Youth Worker's Handbook to Family Ministry, The [Paperback]

Chap Clark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1997 | Series: Youth Specialties

This book, a complete guide for family-based ministry, examines the prevalent family ministry trends, explores the three modalities which encompass the various models, and helps implement them once the program is designed.

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From the Publisher

Teens today are a product of families much different from those 30 years ago. Home life is shaped by dual wage-earning parents, skyrocketing educational costs, blended families, and other concerns. For youth workers who know the importance of factoring their teens' families into the youth ministry equation, here at last is a comprehensive guidebook. Chap Clark offers highly useful information for involving teens in the church family and for custom-designing a family ministry program. This hands-on book offers to-the-point explanations of every aspect of family ministry. Its wide margins encourage note-taking. It provides a wealth of specific tools and ideas. And it's replete with quotes and statistics that can be used in parent seminars, retreats, and other events described in the book.

From the Author

Chap Clark is associate professor of youth and family ministry at Fuller Seminary and coordinator of youth and family minstry at Glendale Presbyterian Church. He lives near Pasadena, California, with his wife and three children

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company (October 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310220254
• ISBN-13: 978-0310220251
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #344,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Chap Clark (PhD, University of Denver) is the Vice Provost and professor of Youth, Family, and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, the senior editor of YouthWorker Journal, a Sojourner contributing writer and "Red Letter Communicator," and president of ParenTeen™ and HURT Seminars. He is a speaker, trainer, consultant, as well as the author of 18 books, including When Kids Hurt: Helping adults navigate the adolescent maze (Baker, 2009), Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Baker Academic, 2004, CBA Silver Medalist for Book of the Year), Disconnected: Parenting Teens in a MySpace World, Deep Ministry in a Shallow World and the recent Deep Justice in a Broken World. Chap has served in many diverse settings over his career, in the church, parachurch, and industry. He was on the Young Life staff for 15 years as an Area and Regional Director, and for the past 18 while a seminary professor, Chap has served as an executive pastor, a senior pastor, and a consulting producer for a New Line television reality show. He is a highly acclaimed resource for community, adult, youth, and family conferences, as well as media, board, corporate and educational consulting and training.

Dee and Chap have been married for over twenty-nine years, and have partnered together in ministry, as well as speaking and writing throughout their married life. They have three grown children: Chap, Jr. (28), Rob (25) and Katie (22). They make their home in Burbank, CA.