About YouthWorker Journal: YouthWorker Journal is a magazine that addresses the professional and personal concerns of serious youth workers in church and parachurch settings. Each issue includes in-depth articles exploring various aspects of that issue's theme (some past themes: Reinforcing Theology, New Horizons, Helping Kids in Pain, Spreading the Word, Student Worship) as well as nonthematic pieces. Article formats include thematic overviews, provocative responses from youth workers to pointed questions, interviews, first-person accounts of life in the youth ministry trenches, and columns focused on junior high ministry, family ministry, parachurch ministry, and volunteers.