Deep Justice and Short-Term Missions Youth Ministry Curriculum by Kara Powell and Fuller's Center for Youth and Family Ministry Available for the next few months ONLY, we are offering rough drafts of this curriculum entirely FREE as pdf downloads. Available in March 2008 are 72 pages of "BEFORE THE TRIP" options you can use with your team in preparation for missions and service opportunities this spring and summer. Available in May will be drafts of the remainder of the curriculum options for DURING and AFTER your trip. Help us improve this material by testing it in your ministry and giving us feedback!

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Soul Searching Panel: Chap Clark, Kara Powell, and Christian Smith Recently Fuller hosted Christian Smith, author of Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, for a panel discussion following a screening of the new film documenting his research. Also called Soul Searching, the film screening led into a discussion with responses by Dr. Chap Clark and Dr. Kara Powell from Fuller, as well as Smith. This month's audio download features highlights from the responses of Clark, Powell, and Smith to the film and the research from the National Study of Youth and Religion.

Best-of Deep Justice Interviews One of the highlights of our recent justice research has been interviews we’ve conducted with entrepreneurial thinkers, youth workers, and justice leaders around the country. To jump start your thinking, we have compiled memorable excerpts from the full-text interviews available in our new book, Deep Justice in a Broken World.
Adrenalin: Our Secret Addiction Adrenalin addiction, while rarely discussed, is perhaps one of the more pervasive addictions for leaders and youth workers today. And though it may sound like we’re exaggerating, it is an actual clinical reality. Read on to learn not only more about this secret ministry obsession, but also a surprising strategy for moving beyond adrenalin and toward balance.
No Longer an Option: The Essential Role of “Cultural Intelligence” in Youth Ministry Training in cross-cultural communication used to be reserved for elite business leaders or career missionaries, but now it's essential for all of us—even for your youth ministry! Check out this overview of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and interview with Dave Livermore, CQ guru. No matter what your ministry context, this paradigm shift is guaranteed to stir changes in the way you approach cross cultural interaction.

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TOP THREE MOST POPULAR RECENT RESOURCES

1. 30 Hour Famine Curriculum, by Kara Powell and the Center for Youth and Family Ministry
   
   
2. Disconnected High School Students: Parenting Midadolescents, by Chap Clark
   
   
3. You Make the Call: What College Freshmen Need to Hear from their Youth Pastors, by Kara Powell, Brad Griffin, and Cheryl Crawford

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