Episcopal Youth Blog: Youth Ministries of the Episcopal Church is an office that strives to equip, empower, and connect adults who work with youth in the Episcopal church.Mental Health First Aid and Suicide Prevention Resources.Youth Compline with Readings - PowerPoint file.Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers by Chap Clark.Growing Young: 6 Essential Strategies to help young people discover and love your church by Kara Powell, Jake Mulder, and Brad Griffin (We’ve been doing presentations on this around our diocese and have gotten several parish vestries to read this together.).Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus by Mark Yaconelli.Sustainable Youth Ministry: Why most youth ministry doesn’t last and what you can do about it by Mark DeVries.The Episcopal Christian Educator’s Handbook by Sharon Ely Pearson.Creating Classrooms where Teachers Love to Teach and Students Love to Learn by Bob Sornson (or any Love & Logic resources).My First Two Years in Youth Ministry: A personal and practical guide to starting right by Doug Fields.

Books I strongly recommend for Youth Ministers (all available on ):.Manual for Hiring 2022 (PDF) includes interview questions, reference questions, sample job descriptions and salary info.The best idea for a simple ministry to youth, this video talks about making young people feel welcome, wanted, and never giving up on them. EDOK Youth Ministry Training Videos (Karen Schlabach, Youth Missioner, explaining some of the basics from the Youth Worker Guide).It can also be used as a guide for a training workshop in your parish.

This manual can be given to the adult volunteers (I call them “youth workers”) who teach Sunday School or Confirmation class, or who help at your youth group.

Free youth ministry powerpoint games