Downtime: Helping Teenagers Pray
Mark Yaconelli
Youth Specialties, 2008, 288 pp., $19.99, www.zondervan.com
How is your prayer life? That’s the question posed by Mark Yaconelli, son of the late Youth Specialties founder, Mike Yaconelli. Mark hopes your own trust in God and the practices you engage in can become powerfully contagious to the kids you serve. While this resource is written to youth workers, it broadly seeks to guide you in helping kids step up to the plate and “claim the prayers that are already stirring within them.”
Yaconelli’s approach is refreshing, moving beyond any other book that’s been written on the subject. His years of research translate into a practical dialogue with the reader, allowing the personal initiatives at the end of each chapter to seem reasonable and bite-sized. When combined with several case study examples, this is easily a year’s worth of solid ideas for you and the students you serve to trust in God like never before.
