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For over 10 years, Families in Global Transition, Incorporated (FIGT) has been the global leader in cross cultural education and training to support the entire expat family. FIGT offers information-packed conferences and year-round benefits through its As

A great song by Hiram Ring on growing up as an MK.

Age of Opportunity

Paul Tripp uncovers the heart issues affecting parents and their teenagers during the often chaotic adolescent years.

Branded

“Branded is a cogent wake-up call.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review

Contemplative Youth Ministry

Youth ministry isn’t about what to say, what to do, or how to be; it’s about serving the needs of the students God has put in your life. This book is an attitude overhaul that creates a more organic approach to youth ministry that helps you create meaning

Cultural Intelligance

This engaging book seeks to tackle the challenges of cross-cultural interaction in the context of Christian ministry. Livermore, an expert in intercultural studies, urges his readers to become more multicultural people so that we might better express love

Daughters and Dads

Daughters & Dads is filled with practical help that will nurture your relationship with your daughter as she grows up. You’ll learn how to communicate openly and honestly with her and how to be her friend and her father. Filled with letters from adole

Deep Ministry in a Shallow World

Whether you re struggling to make anything work in your youth ministry or finding that most things are clicking along, this book will help you develop a practical theology to ask what is happening, what should be happening, and how you can make it happen.

Disconnected

Parents worry they don’t have the understanding or training to be able to care for their kids in a world that is increasingly superficial, politicized, and performance driven. Disconnected makes the concepts and strategies described in the bestselling Hur

Emerging Adulthood

As the demographics of American youth, the American workplace, and adulthood continue to evolve, Emerging Adulthood is indispensable reading for anyone wanting to understand the face of modern America.

Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture

Before we can reach today’s youth with the turth of the gospel, we need to see what they see and hear what they hear. We need to catch the messages encrypted in their culture and understand what’s really being communicated. In Engaging the Soul of Youth

Family Based Youth Ministry

Family-based youth ministry is about adults discipling teens one-on-one and in groups. It is about involving not just the nuclear family but the whole church family–from singles to older adults. More important, it’s about incorporating youth into the lif

Fitted Pieces

This book offers help for parents in fitting together the important components of educating children cross-culturally. It is designed to help parents make informed decisions about an educational plan that is workable and appropriate for their family.

Four Views of Youth Ministry

This book delineates four distinct philosophical/ecclesiological views of how youth ministry relates to the church at large.

From Father to Son

Chap Clark wrote From Father to Son to encourage dads and give them ideas of how to raise their sons to spiritual maturity. He shares the marks of a disciple to show dads what to aim for, the goals of discipleship to help dads and sons to maintain focus,

God in the Wastelands

In this sequel to the widely praised No Place for Truth, David Wells calls for the restoration of the church based on a fresh encounter with the transcendent God. By looking anew at the way God’s transcendence and immanence have been taken captive by mode

Grace Based Parenting

Parents in our post-modern world tend to be committed to but anxious about their child-rearing responsibilities. They have tried countless parenting books on the market telling moms and dads what to do and how to do it. Many of these are rigid, fear-based

Hidden Immigrants

Linda Bell, the wife of a retired diplomat who raised her own children in assignments around the world, recounts the problems and pleasures of living a nomad’s life, from the perspective both of the children and their parents.

How We Make Our Kids Angry

Drawing on his ministry of Youth for Christ along with a survey of one hundred students of varied ages and backgrounds, Roger Cross has created a practical, helpful book for parents who want to understand why their kids are so angry and what they need to

Hurt

If parents, educators, and youth workers were to read only one book about helping adolescence—this would be the one. Chap Clark managed to get inside the world of US teenagers and reveal the depths of angst, pressure and loneliness they feel. Hurt is a il

Raising Global Nomads

The world has become globalized, digitalized, and sadly, terrorized. That’s the big picture that Pascoe examines in Raising Global Nomads. In her fifth book for expatriate families, the author recounts with honesty and trademark humour what worked for her

Soul Searching

Encyclopedic in scope and exhaustive in detail, this study offers an impressive array of data, statistics and concluding hypotheses about American teenage religious identity, with appendixes explaining methodology and extensive endnotes.

Sustainable Youth Ministry

“This is the youth ministry book we’ve all been waiting for. With wit and wisdom, Mark DeVries draws from a deep well of experience as both a youth pastor and youth ministry consultant to teach us how to build the ‘dance floor’ that will not only keep our

The Art of Coming Home

A guide to the re-entry process for persons returning to work or home after an extended absence, such as after working abroad. Addresses issues special to exchange students, international volunteers, military personnel and their families, and missionaries

The Fabric of Faithfulness

All kinds of important choices are made during the college years. Young men and women explore what they really believe about the nature of the world and the purpose of life. They choose their work. They build friendships and often choose to marry. They de

The Five Love Languages of Children

According to the authors, each child expresses and receives love through one of five different communication styles. A parent’s love language may be totally different from that of his or her child, which causes hurt feelings and misunderstandings. With th

The Hip Hop Generation

Bakari Kitwana, a former editor at The Source, identifies blacks born between 1965 and 1984 as belonging to the “hip-hop generation” a term he uses interchangeably with black youth culture (“Generation X” applies mainly to whites, he says). He calls hip-h

The Price of Privilege

A practicing psychologist in Marin County, Calif., Levine counsels troubled teens from affluent families, and finds it paradoxical that wealth—which can open the door to travel and other enriching opportunities—can produce such depressed, anxious, angry a

The Space Between

The changes and challenges of adolescence can leave many parents feeling overwhelmed at times with fear, confusion, frustration, and a lack of understanding. But here you’ll find hope to help you understand and effectively parent your teen. Dr. Walt Muell

Third Culture Kids

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To Own a Dragon

Join Donald Miller, the best-selling author of Blue Like Jazz, with mentor John MacMurray, as he presents a thought-provoking and humorous chronicle of lessons found in a life without a Dad.

The Association of Youth Ministry Educators (AYME) is a professional organization for those who teach youth ministry at the graduate or undergraduate level.

BRATS: Our Journey Home is the first feature-length documentary, narrated by singer/songwriter Kris Kristofferson, about a hidden American subculture – a lost tribe of at least fifteen million people from widely diverse backgrounds, raised on military ba

The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding is a nonprofit organization committed to building strong families by serving to bridge the cultural-generational gap between parents and teenagers.

Leveraging RESEARCH into RESOURCES that ELEVATE leaders, kids, and families

A great song by Hiram Ring on growing up as an MK.

Today’s Voice for Third Culture Kids and Internationally Mobile Families

The International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry is a not-for-profit global organisation. Our aim is to support and develop the professionalisation of youth ministry around the world.

Training and coaching emerging leaders around the globe.

The K¹² International Academy is a private, diploma-granting school serving students in the U.S. and around the world in grades K-12. We use the widely acclaimed, market-leading curriculum and programs from our parent company, K¹² Inc. to help parents tap

The Institute for Youth Ministry engages in original research and promotes that of others. New scholarship in the area of youth ministry has been developed through the three research projects administered by the IYM and through The Princeton Lectures on Y

TCKID is a non-profit community of over 21,000 members dedicated to help Third Culture Kids connect and find a sense of belonging.

The goal of the iCYM is to recruit, train, place, and network local church youth leaders globally. We embrace the Strategic Family Ministry Model that is: biblically and theologically grounded, missions oriented, local church structured, pastor led, and f

Military children stationed overseas face unique challenges when heading to college in the States. Michelle Michael reports.

Military children stationed overseas face unique challenges when heading to college in the States. Michelle Michael reports.