Bøker av Chap Clark

One of the leading voices in youth ministry today presents a comprehensive way of designing and implementing youth ministry that nurtures, empowers, and includes young people in God's household.

Camps and retreats are an essential part of every youth ministry. But could your camping ministry use a new perspective, a fresh sense of creativity, and practical ideas that will help your kids see that God is relevant to their lives today? In 'The Youth Specialties Handbook for Great Camps and Retreats', veteran youth minister and camp director Chap Clark opens his comprehensive tool kit of camp and retreat concepts and ideas as he shows you how to build an effective, exciting camping program from the ground up.First, Clark calls for a rethinking of camping ministry that puts the needs of kids first. He then offers seasoned advice on how to use the basic tools of camping ministry - group-building activities, music, speaking, small groups, and more - in relevant new ways. He covers topics such as developing a camping strategy, how to train your camp staff, taking a fresh look at music, and the strengths and dangers of humor.You'll find everything you need in 'The Youth Specialties Handbook for Great Camps and Retreats' - how to plan a budget, how to deal with problem kids, how to work with property managers, and much more. Clark also includes complete plans for specialized camps such as discipleship camping, service retreats, outreach camping, planning retreats, and recreation retreats.

This five-view work brings together leading voices to present major views on youth ministry, giving readers resources to develop their own approach.

A leading youth ministry expert updates and revises his groundbreaking bestseller, reflecting the latest research and including a unique focus on youth at society's margins.

Chap Clark's groundbreaking Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers revealed the hard truth about contemporary adolescence: societal changes and systemic abandonment have left teenagers struggling to navigate the ever lengthening and ever more difficult transition to adulthood without caring adults.When Kids Hurt offers these challenging insights to youth workers and parents in a more accessible form, with greater focus on how adults should respond. Practical sidebars and application sections, contributed by other youth experts, provide additional insights into youth culture and how adults can better guide adolescents into adulthood. This book will be an important resource for youth workers, parents, counselors, and others who work with youth.

It doesn't take a long list of statistics to convince you that our world is broken. Mission trips, service projects, and supporting children through relief organizations are just a few of the ways that many youth workers engage their students in serving the least, the last, and the lost. As good and helpful as these things may be on the surface, that's where they remain-at the surface. The problems run far deeper than an occasional paint job or fundraising project can solve. But it's not hopeless. Deep social justice is possible in your youth ministry.Following their bestselling book, Deep Ministry in a Shallow World, Kara Powell and Chap Clark provide you with research and insights that will help your ministry get to the next level. In addition to helping you further understand the Deep Design method (introduced in their previous book), their practical Kingdom of God theology will help you go beyond simply trying to motivate your students to serve those in need, and invite your students (and maybe even your leaders) to wrestle with why those people are in need in the first place. You'll hear from well-known social justice leaders and youth workers who are making a difference in urban, suburban, and small town settings including:* Jim Wallis (Sojourners)* Tony Campolo (Eastern University)* Lina Thompson (World Vision/Vision Youth)* John Perkins (Christian Community Development Association)* Shane Claiborne (The Simple Way)* Larry Acosta (Urban Youth Workers Institute)* Rudy Carrasco (Harambee Christian Family Center)* Jeremy Del Rio (Community Solutions, Inc.)* Noel Castellanos (Christian Community Development Association), and more In addition to expanding your personal justice commitments, Deep Justice in a Broken World will help you reflect with your own leadership team, and will provide you with online resources to take you even deeper into the journey. So go ahead, dig deeper into what it means to heal the broken world in which we live. Take your ministry deeper into social justice.

Whether you're struggling to make anything work in your youth ministry or finding that most things are clicking along, this book will help you develop a practical theology---to ask what is happening, what should be happening, and how you can make it happen. Discussion questions follow each chapter to help you process in a group or on your own.

¿Qué padre cristiano no querría encontrar un recurso para infundirles a sus hijos una fe dinámica, profunda y permanente? Casi la mitad de los jóvenes que se gradúan de secundaria tienen fuertes luchas con su fe. El Instituto Fuller para la Juventud, teniendo en cuenta esta situación, desarrolló el 'Proyecto de transición a la Universidad', en un esfuerzo hallar maneras de ayudar a los jóvenes a desarrollar una vida de fe y servicio. Esta guía de fácil lectura se basa en sus hallazgos, presentando una poderosa estrategia para enseñarles a los padres cómo favorecer el crecimiento espiritual de sus hijos y hacerlo permanente. Escrita por autores conocidos por su integridad y su pasión por los jóvenes, les da esos medios para desarrollar una fe robusta en sus hijos.

He aqui doce lecciones 'listas para usarse' en grupos juveniles. Son perfectas para grupos de Escuela Dominical, reuniones juveniles o ministerios de grupos pequenos. Las lecciones estan disenadas para estimular el aprendizaje. Contienen varias ilustraciones y diagramas. Tienen un enfoque totalmente contemporaneo y adecuado a la juventud del n