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Doug Fields (Author), Adam Black (Narrator), Zondervan (Publisher)

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If you long to reach kids and see their lives changed by God, this updated, comprehensive guide shows you how. Purpose Driven Youth Ministry will do for youth ministry what Rick Warren's Gold Medallion award - winning The Purpose Driven Church is doing for pastoral ministry. It's an indispensable guide to creating and maintaining youth ministry for the long run.

It will help you create a solid spiritual team that builds the foundations of the Christian faith into the hearts and lives of young people. Forged around the fundamental purposes of evangelism, discipleship, fellowship, ministry, and worship, Purpose Driven Youth Ministry uses the experiences of Saddleback Church to illustrate what a healthy Youth ministry can be.

Nine transferable principles help you:

Connect with the power of God for passionate, committed leadership
Identify your potential audience
Create programs that reach your audience and fulfill God's purposes
Implement processes that move students to maturity
Enhance your ministry with clearly defined values
Team up with parents to involve the whole family
Find volunteers and develop them into participating leaders
Persevere through tough times and thrive in an ever-changing environment.
Balancing both theory and practice, Purpose Driven Youth Ministry can be applied to any church setting, regardless of size, denomination, facilities, resources, and existing leadership. Purpose-Driven Youth Ministry will help you develop a ministry that equips students rather than a ministry that coordinates events.
Doug Fields says, "My goal for this book is to coach you through a plan to build a healthy youth ministry that isn't dependent on one great youth leader and won't be destroyed when the youth worker leaves the church. It's not a book on how to grow your youth ministry with six easy steps; it's about ...

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8 hours and 20 minutes
Author

Doug Fields
Narrator

Adam Black
Audible release date

July 2 2009
Language

English
Publisher

Zondervan
ASIN

B071F39PBZ
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
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Listening Length	8 hours and 20 minutes
Author	Doug Fields
Narrator	Adam Black
Audible.ca Release Date	July 02 2009
Publisher	Zondervan
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B071F39PBZ
Best Sellers Rank	#88,774 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #255 in Christian Church Institutions & Organizations (Books) #701 in Christian Youth Ministry (Books) #1,182 in Christian Education (Books)

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Thomas Francis

Get if you're a youth leader or director

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 9, 2020

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Great book for you leaders and directors

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SUCH A GOOD BOOK, so many books by rich warren on ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 7, 2016

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SUCH A GOOD BOOK, so many books by rich warren on the purpose driven series are great. really understanding god has more for us than what we know...another great book for that was "raising kids of increase" by Carmen Lynne both great books

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 28, 2017

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Great read. Lots of practise advises.

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ANDREW MCHENRY

Wish I had read it sooner

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 21, 2003

This is an easy-to-read textbook on youth ministry by a proven professional. Drawing from the same principles as Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Church, Fields (who is Warren's youth pastor at Saddleback Community Church) gives the foundational principles for youth ministry, explaining the different stages of faith commitment in adolescents, and providing strategies for a complete youth ministry.
Good: This book is an easy read, and doesn't require theological or professional ministry experience to understand, and yet is thorough. Any person who has basic relational skills and a heart to reach kids will be set to go after reading this book.
Bad: Fields is constantly uses lists and acronyms to teach his points. Examples: the different stages of faith commitment (core, committed, congregation, crowd, and community); spiritual lifestyle H.A.B.I.T.S. (hang time with God, accountability with another believer, Bible memorization, involvement with the church body, tithing commitment, study of the scripture); his method for discovering spiritual gifts called S.H.A.P.E. (spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, personality, and experiences). A little of this goes a long way, and if you try to take it in too quickly it will fry your brain.
Opinion: This is the best book on youth ministry that I've read. Fields leaves no bases uncovered, from working with parents to handling discipline. I wish I had read this book before my first youth pastorate. It would have saved me many mistakes.
Best Quote: Two come to mind, but they're related to the same thing: "Leadership separates a purpose-driven youth ministry from an event-and-activity-driven youth ministry." The second one is this: "Better to have two high-standard student leaders than fifty students who want to plan activities while they live any lifestyle they please."

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Dillon Burroughs

One of the Best

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 9, 2004

Simply one of the best books for any youth leader! Doug transfers many of the principles from the best-selling Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren into practical methods and an easy process any youth worker can apply to their current situation.
The only weakness of the book in my opinion is that is somewhat attempts to oversimplify the "messiness" of youth ministry leadership. Can any five purposes or nine components catch ever game, activity, program, or mission trip in youth ministry? While Doug may write his book that way, real life tends to also allow for many "non-purpose driven" activities that also lead to radical life change in teens.
Overall, I've read it three times as a youth pastor and still find good material I haven't had a chance to use yet. Get it. Read it. Use it.

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S. A. Hildebrand

The Crash Course for all Youth Ministers

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 13, 2002

This book is a must for all beginning youth ministries. Especially if you were thrown into it out of another profession like I was! The book is short enough to read through in just a week. It is also set up in a very "reference friendly" format for return visits. There are countless examples of forms and teaching ideas. You simply cannot go wrong with it! Fields' insight into ministry is priceless! If you're a youth minister just starting out, buy this book. A good companion book for it is "Family-Based Youth Ministry" by DeVries. No youth minister's book shelf is complete without both of these books.
God bless your ministry!

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Andrew Sorensen

Great book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 6, 2002

This book is full of great tips which can help in youth ministry and even secular groups which desire greater organization and structure without putting yourself in a box.
This is a great book which I would suggest anybody read, but if you are in the youth ministry or our helping in the youth ministry get a hold of this book.
The book is highly repetitive, but certainly gets the point acrossed. Get this book it will help any leader. Doug writes with wisdom, going through many years of experience before writing this book. It's always been said, "If you want to know how to do something, ask somebody who did it." Don't allow structure to bring you down.

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Martin

Purpose-Driven Youth Ministry

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 13, 2003

Doug Fields give his life experience in this book and how to have an effective youth ministry built from start. Anyone who is thinking of entering should read his experiences. Even those whe are in ministry should read it too because we can lean something from everyone.

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S. Adams

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 7, 2018

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This was okay but I have seen better

Val

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 28, 2013

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This is a great book for anyone in youth and children's work. It was recommended to me as I had to write a youthwork strategy. Easy to read and lots to think about. It is very American but good.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 19, 2015

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Must have for every youth leader.

K Lalthlanpuia

Four Stars

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on June 9, 2018

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Thank you

Thomas

Youth Youth

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on April 17, 2012

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wow I wish our generation will get hold of this book and make something out of it.
Church leaders must also read this

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