Purpose Driven Youth Ministry by Doug Fields presents foundational principles of youth ministry that help you develop the ministry that best meets the needs of the teenagers in your unique setting. For over a decade it has helped youth workers around the world build ministries that equip students rather than coordinate events.

For the past decade, youth pastors around the world have used the bestselling Purpose Driven Youth Ministry to help guide them as they build a healthy youth ministry that is aimed at impacting the lives of teenagers. Written by renowned youth ministry expert Doug Fields, this book is one that both lay and professional youth workers cannot afford to miss. Purpose Driven Youth Ministry doesn't present a program to be copied into any context. Rather, it presents foundational principles of youth ministry that help you develop the ministry that best meets the needs of the students in your unique setting. This classic will help you build a student ministry with purpose as well as provide examples and testimonies from youth workers around the globe. "I believe PDYM will be the standard by which all youth ministry programs are judged for years to come. It is solid enough for the college or seminary classroom and practical enough for the novice." --Chap Clark, Professor of Youth, Family, and Culture, Fuller Theological Seminary