Youth Ministry Curriculum and Resources

New: First Steps for New Christ Followers is a powerful 4-week devotional journal that will help students take the first steps on their new journey with Christ.

Enjoy this resource? Check out Nuevo: First Steps for Christ Followers [Spanish Edition] here. 

Students live in a world full of news. Some of it is good, and some of it is bad. Students turn to multiple sources for their daily news, doing their best to find truth in what they learn. But what if you could share the ultimate Good News with them? What if you could help them see that the Gospel is Good News that impacts every single day of their life?

WARRIOR: a four-session sermon series that will help your students better understand and be prepared for the spiritual battle that rages all around us. Students will learn that, as followers of Jesus, we are all warriors in a daily high stakes spiritual battle, but we can have confidence because Jesus has already won the war. In addition, they’ll learn to understand and utilize the different pieces of spiritual armor God has gifted us to fight this battle so that we can experience victory in Jesus.

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By Name takes a deep dive into the life of one of the Bible’s most cunning characters: Jacob. Over four sessions, this series will challenge students to reflect on how they see themselves versus how God sees them. By looking at key moments in Jacob’s story, they’ll explore how God knows them personally and invites them into His greater purpose.

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Good Enough is a four-session sermon series, explores what it means to be good enough for God to use us. Here's the truth: none of us are good enough on our own. Yet, God chooses each of us for a glorious purpose within His plans, and only He can help us fulfill it. Join us as we discover how God's strength is made perfect in our weakness and how He can use anyone for His purposes.

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Teach Identity Crisis, a four-session sermon series, to help your students understand where they come from, who they are, how they can be themselves in Christ, and fully embrace their true namesake.

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Using the book of Luke, Pictures of Jesus, a 4-week sermon series, will look at four incredible pictures of Jesus, prompting students to a deeper love for and faith in their Savior Jesus.

The Whole Story is a four-session sermon series that will challenge and equip your students to understand that unlike the story of separation that the world has told them is true about themselves, Jesus is telling a different story. Jesus’ story is one of wholeness, where all are loved no matter who they are or what they have done. Jesus’ story of wholeness will satisfy and transform those who believe it. And this same Jesus is inviting each and every one of your students to begin to allow His story of wholeness to take root in their own hearts so that they can then begin to love the world as Jesus did.

Teach YM360's Sermon Series "God Is: Exploring the Many Sides of God" to help your students know that they can have a relationship with a God who is real and who loves and understands them.

7th Grade: Growing Your Faith is a 30-day teen devotional that will engage students with its creative and age-targeted readings, questions, and prompts to action.

8th Grade: Leading the Way With the "Real You" is a 30-day devotional that will help students lead by following Jesus, leading yourself, and then leading others.

Freshman: Making Faith Your Priority is a 30-day devotional that addresses many "firsts": your first day of high school, your first football game, your first pop quiz, and even some of your first major temptations. It's also a year filled with some really important questions: How can you make good habits? How can you make faith a priority, not just another "thing" in your life?

Sophomore: Stepping Into Maturity is a 30-day devotional that will help high school sophomores answer some of the unique questions they are presented in their 10th grade year: what role do friends play in their lives? Who are their role models? What life-shaping habits are they developing?

Junior: Making Sense of It All is a 30-day devotional designed to answer important questions students have during their incredibly important 11th grade year: what is their identity? What role will faith make in their futures? How do they make decisions?

What would happen if you, your ministry leaders, and your students chose to live for God’s glory for 100 days? There’s really only one way to find out! 100 Days of Choosing God’s Glory: A Devotional Challenge is a must-have for anyone who wants to learn how to make God famous. This one-of-a-kind devotional will challenge readers, young and old, to glorify God, teach them what glorifying Him means, and help them figure out how to do it. God is going to glorify Himself one way or another because He deserves it, but you and everyone who is a part of your ministry have a chance to participate. 

Grab a copy of 100 Days of Choosing God’s Glory for every person in your ministry, take the challenge together, and experience what it feels like to let God work in and through you. You’ll be blessed! 

Do you ever find that it can be lonely living as a believer? For thousands of years, God’s people have had to balance living out their faith while being surrounded by those who do not follow God. Sometimes, they may even live among people who are hostile toward God’s people. This four-week devotional is meant to address this very feeling. In Esther: The Time is Now, you will spend time getting to know a cast of people, including Esther and Mordecai. As Jewish people in the Persian Kingdom, they deal with what it means to be God’s people in the midst of a culture that does not honor or worship God. We are continually faced with the same question that Mordecai asked Esther: What if you are meant for a time such as this? The answer is that we are made for such a time. And the time? The Time is Now.

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How To Be A Man: Pursuing Christ-centered Masculinity [Student Edition] is a 40-day devotional experience that will challenge teenage guys to a more passionate pursuit of growing in to the man God is calling them to be.

Now: Mission Trip Edition is a four-week devotional experience for your mission trip will help your students understand the purpose God has in store for them, catch God's vision for exactly how He wants to use their mission trip; and practice real, practical ways to impact their world.

What if our students want to engage with God in the Bible, but no one has shown them the way? Wake Up: Rediscovering A Passion for God and the Bible [Student Edition] is a 31-day devotional experience designed to unlock the Bible for teenage Christ-followers.

Do you know a girl who would benefit from a book that encourages them in their walk with God AND speaks about the unique journey of being a young woman of faith? YM360 has a book for her! Instead of looking through resources that isolate the unique young women in your life or provide uninspired advice on how to fit in, give them a book that encourages them to stand out! 99 Things Every Girl Should Know was written by a collection of women that truly know the struggles and triumphs of being a girl that follows Christ in a world that does not.

The Church, one of the studies in the Activate line of Bible study curriculum, will help your students learn that the Church is pictured as the Body of Christ, positioned to represent Christ on this earth.

Jesus And Identity: A 4-Lesson Bible Study, one of 13 Jesus Studies Bible studies, will teach students what Jesus meant when He challenged them to be salt and light, and they’ll be reminded that Jesus defines greatness differently than the world. This Bible study will help students discover who Jesus intends them to be.

Jesus and Your Image: A 4-Lesson Bible Study, one of the 13 Jesus Studies Bible studies, will teach your students how to project a Christ-centered image to the world.