I ordered two books last night to be sent to me with a team that is coming this weekend. Hopefully, they’ll get to them in time for them to bring them to me.
The Ministry of Nurture is a book I’ll use in my Youth Discipleship class at the seminary this fall. Here’s the description: Trying to build real-life faith into kids may seem a futile task to others, but you know it’s worth it. Duffy Robbins describes a thorough, yet flexible discipleship program that is a time-tested winner with students. Ministry of Nurture examines 7 keys to effective discipleship, plus information on how to help your kids develop their spiritual faith, and exercise their practical faith in everyday life.
The Youth Worker’s Guide to Helping Teenagers in Crisis is a book that I’ll use for my class called Ministry to Troubled Youth that is coming up in January. Here’s the description of this book: If you work with students, you will encounter crisis. Leading crisis-management expert Rich Van Pelt and respected author and youth worker Jim Hancock unfold step-by-step plans for managing the fallout from all sorts of worst-case scenarios, from substance abuse to natural disasters. This comprehensive manual also includes action items geared to help prevent small crises from escalating to huge ones.
Unfortunately, neither of these books are in Spanish, yet. I’ll have to translate important parts of them and use them in class. There are very few good youth ministry resources in Spanish, making the search for textbooks a never-ending task. I keep telling my students that they will be the authors of the textbooks in the future. That will be great when we have some professional youth workers writing books in Spanish for youth ministry in Latin America.
Here’s the shot that put Mexico out of the World Cup this year. It was an incredible shot. We were in Walmart last night, and they were replaying the game. I heard a little kid say, “Ahhh…don’t repeat it!” He said it in the most pitiful voice, and I am sure that his thoughts are the thoughts of all of Mexico. Anyway, here’s the amazing shot that knocked us out.
Well, today Mexico lost to Argentina in the World Cup. I’ve never seen an outcome of a sporting event depress so many people. The World Cup is so big here. It’s like the Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals, and March Madness all rolled up into one. Plus the fact that everyone is cheering for the same team makes it even more crazy. There’s no disputing if my team is better than your team. So everyone is depressed when our team loses.
Mexico put up a great fight against Argentina, but they just couldn’t pull out the win. Now comes all the second-guessing and commentary about the team. It will be interesting to see how everyone continues with the World Cup. It is the biggest show on earth. I never realized how popular it is all over the world until this World Cup.
This video of a goalie is something I’ve been seeing a lot this past week since the World Cup has been going on. Of course, this fake is one of the worst I’ve seen in a long time. (via: Josh Griffin)
By the way, Mexico plays tomorrow against Argentina in the knock out round, in case you haven’t heard. The US is out of it. They just couldn’t get it going this year. That makes living in Mexico pretty difficult due to the bad feelings towards each other soccer-wise. One of my students said to me today that he’d really love to see the US game tomorrow, but, oh, wait, they aren’t playing (he was being sarcastic). That’s what I get for living in a soccer-crazed nation.
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The Ministry of Nurture is a book I’ll use in my Youth Discipleship class at the seminary this fall. Here’s the description: Trying to build real-life faith into kids may seem a futile task to others, but you know it’s worth it. Duffy Robbins describes a thorough, yet flexible discipleship program that is a time-tested winner with students. Ministry of Nurture examines 7 keys to effective discipleship, plus information on how to help your kids develop their spiritual faith, and exercise their practical faith in everyday life.
The Youth Worker’s Guide to Helping Teenagers in Crisis is a book that I’ll use for my class called Ministry to Troubled Youth that is coming up in January. Here’s the description of this book: If you work with students, you will encounter crisis. Leading crisis-management expert Rich Van Pelt and respected author and youth worker Jim Hancock unfold step-by-step plans for managing the fallout from all sorts of worst-case scenarios, from substance abuse to natural disasters. This comprehensive manual also includes action items geared to help prevent small crises from escalating to huge ones.
