The Perfect Program And Other Fairy Tales: Confessions of a Well-intended Youth Worker - Softcover

David Chow is a veteran youth worker with fifteen years of experience “in the trenches.” He is the author of No More Lone Rangers and a frequent speaker on leadership and youth ministry issues. He is the founder of Leading Together (www.leadingtogether.com), an organization that coaches leaders and equips churches. He has a master’s in organizational leadership from Biola University and lives in Southern California with his wife and two children.

Once Upon a Time, there was the perfect program. . . and then you woke up. Okay, so the perfect program doesn't exist. Fortunately, we serve the perfect Savior and He makes the trials and tribulations of youth work eternally rewarding-even when you feel like giving up. David Chow has words of exhortation for fellow youth pastors and volunteers: It's not how you do ministry, it's what you are. His true confessions of a youth pastor will validate your own ministry growing pains while at the same time encouraging you to keep pressing on toward the goal: forging new disciples for Christ.