We rank these sites by their practicality to the local church youth worker as well as by the quality and number of articles. Free sites get priority over paid.
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1. Youthworker Journal Best of the Web!
About 125 articles from past Youthworker Journals, organized under the categories Columns, Culture, Family, Getting Results, Management, Money, Personal Stuff, Sexuality and Staff Relationships. Quality articles from those who practice and understand youth ministry.
A selection of over 150 practical articles by some of the top thinkers and practitioners in youth ministry. Includes magazine articles, book chapters, original articles and cassette transcriptions. Helpfully arranged under 34 topics.
3. The Source for Youth Ministry
About 250 brief articles covering many aspects of youth ministry. A great resource.
4. Group Magazine and Junior High Ministry
About 100 youth ministry articles listed under 5 categories - Working with Youth, Working with Adults, Leadership, Jr. High Ministry, Children's Ministry, Family Ministry. Selected from past issues of both Group and Junior High Ministry magazines. Practical articles for those actively involved in youth work.
A wonderful collection of scores of papers by college-level youth ministry students on many aspects of youth ministry at the Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa, in partnership with the University of Zululand. I especially like their original research on various youth subcultures. Insightful articles which often wed academic research with practical experience. See also about 100 articles helpfully organized under a youth ministry strategy by youth ministry professor Mark Tittley by clicking HERE.
Around 200 brief Articles geared toward students or adults wanting to do campus ministry. Topics include Prayer Ideas, Get Ready Personally, Stay Spiritually Fit, Sharing Your Faith, Campus Club Ministry, Creative Outreaches, How to Lead a Bible Study.
7. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Targeting those who work with university students, I.V. has a great archive of articles from their Student Leadership Journal, which contains scores of great articles specifically related to university ministry. Not all are "how-to" in nature, but very valuable none the less.
8. Center For Parent/Youth Understanding
Around 125 articles from back issues of Walt Mueller's quarterly mailout, Youth Culture Today. Features cutting edge information and analysis on issues related to today's rapidly changing world of young people. Articles on culture trends, overviews of current music and media trend-setters, developmental issues, and reviews of relevant resources.
For $25.00 per year, click on over 300 topics to find articles, case studies, book reviews, etc. Spearheaded by Dean Borgman of Gordon-Conwell Seminary.
10. National Network of Youth Ministries
Twenty five articles from publications of the National Network.
Twelve Student Ministry articles and 11 Global Implications articles.
Seventeen articles, plus archives of over 150 weekly e-mail tip sheets.
13. YouthPastor.com
Fifteen articles of interest to those doing youth work.
14. Character Education Lessons
Has some articles on character education in schools. Should be putting a lot more up in 2004, dealing with both faith-based and public school based articles.
The size of the web and it's explosive growth (Google alone indexes 1.5 billion web pages!) assure us that we can't know it all. So if you find a significant collection of articles on how to do youth ministry that you think should make the list, find broken links on this site, or have insights to influence our rankings (rankings are determined by the votes of people like you!) please give us your input by clicking on the below box and e-mailing us. Thanks for you input!
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