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The End of Youth Ministry?

Name: The End of Youth Ministry?
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Author: Root Andrew
ISBN: 9781540961396

Why Parents Don't Really Care about Youth Groups and What Youth Workers Should Do about It

by Root Andrew

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256 pages
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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For youth workers and church leaders seeking new insights

Explores why parents undervalue youth groups today

You will gain fresh ideas to revitalise youth ministry

This book challenges the future of youth ministry and its impact on young lives.

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Equipping you for life's journey with Jesus:

Now a team of 60 – we've been serving the Church since 2004
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What is youth ministry actually for?

And does it have a future?

Andrew Root, a leading scholar in youth ministry and practical theology, went on a one-year journey to answer these questions. In this book, Root weaves together an innovative first-person fictional narrative to diagnose the challenges facing the church today and to offer a new vision for youth ministry in the 21st century.

Informed by interviews that Root conducted with parents, this book explores how parents' perspectives of what constitutes a good life are affecting youth ministry. In today's culture, youth ministry can't compete with sports, test prep, and the myriad other activities in which young people participate. Through a unique parable-style story, Root offers a new way to think about the purpose of youth ministry: not happiness, but joy. Joy is a sense of experiencing the good. For youth ministry to be about joy, it must move beyond the youth group model and rework the assumptions of how identity and happiness are imagined by parents in American society.