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. 

Overcoming Elephants in the Room is a series all about how to address some of the biggest issues facing your students. These are issues that we may be unwilling to address because it’s awkward, uncomfortable, or it feels unnecessary. It’s like having an elephant in the room, everyone knows it’s there, but nobody wants to talk about it- it’s weird but it’s daunting, it’s uncomfortable but it’s unavoidable. The best thing to do when there’s an elephant in the room is to call it out, in this series, we’ll do just that!

Teach Big Questions: Questions That Leave a Mark to your students to help them think about the questions that they encounter and how to bring those questions to God, trusting Him to lead them to Himself as they search for the answers.

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?

99 Thoughts for Junior Highers: Biblical Truths in Bite-Sized Pieces will help your middle school students examine the changes in life, figure out what they believe, see where God and church fit into the picture, choose how to interact with family and friends, and decide what matters most in life.

NUEVO: First Steps for New Christ Followers [Spanish Edition] 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 NEW: First Steps for Christ Followers here. 

God’s Word, a three-lesson Bible study, will help your students see the power of God’s Word throughout the Old Testament, how Jesus was the physical embodiment of God’s Word (God’s living, breathing Word to us), and how their lives can be used to spread God’s Word.

Knowing God, a three-lesson Bible study, will help students move beyond merely knowing about what God has done in other people’s lives, and to truly know God for themselves, that Jesus is the most visible picture of who God is we have, and that knowing God is not merely a concept, but a truth that transforms who we are and our view of God’s mission.

What if your students’ single life or dating world wasn’t at the mercy of their latest crush “crushing back” but was incredibly meaningful and life-giving on its own? What if they became the kind of friend who could inspire real meaning in their friend circle? What if they knew how to be especially and appropriately thoughtful in letting their special someone feel like a special someone? What if they had a genuine understanding of the freedom God gives them when they trust Him in all of these things, whether their relationship status changes or not? 

There’s a lot of advice floating around on all of this, right? Every one of your students probably already has a set of answers for all the questions about what it means to be single, dating, a friend, or romantic. But whether those conclusions were inherited from others around them, movies they watch, celebrities they follow, church messages, or personal experiences, there’s so much more room to let God reset them with new questions that can get them to healthier places. 

In SINGLE, DATING, FRIENDSHIPS, & ROMANCE, your students will discover the genius wisdom and unconditional love of God through a lot of laughter, interaction, honesty, and opportunities to reflect. Maybe they’ll even consider trading in whatever “answers” they’ve been living with for something healthier as they learn what it looks like to ask some new questions and operate out of a life-long relationship with Jesus. Throughout it all, your students will discover that they’re worth it, and so is what they’re fighting for!

Use 99 Thoughts for College-Age People: Insightful Tips for Life After High School written by Chuck Bomar to help save some young adults some pain, money, and foot fungus while keeping their faith intact.