What are Help Sheets?
Consider them mini-newsletters which provide easy-to-follow, helpful and concise information and suggestions in response to frequently asked questions about youth ministry planning, programs and leadership.

To make it easier for you to utilize, ELCA Youth Ministries has made these Help Sheets available on-line. It's as easy as browsing through our alphabetical list of titles and selecting the ones that interest you!

Index of Help Sheet titles

Help for congregational leaders and committees

• Calling and providing for youth ministry staff

• Discerning your call to youth and family ministry

• How does youth ministry fit into the ministry of the whole congregation?

• Position descriptions for youth and family ministry staff

• Staffing your youth ministry program

• "Theological Framework for Youth Ministry"

Everyday tools of youth ministry

• Build a Web page for youth ministry

• Communication and publicity ideas

• Fundraising

• The art of invitation

• What's grace got to do with it?

Youth ministry and the congregation

• Bridge the gap between rural and [sub]urban youth ministry

• Confirmation as youth ministry

• Developing a healthy junior high ministry

• Foundations for youth and family ministry

• In the city for good youth ministry

• Ministering to young adults

• Planning congregational worship experiences with youth

• Postmodernity and ministry with the millennial generation

• Promote 'girl power!' in your congregation

• Young leaders in adult settings

• Youth ministry stretches to include families

Leadership guidelines and issues

• Developing a budget

• Ensure safe boundaries in youth ministries

• Preventing and responding to abuse

• Youth ministry is risky business

Caring for youth

• 'Boys will be boys,' right? Not necessarily so!

• Helping youth grieve

• Peer ministry: an education of the heart

• Teach and reach youth about HIV/AIDS

• Youth and anxiety

Program helps

• Finding God in today's secular music

• Hate crimes: an American tragedy

• Help young people give―globally

• Learn & teach cult awareness

• Living the good life and doing good: Thinking more deeply about the (PRODUCT) RED campaign

• Moving beyond Muslim media images

• Reading and hearing scripture with young people

• Service Learning in congregations

• Say no to gangs

• Spirited storytelling in youth ministry

• Teenage spirituality

• Try improvising on purpose

• Using popular media

• Youth can help change the world, one policy at a time!