Stepping Out On Your Own: Devotions for High School Graduates - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0835810135 ISBN 13: 9780835810135

Publisher: Upper Room Books, 2010

Synopsis

Whether a young person is beginning work full-time, continuing his or her education, or exploring the world, the time after high school graduation is a profound transition. Stepping Out On Your Own provides spiritual support that is important when developing new friendships and encountering new challenges.

A meaningful gift from family, friends, and churches.

About this title

About the Author

Kara Lassen Oliver is executive director of The Upper Room Center for Christian Spiritual Formation. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Oliver and her family (husband, Jeff, and children, Claire Marin and Carter) spent two years in Malawi, Africa, as Volunteers in Mission. Oliver is the author of Passing It On: How to Nurture Your Child's Faith Season by Season and the compiler of Stepping Out on Your Own: Devotions for High School Graduates and Meeting the Messiah: Scriptures for the Advent Season. Oliver has served Discipleship Resources International, part of Discipleship Ministries, as director of publishing initiatives in the Central Conferences. She spent several years as a freelance editor and writer and was youth minister at Belmont United Methodist Church in Nashville from 2003-2006. She holds a master of divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School and a bachelor of arts in religious studies from Butler University.

From the Back Cover

The tassels have been turned, the last notes of "Pomp and Circumstance" have faded, and the graduation parties have come to an end. Now what? Whether you move into full-time work, continue your education, or explore for a while, you'll have a chance to create new rituals and patterns of life, develop new friends and communities, and face new challenges. As you make your way, *Stepping Out on Your Own** will remind you that you are not alone. Each of its 93 meditations, from the pages of the award-winning teen devotional magazine *devozine, ** starts with scripture and ends with an invitation to prayer or other action. Let *Stepping Out on Your Own** encourage you to grow in understanding that you are unique and uniquely gifted to participate in the transformation of this world with God. *Stepping Out on Your Own** is a collection of 93 meditations from the pages of devozine, the award-winning devotional magazine for teens. Each meditation reminds new graduates that they aren't alone on this journey. God's presence and promises are available to guide them through the sometimes exciting, sometimes scary period of young adulthood. Kara Lassen Oliver organizes the meditations into three movements of this journey: (1) Leave-taking, (2) Listening for God, and (3) Coming Together. Each brief meditation, many of them written by young adults, starts with scripture and ends with an invitation to prayer or other action. This book belongs on the nightstands of all recent high school graduates.

Edition details

• Publisher: Upper Room Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0835810135
• ISBN 13: 9780835810135
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144