Encouraging Teens to Do Hard (and Worthwhile) ThingsGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/Disclaimer What's Up:Ask some adults what they think of when they hear the word teen, and ...

The student leaders from PowerHouse Youth Ministry -- headquartered at New Life Outreach International Church in Richmond, Va. -- demonstrate how not to act on a date. Youth pastor Eddie Granell says the video ...

PLUS: Teens make roads safer, Internet Craze Endangers Youth, Comedy Central Gets Science-y "Joy" stick? Not So Much -- New analysis of 130 studies shows that violent video games can increase aggression ...

On his blog More Than Dodgeball, Joshua Griffin outlines when to decide whether you need to remove a youth from your small group -- and how to do it. Griffin is High School Pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake F...

From Learning My Lines: "Over the course of the last several weeks I've been thinking lots about anxiety. I'd like to tell you that my thoughts have been prompted only by the growing parade of people I meet ...

This issue of YouthWorker Journal contains some great articles about resources, methods and techniques, which can improve our effectiveness in working with teens; but I want to remind all of my fellow youth wor...

World View: Haiti In late January 2010, Mark Oestreicher (former president of Youth Specialties and regular YWJ contributor) and Seth Barnes (founder and president of Adventures in Missions) put together a r...

Join Compass International for the mission trip of a lifetime! It has been reported that 80 percent of Christian youth leave their faith after high school, but a trip to Israel connects a lot...

David Crowder talks with Brad Murrill about music, faith and his relationship with God.Interview...

Billed as a remedy rather than "Take Two Verses and Call Me in the Morning," Michael Emlet's new book CrossTalk: Where Life & Scripture Meet (November 2009, New Growth Press) seeks to help people apply...