Two New Books from The Youth Cartel

First-Century Youth Ministry: Exploring Our Jewish Roots to Reclaim Discipleship

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I’ve been excited about this book for a few reasons. One is purely selfish as its author, Heather Quiroz, completed the masters program in Youth Ministry Leadership at Huntington. I was once part of the same program, though Heather is better than me in that she completed it.

But the bigger reason is the subject matter itself. I often feel like we, as pastors, look towards the business world for advice on how to pastor… and I feel this is a major mistake. Instead of looking towards capitalism I think we need to continually look back at our roots. And I think Heather does that well here. We’re hearing murmurs from early readers that this might be the most influential youth ministry book in a long, long time. As part of the publishing team, I’m biased, but I can see why folks are saying that.

5 Views on Youth Ministry Short-Term Missions: Are your trips helping or hurting?

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As I wrote a few weeks back, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to best do short-term missions with youth groups.

That’s why I love this little book from our “Views” line at the Cartel. There are some youth workers and other church leaders who had bad experiences with missions decades ago and have since tried to toss the baby out with the bathwater. What I like here is that the authors [rightly] assume that the reader isn’t going to do that. I think everyone agrees that there’s something great, and I’d dare say necessary, about getting teenagers outside of their culture to do something– and for most churches that means a mission trip. So we agree on that but leads us to our next question, “How to best go about that?”

For any church looking to answers that question for their context, this little book helps. It’s aimed at youth ministry missions, but it’s really great for every church.


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2 responses to “Two New Books from The Youth Cartel”

  1. Ben MacGill Avatar
    Ben MacGill

    Adam! The first century youth ministry book is solid! I’m only halfway through it, but it’s a huge encouragement toward some things that have been bouncing around in my head for a while. And (!) it’s taking those things and putting some cohesion to it all. Thanks for helping to put it into the world!

  2. Elijah Moise Avatar

    Thanks for sharing these great youth ministry resources! I haven’t read these books yet, but I think they’re going to be very helpful. I can’t wait to apply these great ideas to my own Sunday School.

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