possibile, it's easier than you think with Developing Spiritual Growth in Junior High Students. Youth-ministry veteran Ray Johnston challenges the notion that "junior highers" and "spiritual growth" is an oxymoron with a clear, easy-to-follow strategy that you can use with your junior highers or middle schoolers.

Johnston first helps you to identify the three stages of junior high spiritual growth. He then helps you to discover how you can target specific programs and strategies to both meet the needs of your kids in the stage that they're in and to help them move on to a deeper level of spiritual maturity.

Developing Spiritual Growth in Junior High Students is loaded with practical, field-tested ideas you can reproduce and use right now with your kids. Johnston also provides you with the tools to develop a strategic plan for junior-high spiritual growth that will help you maximize the effectiveness of the ideas you use. And he provides tips on how to successfully "graduate your junior highers into your high school group.

Developing Spiritual Growth in Junior High Students

will help you to build a growing, healthy junior-high youth

group. You'll enjoy the fruits of your efforts now, and for

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years to come, as your spiritually-mature junior highers move into your high school group! Rey Johnston is minister of outreach at First Covenant Church in Sacramento, Califormia, and a sought-after youth speaker. Ray is also a Youth Specialties National Resource Seminar team member and is author

of Developing Student Leaders