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The Youth Ministry Survival Guide: How to Thrive and Last for the Long Haul

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, 2008
ISBN: 9780310588948
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Youth pastors often burn out, bail out, and are pushed out of ministry. In this book, you'll be given practical insights and action steps to help you build fences against failure.

It's more common in youth ministry than we want to admit---burnout and failure. Exhaustion, frustration, disappointment, and conflict bring many youth workers to a point where they either choose a new church, a new career, or someone makes that choice for them. After thirty years of youth ministry experience, Len Kageler wants to help youth workers avoid the pitfalls that are common to their calling, and give them the tools to not only survive, but also to thrive in youth ministry. Along with his own wisdom, Len offers insights gained from his 2006 survey of more than 300 burned out or fired youth workers who come from a variety of ministry contexts and denominations.

If you're new to youth ministry, or you've been at it for a while and feel like you may be on the verge of burnout, The Youth Ministry Survival Guide will help you:

  • Deal with conflict and compromise
  • Determine the causes of burnout (and how to avoid them!)
  • Discover how your personality, and the personality of those you work with, affects the dynamics of your ministry experience
  • Develop the best plan for working with senior pastors, church leadership, parents, and students, so you can...
  • Do youth ministry in your 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond!

    • Don't let burnout force you out! Inside this book you'll find steps you can take to help build fences against failure, and you'll learn what it takes to survive and thrive in youth ministry.

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    • Speaks with unblushing honesty about the temptations and realities youth workers face
    • Addresses youth ministry-related problems with optimism, realism, and biblical wisdom
    • Offers the description and the prescription to youth ministry issues, in practical, real-life terms

    Part 1: Good Times and Hard Times Ahead

    • Youth Ministry: Worth the Effort
    • Early Hazards
    • Caution: Confl ict and Compromise
    • Recipes for Burnout

    Learning How to Soar

    • Personality Plus (Yours!)
    • Youth Ministry, Being Married, and Having a Life
    • Working Positively with Your Pastor and Other Church Leaders
    • Working Positively with Parents—and Kids
    • Reaching the Lost without Frustrating the Found
    • Empowerment
    • The Renewed Youth Worker

    • Appendix A: Results from the Survey of Fired or Burned-Out Youth Pastors
    • Appendix B: Six-Year Curriculum Plan


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