KINDLE’s Cultivating the Heart of Students series has now released the second in the four-part series called Cultivating the Health of Students. This resource, along with the first one, Cultivating the Faith of Students, are specifically designed to assist leaders as they guide high school students through a weekly hour-long study to learn more about how Jesus lived, taught and served others. Each week participants learn faith-filled and health-focused practices modeled by Jesus and discover how to implement them in their daily pursuit of Christ-like servant leadership.
These resources come with a digital package found via the QR code inside the book and includes:
Social media images to share weekly Bible readings with students.
Printable handouts for students to follow along.
Editable Visual presentation for use in your youth group setting.
List of supplemental video options for various lessons, and more!
Highlights:
Each Leader Guide comes with tips, and all the supplemental resources you may need to select what works best for your setting!
Share the daily/weekly Bible readings with students with an image they can add to the lock screen of their phone!Did you know that 75% of learners are visual and kinesthetic? This resource comes with editable presentation(s) that you can use during youth group or Sunday school!
Teach students how to develop a personal growth plan—a series of next steps—in a specific faith practice.
Weekly engagement in Bible readings, reflection and prayer.
FAQs about Cultivating the Heart of Students Series
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Currently you may purchase the first and second in the series: Cultivating the Faith of Students and Cultivating the Health of Students. Still to be released in future years include: Cultivating the Relationships and Cultivating the Community of Students.
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Youth leaders (Full/part time church professionals-DCE, deaconesses, pastors, lay leaders, etc…) to use with high school students. The leader guide should be able to be used as many times as you choose to lead the material.
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The Karpenko Institute for Nurturing and Developing Leadership Excellence (KINDLE) is an organization whose mission is to foster and multiply generations of Christ-like servant leaders. All of our resources are created with that purpose in mind. You can learn more about the initiatives and additional resources we offer at www.kindleservantleaders.org.
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No. Learn more about our original journey guides here, which are meant for use in small groups with the purpose of multiplication here.
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You will receive a physical copy of the leader guide, which can be used as many times as you choose to lead the material. Inside the book, there is a QR code, when accessed, you will receive an additional folder of digital files which include the following:
Social media images to share weekly Bible readings w/ students
Printable handouts for students to participate with the material.
Editable visual presentations for use in your youth group setting.
List of supplemental video options for various lessons, and more!
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This is an 8-week series. Each lesson is 60-70 minutes, but has enough options for you to adjust for your students and setting.
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Each lesson follows this order:
Entrance Ritual and/or Opening Prayer
Interactive Community Building/Highs & Lows
Growth Plan Check in (with optional SMART goal teaching)
Christ-like Servant Leader Teaching
Group Discussion
Next Steps and Closing Prayer
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The way the material is set up, you could very easily engage students as small group leaders for the discussion portions of a weekly lesson.