Adoptive Youth Ministry (Youth, Family, and Culture): Integrating Emerging Generations into the Family of Faith

by Chap Clark

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2016

Overview

Kids desperately need healthy, committed adults who can help them thrive in their faith and become active participants in the life of the church. This requires the efforts of the whole faith community. Chap Clark, one of the leading voices in youth ministry today, brings together twenty-four experts from a variety of denominations and traditions to offer a comprehensive introduction to adoptive youth ministry, a theologically driven, academically grounded, and practical youth ministry model. The book shows readers how to integrate emerging generations into the family of faith, helping young adults become active participants in God’s redemptive community.

From the Back Cover

Chap Clark, one of the leading voices in youth ministry today, brings together twenty-four experts from a variety of denominations and traditions to offer a comprehensive introduction to adoptive youth ministry, a theologically driven, academically grounded, and practical youth ministry model.

"Chap Clark has brought together many of youth ministry’s finest thinkers to create this incredible book. Each perspective reflects a unique and important grasp on the ever-changing world of youth ministry. Chap is this generation’s youth ministry professor, and his insight is deeply appreciated and respected. I will tell everyone I know in youth ministry to read this book."
--Jim Burns, president, HomeWord; author of Confident Parenting and Creating an Intimate Marriage

"For those of us committed to ministry with young people, the task is more complicated than ever before. We need to move into the lives of young people in ways that are more biblically shaped, more sociologically aware, and more practically effective. Chap Clark has done us a great favor by providing insights from a wide range of thoughtful and mature leaders who have given decades to youth ministry. Ponder the insights and let them shape your life as you offer yourself to young people in Jesus’s name."
--Ken Knipp, vice president of training, Young Life

"It is not very often that a new framework for understanding youth ministry comes along. Chap Clark has given us a new way to understand, evaluate, and facilitate youth ministry. Adoptive Youth Ministry is a wonderfully original contribution to the academy and student ministry praxis. Those of us in youth ministry and those of us teaching youth ministry will long be grateful for this new paradigm."
--Len Kageler, professor of youth and family studies, Nyack College

"Chap Clark and his colleagues change the adoption paradigm by using the term adoptive, shifting from top down to peer to peer, from organizational to organic, and from perceived efficiency to heartfelt authenticity. Adoptive Youth Ministry will change the character and culture of your student ministry."
--Ron Hunter, director and cofounder, D6 Conference; author of The DNA of D6: Building Blocks of Generational Discipleship

"Chap Clark has brought together today’s brightest youth ministry minds to compile the definitive guide for the theory and practice of reaching teenagers."
--Jim Candy, youth ministry veteran, author, and church planter

Contents

Contents

Introduction: Adoption: Reenvisioning Youth Ministry and the Family of God Chap Clark
Part 1: The Context of Adoptive Youth Ministry
1. The Strategy of Adoptive Youth Ministry Chap Clark
2. Understanding the Changing Adolescent Steven Bonner
3. Welcoming Wounded and Broken Adolescents into the Family of God Marv Penner
4. Technology and Adoptive Youth Ministry Bradley Howell
5. Screen Time: A Window into Teens’ Dreams Craig Detweiler
Part 2: The Call of Adoptive Youth Ministry
6. Reflective Youth Ministry: Youth Ministry as Critical, Ongoing, Communal Reflection Almeda M. Wright
7. Thinking (Practical) Theology Michael McEntyre
8. Youth Ministry, Adoption, and Culture Walt Mueller
9. Thinking Ecclesiologically: Teenagers Becoming Part of the Church Mark Cannister
10. Thinking Critically about Families and Youth Ministry Allen Jackson
11. Thinking Globally: An Asian American Case Study Approach David Jia Hwa Doong and Jinna Sil Lo Jin
12. Thinking Long Term Cheryl A. Crawford
Part 3: The Practice of Adoptive Youth Ministry
13. Adoption Extended: Creating a Welcoming Space Pamela Erwin
14. Spiritual Formation: It’s a Matter of Time Tony Jones
15. Can I Ask That? Imagining a Church Big Enough for Teenagers’ Hard Questions Kara Powell and Brad Griffin
16. A Call to Adoptive Ministry: Middle School Distinctives Heather Flies
17. No Church in the Wild: Urban and Multiethnic Contexts as the New Frontier of Youth Ministry Daniel White Hodge
18. Adoptive Youth Ministry: A Latin American Perspective Howard Andruejol
Part 4: The Skills for Adoptive Youth Ministry
19. Adoptive Leadership Bill MacPhee
20. The Communication of Adoption: Hearing and Making Known Duffy Robbins
21. Teaching for Adoptive Ministry Jay Sedwick
22. Rethinking Church Strategies and Structures Steven Argue
23. A Call to Adoption: Integration of Youth Ministry to the Church April L. Diaz
Index

Product Details

• Title : Adoptive Youth Ministry (Youth, Family, and Culture): Integrating Emerging Generations into the Family of Faith
• Authors:
  • Clark, Chap
  • Clark, Chap
• Publisher: Baker
• Publication Date: 2016
• ISBN: 9781493400072

About Chap Clark

Vice provost for master’s programs and professor of youth, family, and culture. He also serves as director of the Student Leadership Project and Institute of Youth Ministry. On faculty since 1997, he created and directs Fuller’s Doctor of Ministry program in Youth, Family and Culture, and oversees PhD students who are studying youth and family ministry, youth culture, and adolescent development. Additionally, he is the School ofTheology’s representative to the Fuller Youth Institute. A well-known practitioner, adolescent and family scholar, and author, Clark has more than 30 years’ experience in direct ministry, including 15 years with Young Life, as well as positions with several churches, Denver Seminary, and Youth Specialties. He is currently on the teaching team of Montrose Church in Montrose, California and the Senior Editor of Youthworker Journal. Dr. Clark has remained in direct ministry with young people, and is committed to the equipping and training of men and women who recognize the Church’s mandate of reaching out to young people in the name of Christ. Clark’s extensive publication of books, articles, and videos focus primarily on relationships. Among his many books are When Kids Hurt: Helping Adults Navigate the Adolescent Maze (2009), Disconnected: Parenting Teens in a MySpace World (2007, co-authored with his wife, Dee), Deep Justice in a Broken World: Helping Your Kids Serve Others and Right the Wrongs Around Them (2007, coauthored with Kara Powell), Deep Ministry in a Shallow World (2006, co-authored with Kara Powell), Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers (2004, a CBA finalist for Book of the Year, available in Spanish and Cantonese), Teens and Sex: A Leadership Video Curriculum for the American Association of Christian Counselors (2003), From Father to Son (2002), Daughters and Dads (1998), The Youth Worker’s Handbook to Family Ministry (1997), Creative Bible Lessons in Romans (1996, translated into Spanish, 2000), Let Me Ask You This...Conversations that Draw Couples Closer (1991), Great Camps and Retreats (1990, translated into Korean, 2000), and Option Plays (1990). In 1987 Clark published Next Time I Fall in Love, which was soon expanded into a leader’s guide, student journal, and a video curriculum. He has also edited and contributed to major youth and family ministry texts. Areas of Expertise, Research, Writing, and Teaching: Parenting, culture (esp. youth culture, media, etc.), marriage, youth development, youth and family ministry, general church and parachurch ministry, leadership and teamwork, and spiritual formation