Recommended Reading

Find Your Telos is a transformative guide that helps you uncover and harness the true potential of young adults and your parish. Authored by CRI staff, Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides, PhD, and Jenny Haddad Mosher, PhD, this book offers a unique blend of Orthodox vision for the particular challenge of helping young adults find their place in the Church. Succinctly sharing the learnings of the five year long Telos Project research phase, Find Your Telos guides you to a deeper understanding of your parish’s—and your own life’s direction and purpose.

If you're tired of youth ministry that fails to change lives, it's time to change youth ministry.

Building on two decades of the Fuller Youth Institute's work and incorporating extensive new research and interviews, Faith Beyond Youth Group identifies the reasons youth ministry often flops both short-term and long-term, and offers five ways adult youth leaders can cultivate character for a lifetime of growing closer to Jesus rather than drifting away. 

It shows leaders how to cultivate trust, model growth, teach for transformation, practice together, and make meaning so that teenagers can become adults who hold fast to Jesus and boldly live out a robust faith in a watching world.

More reading recommendations coming soon!