By Jim Burns, Ph.D. & Mike Devries
The classic guide for youth workers just got better! Fully revised and updated, this comprehensive guide helps leaders strengthen their students' commitment to Christ through genuine relationships with their peers and youth workers. Comprehensive for professional youth workers to use yet also practical for volunteers. The Youth Builder has been used as a textbook for youth ministry in seminaries around the world. It includes information on understanding youth culture, developing student leadership, building youth staff, interrelating with families and the whole church, and much more!
The Youth Builder has been a handbook for youth workers for more than a decade. This new version of that book is even better, making it a must-read for anyone who takes youth work seriously.
Tony Campolo, Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania
All will benefit from an open and prayerful reading of this resource and a commitment to biblically based relational ministry. The principles and ideas presented come from a long hands-on experience in youth ministry.
Jay Kesler, Chancellor, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana
I am more convinced than ever of the essential role that healthy, caring relationships play in leading students to life-changing faith. In The Youth Builder, Jim Burns and Mike DeVries offer timely, practical and time-tested relational ministry wisdom for all of us who minister to kids.
Walt Mueller, President, Center for Parent/ Youth Understanding, and author, Understanding Today's Youth Culture
This book takes practical care to give us authentic instruction in the handiwork and the head work that makes effective youth ministry possible. But what I most love about this book is its vision and intention--this book takes the focus off building a youth group and puts the focus back where it belongs on building youth and making disciples.
Duffy Robbins, Chairman, Department of Youth Ministry Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania
This fresh version of The Youth Builder is absolutely bursting at the seams with powerful tools for ministering to young people. I highly recommend it to anyone even considering youth ministry!
Josh McDowell, Josh McDowell Ministry
The Author:
Jim Burns is the president of YouthBuilders, a nonprofit organization that offers resources for youth workers, young people and parents, and provides training for youth ministries around the world. In addition to authoring many books, including the YouthBuilders curriculum series and Addicted to God, Jim also writes a column for Campus Life magazine and provides daily radio commentary with his Youth Builders broadcasts, which are heard by over 2 million people. Jim and his wife, Cathy, have three daughters and reside in Southern California.
Mike DeVries is the vice president of Family-Based Youth Ministry for YouthBuilders. With over 16 years in youth ministry, mike has authored a number of books including The Word on the New Testament and Fresh Ideas: Bible Study Outlines and Messages. Mike is also a communicator, speaking to thousands of youth and youth workers across the country every year. Mike, his wife, Jamie, and their four children reside in Southern California.
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