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YOUTH CARTEL | YOUTH MINISTRY |
Instigating a revolution in youth ministry
WHO WE ARE
The Youth Cartel’s mission is to encourage and challenge adults who minister to youth through holistic professional coaching and inventive resource development that advance youth ministry in new ways.
Get all of the Youth Cartel published teaching resources in one incredible bundle.
The bundle includes:
Hypotherables
Think Vol 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
Sunday Comics
Every Picture Tells a Story
Joy
One Story
Deeper Questions Vol 1 and 2
Author: Jake Kircher
Today’s teenagers won’t accept merely being told information or the party line. They want to wrestle and explore—they want to be contributors and help develop their own set of beliefs. So rather than leave this process of exploration until their young adult years, a time when many of them will have left the church, what if we purposefully came alongside our teens and helped them explore and own their beliefs while they’re still teenagers? That’s what THINK is all about.
THINK, Volume 6: The Bible provides space and guidance for thoughtful, nuanced, and grounded conversations about the Bible. The first three weeks’ lessons cover what the Bible is, what we bring to it, and the various contexts we must consider to get the most of our time with it. The next three lessons each guide your group through fun, deep, and challenging conversation about a biblical story.
THINK is different from other curriculums because the goal is not to teach teens the correct answers. Instead, the intention is to invite your youth into a discussion with Christ, the Bible, and other people (including their peers, leaders, and parents) that will result in the best sort of spiritual wrestling match.
We can’t continue to spoon-feed our youth the answers they “need” to survive college or be a good person. Instead, we have to make the shift toward helping them own biblically informed views and opinions and theology, especially in regard to their personal identities. THINK will deepen and personalize teens’ faith and give them the tools and resources they need to engage themselves and others.
THINK, Volume 6: Feisty Issues includes:
A detailed overview of how to use THINK, as well a short leader video to frame your thinking
6 lessons that each contain—
A leader’s guide with a list of resources and Scripture passages you can use to prepare
Sample emails to parents
Social media blurbs to promote the identity questions with your teenagers
Multiple options to start and end each lesson
Thorough discussion guides with multiple questions and resources for each Scripture and subtopic
Author Bio
Jake Kircher has been working with teens, families, and adults for nearly twenty years as a pastor, consultant, writer, and speaker. He has been involved with local, regional, and national organizations in various capacities including speaking, communications, writing, social media, and web design. His work has appeared in Youth Worker Journal, Group Magazine, Immerse Journal, and Relevant Magazine, and he has published numerous books including Teaching Teenagers in a Post-Christian World. Jake is married to Melissa, and they have two kids, Sean and Nora.
“After a decade in youth ministry, I realized how little my teens knew about Scripture, despite my best efforts to the contrary,” writes Jen Bradbury. “Most of my teens lacked a basic understanding of Scripture’s arc. They knew there was an Old and New Testament, but with few exceptions, most couldn’t tell you what stories were found where. What’s more, many of my teens believed that God’s character changed somewhere between the pages of the Old and New Testament.”
Bradbury saw what many youth workers know only too well: teens hear the stories of the Bible, but either don’t understand them, don’t know if they should believe them, or don’t see how they connect with one another. And, certainly, teenagers often don’t recognize the defining, overarching story of redemption that threads its way through all of Scripture.
One Story is yearlong curriculum created to address all of that. Covering Genesis through Revelation, these interactive lessons are designed to engage each teen in better understanding the stories that drive and define our faith. Every lesson includes practical, hands-on activities, large and small group questions proven to prompt honest conversation, and step-by-step teaching points to help youth workers walk teens through each passage. Developed to work across an array of Christian traditions, One Story will help you find something we all want: a way to help our teens become more biblically literate, more engaged in the full story of Scripture, and more aware of who Jesus is.
NEW: a timeline of the lessons is now included in the download to help students see the “big picture” of how these stories fit together.
About the Author
Jen Bradbury serves as the minister of youth and family at Atonement Lutheran Church in Barrington, Illinois. A veteran youth worker, Jen is the author of The Jesus Gap: What Teens Actually Believe about Jesus and The Real Jesus (The Youth Cartel), and Unleashing the Hidden Potential of Your Student Leaders and A Mission That Matters (Abingdon). Jen is also the Assistant Director of Arbor Research Group, where she has led many national studies. When not doing ministry or research, she and her husband, Doug, and daughter, Hope, can be found traveling and enjoying life together.
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