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    Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker!: 50 Ways to Survive and Thrive in Ministry to Early Adolescents
    Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker!: 50 Ways to Survive and Thrive in Ministry to Early Adolescents
    Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker!: 50 Ways to Survive and Thrive in Ministry to Early Adolescents
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    Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker!: 50 Ways to Survive and Thrive in Ministry to Early Adolescents

    By Mark Oestreicher

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    To Be a Junior High Youth Worker . . . takes a distinct kind of adult, just as junior highers are a distinct kind of people. Betwixt and between though they may be, early adolescents are as capable of a genuine spiritual understanding and growth as high schoolers.It’s just that junior highers absorb Bible teaching and demonstrate their spirituality—well, differently. Help! I’m a Junior High Youth Worker! is your primer for understanding young teenagers, then teaching them with a mind-set and with methods that fit them.First Things First. Three axioms that define your territory as a junior high youth worker.So Just What Is a Junior Higher, Anyway? The essence of early adolescence: the need for appropriate rules . . . the dilemma of throwing sixth graders and eighth graders together in the same program . . . small is good.Developmentally Speaking. Changes junior highers enjoy and endure cognitively, emotionally, socially, spiritually . . . their changing relationships with parents . . . individuation and hair under their arms.Time to Teach! Your required dose of pedagogy: the case for fun learning . . . ten top teaching topics for middle school ministry . . . how simulations, role plays, and storytelling can be your best teaching methods for early adolescents.Faith Outside the Youth Room. Spiritual discipleship for middle schoolers: they don’t have to be high schoolers to begin forming habits of prayers, service, and outreach.Help! I’m a Junior High Youth Worker! is help at hand surviving and thriving in ministry to early adolescents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateOct 5, 2010
    ISBN9780310852209
    Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker!: 50 Ways to Survive and Thrive in Ministry to Early Adolescents
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    Mark Oestreicher

    Mark Oestreicher con una vasta experiencia ministrando a jóvenes, ha sido pastor en diversas iglesias y ha escrito más de 20 libros para líderes y adolescentes. Hoy lidera Especialidades Juveniles en Estados Unidos y es considerado una autoridad en discipulado juvenil.

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      This book could basically serve as a primer to all your new ministry volunteers in Junior High / Middle School Ministry. It is a quick read and covers the basics of stuff that we try to communicate to our new volunteers. The layout seems unorganized and just kind of thrown together, but it is good information overall. I especially like the little quotes from the teenagers on the sides of the books.

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    HELP! I’M A JUNIOR HIGH YOUTH WORKER!

    50 ways to survive and thrive in ministry to early adolescents

    Copyright © 1996 by Youth Specialties

    All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

    ePub Edition July 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-85220-9

    Youth Specialties Books, 300 S. Pierce St., El Cajon, CA 92020, are published by Zondervan, 5300 Patterson Ave. S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49530.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Oestreicher, Mark.

             Help! I’m a junior high youth worker! : 50 ways to survive and thrive in ministry to early adolescents / Mark Oestreicher.

                  p.      cm.

              Includes index.

             ISBN 0-310-21328-2

              1. Church work with youth—United States. 2. Youth—United States—Religious life. I. Title.

    BV4447.047 1996

    268’.433—dc21

    96-36848

    Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible: New International Version (North American Edition). Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan.

    The material in this book may be photocopied for local use in churches, youth groups, and other Christian education activities. Special permission is not necessary. However, the contents of this book may not be reproduced in any other form without written permission from the publisher. All rights reserved.

    Edited by J. Cheri McLaughlin and Tim McLaughlin

    Cover by Mark Rayburn

    01 02 03 04 05 /DC/ 12 11 10 9 8

    To the volunteer junior high workers I’ve worked with at Ward Presbyterian Church in Livonia, Michigan; First Baptist Church of Wheaton, Illinois; Christ Community Church in Omaha, Nebraska; Calvary Church of Santa Ana, California; and Lake Avenue Congregational Church in Pasadena, California.

    CONTENTS

    COVER PAGE

    TITLE PAGE

    COPYRIGHT

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    INTRODUCTION

    FIRST THINGS FIRST

    Three axioms that define your territory

    SO JUST WHAT IS A JUNIOR HIGHER, ANYWAY?

    The essence of early adolescence

    DEVELOPMENTALLY SPEAKING

    Changes junior highers enjoy and endure

    TIME TO TEACH!

    Now for your dose of pedagogy

    FAITH OUTSIDE THE YOUTH ROOM

    Spiritual disciplines for middle schoolers

    SO YOU’RE IN CHARGE?

    Insight for youth ministry directors (whether volunteer or paid), who plan and lead programs

    ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

    SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Thanks to:

    Curt Gibson (the guru of horror stories), Derrick Riggs,

    Greg Lafferty, Eric Venable, Kara Eckmann Powell and Jeff

    Meyers—colleagues in ministry to junior highers and providers

    of quotes, stories, and suggestions.

    Jeannie and Liesl for allowing me the time to write.

    Introduction

    JUNIOR HIGH WORKERS ARE THE COOLEST PEOPLE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Or so I think. But working with young teens can be a head-spinning trip through a foreign land.

    Have faith, O leader of impressionable people. Your work, whether it feels fulfilling (as it does at times) or worthless (as it also does at times), is a gift to God and a huge investment in the future.

    God does amazing things through junior highers. They don’t have to wait until they’re high school students or adults to be used by God. He desires to radically work in and through their lives now to further his kingdom. Thank you for being part of that process.

    This little book offers

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