This comprehensive handbook looks at every facet of youth ministry from a gospel-centered perspective, offering practical advice related to everything from planning short-term mission trips to interacting with parents to cultivating healthy relationships.
Cameron Cole (MA, Wake Forest University) serves as director of youth ministries at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the chairman of Rooted, a ministry dedicated to fostering gospel-centered student ministry.
Jon Nielson (DMin, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) serves as the senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Wheaton, Illinois. He is coeditor of the book Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry and author of the Theology Basics suite of products. He and his wife, Jeanne, have four children.
Drew Haltom (MABS, Reformed Theological Seminary) serves as a pastor at Christ City Church in Memphis, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife, Laura, and two children. Prior to his pastoral ministry, Drew served on staff at Service Over Self, an organization dedicated to leadership development and home repair in strategic neighborhoods in Memphis. He is a contributor to Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry: A Practical Guide.
Philip Walkley (BA, The University of Mississippi) is the executive director of Service Over Self in Memphis, Tennessee, and previously served as the director of student ministries at First United Methodist Church of Grenada, Mississippi. Philip and his wife, Kelsea, live in Binghampton, Tennessee, with their three children. They are members of Fellowship Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee.
Dave Wright is the coordinator for student ministries for the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina. Previously he served as a youth minister in churches in suburban Chicago and Cheshire, England. He has written numerous articles for magazines in both the UK and US.