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Upcoming Idea

Start thinking now because our next question will appear Nov. 6. We will ask you: Does your student ministry have outreach programs / projects geared toward Thanksgiving and Christmas? ...

Worldview: Youth Ministry in Uganda

“We live in a world of scarcity,” Moses said to us after our first day at Boli Stock Farm. We would soon come to understand what he meant in ways we couldn’t have predicted. Boli Stock Farm ...

The Power of Pilgrimage

It was a dangerous journey—too dangerous to be highly recommended. It was a pilgrimage so marked in my memory that I can still feel the wild movement of that boat, tossing us up and down like an empty ca...

Fast Food Spoof

This parody commercial from YouTube spoofs the fast food ads that make us believe that what every guy wants to do after playing  basketball is eat a Big Mac. ...

Baby Geniuses Steal Precious Time

Infant educational videos have blossomed into a $20-billion dollar business, but a new study indicates that products like “Baby Einstein” and “Brainy Baby” do more harm than good. The pr...

Faith Sharing for Teens

Saint Mary’s Press, 2007, 112 pp., $19.95, www.smp.org Talking about your faith can be tough for teens, especially members of pietous, highly personal faith traditions—Catholics, Lutherans and Epi...

Youth Retreats for Any Schedule

Saint Mary’s Press, 2007, 168 pp., $22.95, www.smp.org If you’ve never planned a retreat before or you need to pull one out of a hat, Maryann Hakowski has written the playbook for you. She gives mi...

Making It Real: Whose Faith Is It Anyway?

Kregel, 2007, 162 pp., $11.99, www.kregel.com What youth worker has not been frustrated by students whose faith waxes or wanes based on whether or not they can feel God right now? Who hasn’t dealt with k...