EYouthWNY - Episcopal Youth of Western New York
The Youth Ministries of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York
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Leaders!
Ideas, resources, software, videos and fun stuff to help your ministry. Also things to support you in your faith journey and to just have some fun!
Adult Leader Standards (Diocesan) -
These are the standards approved by Youth Commission. Adults working at Diocesan youth events MUST meet these standards.
Program Resources
One of the premier websites for youth ministry. This is a great resource location.
Home site of Group magazine plus LOTS of other resources.
This site is connected with Group magazine. Also a premier youth ministry website. Lots of great resources of all kinds.
From the folks at Christianity Today a free newsletter plus Bible studies ready to download for less than $5 each
Another great Full Service site that offers a little of everything..
I get a lot of questions about Sunday School programs. Here's one that's getting a lot of attention. The site offers 800+ FREE lessons.
700 games!!!! Plus some great educational resources for leaders.
Another great resource location. 300+ games!!!! plus lessons, even a group names list. Associated with Doug Field's "Simply Youth Ministry"
This site offers free resouces for youth programs and Sunday school programs. Lots of ideas that can be adapted.
This is the web page that goes with the PBS Frontline program of the same name. A wonderful site for resources.
Great site for creating and assisting programs for adults to mentor youth. One of the government's faith based initiatives
Drama
If you are looking for a great source of material for doing drama this is it. Great people, great skits and plays. I've met and worked with them, top flight!
Want even more drama connections? This is the organization.
Mission
Simply a great program from a great company.
Urban Ministry
Thier promise is Non-cheesy stuff for ministry. They have a special attention for ministry to Urban youth.
Magazines
A Journal of faith, life and youth ministry.
They bill themselves as a professional journal for youth ministers.
A great contemporary Christian magazine aimed at 20-30 year olds. Articles, devotions, news etc.
Music/Worship
Music resources and Bible studies are waiting for you here.
Looking for chord sheets for music to use at meetings or at worship? This is a great place to start.
If you play or have someone who plays in your youth ministry they'll love this site. Everything from newsletters to devotions.
Web site for magazine of the same name. Articles, lessons and more to improve your musical work.
Here's a site that offers Morning and Evening Prayer each day with the appropriate readings and even plays music to sing the hymns!
Daily devotions from the Book of Common Prayer and the Daily readings from Forward in Faith
Here's a great Christian Daily Devotions site I'm sure you'll like..
Oremus -
Daily Prayer and Prayer resources online including a searchable NRSV Bible
Simple, straight forward with links to 3 different Bibles for the readings.
From the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. Daily office, multi-media devotions and lots of other stuff.
From Forward Movement Publications, an agency of the Episcopal Church. Light a virtual candle or scan through their library of prayers.
One woman's search for a better prayer life led her to creating this site about the Anglican traditions for rosary prayer
From King of Peace Episcopal church in Georgia
This is a wonderful place that can give you 10 minutes of prayer and reflection at your computer. The site is maintained by a group of Irish Jesuits.
Church of England site with daily updates for prayer
Have you seen the billboards with the quotes from God? This site is from the same people and gives some background on them. It's funny and inspirational too.
Pray the News - Updated weekly this site looks at the news of the world from a faith and prayer based point of view. Operated by Carmelite nuns from Indiana.
Website for the magazine of the same name. NOTE: This is not an exclusively Christian site. I think you'll find some wonderful things along the way, so please check it out.
Bible
I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a Bible scholar. So finding a passage I need or just barely remember can be a problem. Here's a great search engine for the Bible. Your choice of translations too, now including "The Message"!
This is a FREE software program that includes a searcable Bible database, maps, dictionaries, commentaries and more. Make sure you download a Bible as well, it's not actually part of the software - Go figure!
Lots of resources for looking into the "history" of Bible stories. They acknowledge that not everyone agrees on everything, and give as fairly balanced view as they can.
This site has a great collection of Bible trivia questions. Scroll down a little way to find them
Here's another great online resource for Bible research. It includes many translations, concordance, cross-references, commentaries and more
Other Books
How would you like to have an entire library of Christian writings ( Bible to theology to reference to Christian sports magazines) at your fingertips?
This is an amazing collection of books, hymns and other resources.
We're going to continue to spend time talking about Islam. Here's the central writing of their faith online and in English.
This is the home site for the amazing ecumenical event/movement called Taize.
If you've ever wanted to know more this is the place.
Family
This is an information resource site for issues related to children/youth/families
Food
Let's face it, pizza is the official food of youth ministry. So why not do it right? Great site!
Popular Culture
Looking for ideas on using movies as a basis for a program? This is a great site that looks at popular culture, especially movies from a Christian point of view.
Is this a good movie for teens to see? How about a straight forward movie rating site. They base their ratings on violence, language, sex, NOT on whether the movie is any good.
This is information from the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) for parents to deal with, decipher and monitor what their children have access to in the broadcast media
The media is the single largest influence in our culture. Here's a great site for leaders (and parents!) who are looking for the best info about the media.
If you ever feel like popular culture is using a completely different language, this site can help. It offers definitions of popular words in culture.
.Check out some of the more current slang terms used by teens and what they mean.
General
Let's be honest, part of youth ministry involves making messes. Well here's the help you'll need to clean it up!
This searches multiple Urban legand sites all at once to help track down the internet fact from fiction.
How do I talk with kids about....? Here's a site dedicated to just that question. And it offers some great answers!
This site is probably not for the kids (a few of the topics are off color in nature so YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!) but you'll be able to find real answers to perplexing questions.
Great source for project ideas or just fun stuff. Everything from hair products to bronzing baby shoes!
