Jesus is center, people are central. That's an equation for a healthy youth ministry.
The students in your youth ministry don’t need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.
As an advocate for kids for over twenty years, I have watched things change since I was in school. Thankfully, this book made me face what I intuitively knew was real but pretended wasn't: The youth of our culture have been deeply wounded by our collective neglect and adult-driven self-focus. Young people need adults to understand what they are going through and people to care about them without a personal agenda. This book was very helpful to me, and my attitude toward teens will never be the same.
Herb Caen
Demi Lovato
Jared Harris
Steve Perryman
Linda Stewart
Naomi Mitchison
Ernest Henry Wilson
William Lacy Clay, Jr.
Emil Kraepelin
Pope Stephen I
Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
Rebecca Johnston