Youth Ministry New Releases
Middle School Ministry Made Simple
Price: $18.99
Kurt Johnston
Item No: 40400
ISBN: 978-0-7847-2233-6
Ages: Teen
Format: Perfect bound
September
Pages: 224
2008
Size: 7" x 10"
Packaged: Brick
R E L E A S E
Kurt Johnston, junior high
ministry pastor at Saddleback
Church, helps to show that middle
school ministry—one of the most
overlooked, misunderstood, and
important ministries—can be made
simple. This is a biblical, practical,
and culturally relevant approach
from a guy who’s been making a
difference in the lives of junior
highers for more than 20 years.
Middle School Ministry Made Simple
is filled with:
• simple wisdom
• insights from junior high students
• support tips to encourage junior
high volunteers
• strategies for growing your
ministry
• creative ideas for ministry
• tips about involving junior high Kurt Johnston represents the
parents
epitome of junior high ministry:
He has as much experience in
• and more . . . leading, and is as well known
nationally for doing so, as nearly
anyone. Kurt has been involved in
middle school ministry since 188
“For years I arrogantly sat on the sidelines and
and has served as the junior high
pastor at Saddleback Church in
observed from a distance parents struggling Lake Forest, California, for more
through the junior high years. Countless times
than a decade. He is the founder
of simplyjuniorhigh.com (now part
I vowed that when my kids were in junior high,
of simplyyouthministry.com), a
resource committed to encouraging
they would never act like that, talk like that,
junior high youth workers. Kurt is a
prolific writer and always in demand
treat me like that, struggle like that, question
at the annual Youth Specialties fall
National Youth Worker Conferences.
like that, disrespect others like that, or dress like The Church Report named him the
that. Then I became the parent of a young teen!”
top youth pastor in America in 2006
and 2007.
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