For Veterans

As a long-time youth worker, you've seen, experienced, and done a lot of things—hardly anything surprises you anymore. What you need is encouragement, a fresh perspective, cultural updates, training, community, and great products to recommend to your staff, parents, and students. Below you'll find a few places to start.

YS Resources:

• A New Kind of Youth Ministry by Chris Folmsbee
• Dangerous Wonder by Mike Yaconelli
• Deep Justice in a Broken World by Chap Clark and Kara Powell
• Contemplative Youth Ministry and Growing Souls by Mark Yaconelli
• Imaginative Prayer for Youth Ministry by Jeannie Oestreicher and Larry Warner
• Soul School by Jeanne Stevens
• Youth Culture 101 by Walt Mueller
• Hope and Healing for Kids Who Cut by Marv Penner
• Experiential Youth Ministry Handbook and Experiential Ministry Handbook Volume 2 by John Losey
• invert Starter Kit—Sample the latest and greatest student products from YS. A great introduction to the invert line for students!

YS Events:

• The National Youth Workers Convention: the longest running youth worker convention, filled with training, networking, resources, inspiration, and more. It has everything you need to make it a convention, or a spiritual retreat, or camp for youth workers... Make it whatever you want or need...it's yours.
• The YS Middle School Ministry Summit: an experience for paid middle school-only church staff, featuring an intimate setting and peer relationships with those who are passionate about middle school ministry. Youll find an agenda created by the attendees, lots of idea sharing and no comparisons.
• the CORE: the premiere one-day training event, perfect for your entire team, including volunteers, small group leaders, even parents.

YS Articles:

• Decoding the Teenage Postmodern World by Marv Penner
• PoMo-phobia by Garth Friesen
  • (More articles on Culture)
• The Next 20 Years of Youth Ministry
• Shifting Cognitive Styles by Mark Matlock
  • (More articles on Past, Present, Future Youth Ministry)
• Who Stole My Rule Book? by Andy Harrington
• Do We Need Youth Ministry Anymore? by Dan Kimball
  • (More articles on Postmodernism)
• Grumpy Old Youth Workers? Part 1 by David Olshine
• Grumpy Old Youth Workers? Part 2 by David Olshine
  • See the list of all YS article topics

YS Job Bank:

• Find a job
• Post a résumé
• Find additional staff

YS Email Resources:

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YS Consults

Whether you're looking to manage, improve, or grow your youth ministry. YS Consults has what you need.

Have questions? Need help?

Call us at 888.346.4179 or email us