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Youth ministry has got to be about more than catchy slogans and energetic youth directors. Family-Based Youth Ministry (FBYM) is about accessing the God-designed structures of the nuclear family and the extended family of the church to help young people grow toward mature Christian adulthood. FBYM helps churches move strategically toward implementing a thriving model for youth ministry. Today, FBYM is one of the most successful models for youth ministry in America.
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Family-Based Youth Ministry
Have you tried all the new youth programs? Planned one too many wacky activity? Are you frustrated about the size of the youth group? Here’s an approach to ministry that takes youth work seriously.
Family-based youth ministry is about adults discipling teens one-on-one and in groups. It is about involving not just the nuclear family but the whole church family–from singles to older adults. More important, it’s about incorporating youth into the life of your church.
Stop worrying about the size of your youth group or your budget. Mark’s refreshing approach to youth ministry will show you how your church can reach today’s teens and how you can keep them involved in the life of the church.
Whether you are a parent, a youth pastor or a church member who cares about teens, you will find in this book an entirely different approach to youth ministry that will build mature Christian believers.
“This is the book we have been waiting for. Mark DeVries brings us a wealth and depth of understanding of the youth culture that few in America can provide. He is taking the necessary step of moving us from ‘traditional youth ministry’ into a different style of youth work that is desperately needed.” – JIM BURNS, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF YOUTH MINISTRY
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Bridges: Family-Based Youth Ministry Curriculum
Decision-making, communication, independence and sexuality: These are some of the major topics on the minds of adults and teenagers. But how do parents and leaders encourage teenagers to discuss these difficult subjects?
Let Bridges help. This guidebook gives adult leaders everything they need for each discussion session, from overviews to reproducible handouts for groups. The flexible sessions contained in Bridges can be incorporated into Sunday School classes, youth group meetings or weekend retreats.
Based on the principles of Family-Based Youth Ministry, Bridges seeks to help leaders develop adult-youth relationships, while nurturing young believers into maturity. It is about adults – parents, singles and older adults – discipling teens. As youth connect with adults, they become more involved in the life of the church.
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More about Family-Based Youth Ministry:
Family-Based Youth Ministry (FBYM) is about accessing the God-designed structures of the nuclear family and the extended family of the church to help young people grow toward mature Christian adulthood.
Through writing, trainings and transition coaching, Mark DeVries and his consultant team, Youth Ministry Architects, help churches move strategically toward implementing a thriving model for youth ministry.
FBYM began in the early 1990s, when Mark DeVries began to devise a system targeted at bringing families together within the church body. Today, FBYM is one of the most successful models for youth ministry inAmerica.
Rather than trying to find the perfect youth leader, FBYM helps churches implement a youth ministry and structure that any youth leader can learn. In this way, the ministry stays on course, regardless of how many different youth leaders pass through your church’s doors.
Mark and his consultants will come to your church as speakers, consultants or just as listeners to hear about your ministry needs. FBYM helps implement youth programs that are specifically tailored for each, individual church’s needs.
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