One Life Curriculum

The Why and How of the One Life Curriculum

For the past several years World Vision and Youth Specialties have partnered to raise both awareness and funding for AIDS relief in Africa among American youth ministries. With the hope of stirring a revolution in the lives of students, this initiative has been building new passion and compassion for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS — a long-overdue response from the world of youth ministry.

In 2005 these organizations approached FYI (at that time Fuller’s Center for Youth and Family Ministry) about developing a new curriculum for use by the youth ministries involved in the One Life Revolution initiative. What you will find when you follow the link below is the result of two years of research from Fuller’s “When Faith Gets AIDS” project, and specifically our work with youth leaders like you to create a highly-adaptable, theologically-grounded, and incredibly usable curriculum for your ministry.

The Method

In a model similar to what’s in our book, Deep Ministry in a Shallow World (Youth Specialties/Zondervan, 2006), each of the four modules has three steps: Now, New, and How.

“Now” helps you and your students consider the realities around the world and your ministry by posing the question, What’s going on now?

“New” provides a biblically based perspective that brings new insight and perspective to those realities by asking What’s the kingdom perspective?

“How” invites you and your students to commit to making a difference, both locally and globally, by raising the question, How can we live this out? Then every time you engage in “How” you think God wants you to respond, you create a new reality—or a new “Now.”

Just as with life, we continually assess where things stand “Now,” what “New” insights will serve God’s kingdom work, and “How” we should respond. To read more about the Deep Design model, read “A Deeper Integration of Theology and Ministry,” by Chap Clark and Kara Powell.

Download it Now for FREE

Click on the image below to download the curriculum, “Your Kingdom Come”, in pdf format. Be sure to save it to your computer’s hard drive and look through it before printing, as it is over 100 pages of material!

We suggest you begin with the Leaders Guide to get a feel for the different ways you can use this resource, and then print one module at a time as you are preparing to lead students through the series.
Click on the One Life image below to download (613 KB pdf) the FREE youth ministry curriculum from Kara Powell and the Center for Youth and Family Ministry:
“Your Kingdom Come”

If you would rather download the guide and modules separately, you may do so using these links:

Leader’s Guide (622 KB PDF)

Module 1 (621 KB PDF)

Module 2 (621 KB PDF)

Module 3 (621 KB PDF)

Module 4 (621 KB PDF)
Note: You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this curriculum. You can access Adobe Reader for free HERE.

To access multimedia content for the OL curriculum, please visit World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine site, where the One Life material has been relocated.

More Resources on HIV/AIDS

Every day, 6,000 people die AIDS-related deaths in Africa.

By 2010, an estimated 15.7 million children will have lost at least one parent due to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. Worldwide, that estimate extends to 20.2 million orphans.((Statistics from UNICEF’s report “Children Affected By AIDS: Africa’s Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations”, copyright 2006 by UNICEF.))

As American Christians, we can choose to either ignore this reality or take an honest look at what it might mean to be the Body of Christ alongside and on behalf of these children and families.

A Deeper Response to AIDS
by Stephanie Smith

A theologian and intercultural expert offers insights to some common questions faced by youth ministries discussing and responding to the AIDS pandemic.

Global HIV/AIDS Timeline developed by the Kaiser Family Foundation
World AIDS Day: 5 Things You Can Do
A resource from World Vision including ways to get involoved in prayer, giving, and public advocacy on behalf of AIDS-stricken families in Africa.

Children Affected By AIDS: Africa’s Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations

This UNICEF report is available as a free pdf download (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view). Highlights the disturbing realities and needs of the 12 million children orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History
So far over 2 million people have pledged to participate in this global initiative against poverty, emphasizing AIDS relief as a critical need.

The Millennium Development Goals
This link is to a pdf of the 2006 report on this United Nations promise to the poor and oppressed of the world. Goal #6 is to “have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.”

UNAIDS
The joint United Nations effort to “Unite the world against AIDS.”