Related links and online resources

Youth ministry

  • Practical Ministry Resources:

    Youth Specialties
    Youth Specialties is committed to providing quality resources, training and encouragement for youth workers in churches and other youth-serving organizations throughout North America and the world. Included are free resources, a store, events, job bank, articles, academic section, forums, and dozens of Web links.

    Group Publishing
    Group's mission is to encourage Christian growth in children, youth and adults by providing ministry resources and services for Christian churches worldwide. Group Magazine, Children's Ministry Magazine, Rev. Magazine, training events, mission opportunities and a store are just a few of their over one and a half dozen on-line helps.

    Cokesbury
    Cokesbury's mission is to resource youth ministries for pursuing the vision of youth thriving in the world as fully devoted disciples of Jesus Christ. On-line catalog, free downloads, training events, and links to other Web sites.

  • Youth cultural understandings

    Center for Parent/Youth Understanding
    The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding is a nonprofit organization committed to building strong families by serving to bridge the cultural-generational gap between parents and teenagers. CPYU has developed an international reputation as a voice providing cutting-edge information, resources and analysis on today's youth culture.

    Search Institute
    Search Institute is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization whose mission is to advance the well-being of adolescents and children by generating knowledge and promoting its application. To accomplish this mission, the institute generates, synthesizes, and communicates new knowledge, convenes organizational and community leaders, and works with state and national organizations.

    National Study of Youth and Religion
    The National Study of Youth and Religion is a research project being conducted at the University of North Carolina and is designed to enhance our understanding of the religious lives of American adolescents. You can sign up for publications and newsletters about their ongoing research.

  • Mennonite Publishing Network

    www.faithandliferesources.org/cpyouth.htm
    Youth resources including youth devotionals, Sunday School curriculum, "With" magazine, and other congregational resources.

Prayer resources

On-line Labyrinth
Designed for young and old alike, the labyrinth provides a mixture of rituals and visuals, of contemplative words and contemporary ambient music, of symbols and media to help guide the spiritual traveler. It's for anyone who wants a break from surfing the surface of culture to contemplate the deeper things of life.

Sacred Gateway
With the help of on-line guidance and Scripture chosen every day, this Web site invites you to find a Sacred Gateway into the presence of God by spending 10 minutes in front of your computer screen.

Listening Hearts Ministries
Discernment involves LISTENING – in a quiet, focused way – to the voice of God and acting upon what is heard. Listening Hearts is a ministry that helps people open their hearts to the guiding presence of God through prayerful listening, imaginative engagement with Scripture, and careful attention to signs of the Spirit.

Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference youth Web-page
Click on "youth" and then on "prayer resources" to see and download over a dozen different ways for you and your youth group to pray. Includes consciousness examen, lectio divina, praying our anger, praying with water, prayer through drawing, etc.

Peace and justice resources

Peace & Justice Support Network
A network that is open to anyone who wants to support Mennonite Church USA's work of peace and justice. Contains resources and Bible studies for youth facing registration and conflict, as well as other world events and issues, advocacy updates and concrete actions.

Y & M on-line: news about youth, war, and peace
The American Friends Service Committee National Youth and Militarism Program addresses the impact of war and military institutions on young people's lives. They conduct public education campaigns, trainings and workshops, do media outreach and communications work, and support grassroots educational and organizing efforts.

Mennonite sites

Third Way Café
A site that engages various social justice issues, gives an overview of Mennonite/Anabaptist history, offers resources, on-line discussion groups, Seeing Jesus through art and thought and Scripture and more.

Mennonite.Net
This site seeks to build and support Mennonite community on the World Wide Web. Browse states and countries for churches, camps, conferences, schools and other organizations.

Mennonite Mission Network
Lists various ways to serve God through voluntary service for all ages. Youth and young adult programs and Web links to deo, Group Venture, Youth Venture, Service Adventure, RAD, DOOR, Mennonite Voluntary Service.

Mennonite Church USA
The denominational Web site that includes links to ministries and resources, Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective, peace resources, news and information, and conventions.

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