Doug Fields - Purpose Driven Youth Ministry: 9 Essential Foundations for Healthy Growth

Not just another bookits like a manual that puts the process and details of building a youth ministry at your fingertips. I recommend Purpose-Driven Youth Ministry to any youth worker who is serious about achieving long-term results.

Paul Fleischmann, Executive Director,

National Network of Youth Ministries

The focus of a purpose-driven church has had a wonderful impact on our church. The same principles have reshaped our youth program. Doug offers hands-on practical insights for igniting young people!

Max Lucado, Author, Pastor

An excellent resource that effectively handles the tension of strategy versus ideas of implementation. Doug clearly grasps disciple-making in the local church, and you will find this resource a valuable tool for you and your leaders. It will assist the new youth worker as well as stretch the veteran leader to new levels. I highly commend this resource.

Dr. Dann Spader, Executive Director, Sonlife Ministries

I believe PDYM will be the standard by which all youth ministry programs are judged for years to come. It is solid enough for the college or seminary classroom and practical enough for the novice.

Chap Clark, Ph.D., Associate Professor of

Youth and Family Ministries, Fuller Theological Seminary

PDYM is exciting, logical, jam-packed with creativity and fresh ideasand complete!

Susie Shellenberger, Brio magazine, Focus on the Family

Doug Fields provides a refreshingly practical framework for youth ministry, which is not only effective but thoroughly biblical.

Wayne Rice, Director,

Understand Your Teenager Seminars, Co-founder, Youth Specialties

In my thirty years of professional youth ministry, I have not seen a leadership resource as valuable as PDYM. It is both rich in philosophy as well as practical, transferable ideas and illustrations. I heartily recommend it.

Dennis Rogers, Youth Ministry Consultant, Georgia Baptist Convention

If I had to take only one book to partner with the Bible in serving as a foundation for effective local youth ministry, this would be the one.

Larry Mitchell, Youth Ministry Department, Indiana Wesleyan University

Few life experiences can cause a youth minister to radically shift directions in his or her ministry. Reading PDYM canand will.

Richard Ross, Youth Ministry Consultant for the Sunday School Board

Doug Fields has crafted this book to help you define the purpose that God has called you to, and to ensure that every program you initiate is directly linked to your purpose.

Ron Luce, President, Teen Mania Ministries

Doug Fields has created a handbook and filled it with tools that will apply to every youth ministry from five to five hundred. This is a must read!

Barry St. Clair, Founder/Executive Director, Reach Out Ministries

A smart youth worker will read this book. A brilliant youth worker will digest this book. And a wise youth worker will share this book with his or her youth ministry team.

Tic Long, President, Youth Specialties

PDYM reflects on the purposes of youth work rather than the how to. This book returns to the basics. I plan to use it in my classes.

Jay Kesler, President, Taylor University

PDYM should be in every serious youth leaders and pastors library!

Bill Muir, Senior Vice President, Youth for Christ, USA

PDYM may be the most influential youth ministry book written to date. It is filled with powerful insights, yet with practical hands-on tools to help you advance Gods kingdom where you do ministry. Doug Fields has hit a grand slam.

Chuck Wysong, Director of Youth Ministry, North Park Seminary

Finally, a youth ministry book that moves beyond familiar jargon and gives substance, strategies, and a plan of attack.

Dr. David Olshine, Chairman of Youth Ministries,

Columbia International University

Doug Fields has given us principles that, when applied, will change kids hearts and, in turn, the collective heart of todays youth culture. If you think youre already ministering with purpose, use this book as an evaluation tool.

Walt Mueller, President, Center for Parent/Youth Understanding

PDYM is an excellent tool to help you develop a youth ministry with substance. Dougs nine components will be a wonderful guide in the development of your own unique youth program.

Chris Liebrum, Youth Ministry Consultant,

Baptist General Convention of Texas

PDYM meets a largely unaddressed area in youth ministry literature todaythe area of building a strong transferable philosophy that is both biblical and practical.

Gordon L. Coulter, Assistant Professor

of Christian Education, Azuza Pacific University

Doug has a grip on what it takes to build an effective student ministry. Hes a youth ministry strategist and a man of God.

Dan Webster, President, Authentic Leadership, Inc.

PDYM rings with authenticity and conviction that is born out of the real-life experiences of Doug Fieldss own life and ministry. Because of Dougs work, were going to begin to see more youth ministry being driven, not by pride or pressure or problems or programs, but by the power of a Bible-centered purpose.

Duffy Robbins, Associate Professor of

Youth Ministry, Eastern College

PDYM will quickly become a standard work in the field read, quoted, and implemented. Doug walks his talk and he invites us here to walk with him.

Len Kageler, Associate Professor of Youth Ministry, Nyack College

All youth workers will be forced to examine the foundations of their youth ministry as they turn these pages. This will bring the balance and focus to the next generation of youth ministry that we so desperately need!

Robert Oglesby, Director of the Center for

Adolescent Studies, Abilene Christian University

Anyone who has a vision to effectively reach adolescents for Christ should read this book.

Steve Gerali, D.Phil., Chair, Department

of Youth Ministry and Adolescent Studies, Judson College

Once in a decade a book is written that will shape the direction of youth work for a coming generation. Doug Fields has written that book. Doug has the experience and expertise to lead us into the twenty-first century with a practical strategy to help all of us be more effective youth workers.

Jim Burns, Ph.D., President, National Institute of Youth Ministry

Thank you, Doug, for writing such a stimulating, eye-opening, and spiritually challenging book. PDYM will now be must reading in every youth ministry course that I teach.

Dewey Bertolini, Associate Professor of

Youth Ministry and Bible Chaplain, Western Baptist College

PDYM is a foundational book that is practical. Its easy to comprehend and gets your creative juices going.

Les Christie, Associate Professor of Youth Ministry,

San Jose Christian College

Doug Fields is a top leader in the field of youth ministry. He understands what it means to be purpose driven and establish essential values for student ministry. Further, his clear communication skills allow him to provide practical applications that will take your ministry to the next level. I highly recommend this book.

Bo Boshers, Executive Director,

Student Impact, Willow Creek Community Church

PDYM is a long overdue wake-up call for the youth ministry world.

Rich Van Pelt, President, Alongside Ministries

Doug Fields brings all his years of effective student ministry together in nine practical, biblical, and usable foundational principles that any youth worker can apply.