Help Sheets

What are Help Sheets?

Help Sheets are like mini-newsletters or articles providing helpful and concise information and suggestions in response to frequently asked questions about youth ministry.

To make it easier for you to utilize, ELCA Youth Ministry has made these Help Sheets available on-line. It's as easy as browsing through our alphabetical list of titles and selecting the ones that interest you!

Help for congregational leaders and committees

• Calling and providing for youth ministry staff 
• Discerning your call to youth and family ministry 
• How does youth ministry fit into the ministry of the whole congregation? 
• Position descriptions for youth and family ministry staff 
• Staffing your youth ministry program 
• Theological Framework for Youth Ministry 

Everyday tools of youth ministry

• Build a Web page for youth ministry 
• Communication and publicity ideas 
• Fundraising 
• The art of invitation 
• What's grace got to do with it? 

Youth ministry and the congregation

• Bridge the gap between rural and [sub]urban youth ministry 
• Confirmation as youth ministry 
• Developing a healthy junior high ministry 
• Foundations for youth and family ministry 
• In the City for Good youth ministry 
• Ministering to young adults 
• Planning congregational worship experiences with youth 
• Postmodernity and ministry with the millennial generation 
• Promote 'girl power!' in your congregation 
• Young leaders in adult settings 
• Youth ministry stretches to include families 

Leadership guidelines and issues

• Developing a budget 
• Ensure safe boundaries in youth ministries 
• Preventing and responding to abuse 
• Youth ministry is risky business 

Caring for youth

• 'Boys will be boys,' right? Not necessarily so! 
• Helping youth grieve 
• Peer ministry: an education of the heart 
• Teach and reach youth about HIV/AIDS
• Youth and anxiety 

Program helps

• Finding God in today's secular music
• Hate crimes: an American tragedy 
• Help young people give -- globally 
• Learn & teach cult awareness 
• Living the good life and doing good: Thinking more deeply about the (PRODUCT) RED campaign 
• Moving beyond Muslim media images 
• Reading and hearing scripture with young people 
• Service learning in congregations 
• Say no to gangs 
• Spirited storytelling in youth ministry 
• Teenage spirituality 
• Try improvising on purpose 
• Using popular media 
• Youth can help change the world, one policy at a time!