We Want to See You Professionally Equipped
Equipping You to Lead Well
Every youth leader needs encouragement, tools, and a community to thrive in ministry. That's why we've gathered these trusted resources—to help you grow personally, lead your team with confidence, and disciple students effectively.
In this booklet, you'll find:
- Discipleship resources to strengthen your walk and multiply your impact
- Training and mentoring tools to sharpen your leadership skills
- Community engagement opportunities to build strong local collaborations
- Prayer initiatives to cover every school and student in intercession
- Evangelism strategies to reach the next generation with the Gospel
Whether you're just beginning your journey or have been serving for years, these pathways are designed to help you be professionally equipped for the calling God has placed on your life.
Discipleship for Every Youth Leader
Explore these discipleship resources
Strategy + Training for Leaders
Adam Keehn Foundation
Equipping young youth pastors with practical tools and encouragement to confidently share the Gospel and lead students to Jesus from the start of ministry.
Jesus Focused Youth Ministry
Uniting leaders, parents, and students around a shared vision of Jesus to prioritize lasting life change over short-term engagement.
Lead222 Mentoring
Mentoring and coaching youth ministry leaders to lead healthy lives, families, and ministries in order to reach the next generation of students for Christ.
PACT Ministry
Offering life-on-life mentoring through prayer, accountability, and care to help youth pastors thrive personally, relationally, and in ministry.
Sonlife
Equipping leaders to make disciples through relational, Jesus-centered ministry modeled after the life and methods of Christ.
Standing Stone Ministries
Providing confidential, no-cost pastoral care through long-term relationships with experienced ministry leaders who understand the pressures of ministry life.
TENx10 Collaboration
Uniting ministries around a shared vision to reach 10 million teenagers with the Gospel through collaboration, research, and aligned national strategies.
UYWI
Developing urban youth leaders through culturally relevant training and community to drive transformation in leaders and students.
Discipling Students Tools
CoLeader
An all-in-one youth ministry platform that simplifies planning so leaders can focus on building relationships and making disciples.
Download Youth Ministry
Ready-to-use games, teaching, and resources that save time while creating engaging and impactful student experiences.
LeaderTreks
Experiential learning through trips and curriculum to help students grow through challenge, discovery, and hands-on discipleship.
Reframe Youth
Culturally relevant, urban-informed resources to effectively reach and disciple today's diverse generation of students.
Health for Every Network
Don't miss the power of community-wide networks of youth leaders
Steps to Strengthen Your Network
Find or launch a network in your area
Make a list of other youth leaders near you
Invite them to coffee or lunch
Start a monthly meet-up for prayer, encouragement, and collaboration
Tools for Networking
Discussion Guides
Quick Start Guide
Network Training
Network Coaching
Networks for Every Community
God is moving in your community—beyond the walls of your campus.
Explore, Engage, and Extend Your Reach
Connect with leaders of different backgrounds
Visit new neighborhoods and schools
Learn from your city's demographics and spiritual needs
Community Networking Partners
Access Youth Minsitry: Equipping churches to create inclusive youth ministries that effectively support and engage students impacted by disability.
Christian Educators: Supporting and connecting Christian educators to live out their faith boldly within the challenges of public education.
Fuel Networks: Mobilizing local leaders to collaborate around shared challenges and implement Gospel-centered solutions that strengthen their communities.
Juvenile Justice Ministry: Bringing ministries, churches, and individuals together to ensure every youth in lockup is reached with the gospel of Jesus.
Upward Sports: Partnering with the local church to leverage sports in their community.
Prayer for Every Campus
The needs in our community can feel overwhelming—but they should drive us to our knees
Next Steps in Prayer
Form prayer groups for schools
Meet with local leaders to pray together
Lead Footprints On Campus in your community
Join the Symphony of Prayer initiative
Encourage others to Adopt-a-School
Prayer Resources
Adopt-A-School
Mobilizing churches and individuals to intentionally pray for and serve local schools while building ongoing, meaningful relationships.
An Awesome Way to Pray
Guiding students into a lifestyle of evangelistic prayer through simple, relational rhythms focused on friends far from God.
Claim Your Campus
Empowering students to take spiritual ownership of their schools through consistent prayer, Gospel conversations, and peer-led ministry.
Footprints on Campus
A national event galvanazing communities to pray on campuses at the beignning of every school year.
Moms in Prayer
Connecting caring adults through relationships and intentional prayer for students.
Operation P.R.A.Y.
Serving students with opportunities to receive prayer near their school campus.
Pray For Me
Connecting students with caring adults through structured prayer relationships that foster belonging, identity, and spiritual growth.
See You At The Pole
Uniting students globally in student-led prayer gatherings, creating visible moments of faith on school campuses.
Symphony of Prayer
Encouraging the Church to join in unified prayer for students, participating in focused prayer events during August and September.
Teachers Who Pray
Equipping educators to integrate prayer and spiritual practices into daily life, strengthening both personal faith and classroom impact.
The Gospel for Every Teenager
As you disciple, connect, and pray, your heart will burn to reach more students with the Gospel
Steps to Reach More Students
Map the number of students in your city
Estimate how many are already reached by churches
Target your local mission field
Train students to share their story and the Gospel
Collaborate with other ministries for outreach
Evangelism Tools
9MMT
Equipping students to live as everyday missionaries by seeing their schools as mission fields and their peers as their calling.
Alpha Youth
Creating safe, conversational spaces for students to explore faith, ask questions, and encounter the gospel on their own terms.
Dare 2 Share
Equipping youth ministries to build gospel-advancing cultures through practical training and a clear framework for student-led evangelism.
Decision Point
Training and empowering students to become bold evangelists who lead peers to Christ through student-initiated outreach.
Every Student Sent
Connecting students to Christian community in college and mobilizing them to live on mission as they engage culture with the Gospel.
Evangelism Partners
Cru
Mobilizing students to reach peers with the Gospel through campus movements focused on evangelism, discipleship, and leadership development.
Collision
Training churches to build student-led Gospel movements that multiply disciples until every student has the opportunity to encounter Jesus.
FCA
Leveraging the platform of sports to reach students and coaches with the Gospel while developing leaders of faith and character.
First Priority
Establishing student-led clubs on school campuses that create consistent opportunities to share the Gospel with peers.
Young Life
Engaging students through relational ministry by meeting them where they are and earning the opportunity to share the Gospel authentically.
Youth Alive
Empowering students to live on mission by building student-led ministries that reach their schools with the hope of Jesus.
We'd love to walk with you.
Wherever you are, you're not stuck—and you're not alone.
We see you. We believe in you. And we want to see you thrive.
Call to connect with NNYM for support, coaching, and next steps.
Connect with us today: network@nnym.org, 1-800-CALL-NNYM