Research-Based Youth Ministry Curriculum
Lead with confidence. Find curriculum you can trust to build a thriving ministry.
Create your own curriculum.
Our On-the-Go resource collection gives you short, easy-to-use youth group discussion guides and prayer activities based on the FYI research you trust.
Easy to use: Created with busy youth leaders in mind, we’re bringing you low-prep curriculum tools for conversations that go deep. Just download and go!
Thought-provoking: Each resource is filled with expert youth ministry insight and thoughtful questions to get your teenagers talking.
Affordable: You don’t have to sacrifice quality when you need low-cost lesson plans. Get FYI-quality youth ministry resources no matter your budget.
Say goodbye to stressful planning and prep so you can focus on relational connection with your teens and your team.
Can I Ask That? Collection
Doubt isn’t toxic to faith.
Neither are hard questions.
Silence is.
Teenagers want to ask their tough questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. For a decade, FYI’s Can I Ask That? curriculum has empowered youth leaders to start conversations about hard questions and lead students toward discovering their own faith convictions.
Now, get our popular discussion-based lesson guides re-released in a fresh new format for ministry with today’s teenagers. Flexible for groups of any size, each session features new material guaranteed to get teenagers thinking, talking, and living out their faith. Choose and download individual sessions to create your own curriculum based on the questions your students are asking.
Is Doubt Okay?
Does the Bible contradict itself?
Does God approve of violence?
How can I follow a God who would let Christians do such bad things?
Prayer Activities
FYI’s On-the-Go prayer activities empower you to lead teenagers at every age and stage into deeper conversation with God. Each low-prep activity includes a quick centering or focus prayer, interactive reflection, and practical application prompts that get students praying in their own words. Use them at weekly youth groups, special events, camps, and retreats to teach your teens fresh and engaging ways to pray.
Praying God’s names when facing a challenge
Praying for those who are hard to love
Praying with Psalms
Making a prayer-filled plan to live out God's love
Praying together when we have conflict
Praying with lament
Praying with gratitude and joy
Praying for our weary world at Christmas
Multi-Week Youth Ministry Curriculum
Compassion from the Inside Out
Transform your youth group into a compassionate community
At FYI, we know that compassion is already in the DNA of your ministry. We’ve heard countless stories from youth leaders around the country about how you’re inviting students to serve others. Yet sometimes it can be easy to focus on action and forget that compassion calls us to interaction—with God, and with those in the world around us who are struggling.
Compassion from the Inside Out invites your students to dig deeper and explore compassionate interaction as you look at how Jesus modeled a life lived with compassion. Together you’ll share your own stories and grow closer as a prayer-filled, caring community as students learn about:
Paying attention to the people around them.
Sitting with the people in their lives and seeking to understand their pain.
Regularly checking in with God and with themselves.
Serving others with their heads, hearts, hands, and feet.
We’ve packed this 4-week high school ministry curriculum with:
Powerful testimony-based discussion starters and video interviews with young people mobilize your team to model growth and inspire meaningful conversations.
Bible-based weekly scripts and slides equip you to teach for transformation.
Weekly interactive prayer and reflection activities compel your volunteers and students to practice compassion together.
Thought-provoking small group discussion guides and student take-home sheets help your students make meaning as they learn.
A comprehensive leader guide invites you and your leaders to reflect and grow alongside your students.
Social media tools keep your community practicing compassionate interaction all week long.
Both English and Spanish versions included with your purchase.
Who Do You Say I Am?
High School Curriculum Exploring Identity, Ethnicity, Race, Community, and Faith
Teach teenagers to find their stories in God’s story
“Who am I?” is a complex question that sparks a complex answer. Young people today are navigating many layers of ethnic, racial, cultural, and religious identities, and they need the support of their faith community to truly understand all of who they are in Christ.
Based on the groundbreaking research that brought you 3 Big Questions That Change Every Teenager, this high school ministry curriculum provides you with all you need to have conversations like you’ve never had before with your students, helping them discover their unique, God-given identities in Christ.
This 6-session curriculum explores:
Session 1: Our Identities
Session 2: Our Origin Stories
Session 3: Our Cultures
Session 4: Our Rejection and Resillience
Session 5: Our Neighborhoods
Session 6: Our Response
Faith in an Anxious World:
A 4-week High School Curriculum
This curriculum series will empower you with language and tools to respond to young people in your care, linking anxiety and depression with conversations about discipleship and faithful living. Together your group will reflect on New Testament stories, watch Jesus enter into anxious situations with his disciples, and explore:
Week 1: Life in an anxious world.
See and name the pressure that builds in and around us.
Week 2: Life in a relational world.
Build a circle of support for both good times and bad.
Week 3: Life in a hurting world.
Know when our feelings become more than we can handle on our own.
Week 4: Life in a hopeful world.
Recognize God at work in our anxious world.
Trust: 4-week Faith Beyond Youth Group curriculum
Trust is what makes teenagers feel like they belong in your ministry. We’ve created a fun and meaningful 4-session retreat guide to help your youth group explore what it means to trust God and grow closer as a faith-filled, trusting community. As you lead this retreat, you’ll play, create, and explore Scripture together in ways that will nurture good conversation and lasting memories.
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