Good Kids, Big Events, and Matching T-Shirts: Changing the Conversation on Health in Youth Ministry

by David Hertweck

Publisher:

David Hertweck

, 2015

Overview

Good Kids, Big Events, & Matching T-Shirts invites youth leaders into a game-changing conversation. It helps them create and sustain a ministry to youth that is fueled by an effective, contagious relationship with God and others. Writer and youth worker David Hertweck makes great discoveries with fellow youth leaders while moving through three pivotal points:

Are youth becoming fluent in the gospel?

Are youth Spirit-dependent?

Do youth have biblical community?

Hertweck, a veteran youth worker, explains that if those who work in student ministry celebrate some wins while unintentionally missing the big picture—new life in Christ—students will believe the wrong things count. That could have enormous implications for how today’s kids live out their faith now and as adults.

When youth leaders choose to refocus on these values, they are heeding Jesus command to make disciples. The teens in their groups will thrive both now and later.

Key Features

• Invites youth leaders into a game-changing conversation.
• Helps to create and sustain a ministry to youth.
• Makes great discoveries with fellow youth leaders while moving through three pivotal points.

Contents

• Foreword
• CHAPTER 1 Keeping Score
• GOOD KIDS
• CHAPTER 2 Oh, Behave!
• CHAPTER 3 Good News vs. Good Advice
• NEXT STEPS FOR PART 1 Cultivating Gospel Fluency
• BIG EVENTS
• CHAPTER 4 Cry Me a River
• CHAPTER 5 Show Some Spirit
• NEXT STEPS FOR PART 2 Fostering Spirit Dependency
• MATCHING T-SHIRTS
• CHAPTER 6 Getting Along Isn’t the Point
• CHAPTER 7 Mission Matters Most
• NEXT STEPS FOR PART 3 Creating Biblical Community
• CHAPTER 8 Putting It All Together
• Endnotes
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author

Praise for Good Kids, Big Events, and Matching T-Shirts

Whether you’re new to youth ministry or a veteran, you’ll find something here that will encourage and inspire you to better youth ministry.

—Mark Matlock, President - Youth Specialties

Good Kids doesn’t promise easy answers... it delivers on biblical ones.

—Jeanne Mayo, President - Youth Leader's Coach

Leadership isn’t the task of simply providing answers. Often, it’s about reframing questions. That’s exactly what David does in a heartfelt way in Good Kids.

—Doug Fields, Author of Purpose-Driven Youth Ministry

Product Details

• Title: Good Kids, Big Events, and Matching T-Shirts: Changing the Conversation on Health in Youth Ministry
• Author: David Hertweck
• Publisher: David Hertweck
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Pages: 200
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Pastoral theology
• ISBNs: 9781624232541, 162423254X
• Resource ID: LLS:GOODKIDSBIGEVENTS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-10T16:10:03Z

About David Hertweck

David Hertweck. Since February 2011, David Hertweck has served a major denomination in New York as their director of youth ministry. Previously, he served as a youth pastor for twelve years in upstate New York. He is currently completing graduate work at Northeastern Seminary for his MA in transformational leadership. He is the author of The Word and the Spirit. David is married to Erin and they have three daughters: Lilia, Caraline, and Madelaine. They currently reside in Syracuse, New York.