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This is a four part series outlining the basic characteristics of a typical junior high aged students. This is just a foundational list that all are encouraged to add to based on their experience or expertise.
Characteristics of a Typical Twelve Year Old
Physical:
• High energy
• Much rest needed
• Growth spurt; signs of puberty
• Menstruation for majority of girls
• Food important, especially [...]
This is a four part series outlining the basic characteristics of a typical junior high aged students. This is just a foundational list that all are encouraged to add to based on their experience or expertise.
Characteristics of a Typical Eleven Year Old
Physical:
• Vast appetite for food and physical activity and talking
• Growth spurt of early adolescence for [...]
Mind mapping is a technique that organizes your thoughts and ideas into a visual map or diagram that is easier to process. It can be quite useful in brainstorming or problem solving, and some pastors, like Ed Young, use it to organize their sermons. If you would like to learn how to mind map, Innovation Network offers the following [...]
SimplyJuniorHigh.com has small group curriculum available.
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Granger Community Church has created a church resource website called wiredchurches.com. This website has access to various types of administrative documents and message series for an adult church setting but many of the tools and resources can be applied to Junior High ministry as well. Definitely take a look at the administrative documents because they’ll give you [...]
A study conducted in 2005 has been made available on freshfilms.com that outlines the current trends and culture of teenagers and how they are thinking. It’s a great little study that will definitely help junior high leaders as they strategically develop programs and ways to communicate truth to today’s tweens and teenagers.
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A news release is an often-overlooked tool for spreading the word about your church and its activities. They are simple to write, and newspapers publish them at no charge to the church. Because newspapers are delivered to homes, sold on newsstands, read in libraries and other public places, and are even read online, your news [...]
Pirates of the Superior
Anchored
James Giroux
[Dylan’s Couch]
Today I want to start by asking you a question. Take a minute and turn to the people around you and answer this question:
What’s the greatest moment of your life?
All right, I hate to cut these conversations off, but if you could focus back up here. Here’s how I would [...]
Pirates of the Superior
Overboard - Adapted from Willow Creek Curriculum “Shipwrecked”
James Giroux
Has anyone here every done anything extremely dangerous or crazy? Have you ever been in the middle of doing something and said to yourself, “this is probably going to end in disaster.”? When I was in grade 11 I went to visit a friend [...]
7 Checkpoints is a spiritual formation program developed by Dash Student Leadership Inc. It’s a great collection of curriculum and ideas for strategically deciding the direction and scope of junior high and senior high ministries. If your church is outside the United States then DASH will provide you with all their 7 Checkpoints curriculum for [...]