Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Education - Children & Youth

Discipling teenagers means building a real-life faith into them. Which is exactly what youth ministry veteran Duffy Robbins explains how to do -- definitively -- in this sensitive, in-depth, and practical look at leading your kids into discipleship. No stranger to the challenge of discipling young people, Duffy draws from his decades of youth ministry experience as he describes a thorough, flexible discipleship program you can use with your students. In The Ministry of Nurture you'll find-- How to make faith practical in everyday life - How to help your kids develop their own faith - Seven...

Whether you're an old hand at youth work or you've just signed on, Help I'm a Volunteer Youth Worker gives you the basics for successfully reaching teenagers. These fifty, bite-sized suggestions are easy to remember and put into practice. They include tips on: - How to build relationships with students - How to recruit and train other volunteers - How to get along with the pastor and youth director - How to model Christian love to your students -- If you're a professional youth worker looking for new ways to encourage and empower your volunteer youth workers, just hand them a copy of...

Many youth attend church regularly without fully understanding what worship is and why it is the central action of our faith. In Making Worship Real, Aimee and Bill Buchanan along with Jodi Martin provide effective new ways for pastors, Christian educators, youth leaders to help young people learn about the various elements of worship. This book is that rare resource that will help youth and their leaders understand why worship is relevant while encouraging youth to lead and participate in worship using their own authemtic voice.

Teaching Children Bible Basics is a book of 34 Old and New Testament lessons that helps children ages 8-10 learn how to use the Bible. The lessons and activities are designed to teach children how the Bible came to be, how to use this important book, about the Torah, and about the important stories of the Hebrew and Christian Testaments.

Key Features: Features 16 Old Testament and 20 New Testament lessons; Provides 30- to 45-minute experiential lessons that teach children how to use the Bible; Each lesson accommodates the needs of various learning styles; Each lesson...

En este libro encontrarA elementos que serAn de provecho para el ministerio educativo de la iglesia:

- AclaraciOn de las implicaciones teolOgicas del concepto de la educaciOn cristiana
- El perfil que deberIa tener o al que deberIan aspirar los maestros y maestras de escuela dominical
- La manera de organizar la tarea educativa dentro de la congregaciOn
- COmo desarrollar el plan educativo y cOmo diseNar una clase para que sea atractiva y eficaz
- Los recursos y destrezas necesarias para un manejo adecuado de la Biblia
- TEcnicas y actividades educativas...

Helps children learn how to talk to and listen to God through prayer.

Originally published as part of the Griggs Education Resource Series, Teaching Prayer in the Classroom is designed to help children's teachers and leaders understand the use of prayer in the classroom. This resource provides practical advice and guidance on teaching children (preschool to age 12) about prayer, advice on the various elements of prayer, age-appropriate prayers, and information on different types of prayer.

This volume provides over 300 inventive, hands-on activities that involve children in service to one another, their churches and local communities, and the world. Within these pages, children's workers and leaders will find short and long-term active service/learning opportunities that encourage the youngest members of their congregation to follow Jesus' example of living their faith by caring for others.

The book features: lively, age-appropriate projects and activities for 3- to 5-year-olds, 6- to 9-year-olds, and 10- to 12-year-olds; guidance for working with children of...

Children learn best when they hear the rich stories from Scripture over and over again. Just sitting and listening, however, can become boring. This volume, a collection of 101 active games for Christian education programs suitable for children ages 3-12, will help dispel any boredom. Divided into four sections, 101 Great Games for Kids brings Scripture to life through active games that get kids up and moving rather than sitting in their chairs. This is a book that mainline professionals and lay leaders can turn to for a quick idea or when they are creating lesson plans. Each of...

Chapter 1: Unpacking the Mystery in Mystery - Examines mystery and types of spirituality. Chapter 2: God's Mysterious Presence - explores God's presence in the mysteries of pain, death, and the end of time....

The Abingdon-Church of the Resurrection Ministry Guides are the first choice for recruiting, motivating, and developing lay leadership for specialized ministries from A to Z--from adult ministries to ushering. Each inexpensive, 64-page Guide brings together Church of the Resurrection's can-do attitude with Abingdon Press's ministry of empowering church leaders. The result is a series that is user-friendly, encouraging, and most important, practical. The passion to help churches experience how many things they can do to encourage participation drives these Ministry Guides. Each Guide is...

Children's Activities for the Christian Year by Delia Halverson offers Sunday school teachers and leaders of children's ministries practical information and activities on the cycle of the Christian church calendar. Useful, easy-to-use guidance, resources, and reproducible pages help new and veteran children's leaders interpret the meaning of the Christian year for children from preschool through elementary age. Each chapter includes:

• Brief information about the season/celebration, its origin, and its meaning
• An introduction to the symbols...