Purpose Driven Youth Ministry, Doug Fields
Purpose Driven Youth Ministry, Doug Fields
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Purpose Driven Youth Ministry
9 Essential Foundations for Healthy Growth

Author: Doug Fields

Narrator: Adam Black

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 04/26/2009


Synopsis

If you long to reach kids and see their lives changed by God, this updated, comprehensive guide shows you how. Purpose Driven® Youth Ministry will do for youth ministry what Rick Warren's Gold Medallion award–winning The Purpose Driven® Church is doing for pastoral ministry. It's an indispensable guide to creating and maintaining youth ministry for the long run. It will help you create a solid spiritual team that builds the foundations of the Christian faith into the hearts and lives of young people. Forged around the fundamental purposes of evangelism, discipleship, fellowship, ministry, and worship, Purpose Driven® Youth Ministry uses the experiences of Saddleback Church to illustrate what a healthy Youth ministry can be. Nine transferable principles help you - Connect with the power of God for passionate, committed leadership - Define the purpose of your ministry and communicate it effectively - Identify your potential audience - Create programs that reach your audience and fulfill God's purposes - Implement processes that move students to maturity - Enhance your ministry with clearly defined values - Team up with parents to involve the whole family - Find volunteers and develop them into participating leaders - Persevere through tough times and thrive in an ever-changing environment. Balancing both theory and practice, Purpose Driven® Youth Ministry can be applied to any church setting, regardless of size, denomination, facilities, resources, and existing leadership. Purpose-Driven Youth Ministry will help you develop a ministry that equips students rather than a ministry that coordinates events. Doug Fields says, "My goal for this book is to coach you through a plan to build a healthy youth ministry that isn't dependent on one great youth leader and won't be destroyed when the youth worker leaves the church. It's not a book on how to grow your youth ministry with six easy steps; it's about identifying, establishing, and building health into your church's youth ministry.

About Doug Fields

Doug Fields has been a leader in youth ministry for over 30 years. In addition to being a youth pastor at two churches for 11 and 20 years, Doug is the founder of Simply Youth Ministry, the co-founder of Downloadyouthministry.com, the author of more than 50 books, and is currently working with Youth Specialties & Azusa Pacific University (HomeWord’s Center for Youth/Family). More information about Doug is available at www.dougfields.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amanda on July 07, 2008

My church is very small. And my youth group small as well. The few chapters did a very good job at explaining how to write a purpose statement and gave good Biblical explanations as to each part of a "good" purpose statement. As I was reading the beginning on this book I was inspired. I felt that "m......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on July 27, 2011

Great but gets extremely tedious. Can be overwelming! Borders on performance based ministry in my opinion.......more

Goodreads review by Zia on March 13, 2021

Great book. Just a couple of things outdated. Did I worth the read.......more

Goodreads review by Gavin on November 14, 2011

I knew going in that this wasn't going to have a "Reformed" philosophy of ministry, but a few Reformed people had recommended it to me so I thought I'd give it a try and try to have an open mind. And, while there was some helpful things in the book, I had to wade through lots of marketing techniques......more