Essential Leadership Leader's Guide

'You know that the key to a strong youth group is your volunteer team. And the key to a strong team of volunteers is a common vision and passion for both teenagers and the ministry. Unfortunately, you probably also know what a struggle it can be to get that vision out of your own head and into the hearts of your volunteer team.

Too often, we youth pastors schedule regular meetings with our adult volunteers and small group leaders with good intentions, but these meetings often degenerate into a string of announcements about upcoming events and leave out the things that lead to deeper ministry.

This unique, research-based training resource addresses the needs of you and your volunteer leaders and includes the voices of influential youth ministry veterans. Designed to focus on a key monthly issue over nine months, Essential Leadership provides you with insight and tools to make ministry team meetings work, and to engage all your leaders in discussion that will take both the ministry and the students deeper by exploring:
* Your ministry’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
* Integrating students into the life of the church
* Effective family ministry
* Holistic ministry
* Giving and receiving mentoring
* Getting the rest you need
* Deep justice
* Helping kids who are hurting
* Giving your kids a faith that lasts

Using this leader’s guide along with the companion participant’s guide will strengthen your youth ministry leadership team so that together you can make a deeper impact on the lives of teenagers.'