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Useful, but not massively inspiring - Rated
This book is written to be used by youth workers in a church context. However there are several practical advice chapters, including sections on safe practice and ways of building relationships with your youth that would make this book useful for those engaged in secular work. It definitely looks into the youthclub based youth work, rather than giving out much advice on how specifically to carry out bible studies or prayer meetings with young people, say. It also does not go into much deatil on handling serious issues young people may be going through, such as drug problem or abuse. Presumably because this book is focussed written for volunteer youth workers rather than professionals. However it does offer useful advice for running youth clubs wher young people can feel saf enough to be open. Its good for volunteer youth workers who have some degree of autonomy, either because there is not full time worker or because the volunteer has responsibility for a club themselves. Therefore it should probably be viewed as a book on running a youth club, that uses christian examples to illustrate its points. Alot of the ideas suggested are probably more suitable for younger youth clubs (11-14 year olds) than 15-18 year olds. It is useful and the resources section is immense but it doesnt necessarily inspire me.
Christian - Rated
I was very excited to get this book, but was equally disappointed to discover that the book was predominantly advocating Christian ministry work, not secular youth work. This fact was NOT made clear in the book's synopsis. Nor was this fact made clear on the front cover or blurb of the book itself; only the writers' names indicate the ideological connection. To comment on the book: playing 'Jenga with bible passages' will not do the job in the real world, where I have to help, among others, homosexual young people with drink and drug problems.
