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What are your top resources?

Small Groups:  Student led small group resources by Ted Stump and Dare 2 Share Soul Fuel Bible Studies (free!) on dare2share.org website!

Retreats:  Small group discipleship retreats - we write curriculum in house and love to do it!

Worship:  Student stuff from Hillsong is awesome!

Leader Training:  Leadership Summit stuff from Willow

Professional Enrichment:  Business and History books

Best Book You Have Read in the Last Year:
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich  (I am a history nut…)

Ryan Ashley

Colorado Ridge Church

Broomfield, CO 

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Youth Ministry: Purpose Driven Youth Ministry Conference, www.simplyyouthministry.com

Small Groups: www.simplyyouthministry.com - Senior high Curriculum and Junior High

Retreats:  Our Canada Discipleship trip for 8th & 9th grade students to the Canadian Rockies, Sr. High Powderburn winter retreat in Winter Park January 12-14, 2007, Junior High Faceplant retreat in Winter Park, February 23-25, 2007.  Fall Retreat "Beauty & the Beast" - Lust Free Living retreat in Winter Park, Oct. 20-22, 2006

Worship: David Crowder, Lincoln Brewster, Passion, Jeff Deyo, Chris Tomlin, etc.

Leader Training: Purpose Driven Youth Ministry Conference at Saddleback Church in California, Willow Creek Student Ministry Conference in Chicago

Professional Enrichment: Have not had the opportunity the last few years, but in the Past PDYM conference, Youth Specialties Conference, Willow Creek Conferences

Best Book You Have Read in the Last Year: Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
 

Randy Stensgard

Centennial Covenant Church

Littleton, CO 

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Youth Ministry:

- www.biblegateway.com - This is basically an online concordance with many versions and commentaries available.  It is really useful when I am working with a student or staff person, helping them prepare a message.  I can say, “Go to this website for help finding that verse”.

- www.nooma.com - I am sure everyone knows about these by now, but the videos available here by Rob Bell are awesome.

Small Groups:
- “Help I am a Small Group Leader” by Laurie Polich.  This is a great book for giving small group leaders tools to do small groups well.  It is also a quick read which is nice.

Worship:
- www.higherpraise.com, www.worshiparchive.com, www.pwarchive.com, www.azchords.com, www.mixed-up.com. These are all great sites for finding chord charts for worship songs.

Leader Training:
- Son Life.  Go to www.sonlife.com for more information.  They offer great resources and training events for students and leaders.

Best Book You Have Read in the Last Year:
- Searching for God Knows What by Don Miller


Erik Cave

Youth Guy, First Covenant Church

Portland, OR

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Youth Ministry:  Youth Ministry from the inside out- Mike Higgs

Leader Training:  When Kumbaya is not enough- Dean Borgman

Professional Enrichment:  Almost anything by Erwin Mcmanus,  The Myth of Certainty- Daniel Taylor, Where is God when it hurts- Phillip Yancey

Best Book You Have Read in the Last Year:
Dangerous Duty of Delight- John Piper


Mike Dewsnap

SH Youth Director, Eastridge Church

Clackamas, OR 

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Youth Ministry: 

www.egadideas.com (Egad is a great resource)

www.youthspecialties.com

www.youthworkers.net 

www.youthpastor.com

www.xxxchurch.com (great resources for a sticky subject)

Youth Specialties "Youth Ministry Management Tools" Olson/Elliot/Workman

Small Groups: www.nooma.com

Retreats: Camp of the Cascades of course...Menucha (Pres) in Corbett, Oregon...Loomis Lake (Baptist) on the Long Beach (Wa) peninsula.

Worship: www.1christian.net (all the guitar, bass, chords and lyrics you could ever want)

Leader Training: www.tqtraining.net www.pastorport.com www.dare2share.org

Professional Enrichment:

www.epm.org Randy Alcorn grew up at PVCC, he's a great resource

www.followtherabbi.com www.barna.org

Best Book You Have Read in the Last Year:

Other than Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell Jr...No

Perfect People Allowed...Creating a come as you are culture in the church by John Burke

Russ Baley

Powell Valley Covenant Church

Gresham, OR 

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Youth Ministry: Nooma Series with Rob Bell (www.nooma.com)

Small Groups: Hurt by Chap Clark

Retreats: Celebration of Discipline by Foster

Worship: Emerging Worship by Dan Kimball & Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell

Professional Enrichment: XXXChurch.org, Jesuscreed.org

Best Book You Have Read in the Last Year: Hurt by Chap Clark

Luke Johnson

Valley Covenant Church

Eugene, OR 

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Youth Ministry:
http://www.wilderdom.com/games/InitiativeGames.html
http://home.cfl.rr.com/oja/skithome.htm
http://www.biblegateway.com/
http://www.youthspecialties.com/

Retreats:
Young Life’s Breakaway Lodge & Wildhorse Canyon, Inn at the 7th Mountain in Bend, OR

Worship:
http://www.worshiparchive.com/worship_chord_sheet.asp

Best Book You Have Read in the Last Year:
Searching for God Knows What  Donald Miller
 

Matt Stein

Countryside Community Church 

Sherwood, OR

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Youth Ministry:
- www.thesource4ym.com

- youth workers journal

- the journal for student ministry

Retreats: Use the covenant speaker team; do retreats w/ other churches; partner area retreats w/ local camps

Best Book You Have Read in the Last Year:
God’s Politics – Wallis

The secret message of Jesus – McLaren

Through painted deserts - Miller

Mark Carlson

McMinnville Covenant Church

McMinnville, OR

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Youth Ministry: High School Ministry by Yaconelli and Burns, Studentlifebiblestudy.com- H.S. Sunday school curriculum, Rob Bell’s Noomas

Retreats:  The Oregon Coast is as good as it gets…especially night games on the beach!  Local mission trips, so kids can see ways to serve in their own backyard

Worship: Have college interns do it, if you can.   H.S. students love seeing what they can do in a few years!

Leader Training:  Equipped to Serve, Volunteer Youth Worker Training Course by McLuen

Professional Enrichment: Youth Workers, Youth Specialties, monthly spiritual retreat days, regional youth pastor gatherings

Best Book You Have Read in the Last Year: HURT- Clark, To Own A Dragon- Miller

Carolyn Poterek

Trinity Covenant Church

Salem, OR