An Interview with the Rev. Glenn Turner
by Peter Bowden, UU PLANET Ministry & Media (Audio CD) November 2006
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Small Group Ministry with Youth
By the Rev. Helen Zidowecki. Commissioned by the UUSGM Network.

The background of Small Group Ministry gives the basis for developing ways in which this dynamic format can be available for Youth. This resource includes a session for facilitators, and discussion and session plans for The Five Steps to Building Community and Six Components of a Balanced Youth Program. A total of 25 session plans are included.

Resource is punched and ready to be placed in a three ring binder. All proceeds from this resource in excess of development cost go to support the ministry of the UU SGM Network.

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The Complete Guide to Small Group Ministry
By the Rev. Bob Hill. Covenant Groups are transforming Unitarian Universalism, giving churches a new way to serve their congregations’ need for spiritual uplift and connection. Here is an accessible and thorough guide to this growing grassroots movement by one if its most ardent proponents and practitioners. Readers will learn why we need small Covenant Groups and how best to convene, nurture and encourage them.

Book includes a complete list of resources, sample handouts, agendas, and other tools for creating Covenant Groups. Foreword by Thandeka. (Skinner House) 2003. 136pp. ISBN 1-55896-457-6

Adapting Small Group Ministry for Children’s Religious Education: An Implementation Plan with Thirty-One Sample Sessions.

By Gail Forsyth-Vail, Director of Religious Education, North Parish of North Andover, MA, Unitarian Universalist. The ninety-four-page soft cover book is divided into two parts:

Part One covers the implementation process during the first year and the modifications and improvements made during the second. It contains copies of memoranda, a letter to the congregation, a plan for educating small group facilitators, and other documents. It contains step-by-step information about what we did and what we learned, as well as some description of the effect the small group ministry model has had on our youth program.

Part Two contains thirty-one sample worship and session plans for children’s/junior youth small group ministry. Worship plans include information about sources for stories used. Small group activities and reflections are suggested for three different developmental levels. All sessions were written for the children and junior youth of the North Parish, and reflect the North Parish liturgical calendar, ongoing social justice projects, and events and issues of importance to the congregation. All would need to be adapted to reflect the calendar, projects, and events and issues of other congregations.

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
By Donna Moore
Experiential Exercises for Building a Spiritual Community and it is now available to be downloaded for a small donation for the Cedars UU Church.Word Doc flier. To download your copy, go to www.cedarsuuchurch.org.

Small Group Ministry Books
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