"Youth on Fire is a powerful message that all young people must hear. Thaw So not only brings real-life experience, but his wisdom is beyond his years. Thaw So preaches to the masses in church, yet offers this intimate reading of how he stays on fire! I strongly recommend youth pastors assign this book to all of their youth so that they can be on fire for God!" -Kevin LaChapelle, EdD, MPA (Author of Please God, Don't Let My Badge Tarnish, PowerMentor: The Art of Mentoring, Overcoming Adversity, and The Inspirational Life of Jelly Poe.) "To find the finest gold, it requires us to dig deeper! The finest gold is found in the deep of the ground! Likewise, the deeper we dig into the Word of God, we will find the living water! That living water is from the cross! By reading this book, the Holy Spirit will help us understand!" -Pastor Aung Aung, Lead Pastor IFGF

This book is to inspire someone to not give up on their dream and to push them into their true purpose. Who do God say you are? Are you walking in your truth?

Like our planet, young people across the globe are heating up. As they come of age, some are boiling with outrage about the environmental toxins, unconscionable injustices, and social challenges they face. Some are setting their communities ablaze with gang warfare, bullying, hazing, or other destructive acts of violence. Others are barely flickering, having dimmed their light through self-destructive behaviors, lost in addictions or a variety of numbing habits that sublimate their life force. Many youth are simply invisible, lacking the encouragement of adults, disregarded or discarded with no opportunities on the horizon. Yet at the same time, there is an ever-expanding group of youth on fire. In positive ways, they are collectively ignited-illuminating the path from addiction into action, from fragmentation into integration, from isolation into community. Youth On Fire tells the timely story of hundreds of diverse young people rising from the ashes and dancing into inspired leadership and creative action-bringing light to people and places suffering around the world. The processes, protocols, and practices described within these pages galvanize individuals and communities on every continent. If you are a young person or working with youth as an educator, parent, rites of passage guide, mentor, counselor, somatic practitioner, or community organizer, this book is for you.

Like our planet, young people across the globe are heating up. As they come of age, some are boiling with outrage about the environmental toxins, unconscionable injustices, and social challenges they face. Some are setting their communities ablaze with gang warfare, bullying, hazing, or other destructive acts of violence. Others are barely flickering, having dimmed their light through self-destructive behaviors, lost in addictions or a variety of numbing habits that sublimate their life force. Many youth are simply invisible, lacking the encouragement of adults, disregarded or discarded with no opportunities on the horizon. Yet at the same time, there is an ever-expanding group of youth on fire. In positive ways, they are collectively ignited-illuminating the path from addiction into action, from fragmentation into integration, from isolation into community. Youth On Fire tells the timely story of hundreds of diverse young people rising from the ashes and dancing into inspired leadership and creative action-bringing light to people and places suffering around the world. The processes, protocols, and practices described within these pages galvanize individuals and communities on every continent. If you are a young person or working with youth as an educator, parent, rites of passage guide, mentor, counselor, somatic practitioner, or community organizer, this book is for you.

This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.