophy is. If you can take the good things and spit out the rest it might be worth a read.

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty dated, but some good material.

Quotes:
“Don’t allow doing the work of God to come at the expense of being God’s person.”

“The students in your youth ministry don’t need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.”

“Jesus made it clear that we bear fruit when we are connected to him.”

[Sándor Szabó]

A very practical and detailed, hands-on book for youth ministry. Maybe too much. When I used to be a youth leader I tried to adapt many things in it but I failed, it is not the book's fault, though. I had to realize the charachter of the believers and the connections between them count way too more than the methods. I still recommend this book. You have to learn the lessons in the hard way to really own them. :)

[Kimberly Herrington]

Purpose Driven Youth Ministry is a great inspirational tool. It helps readers to refocus and get back to basics of youth ministry. Reading about how to avoid the pitfalls of a small youth ministry encouraged me to keep going forward.

[Juan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exceptional outline and strategies on developing a Youth Ministry. Very detailed. An absolute must read in youth ministry.