Download or read book Better Safe than Sued written by Jack Crabtree and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most youth workers will admit that they don’t spend a lot of time thinking about safety in their youth ministry. Sure, they shout, “Seat belts!” when the crew loads into the van, or they use the buddy system when at theme parks. But beyond that, they’re mostly concerned with introducing students to Jesus. Nothing’s wrong with looking after their spiritual well-being, but overlooking their safety can lead to pain and problems for you, your students, your church, or your community.The reality is, whether it’s a game of dodgeball in the church gym, or a rock climbing trip during a summer retreat, you have precious cargo in your care, and it’s your responsibility to make sure they return home safely and in one piece.Better Safe Than Sued is an essential guidebook for anyone in youth ministry—paid or volunteer, veteran or rookie. Along with questions to get you thinking about your own ministry context after each chapter, inside you’ll discover how you can make your ministry a safe place for students and leaders as you read about:• Safety while riding in buses, vans, and cars• Camps, retreats, and conferences• Selecting staff• Avoiding sexual misconduct• Establishing a No-Bully Zone• How to handle injuries, and much moreMake sure your ministry is safe and that you’re protected so you never have to be the one saying, “I never took safety seriously until ...”
Download or read book The Youth Ministry Survival Guide written by Len Kageler and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book If I Knew Then What I Know Now written by Len Woods and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're new to youth ministry, whether paid or volunteer, you can learn a lot from the stories of veteran youth workers who have made some common, but avoidable, blunders. Here you'll find encouragement and wisdom of what not to do when it comes to everything from soul care, to programming, to crisis, and more.
Download or read book Keeping Your Children s Ministry on Mission written by Jared Kennedy and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Strategies for Gospel-Centered Children's Ministry When building a children's ministry at a church, there is so much to consider: Which curriculum should we use? How many volunteers do we need? How do we keep parents in the loop? And that's before we run into stalled check-in computers, missing activity sheets, and floors that need to be vacuumed. While all of the tasks of children's ministry are important, leaders can get easily distracted with the everyday work of doing ministry and lose sight of the main focus—the gospel. Writing from personal ministry experience, Jared Kennedy shares a four-fold approach for gospel-centered, missional children's ministry: hospitality, teaching, discipleship, and mission. This practical resource covers a variety of topics ranging from creating child protection policies to putting together lesson plans to catechism, helpful for children's ministers and volunteers alike as they disciple children with the powerful message of the gospel. Applicable: Includes questions for reflection and evaluation Helps Leaders Disciple the Next Generation: Features advice for sending kids and their families on mission Ideal for Nursery–5th Grade Teachers and Leaders: A practical and helpful resource for children's ministries Published in Conjunction with the Gospel Coalition (TGC)
Download or read book Better PowerPoint R written by Stephen Kosslyn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving good presentations is not just common sense. Cognitive neuroscientist Stephen M. Kosslyn shows how to make presentations work better based on how our brains work. Where many books focus on how to create a first draft, Better PowerPoint gives you quick steps to improve one you already have. · 8 key rules that are easy to remember and use · Clear principles about how to design effective slides based on well-established scientific data · Quick steps to sharpen and strengthen your presentation · Easy-to-use checklists guide you through each aspect of your presentation · Chapters are structured to help you prioritize the most effective edits · Memorable examples and illustrations to show what works, and what doesn't · Lessons in what to fix can also help you create better first drafts faster. If you have a PowerPoint presentation that is not giving you the results you want, take advantage of what scientific research can tell you about how your audience is seeing and thinking about what you have to say.
Download or read book How to Impress a Marquess written by Susanna Ives and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fresh voice that reminded me of Julia Quinn's characters." —Eloisa James, New York Times bestselling author TAKE ONE MARQUESS: Proper, put-upon, dependable, but concealing a sensitive artist's soul. ADD ONE BOHEMIAN LADY: Creative, boisterous, unruly, but secretly yearning for a steadfast love, home, and family. STIR in a sensational serialized story that has society ravenous for each installment. COMBINE with ambitious guests at an ill-fated house party hosted by a treacherous dowager possessing a poison tongue. SHAKE until a stuffy marquess and rebellious lady make a shocking discovery: the contents of their hearts are just alike. Take a sip. You'll laugh, you'll swoon, you'll never want this moving Victorian love story to end. "With [an] intriguing plot, quirky characters, witty escapades, and heartfelt dialogue, Ives has created a read that's as thought-provoking as it is romantic." —RT Book Reviews, 4 1⁄2 stars and nominee for Best First Historical Romance, Wicked Little Secrets "Will touch readers' hearts. Ives delivers on every level" —RT Book Reviews for Wicked, My Love Top Pick 4 stars "I have never, ever laughed so hard or swooned so much while reading a historical romance." —Long and Short Reviews for Wicked Little Secrets
Download or read book Bowen Unravelled written by Julian Baker and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks down the concepts of The Bowen Technique and develops an understanding of what is going on during a treatment, including explanations of why things happen the way that they do.
Download or read book The Youth Worker s Guide to Helping Teenagers in Crisis written by Rich Van Pelt and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When youth work becomes crisis managers.Anyone who stays in youth ministry for a while will encounter significant crises. Family break-ups, substance abuse, sexual assault, eating disorders, cutting, suicide, gun violence.But without proper and immediate care, crises like these can cause years of emotional pain and spiritual scarring in students.Rich Van Pelt and Jim Hancock want to help you prevent that from happening.Through their experience and expertise, you1ll learn how to:-Respond quickly and effectively to crisis -Balance legal, ethical, and spiritual outcomes -Forge preventive partnerships with parents, schools, and students -Bring healing when damage is doneWhen crises happen‹and they will, ready or not‹there are practical steps you can take. Van Pelt and Hancock provide field-tested counsel and specific, biblical advice for each stage of crisis. Keep this book on hand as your go-to resource when you need it most.Because when it comes to crisis, it1s not a matter of if, but when.
Download or read book Y Is For Youth Worker written by Erik Williams and published by Group Publishing, Inc. . This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you remember learning thealphabet as a little kid? “A is for apple, B is for banana, C is for carburetor...” OK, maybe it wasn’t quite likethat for you, but as a child you diddiscover that knowing the alphabet made it possible to read and write. So what about theABCs of youth ministry? What essential ideas make it possible to meaningfully ministerto teenagers? Y Is for Youth Worker will take you from the alpha to the omega of the English language, and ateach stop along the way you’ll experience a dose of the humor and insight of veteran youth worker Erik “With a K” Williams. This book is filled with amusing anecdotes and insightful ideas that you can use right away. Find the things you like and circle them, jot them down, or add them to your idea file. You’ll even find some small group lessons and an outline for an outreach event. Whether you’re a full-time youth pastor, a part-time youth worker, or a devoted youthministry volunteer, Y Is for Youth Worker will entertain, encourage, and equip you.
Download or read book Engaging Parents as Allies written by Wayne Rice and published by Standard Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Ministry in the Trenches is a series of practical, tactical resources to help those doing the dirty work of ministry in one of the grittiest battlefields of human existence—adolescence.
Download or read book What Do I Do When Teenagers Deal with Death written by Steven Gerali and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What Do I Do When Teenagers Deal with Death? you'll understand different types of adolescent death and how death affects grieving teens, you'll explore how theology informs the issue, and you'll get practical tips for helping families and teenagers deal with the pain and loss. You'll also find help for your own personal grief in the situation, as well as additional resources to take the help further.
Download or read book A Guide to Worship Ministry written by Gregory B. Brewton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to Worship Ministry centers on four main areas of worship ministry: preparing for worship ministry, leading the worship ministry, preparing for Sunday, and discipling the generations through worship ministry. The book addresses topics such as discerning your call to ministry, working on a church staff, planning and leading worship services, and equipping your worship teams. A Guide to Worship Ministry looks at the day-to-day work of the worship minister, offering insights and personal stories. It is an important book for those getting started in worship ministry and a refresher for those who have years of experience in ministry.
Download or read book Better Safe Than Sorry written by Michael Krepon and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, the iconic doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistswas set at five minutes to midnight—two minutes closer to Armageddon than in 1962, when John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev went eyeball to eyeball over missiles in Cuba! We still live in an echo chamber of fear, after eight years in which the Bush administration and its harshest critics reinforced each other's worst fears about the Bomb. And yet, there have been no mushroom clouds or acts of nuclear terrorism since the Soviet Union dissolved, let alone since 9/11. Our worst fears still could be realized at any time, but Michael Krepon argues that the United States has never possessed more tools and capacity to reduce nuclear dangers than it does today - from containment and deterrence to diplomacy, military strength, and arms control. The bloated nuclear arsenals of the Cold War years have been greatly reduced, nuclear weapon testing has almost ended, and all but eight countries have pledged not to acquire the Bomb. Major powers have less use for the Bomb than at any time in the past. Thus, despite wars, crises, and Murphy's Law, the dark shadows cast by nuclear weapons can continue to recede. Krepon believes that positive trends can continue, even in the face of the twin threats of nuclear terrorism and proliferation that have been exacerbated by the Bush administration's pursuit of a war of choice in Iraq based on false assumptions. Krepon advocates a "back to basics" approach to reducing nuclear dangers, reversing the Bush administration's denigration of diplomacy, deterrence, containment, and arms control. As he sees it, "The United States has stumbled before, but America has also made it through hard times and rebounded. With wisdom, persistence, and luck, another dark passage can be successfully navigated."
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Download or read book Puppies For Dummies written by Sarah Hodgson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to bring home a new puppy Across America and beyond, tails are wagging with anticipation. Why? Because puppies and the people who love them are eager for the update of Puppies for Dummies. Originally released and welcomed as a positive, loving alternative to the alpha dog philosophy of a popular celebrity trainer, Puppies for Dummies is now updated and more relevant than ever. This new edition covers the latest puppy training gadgets, tricks, and tips and offers expanded coverage on the latest training techniques, including new studies on positive reinforcement methods. This edition continues to provide readers with the trusted and proven advice that has made previous editions a success. Integrate a puppy in your life Explore the latest science of dogs Train a happy, healthy pup Raise and nurture a loving dog Rather than saying: "Uh oh, now what?!" new pet owners can be equipped with the best advice.
Download or read book Business Law Battle Plan for Entrepreneurs written by Marjorie Jobe and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frustrated by the injustices she has observed in 21 years as a business attorney, Marjorie Jobe's new book reveals horrifying accounts of business owners who have been side-swiped by unexpected legal disasters and provides solutions to keeping legal disasters from happenning to you. The Business Law Battle Plan for Entrepreneurs: Protect Your Company from Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Disasters is far from another boring legal guide. Jobe reveals insider secrets and cites real-world cases that no other book dares to cover. Readers will be horrified to learn how a pirated trademark cost one vulnerable business millions to repair, the truth about how Martha Stewart was unjustly prosecuted based on loopholes in the legal system, and the frightening power that Federal government has over your freedom. Readers will also learn essential legal protection strategies including how to prevent employee lawsuits, protect your rights if you are ever targeted for a federal investigation, limit cyberspace liability, decide when to sue and when to walk away, safeguard your assets with marital property agreements, develop effective business contracts, hire and manage the right lawyer, and so much more. Packed with real tools, questions for your own lawyer, case examples and rich resources, Jobe's mission with this book is to empower business owners to build their own legal battle plan and insulate their company from legal risks before disaster strikes.
