Teen Ministry

Eating Disorders, depression, gender confusion - these sound like problems for other people, but the reality is your students are dealing with them every day. The issues that girls face are growing in complexity and number. Written with the end user in mind, this resource will be one that won't leave a youth worker's hands.

Teen Challenge, also known as Adult and Teen Challenge, was established over sixty years ago as an evangelistic outreach to drug addicts in Brooklyn, New York. This faith-based rehabilitation program was created to share the gospel's life-changing message that God can redeem the whole person beginning on day one of the program. This unique approach has produced success rates of over 70% for those who complete the rehabilitation program. However, as Teen Challenge has grown worldwide, with over 1,400 centers in 129 countries, some centers are now turning to secular methods in order to access...

It’s a noisy, confusing, sometimes scary world, and it’s not always easy to know which way to turn. For anyone Streams for Teens is a great place to stop for directions.

Two BROTHERS, One CALLING, and a Lasting LEGACY For sixty years, the faith-based ministry of Teen Challenge has been bringing hope to those bound by addictions. Since the first rehabilitation center opened its doors in Brooklyn, New York City, the ministry has grown to 1400 centers in 122 nations. This remarkable legacy of Teen Challenge began with the story of two brothers named David and Don Wilkerson. Much has been written about Teen Challenge and its success in treating addiction, but there has never been a book that told the unique family story of how these two brothers worked together...

A practical book for youth ministers, pastors, parents, and teachers who want to teach prayer to teenagers. The book includes short, meditative chapters that provide listeners with the appropriate history, theology, pedagogy, and examples for introducing teens to the life of prayer.

When Ziv is recruited by the secret society known as The Sect, he finds himself cast into a perilous journey of identity, love, and hope. As a conduit, Ziv possess the ability to see creatures of the night: demons. The Sect trains him along, with two other trainees, to be a warrior of light.

School. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. Sound familiar? In high school, our lives fall into the same nerve-wracking pattern, but what if it didn't have to be that way? What if stress and fear didn't dictate our decisions? What if we dared to do great things for God, not someday, but right now?

As she mourns for the father who was her whole family, Light starts to notice unexpected presences all around... Suddenly the mysterious world in which her father moved invades young Light's life with a bang. The Inuit folklore she vaguely knows comes alive all around her.

Danny Ray, a world-class magician and seasoned communicator, shares heart-warming, humorous, and relatable stories from his own youth that will help students engage the concepts of this book. Most of all, however, he teaches a life-changing biblical truth that a teenager's awesomeness isn't found in trying to be like someone else, but rather in fully embracing the person who God made them to be.

18-year-old Prince Yeled wanted to finally prove to his adoptive father that he was worthy of being the prince heir. But what could he possibly do? He asks for a questno, a great questno, a heroically astonishing questchallenging enough to prove his enoughness and finally earn the King's respect and love. Yeled will learn through thrilling, quirky, and sometimes unbelievable twists and turns that not all quests are what they might seem, and, more importantly, this King is definitely not what he appears.

Being a teenager during today’s times is filled with many choices and challenges. You are at a critical point in your life in that the decisions you make today can have long term and even lifetime consequences. There’s no question that the pressure’s on. But despite the challenges that lie ahead of you, you can make it. Believe it or not, there are thousands of teenagers just like you who are on the right track taking positive charge of their lives. Despite what some people think or what the media tries to make you believe, you are not destined to become a statistic for the six ...

How do teenage boys with cracking and squeaking voices, Christmas caroling, homemade gifts, a mission from the Lord, and being left by the side of the road all relate? The answer to this question and many unexpected adventures and predicaments lie within The Teen Years, The Lavine Boys' Christmas Caroling Adventures, book three as Solomon, Elijah, and Ezra, (and their mother) along with friends Logan and Taylor, continue on this 15-year Christmas caroling gig.

This new Christian book series gives you the most powerful Bible verses and Scripture for raising our kids today in this most challenging environment. To understand how to best raise our children, we must first understand how God raises us. After all we are called "children of God". So we must master this mindset first, to be best prepared to raise our own children. Raising our children property can be a blessing that lasts a lifetime.

Our children are dying at an alarming rate because of gang violence. Bitter Fruit: The Street Ministry is the story of a 15-year-old girl named Carol who rose in ranks of the Gangster Disciple family organization to become a G-Queen. Destiny thrust Carol into a gangster lifestyle. Sexual abuse caused her to be placed in the foster care system. Carol slid down a slippery slope into the evil perils of gang violence. Although the novel is set in 1994, the lives of these characters reveal the same gangster mindset that young people maintain today.

If you're struggling as a parent, you're not alone. Raising children is difficult work, and it gets more difficult as they reach adolescence. But you don't need to feel alone or paralyzed by these feelings. With deep encouragement and practical advice born from long study and first-hand experience, Walt Mueller has written a guide for parents with children who are going through the tumultuous years of adolescence.

Grow your Christian faith in just five minutes a day with this unique devotional where Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone meets the Bible. With messages on gratitude, courage, and loving others, Finding Jesus in a World of Wizards is the perfect book for kids, teens, men, and women of all ages that are looking for a new way to nourish their faith.

Allow the potential for growth of your spiritual connection with God in the heavens within 14 days! Guaranteed to prepare you for remarkable prayer sessions within months. Becoming a child of God requires giving thanks to our Heavenly Father. You must give thanks for the past, present, and future before you. The past for where you were, the present for how far you've come, and the future for where you're going.

Perhaps nothing strikes greater fear in a parent than the word "Teen". The teenage years can be trying both for parent and child. But this stage of life can also be a beautiful time of discovery and bonding. What a blessing and a privilege to be a part of transitioning your child into the adult God created them to be! This resource will help you find the wisdom, patience and peace to enjoy the teen years.

The pressures of being a teenager are like ticking time bombs. Ten Time Bombs equips adults with the knowledge and understanding needed to diffuse the most explosive pressures young people face. Through humor and candid discussion, Ron Hutchcraft talks about sex, friends, family, relationships, and those things that make teenagers angry, depressed, hurt, and lonely. Hutchcraft is the host of Alive! with Ron Hutchcraft, the most widely circulated Christian youth broadcast in the world.

An edgy, biblical look at topics the church has been silent about. This book provides honest, authentic answers to questions that most men and women have asked in their own minds. Nothing is off limits in this book for teens and older. The topics covered include porn, sex, masturbation, and what God has to say about it all