Your First two Years in Youth Ministry: A personal and Practical guide to starting Right
by Doug Fields
This book provides helpful input for youth ministers who are looking for advice in specific areas. Each chapter focuses on helping the Youth Minister deal with or develop certain areas of his/her ministry. While I am sure this book would come in handy if I was stressed, discouraged, or seeking to better a certain area of my ministry reading it for a college class made the advice sound good but I had no forum to put the advice to use. I can see myself keeping this book on my shelf as a handbook for dealing with the areas it addresses (Listed in my words below), but I cannot see myself reading through the book as a whole again. Like a manual, generally I look at a manual when I need assistance in a certain area or wish to know how to do certain things differently. I rarely read a manual all the way through; instead I open up to the chapter that best suits my needs. I believe that if this book is used in a similar way one may find encouragement/assistance/ideas that he/she can adapt to his/her ministry.
Chapter 1: discovering my role at the beginning
Chapter 2: Discouragement
Chapter 3: Keeping myself Spiritually Healthy
Chapter 4: Students like relationship most
Chapter 5: Working with parents
Chapter 6: Difficult people
Chapter 7: advice for working with/finding leaders
Chapter 8: Help from team leaders
Chapter 9: student leaders
Chapter 10: evaluating programs
Chapter 11: making changes
Chapter 12:job descriptions
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