A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Early Adolescents
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Many people run scared from the middle school youth room. But (thankfully!) there are people out there who are actually drawn to those young teens. Although often times they're not equipped to deal with the unique challenges that middle school ministry presents, or they're just not sure what to do when a room full of young teens (who are "part child, but not quite adult") are running around the youth room.
Finally, there's a comprehensive guide to middle school ministry, from two veterans of this unchartered territory. Mark Oestreicher and Scott Rubin help youth workers understand the importance of middle school ministry, the development process for young teens and their implications for ministry, and how to best minister to these sometimes misunderstood students. They share their experiences (as middle school pastors and parents of middle schoolers), giving youth workers
he encouragement, hope, and training they need to succeed in middle school ministry.
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by Andrew Jack on 08/10/2009 Everything I spent ten years learning about middle school ministry, these authors have managed to boil down into a FANASTIC resource for church leaders, volunteers, and parents. Mark Oestreicher and Scott Rubin do the youth ministry world a great favor with this handbook on middle school ministry. How refreshing it is to see a text on youth ministry that covers all the bases, but has richness, theoretical depth and new, interesting topics and approaches. Such as change from the homogenized style of the usual youth ministry texts! The book is interesting enough to read from cover-to-cover and has enough coverage and depth to be suitable as a text for undergraduate studies. It includes things like early adolescents' cognitive abilities and ability to understand abstract concepts at various ages, how they grow spiritually, the role and effect of the family, the importance of them being involved in church activities, not just babysat. If you want to read just one book about ministry to middle schoolers, this is it!

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 02 August, 2009.