12 complete retreats & ready-to-go lock-ins that will keep your junior highers happy & you sane. Make the most of your next overnighter!

The themes of the retreats offered in One-Day Retreats for Junior High Youth are Christian community, freshman survival, peacemaking, peer pressure, self-esteem, and sexuality.

Bestselling Christian educator Ginny Holderness refocuses the attention on leadership in the youth ministry to young people themselves. Holderness and coauthor Robert Hay expand on her original team approach to include young people in the leadership team. Successfully implemented in many church programs already, this expanded approach to team-building ensures that young people take ownership of their youth ministries.

In these 12 complete, high-impact retreats you'll dig deep into a Bible story or character and apply Bible truth to teen-interest topics through interaction and discussion. In this resource, you'll get: 12 complete, high-impact retreats! Large group sessions, small group sessions, schedules, activities, reproducible quiet time pages, tips and suggestions all included! Bible Truth Applied to Top Teen-Interest Topics! Focused on a specific Bible story or character, each retreat will take students deeper in their faith through intense study and discussion. 12 alternate 1-night lock-in plans! Adapted from each retreat plan, these provide a smaller, more compact event that is still spiritually challenging and fun! Tons of extra ideas, tips, suggestions--even modifications for middle school! Save time, save effort, and ensure you have an awesome retreat with these bonus ideas and helpful hints.

This wonderful and easy read helps new and future youth workers set patterns in life and ministry that will keep them whole and healthy, and away from burnout.

On the conclusion of a sixth-grade field trip to a local amusement park... "We exited the turnstiles and climbed onto a yellow school bus that was soon crammed with sunburned classmates wearing souvenir hats and lugging piles of worthless junk. I was flat broke, and my stomach was a little queasy-and the feeling was marvelous." On entering junior high school... "Except for a blessed few, seventh-grade males were an alien race of mutant geeks. We had disproportionate bodies, awkward and gawky mannerisms, and cracking voices that were constant reminders that we were trapped in an adolescent twilight zone."

Nearly 200 ideas for planning meaningful, memorable experiences for your kids! -Camps & Retreats . . . The drive up the mountain . . . The opening talk . . . The outdoor activities . . . The closing fireside -- here's a lodgeful of ideas for organizing successful camps and retreats. - Missions . . . Because even foreign mission work can start within our own borders, you'll find dozens of ideas for helping overseas missionaries right here at home. A used-Bible drive, a scavenger hunt for missionary supplies -- activities like these not only benefit missionaries, but also help your kids understand the personal, local aspects of mission work. - Service . . . Expose your students to others' needs! Inside you'll find ways to help children, the community at large, the elderly, the poor and homeless, shut-ins, and the sick and disabled Whether you're a youth worker or recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp -- Camps, Retreats, Missions, & Service Ideas is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.