The world of academic research is a vast one, and most youth workers don’t have the time (or the patience) to sift through all the data in order to find what might apply to their ministry setting. In their premier book Deep Ministry in a Shallow World: Not-So-Secret Findings about Youth Ministry, FYI Executive Director Kara Powell and Fuller faculty member Chap Clark bring together significant research findings that may cause you to shift your ministry paradigms.

Deep Ministry in a Shallow World will help you consider what it means to prayerfully reflect on the questions you’re facing in your ministry and find new answers to help take your ministry out of the shallow end.

Here’s what a few other ministry leaders have to say about Deep Ministry:

“Backed by solid theological reflection and heartfelt experience, Chap Clark and Kara Powell invite all of us who care about kids to discover creative, natural, and inspired forms of youth ministry that have the power to cultivate a lasting faith.”
Mark Yaconelli, author of Contemplative Youth Ministry

“Deep Ministry in a Shallow World combines the best of careful theological reflection, serious academic research, and practical youth ministry know-how. If you’re an in-the-trenches youth worker willing to think deeply about what God wants to do in your students, the Deep Design model suggested in these pages will give you the kinds of tools that can influence every facet of your ministry.”
Duffy Robbins, professor of youth ministry, Eastern University