Hands-On Ideas for Ministry With Young Teens

Hands-on Ideas for Ministry with Young Teens is a collection of thirty-eight strategies for tapping into the tactile and intellectual creativity of young adolescents as a way of helping them learn about and grow in faith and spirituality. The strategies are organized into three sections. The first section contains activities for personal reflection, self-disclosure, and affirmation. The second section includes a variety of active strategies for learning and reviewing material. The third section is a collection of ideas for prayer and reflection that engage young teens at many different levels. Book jacket.

Maryann Hakowski has been a youth minister since 1982 Joyce Schoettler Jennings has been teaching religion to middle school students in Catholic schools in the Midwest since 1984. She has won regional and national awards for her gifted teaching, including WalMart Teacher of the Year in 1996 and American Legion Teacher of the Year in 1992. She was nominated for the Ashland Oil Teacher of the Year in 1994