‘Youthful Spark: Youth Energizers, Activities & Games (Igniting the Fun in Youth)’ is a dynamic and engaging guidebook designed to ignite the fun in youth groups, camps, and gatherings. This book offers a vibrant collection of 62 original icebreakers, energizers, and games tailored specifically for youth, aiming to promote teamwork, creativity, and active participation. Each activity is carefully crafted to appeal to the energetic and adventurous spirit of young participants, ensuring that every session is filled with laughter, excitement, and meaningful interactions. With detailed instructions, insightful trainer observations, and prompting discussions, "Youthful Spark" provides a comprehensive toolkit for youth leaders, educators, and organizers to create memorable and impactful experiences for young people. Whether you're planning a youth retreat, camp, or community event, this book will inspire you to spark joy, build connections, and foster a sense of belonging among youth participants.

This is the most extraordinary time for people with a desire to make things Spark for the Fire is for everyone who wants to excel. For the people who are passionate about what they want to do. For those whose imaginations demand to be put to use, in any discipline. it is for the youthful: in age, experience or attitude - and those who want to be - whether to kick-start a career or reignite an established one. Now more than ever, youthful thinking can help spark the fire of creativity. This must-read book reveals how. Featuring among others - Nick Park - Michael Wolff - Lord David Puttnam - Jean Oelwang - Rory Sutherland - Ajaz Ahmed - Jamie Oliver

When mind and body come crashing to a halt after years in missions, can the passion be reignited? Shannon tells her story, amid calamity and risk, and faces the demands that come with dreaming big and the logistics of putting new missions paradigms into practice. This is a journey from passion to burnout, and the lingering hope of recovery that glows like burning embers amid the ashes.

Discover the transformational work of student Olivia Van Ledtje, who exemplifies responsible online activism, inspiring both kids and adults in the global community. Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. They seek ways to understand and interact with their environment, often using digital tools to do so. Imagine a world where children’s curiosities are amplified -- helping them see the power of their thinking, perspective and voice. Spark Change examines the multitude of possibilities available when students are given the opportunity to amplify their learning online, centering on three ideas of citizenship: be a good person, be critical and be an advocate for something you care about in life. The book introduces readers to Liv, a young changemaker empowered to use digital tools to create and share content online. Liv’s story offers readers an opportunity to explore how students can use technology as a tool for empathy, equity and activism. Kids can’t become changemakers if they aren’t empowered to think beyond their own community. Liv’s online sense of agency serves as an example of maximizing opportunities, developing a powerful voice and making global connections that deepen her compassion for people and the world. This book: • Follows a model of gradual release of responsibility -- I do, we do, you do -- to show how to teach kids how to approach connected-learning experiences. • Draws on rich literacy and technology research on student identity and pairing literacy and thinking in a digital age. • Illustrates the value of creation and connected learning, weaving in the critical need for digital literacy for students. • Features young students as digital leaders, providing examples of digital activism and the power of authentic student voice and participation. Connected-learning opportunities help students develop key understandings about the world around them. This book shows how these understandings lead to social action, and how students develop a deeper sense of empathy and kindness from interacting with the world.

Life is but a walking shadow for beautiful and aspiring young actress, Mikie Davenport, as she starts life anew after a mysterious fever, murder, and cancer rob her of the family she loved. As Mikie Davenport embarks upon her quest to study theater at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, she finds a new home and a new family in an old Victorian house shared by four other tenants, kindred spirits, each unique in their own special way with their own dreams and aspirations, and their own tragedies. Kelly O’ Connor, a Juilliard trained jazz pianist who is the front woman in a popular local fusion band known as Mantra, Sean O’ Connor, a successful artist driven into self-exile within the confines of his basement apartment by a series of bizarre accidental deaths involving a drunk driver, a stray bullet from a British soldier’s rifle, and a grand piano, Ben Emerson, once a financial wizard on Wall Street now a Buddhist, a bartender and a judo instructor, and Andie Aames, a vivacious, charismatic streetwise kid from NYC, all share something in common, the pursuit of happiness. But when a brutal hate crime perpetuated by Billy “Bad” Wilson, a vicious, sadistic young bigot, casts a shadow of violence and hatred over their lives, they are put to the ultimate test forcing each one of them to reevaluate and walk their own path through life and death.

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God's plan has never been to help believers avoid pain. In fact, He uses difficult seasons and relationships to propel His children toward their destiny. The healing process from emotional and spiritual wounds is a journey that prepares Christians to live powerful lives, fully trusting the God who has freed them from the past. Jason Vallotton thought his world was burning down around him when he found out that his wife, Heather, was having an affair and planned to leave him and their children. Using his own story as a poignant, evocative illustration of God's grace and healing, Jason invites readers to reframe their understanding of redemption. With his dad, Kris Vallotton, Jason shows believers how they can steward the hardest times and deepest pain in their lives and allow God to use them to lay a foundation for complete restoration and empowerment for the future. While it may be hard to see emotional wounds as gifts when they still hurt so deeply, those who read The Supernatural Power of Forgiveness will discover that God can not only heal their wounds, but He can also use the process of healing to equip them for whole, fulfilled and powerful lives.