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Stripped Clean

Give your teenagers a guilt-free, up-close look at materialism--one that strips away the overwhelming messages of a consumer society. You'll see authentic changes in readers as they tear out pages to use in Jesus-centered activities.

From the back cover:

Do you own your stuff... or does your stuff own you?

Like you, Jesus had stuff. Unlike you, it didn't have him.

Take a guilt-free, life-changing look at what you have... what it means... and discover how to tread lightly in the world as the steward Jesus calls you to be.

Oh yeah: and don't get too attached to this book. As you change, it changes, too.

Get free. Get stripped clean. Get down to nothing but Jesus.

Storm is a designer, artist, dreamer, dad, and recovering materialoholic who still doesn't have a flat-screen TV... but he wants one. Still on the wagon, man, one day at a time.

Through the Bible

Reading the Bible is one thing. Understanding it is another...

Your young people need to see the Big Picture when they read the Bible-God's story rolling our throughout history, throughout lives.

Share these 12 one-hour sessions with your teenagers and you'll see light bulbs pop on as they "get it"-and discover...

How a collection of ancient books interlock-revelaing a master plan
What picture of God emerges from his interactions with people
Where they fit into the continuing story--now and in the future.

If your teenager still think of the Bible as a disjointed jumble of stories and history lessons (trust us: they do), give them the perspective they need. Ground their faith and confidence in God's Word.

All 12 lessons are highly experiential! Your teenagers will create a mural and add to it each week. By the end, they'll have a panoramic view of God's story as revealed in the Bible!

Jenny Baker is a writer and creator of resources with a background in teaching and youth work . She is a founder of the Sophia Network for women in youth ministry and a member of Grace, an alternative worship community in west London, UK. She is a triathlete and is currently studying for a postgraduate degree in gender and society.

Since 1906, Urban Saints has connected children and young people (ages 5 to 18+) to the Good News of Jesus Christ. Based in the U.K., this organization hosts weekly youth groups, special events, community projects, and training programs to help people realize their full, God-given potential as they journey from childhood to adulthood. Visit www.urbansaints.org to learn more.

The Space Between

When you started out as a parent, chances are you felt completely unprepared to deal with the challenges of a child. But at some point in your journey, you've probably found yourself feeling confident in your parenting role and abilities. The routine and predictability of your child's life became manageable and fairly easy to navigate. Now that your child is a teenager (or soon-to-be teen), you may be feeling overwhelmed at times with fear, confusion, frustration, and a lack of understanding. It almost feels like you're starting all over with a screaming, needy, and sometimes whiny child (only much taller and with more attitude!).

The changes of adolescence, while normal for every teen, feel completely abnormal to parents and teenagers, often leaving you feeling like a helpless bystander. But you're not alone, and there is hope to help you (and your teen) get through these challenging, changing years.

For more than 30 years, Dr. Walt Mueller has studied adolescents and the culture they're surrounded by. His expertise was put to the test when his own children became teenagers. Now he's bringing wisdom from research and his own experience to help other parents through the tumultuous years of adolescence.

With empathy and practical tools, this book will help you understand the changes your teen is experiencing, and help you effectively parent them as you explore how to:

create a smoother adolescent period for your teen
begin to break through the walls of confusion, fear, frustration, and misunderstanding
be a positive and proactive bridge-builder into the life and world of your teenager

Dr. Walt Mueller is the founder and president of the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding, a nonprofit ministry organization that has served churches, schools, and community organizations worldwide for more than 30 years. He's a sought-after authority on youth culture and family issues and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and the BBC.

Prepare. Go. Live.

Few things will bring the gospel to life for your students like heading out onto the mission field. Spending a day, weekend, or longer in service to God, for his love, and with people in need brings the calling of Christ vividly into focus. With this easy to implement 3-part missions trip curriculum, you'll get everything you need to get your students ready (Prepare), devotions for the trip (Go), and follow-up materials (Live) to make their experience part of an ongoing, godly lifestyle. And what good would we be if we didn't include helpful stuff for leaders to make the whole trip more fun for everyone? No good at all, so we've given you plenty.

1 Leader Guide with CD-ROM

5 Prepare Student Journals

Mission Includes Me
Mission is about the Kingdom
Mission is about the Team
Mission Never Ends

5 Go Student Journals: Study on the Book of James

Pushup Perseverance
Workouts Aren't for Whiners
Discernment Dash
Tongue Crunches
Pushing to the Peak
Pushing to the End

5 Live Student Journals

The Journey Home
New Directions
Connected to a Cause
Life on a Mission

Files on the CD-ROM include:

Desktop Backgrounds
Slide Backgrounds
Ecards
Sticker Designs
Editable Letters
Editable Postcards
Promotional Materials
GO Luggage Tags
PDFs of the Leader Guide & all 3 Student Journals

Thirsty

It's natural for us to drink water when our bodies tell us they're thirsty. But what happens when our soul becomes thirsty, and is longing for something more than what's already there? This 3-week series by Jeff Maguire, pastor to students at Mariners Church in Southern California, invites students to consider just how thirsty their soul may be and offers biblical solutions to help quench that spiritual thirst. And with everything you need to teach them included inside, it's easy enough for you to dive in and use tonight.

Lessons include:

Isaiah 55 and John 4
Desert
As We Ought To Be

Magnetic

In two weeks, you can completely revolutionize how your students see "evangelism". With an emphasis on being living, breathing, acting examples of Christ's love that points others to God's love, Magnetic will help your students view their faith as more than just a ticket to heaven. Not that there's anything wrong with heaven, of course.

An added bonus with this series is that it works great as an evangelism tool itself! Not only can you build up your believing students, but you've also got a strong message of the transformative power of Jesus' love for those who are still searching. It's two birds with one stone! In fact, this may be the most time we've ever saved anybody!

In just two lessons, you'll cover some serious ground on topics like social justice, spirituality, relationships, beauty, and salvation & heaven.

Lessons include:

That Mysterious Magnetism
Magic Kingdom or Magnetic Kingdom

Abide

A healthy youth ministry isn't just about games, retreats, and overnighters. A healthy youth ministry helps students understand that their spiritual growth comes from a strong personal relationship with Jesus. This series of lessons focuses on Jesus as the Vine, the source of life. Your students will discover that while it's important to do things for God, our spiritual lives must be rooted in our friendship with Jesus - the more time we spend with God, the more change we experience in our lives.

Lesson include:

Connected to Jesus (John 15:1-8)
Rooted/Deeper Relationship with Jesus (Colossians 2:1-9)
Love/Jesus Takes Joy in Us (John 15:9-17)

Each lesson is ready to use right out of the box, but all the materials are also editable so you can customize each one for your ministry.

Different

If you have been around church long enough you probably have heard someone say, "We are called to be different from the world," or "If we don't tell people about Christ, how will they ever know we are different?" That can be a big concept to grasp. Sure, we are supposed to be different, but what does being different mean? What does it look like? And if we are supposed to be different, how do we live in the world? This three-week small group study aims to help students answer those questions.

Lesson include:

Different from the World (Colossians 2:20-23)
More than Words (Matthew 5:13-16)
Equal Words, Equal Action (Matthew 7:21-23)

Each lesson is ready to use right out of the box, but all the materials are also editable so you can customize each one for your ministry.

Stressed Out

Statistics confirm what you probably know already: Teenagers are dealing with extreme amounts of stress from internal and external sources. The goal of this series is for students to not only identify some key points in Abraham's life that were stressful, but also equip them with the necessary tools to help them deal with stressful situations themselves.

Lesson include:

Stressed Out by High Expectations (Genesis 12)
Stressed Out by Situations Beyond Our Control (Genesis 14)
Stressed Out by Instant Gratification (Genesis 22)
Stressed Out by Loss (Genesis 24)

Each lesson is ready to use right out of the box, but all the materials are also editable so you can customize each one for your ministry.

Guy Talk Girl Talk 2

Since your ministry will never run out of guys and girls, we're helping you out with more small group curriculum designed to tackle issues relevant to each gender-from each gender's point of view.

In Guy Talk Girl Talk 2: The Cure For Cooties, you'll get ten weeks of ready-to-use-yet fully customizable-lessons, handouts, promotional materials and more. And while the material is written twice for separate guys and girls groups, the topics are the same for each lesson (like, you'll both study "Temptation" at the same time), just one is geared for guys and the other is geared for girls. This not only saves you tons of time in prep, but it also gives you lots of opportunity for discussion in a mixed group later.

If you'd like to have almost three months of biblically-based material for you students, this is it. Your students may never look at each other the same way again (praise God!).

Topics include:

Decision making

Emotions

Expectations

Family

Fear

Talents

Opposite sex

Internet

Love and romance

Temptation

Help your students see themselves, and each other, as God created them to be.

Plugged In and 10 Minute Moments Bundle

Save with this bundle, designed to help your students grow in their faith while drawing closer to God. Bundle includes 1 Plugged In DVD small Group Curriculum and 5 10 Minute Moments - Plugged In journals.

PLUGGED IN
As Christians, we're designed to be connected to God at all times-to be "plugged in" to the source. In this five-week, DVD-based Small Group curriculum, Doug Fields takes on the challenge of getting students interested and excited about staying connected to God. Every student is going to blaze an incredible path in their life, and this series will show them how they can be "plugged in" every step of the way-and the amazing difference it will make.

This kit includes everything you'll need, including DVD videos featuring Doug Fields, discussion guides, promotional materials, and more-everything you need to save you time while teaching five incredible lessons.

5 lessons by Doug Fields:

Whatever You Do (Worship) - 10:06
The Mind of Christ (Discipleship) - 10:12
It's Not an Individual Thing (Fellowship) - 10:14
Consume or Contribute (Ministry) - 9:44
Let It Shine (Evangelism) - 9:03

10 MINUTE MOMENTS - PLUGGED IN
The Bible is awesome, but there's a catch-it's big. And kind of daunting to a lot of students. There's no better guidebook for their life, but a lot of times they just don't know where to crack the cover.

Look no further. We've got your back.

10-Minute Moments: Plugged In is a daily devotional that's set up as a journal. Students read a Bible passage, poke their brain with a few questions, get some suggestions on what to pray about, and then space to write down their thoughts. It's a one-month plan that's easy to read and easy to stick with. And, if you hadn't guessed from the title, each "lesson" only takes about 10 minutes.

This time around, they'll tackle the five biblical purposes of our lives-Worship, Fellowship, Discipleship, Ministry and Evangelism. Keep 'em on hand for new students, pass 'em out as graduation gifts, or just hide them in their backpacks. You can't lose!

10 Minute Moments - Plugged In

The Bible is awesome, but there's a catch-it's big. And kind of daunting to a lot of students. There's no better guidebook for their life, but a lot of times they just don't know where to crack the cover.

Look no further. We've got your back.

10-Minute Moments: Plugged In is a daily devotional that's set up as a journal. Students read a Bible passage, poke their brain with a few questions, get some suggestions on what to pray about, and then space to write down their thoughts. It's a one-month plan that's easy to read and easy to stick with. And, if you hadn't guessed from the title, each "lesson" only takes about 10 minutes.

This time around, they'll tackle the five biblical purposes of our lives-Worship, Fellowship, Discipleship, Ministry and Evangelism. Keep 'em on hand for new students, pass 'em out as graduation gifts, or just hide them in their backpacks. You can't lose!

Plugged In

As Christians, we're designed to be connected to God at all times-to be "plugged in" to the source. In this five-week, DVD-based Small Group curriculum, Doug Fields takes on the challenge of getting students interested and excited about staying connected to God. Every student is going to blaze an incredible path in their life, and this series will show them how they can be "plugged in" every step of the way-and the amazing difference it will make.

This kit includes everything you'll need, including DVD videos featuring Doug Fields, discussion guides, promotional materials, and more-everything you need to save you time while teaching five incredible lessons.

5 lessons by Doug Fields:

Whatever You Do (Worship) - 10:06
The Mind of Christ (Discipleship) - 10:12
It's Not an Individual Thing (Fellowship) - 10:14
Consume or Contribute (Ministry) - 9:44
Let It Shine (Evangelism) - 9:03

Grapple for Jr High - Summer 09

This resource includes the Grapple Pak which contains the Grapple Guide with leader guide and reproducible Bible studies for your students, plus the Grapple DVD with 3 discussion starter video clips and 3 countdown videos. PLUS, password-protected access to MyGrapple.com for you and your students.

NOTE: Web access is available for 16 weeks each quarter:

Fall - August 15 - December 15
Winter - November 15 - March 15
Spring - February 15 - June 15
Summer - May 15 - September 15

With Grapple Jr. High, you get the most age-relevant and innovative tool available for helping junior highers navigate through and find the answers to their biggest questions about God, others, and themselves. Your junior highers have inquisitive minds and an overwhelming desire for real relationships--give them a place to investigate that speaks their language and makes them feel safe.

With Grapple's help, you can...

Tackle the tough questions your junior highers are asking about their own relationships with God, others, and themselves.
Captivate their attention when you dig into the real-life issues they are dealing with every day.
Engage their participation through attention-grabbing lessons, thought-provoking videos, fun games, and deep, life-changing Bible lessons.
Inspire kids to connect throughout the week with their very own safe and secure online community at MyGrapple.com.
Encourage faith practice with weekly challenges that dare junior highers to apply what they've learned in simple yet effective ways.

Each quarter you get...

12 attention-grabbing, easily adapted Sunday school lessons that plunge junior highers into the Bible to get answers to their biggest questions about relationships. Each topic is approved by a Junior High Panel, so you'll stay relevant, Sunday after Sunday. From Why should I even trust God? to What if I really mess up?, junior highers will grapple with real-life issues.
Grapple DVD featuring 12 discussion-sparking video segments. Also included: 3 opening video countdowns perfect for playing as kids arrive.

My Relationship with God: Heaven and Hell

Is Heaven Going to Be Boring?
Isn't Any God Enough?
Does God Send People to Hell?
Is Hell Really That Bad?

MY Relationships with Myself: The Simple Life

What If God's Plan For Me Stinks?
Will Life Ever Get Better?
Can I Take a Vacation From God?
Will I Live Happily Ever After?

My Relationships with Different People: Weirdos and Wackos

Are Christians Always Nice?
What If They're a Sandwich Short of a Picnic?
Should I Be Friends With Bad Kids?
Why Should I Care?

Your own, easy-to-use website at www.MyGrapple.com. Only Grapple gives you exclusive access to your own online community for your Sunday school class. With each quarter of Grapple you get 16 weeks of password-protected Web access to support and enhance the Sunday school experience. Your junior highers will build community during the week as they create a place of their very own.

Your MyGrapple.com website is...

Easy - Not a computer guru? No worries--setting up your church site is simple.
Safe - Your MyGrapple.com site is a closed-church community, password protected, contains NO links to outside sites, and no personal information about your kids is collected or stored.
Fun - Packed with clues about upcoming lessons, discussion starters, games, polls for your kids to vote about what activities they want to do in future lessons, a forum, a place to create their own profile, and more!
A built-in community - Imagine your kids interacting with you and each other with their questions, comments, concerns--all week long.
Customizable - Add your church logo, upload pictures, post upcoming events, announcements, and more. And parents are pleased too! Parents want online experiences to be safe and positive. Parents are assured their kids will be safe because they sign a parent consent form before their kids get access. Plus, Grapple gives leaders e-mailable parent connections so parents know what their kids are learning, get practical advice about their kids, safety tips, fun ways to connect with their kids, and more.

Life Hurts God Heals Starter Kit

Save big with this Life Hurts God Heals Starter Bundle!

Bundle includes:

LIFE HURTS GOD HEALS
Life Hurts God Heals is a completely comprehensive resource you can use to launch and run a ministry specifically to bring healing to these students. It includes all the curriculum you will need for leaders and participants, as well as all the behind the scenes stuff to help with everything from recognizing danger signs in teens to how to get this program up and running in your church.

Included are:

16 practical resources on starting a Life Hurts God Heals ministry
DVD with student testimonies about the Life Hurts God Heals program
Leader Guides in PDF and Word formats
Student Workbooks (13 lessons) in PDF and Word formats
Eight 30-minute sermons by Doug Fields in MP3 format
Teaching transcripts of each sermon
Student devotionals and journals
Follow-up support group study
Promotional materials, including sample parent letters, brochures, calendars, and more
Administrative materials, including welcome signs, consent forms, graduation certificates, and more

Every element of this resource with the exception of the student testimonies is completely open for you to reproduce and edit for use in your ministry. We want you to be completely empowered and as effective as possible as you reach out to your students in need.

LIFE HURTS GOD HEALS LEADER'S VIDEO TRAINING KIT
Packed inside this DVD is a comprehensive training program on how to implement Life Hurts God Heals within your ministry. With over two hours of video training from Megan Hutchinson (Life Hurts God Heals champion), you'll learn how to start your program, support your participants, and work with leaders.

Also included is a PowerPoint presentation to help you teach this same material to leaders in your group along with a bunch of reproducible handouts and forms. From day one to long-term health--it's all in here. Grab a copy and get started on your Life Hurts God Heals ministry today!

SCARRED SUPER-SERIES
The challenge of life isn't avoiding pain (since that's impossible), the real challenge is how to deal with pain when it happens. How to manage and heal from the wounds life inflicts on us. With this powerful three-week super-series by Doug Fields and Megan Hutchinson, you'll be able to help students recognize and deal with the most painful experiences in their life. And most importantly, they'll see how God can take their pain and use it to make beauty.

Lessons include:

Hurt Happens
Risking to Deal with Life's Hurts
Share Your Story-Student Testimony Sharing

SECRET SURVIVORS Everyone has secrets. Some you might whisper into a friend s ear, while others may stay locked inside you for years... maybe even forever. It's those secrets that you tuck away that eventually control you. You may think you're okay, but really, your secrets can be tearing you apart from the inside out.

Secret Survivors tells the compelling, true stories of people who have lived through painful secrets - things that they kept to themselves until they could no longer bear the pain alone. As you read their stories, you'll be drawn into their journeys towards healing, and you'll understand why it's so important to share your secret with someone else in order to start your own healing process.

I WANT TO TALK WITH MY TEEN ABOUT ADDICTIONS
From addictive behaviors including drinking and smoking to gambling, disfigurement, and hard-core drugs, I Want to Talk With My Teen About Addictions offers clear, concise information about the impact of addictive behaviors and how addiction affects teens' faith-filled lives. Powerful pointers, checklists, charts, discussion starters, colorful diagrams, and practical, interactive suggestions help you and your teen...

EXAMINE why people become addicted and feel hopeless.
DISCOVER how alcohol and drugs poison the body, mind, and spirit.
DEVELOP healthy coping strategies for resisting unhealthy behaviors.
REALIZE that addiction is a choice teens make - but can be overcome.
EMBRACE God's power, good friends, and love in breaking addictions.

SimplyYouthMinistry.com NEW Products

Stripped Clean

Through the Bible

The Space Between

Prepare. Go. Live.

Thirsty

Magnetic

Abide

Different

Stressed Out

Guy Talk Girl Talk 2

Plugged In and 10 Minute Moments Bundle

10 Minute Moments - Plugged In

Plugged In

Grapple for Jr High - Summer 09

Life Hurts God Heals Starter Kit

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