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The Adolescent Journey: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Practical Youth Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

Adolescence is a time of individuation—children are slowly finding their identity as adults, separate from their parents and other adult influences. Such a critical time of psychological development is complicated by cultural influences that shape their expectations of adulthood and color how they relate to other people and even God. The task of the youth pastor becomes to help adolescents...

can forget that each new group is a new group of teens; it’s we, not they, who have gotten older. Teens are supposed to experiment with roles. They will be unpredictable. They will have a roller coaster of emotions. They will have highs and lows as they try to discover themselves. While longing to become their own individual person, they will look to do so in groups. They will grow up. We have been blessed to walk with them for a short season of their lives, but what a season it is! The most common
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