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RESOURCES
d365 daily devotional series
The d365 daily devotional series is produced by Passport, Inc. Passport’s seasonal devotional sites, Following the Star and Journey to the Cross, help readers journey through Advent and Lent. These series are written especially for students and seek to provide reflections on themes that impact our faith journey.
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Faith Lens: Weekly Bible Study for Youth
Faith Lens is a weekly Bible study/discussion for youth, linking a current news story and scripture texts. Faith Lens engages young people in looking at world events through the lens of faith and Scripture. This study follows the Revised Common Lectionary, using the lessons for the upcoming Sunday.  Faith Lens is normally posted by Wednesday morning (Central Time) and is produced by Youth Ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  
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Love - All That and More

An exciting video series and 6-session curriculum on healthy relationships. For use with high school age youth in classrooms and religious education.

Love – All that and More is designed to:

  • Inform youth about the elements that make up healthy relationships
  • Increase awareness and understanding about abuse
  • Motivate viewers to seek relationships based on equality and mutual respect
    It includes:
  • One 3-part DVD
  • 6-session curriculum with lesson plans; background materials on healthy and abusive relationships; and dynamic, interactive follow-up activities
  • Masters for audience handouts
  • Reproducible reference sheet for participants including list of toll-free hotline numbers and helpful websites

Produced by the FaithTrust Institute • 2400 N. 45th St., Ste.101, Seattle, WA 98103 • www.faithtrustinstitute.org


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Episcopal Youth Event (E.Y.E. 2005)
by Elizabethe Payne, Ph.D. (9/14/2005)
During the last week of July, 1,500 Episcopal youth gathered for a week in Berea, Kentucky for E.Y.E. 2005,  in a celebration to inspire their deeper faith in Jesus Christ and  a renewed commitment to mission. I served as a resource person for the event, and conducted 3 HIV education workshops and 1 public forum on sexuality. I also took questions on sexuality and HIV, written on index cards and placed in a box, and posted the answers in public view.
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Handbook for Ministries with Young Adolescents
An introductory resource for youth advisors who work with 10- to 15-year-olds in congregations. Also available in hard copy from Episcopal Parish Services. (133 pp. 8 1/2" x 11", 3 hole punch)# 56-9607 $6.00
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Handbook for Ministries with Older Adolescents
An introductory resource for youth advisors who work with 16- to 19-year-olds in congregations. Also available in hard copy from Episcopal Parish Services. (143 pp. 8 1/2" x 11". 3 hole punch) #56-9606 $6.00
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Millennium Development Goals: Youth Action Guide
At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 Heads of State and Governments pledged to work together to make a better world for all by 2015. On behalf of their people, they signed the Millennium Declaration which promises to free men, women and children from the dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty and make the right to development a reality for everyone! Click to learn more.
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Resource Book for Ministries with Youth and Young Adults

This resource book is a compilation of articles bearing witness to the wisdom of those who work with youth and young adults in our church. This collection is designed to be both practical and theoretical; it provides basic information, as well as constructive challenges. Most of the authors in this resource book are not professional writers, indeed, many have never been published before. All the authors have been actively involved in ministry with youth and young adults in the Episcopal Church, and all have agreed to contribute their work and reflections here in the spirit of collaboration, and because they believe in the importance of this ministry.

Order the entire book from the Episcopal Book & Resource Center by phone, 800/903-5544 or visit their web site Episcopal Book & Resource Center. Ask for item no. 61-9506. The price is $15.00 plus a $7.50 shipping and handling fee.


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Youth Ministry in the Age of AIDS
Youth Need Your Help!

The rate of HIV infection among youth continues to rise, but you CAN do something.  A complete resource for addressing HIV education and ministry for youth grades 6-12 is now available.

Youth Ministry in the Ages of AIDS (2nd edition) provides information for adults about the risks that adolescents face and offers easy-to-use lessons for opening a dialogue with young people about HIV. It provides guidelines for educational experiences rooted in the Baptismal Covenant that can help youth feel empowered to make responsible Christian choices.


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RESOURCES FOR GRADUATING SENIORS
Liturgy for Graduating Seniors 2006
Graduating Senior Ceremony by Percy Grant of the Diocese of Virginia
Liturgy from Jessie Murray, St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, Washington, DC



SCHOLARSHIP AND HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES
Episcopal Church Scholarships
Orientation: For New College Students



YOUTH MINISTRY TRAINING
Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest
Princeton Forums on Youth Ministry
Search Institute
Southern Methodist University/Perkins School of Theology
Virginia Theological Seminary-MA in Christian Education
Youth Specialities
Youth and Family, etc.



YOUTH MINISTRY JOB DESCRIPTION
Youth Ministry Job Description



YOUTH ACROSS EUROPE
Youth Across Europe



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