New Releases by David Overholt

The year is 3079, mankind is on the brink of destruction.For ten years an alien race known only as THE REAPERS have waged a merciless war against humanity.Now in possession of a stolen TEMPORAL WARP DRIVE, they plan to travel to the past to defeat us before we can pose a threat to them.Doctor NATHANIEL REDMAN with the aid of Space Pirate, Captain JACK BRIGHTON race against time to stop this dark menace.But before they can stop the REAPERS, they must ESCAPE FROM THE MOON!

What are they like? In some ways they're very different from previous generations--"more responsible, more conservative, more concerned about the future, more materialistic, and certainly more saturated by the media. In other ways they're like young people of any era--"music-loving, friend-loving, concerned about justice, eager to change society, and (though they may not admit it) longing for admission into the adult world. In this book, veteran youth ministers Overholt and Penner "soul-search" this fascinating generation, helping adults understand how to create programs that fit these teens' needs and aspirations. The authors point out that developing good youth programs can be a major challenge, for the youth world is quite different from the adult world. At the same time, youth work can be refreshingly simple: amazing growth begins to happen when adults treat young people as their equals and love them as they are.

Youth workers, big sisters, and social workers among others are attempting to facilitate the personal development of adolescents. Mentoring is a relationship that has potential in these endeavors, but the concept has not been explored specifically in the area of adults mentoring adolescents. This thesis argues that the mentoring of adolescents is significantly different than other forms of mentoring. It does so by identifying the special needs of identity formation in adolescents. An initial sums of the history and literature of mentoring is used to identify several markers of mentoring. Three of these markers are found to be helpful in identity formation of adolescents. These markers include the type of power, dialogue and modeling in the relationship. Each of the above markers is examined in the following chapters. The markers are clarified as referent power, dialogical relationship and identification modeling. In each case further clarification of the markers are made by contrasting them with other adult-adolescent relationships, such as teachers, coaches, and parents. The final chapter of the thesis takes the conceptual analysis of mentoring adolescents and makes recommendations to mentors and mentoring programs, bringing a greater degree of clarity to the practice of adults mentoring adolescents.