PEER MINISTRIES RESOURCES

ORGANIZATIONS

Student-Led Cell Groups of High Impact Ministries
P.O. Box 5003, Glendale, AZ 85312, 800-729-6884. Recommended by Josh McDowell and Barry St. Clair, this program trains Christian high school students to reach their friends relationally. In cell-group meetings led my students, topics are discussed, feelings are shared, the Bible is studied, and peers pray for each other.

Teen Advisors
P.O. Box 6468, Columbus, GA 31917; 706-322-6186 or 888-660-1415  teenadv@mindspring.com;  This program, endorsed by Focus on the Family, has for 12 years provided students with a positive support group and then equipped these students to reach out to younger freshmen. TAs in 10th to 12th grades take a drug-free pledge and focus on character, integrity, and leadership. TAs spend time in freshman classrooms discussing pressures and decisions teenagers face today and offering themselves as accessible role models.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Copeland, N. (1995). The heroic revolution: A new agenda for urban youthwork. Nashville, TN : James C. Winston Publishers.  This book not only urges a shift in thinking from "suburbocentric" to "urbocentric" youth ministry, it also calls for young people themselves to be part of the "heroic revolution." Many speak of this, but this is one of the first books to discuss seriously the empowering of young people for youth ministry.

Rice, W., Clark, C. & others. (1998). New directions for youth ministry. Loveland, CO: Group. John Ruhlman, Harvey Carey (an urban model), Cathi Basler, and Monty Hip provide insights as to how high school students can be equipped to be peer leaders in cell groups, youth churches, and in campus ministries.

Dean Borgman cCYS