Lives to Offer | Accompanying Youth on their Vocational Quests (Baker and Mercer)

Supporting Youth as They Find Their Way

Most youth ministry programs seem to arise from consumerist, program-driven views of ministry. Lives to Offer presents a different vision: youth ministry as a companioned journey with young people in search of vocation in its public and private dimensions.

Adolescent stories of vocation, gleaned from research encounters with youthful collaborators, pepper this innovative resource.

About the Authors

Dori Grenenko Baker, an ordained United Methodist minister, teaches at Union Theological Seminary/PSCE, in Richmond, Virginia. She is the author of Doing Girlfriend Theology: God Talk with Young Women (The Pilgrim Press, 2005).

Joyce Ann Mercer, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), is associate professor of pastoral theology at Virginia Theological Seminary and a licensed independent clinical social worker.

Paperback: 191 pages
ISBN 978-0-8298-1726-3
2007