Product Description

This is a manual for quick and convenient access to the spectrum of administrative and managerial tasks that face youth workers every day with a companion CD-ROM that includes not only a student contact database, but all the book’s forms in editable format.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40960 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 424 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780310235965
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Back Cover
Youth ministry only looks like it revolves around the youth room. You know better: a successful youth ministry involves a myriad of administrative and operational details. So what do you need today? A sample budget, then a form for creating one of your own? Release forms for trips? Clear direction on screening applicants for volunteer positions? Checklists, reminders, and tips for writing agendas, event flyers, and calendars?Whatever hits you when you walk into your office each morning, just pull Youth Ministry Management Tools for quick and accessible answers to your management, administrative, and supervisory questions and needs. Sprinkled throughout the manual are brief personal anecdotes by actual, in-the-trenches youth workers just like you—case studies of church-office debacles, small but pivotal lessons learned, nightmare scenarios to avoid, and glorious successes to emulate.

About the Author
Ginny Olson is a veteran youth worker, speaker, teaching, consultant, editor, and writer. She directs the youth ministry program at North Park University in Chicago.;Diane Elliot is an experienced writer, editor, teaching of adults and teenagers, and is director of operations at the Northwest Suburban Christian Academy in Wauconda, IL.;Mike Work works in the Denver area with YFC/ USA. He is a frequent speaker at camps, retreats, and youth ministry training events.

Customer Reviews

Great Youth Ministry administration tool
I have taught this book in a seminary setting. It has some very practical ideas to share with new and experienced youth ministers/youth pastors. There are basically three sections: Tools to Help You Manage Yourself; Tools to Help Your Manage Ministry; and Tools to Help You Stay in Youth Ministry. All three sections have some serious and some humorous ideas on how to manage ministry. There is also a CD with the book which has a great deal of ministry forms (budget, planning, calendar, evaluation, medical release, CV, etc.), which are in a format which allows you to bring them up on your computer and change whatever you want to change to make it fit your situation. Why start a form from scratch when someone has already started it for you? My students really benefitted from this book and had their eyes openned to several situations they hadn't thought about before.

excellent resource
Though this text is a little pricey, it's worth the investment. It is full of very practical, easy to follow ideas and info on keeping your youth ministry organized (e.g how to find/train/evaluate volunteers, organizing an event, organizing your workspace, finding a youth ministry position, etc). This is not one of those skimpy youth ministry books you can read in an hour--it is text-rich with helpful information, tips, and ideas.I have been doing youth ministry for over 13 years and I have found much useful info within the book and have made good use of the accompanying cd rom that contains all the forms printed in book plus a great program for organizing background info on all of your youth and adult leaders.

BEST "nuts & bolts" book out there on ministry
This book is genius!
I have been through youth ministry courses, I have been to youth specialties, I have been in minsitry (13 years) and I have read the books...

You will not find a more comprehensive, nuts & bolts book out there. I frankly don't understand why this book isn't more popular. EVERY young pastor and minister should have this book on their shelf and reference it often.
- organizing
- leading
- meetings
- prep & planning
- calendaring

You will be as prepared and professional as people expect you to be if you will only take the time to study something as practical as this book.

_ryan _russell
pastor
central christian church - mesa, az