The End of Youth Ministry?: Why Parents Don't Really Care about Youth Groups and What Youth Workers Should Do about It Author: Andrew Root Retail Price: $22.99 Our Price: $17.99 Save: 5.00 (21.75%) Availability: In Stock        What is youth ministry actually for? And does it have a future? Andrew Root, a leading scholar in youth ministry and practical theology, went on a one-year journey to answer these questions. In this book, Root weaves together an innovative first-person fictional narrative to diagnose the challenges facing the church today and to offer a new vision for youth ministry in the 21st century. Informed by interviews that Root conducted with parents, this book explores how parents' perspectives of what constitutes a good life are affecting youth ministry. In today's culture, youth ministry can't compete with sports, test prep, and the myriad other activities in which young people participate. Through a unique parable-style story, Root offers a new way to think about the purpose of youth ministry: not happiness, but joy. Joy is a sense of experiencing the good. For youth ministry to be about joy, it must move beyond the youth group model and rework the assumptions of how identity and happiness are imagined by parents in American society. Similar Items you may enjoy! The End of Youth Ministry? (Theology for the Life of the World): Why Parents Don't Really Care about Youth Groups and What Youth Workers Should Do about It - eBook Author: Andrew Root Our Price: $13.79 A Tale of Two Youth Workers: A Youth Ministry Fable - eBook Author: Eric Venable Our Price: $4.99 Partnering with Parents in Youth Ministry: The Practical Guide to Today's Family-Based Youth Ministry - eBook Author: Jim Burns and Mike DeVries Our Price: $9.89 Youth Ministry Nuts and Bolts, Revised and Updated: Organizing, Leading, and Managing Your Youth Ministry Author: Duffy Robbins Our Price: $19.99

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