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DIOCESAN YOUTH MINISTRY OFFICE LIBRARY
The Diocesan Youth Ministry Office has a library with many valuable ideas, faith resources and programs for youth ministry that can be used in the school, parish and community. If you are a youth minister, young adult or young person and would like to view or borrow some of this material, feel free to come by our office to see if any of our resources can help you. Here are some of our latest...
Discussion Starters
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Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks
Author: Wayne Rice
The 100 illustrations in this book are some of the hottest ever used -- short stories, parables, humorous anecdotes--all of them guaranteed to deliver the truth of God’s Word in a way that young people can understand and remember. |
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Pure Joy – God’s formula for Passionate Living
Author: Matt Tullos, Paul Turner and Kristi Cherry
This six-session group study dispels the notion that life in Christ is a dull descent into repressed survival. Instead, students will come to understand that we have all been given an eternal challenge that can transform our minds, our bodies, our spirits, and our emotions. What's more, they'll find assurance that holiness and joy can be attained if only we passionately seek the Christ-like life. |
WHY go to Mass? – Reasons and Resources to Motivate Teenagers
Author: Greg Dues
Here is a book that will help teenagers and the adults who work with them deal with the questions, “Why go to Mass? ” It covers eight major themes and for each of the themes ir includes a leader’s page and five to seven handout sheets for teens. These can be mixed and matched as the need arises.
Straight Talk for Young Adults – About Faith & Values
Author: Rev. John Forliti
These to-the-point reflections offer teenagers wise and practical advice in their search for the meaning of life. A great icebreaker for confirmation candidates and off-to-college students, this book covers such topics as self-esteem, responsibility, friendship, courage, the Ten Commandments, faith, love and sexuality, and virtue.
Drama (skits)
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Goof-Proof Skits for Youth Ministry
Author: John Duckworth
Skits work wonders in youth ministry--they make learning fun...active...and drive home important truths. But what if not everyone in your group can act? Do you use just the star performers...or suffer through dismal dramas?
These 30 sure-fire skits let you cast practically anybody in any role...and still get great results!
These 5-10 minute dramas even give you Scripture references -- and discussion-starter questions -- to make every skit a spiritual learning experience! |
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Spontaneous Melodrama
Author: Doug Fields, Laurie Rolich, & Duffy Robin
Hilarious collection of 24 Bible-based skits that doesn’t bury the central message of the Scripture. Teens will enjoy The First Tongue Twister (the Tower of Babel), Josephine's Dream (Joseph and his brothers), Young and the Hairless (Samson and Delilah) and others. |
Games
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Junior High Game Nights
Author: Dan McCollam & Keith Betts
Make "junior high game night" an event that draws your regular junior highers--along with rafts of visitors--like a magnet! Each book contains 12 thematic game nights you can create with inexpensive, easy-to-find supplies. Each theme night comes complete with six wild, crazy, and messy games and an outline for an evangelistic talk that matches the theme. Complete with all the instructions, tips on costumes and props, and how to prepare the game area. |
Prayers
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Prayers with Pizzazz
Author: Judi Lanciotti
This book offers a variety of prayer experiences that will grab young teens' attention and stick with them. The prayers are built around motivational activities, scriptural readings, prayer symbols, worksheets, and discussion or reflection questions. Twenty-three prayer experiences are gathered into six themes: self-reflection, parables and prayer, global and community issues, love and relationships, sin and forgiveness, and mass media and prayer. |
Leading students into prayer – Ideas and Suggestions from A-Z
Author: Mary Kathleen Glavich, SND
In each of the 26 chapters, an aspect of prayer or a type of prayer is discussed simply and clearly. Following this brief presentation is a list of creative, practical activities to teach that aspect of prayer.
Weekly prayer services for Teenagers – Lectionary-based for Years A and B
Author: M. Valerie Schneider, SND
These 37 prayer services are intended for junior and senior high school students. These services involve the teenagers in a dramatic reading of Scripture, and offer questions for reflection and discussion, time for communal prayer, and a follow-up activity – all related to a theme associated with the lectionary reading for the week.
Programming Resources
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Jump Start
Author: Michael Amodei
You will find 180 Lessons, Icebreakers, Projects and Weekend Activities. With Sunday mass as the centrepiece of the program, junior high youth from both Catholic and non-Catholic schools find a common meeting ground. This easy to use program involves little cost and little planning. |
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The Faith Difference
Author: Kieran Sawyer, S.S.N.D.
You will find 5 easy-to-use sections of presentations and responses, community builders, discussions and exercises, prayers, and games. All the materials offer clear directions, lists of needed materials and preparations, presentation scripts, and reproducible handouts for teen use. The materials work well in a variety of settings –retreats, religion classes, youth group meetings, workshops – held for senior high youth. |
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Vine and Branches 1
Resources for Youth Retreats
Author: Maryann Hakowski
Volume 1 contains twenty-eight reproducible handouts and these five retreat themes:
1. In Search of God: Spirituality
2. Wind and Fire: Confirmation
3. Celebrate You, Celebrate Me: Relationships
4. Tell Me a Story: Parables
5. The Lord's Prayer: Prayer |
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Vine and Branches 2
Resources for Youth Retreats
Author: Maryann Hakowski
Volume 2 contains thirty-one reproducible handouts and these five retreat themes:
1. Signs of the Season: Advent
2. You Can Make a Difference: Social Justice
3. God in the Outdoors: Nature
4. Signs of Love: Sacraments
5. Who Do You Say that I Am? The Person of Jesus |
Resources for Youth Retreats series presents multiple resources for conducting retreats for young people. Each volume offers suggestions for preparing retreats and recruiting and training retreat teams, and includes retreat-talk outlines and scripts, plus many original, engaging activities and reproducible handouts. The five completely designed retreats in each book can also be used with the comprehensive index of activities that can assist you in selecting activities for a retreat that you wish to design yourself. Whether you are a seasoned retreat director or a novice, the resources in these three books will be of great help in meeting your retreat needs.
Youth at Worship
Author: Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
This document offers clear guidance for preparing liturgies with youth. The goal of Youth at Worship is to assist in the preparation for good celebrations in the Roman Catholic tradition that invite and encourage full, conscious and active participation of young people. This resource describes and explains basic liturgical principles and illustrates them with a series of Dos and DON’Ts.
Videos
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