July 3, 2009 Media Resource Corner

Louis Hill, co-dean of a Wesley Woods Sampler Camp, contacted me for media to enhance the WPA Camping Bible study theme – Love to Serve. Teens in our camps are learning to share the love of Christ and become more outward focused.

• Try the Outflow Youth Ministry Leader Kit from Group. This five-session study inspires teens to shift focus from themselves to others and experience the joy of knowing and being used by God! Outflow encourages organic, honest outreach, based on a growing relationship with God and the sharing of God’s love. The image of an overflowing fountain is used to illustrate the process by which participants move from inward to outward focus. Labs include practical activities to live with outward focus with family, community, friends and the world at large. The kit includes a leader guide, an Outflow youth journal with 25 daily, interactive readings, and a DVD.

• Serving Others in Love from the Life Together, student edition, is a six-session study that challenges youth to use their unique, God-given gifts to make a real difference in lives around them. Included is the DVD, a leader briefing by Doug Fields and, a student guide.

• The Least of These, from the Revolution 2 with Doug Fields series, is a DVD Bible study from Bluefish for youth groups on poverty and caring for the least of these. This study includes DVD, leader guide and corresponding student handout.

• The Stories series from Bluefish contains three brief DVD illustrations of teens sharing experiences that are great for discussion. Volume 4 (worldview) contains a poverty simulation. Teens “live” on the street and a youth group serves on a mission to Honduras. Volume 6 (faith in action) features a teen exploring a career in the mission field.

• The Justice Mission presents a Bible-based approach for teens to deal with the stark facts about oppression and injustice around the world in five DVD sessions, students follow the visit of four American teens to squalid corners of India. Students are prompted to think about the evil they find. They also consider bullying, prejudice and attitudes in their own neighborhoods and hallways of their schools. The kit includes a leader guide and student worksheets.