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Sticky Faith, Youth Worker Edition: Practical Ideas To Nurture Long-Term Faith In Teenagers (2011)

by Kara Powell(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0310889243 (ISBN13: 9780310889243)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Zondervan

review 1: An interesting resource for Youth Ministers and parents. The book is based on a year long study analyzing various elements of student's experiences and how those influenced the shape of their faith into college and adulthood.The insights are not hugely surprising but presented well and backed with anecdotes and survey information from their study. The statistical nature of the information is maybe somewhat overplayed given its abstract subject matter. Provides some helpful tips and principles for arranging youth ministry.Overall a good resource for working with youth in a church setting but suffers from the same type of application questions that plague all books of this type (how does my specific church actually try this? how do I adapt this to the specific needs/resource... mores/community I have at hand? Also seems to imagine a much more volunteer gifted congregation than many have available to them.
review 2: I felt that Sticky Faith offered up some really good insight to a very big problem facing the Church and youth ministries across the country. The one hesitation I have with this book was what appears to be a small sample size with some of their stats. My context is that of a smaller to medium sized church (small compared to the churches they studied). I felt that some of the advice and statistics did not apply to churches of our size. Regardless, the problem is the same and this book does offer up some really good information in terms of ways to go about solving the issue. I would recommend this one to anyone working with youth. It is not something I would base my entire youth ministry on... but it is a great tool to add into the mix. less

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