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Sticky Faith: Everyday Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Your Kids Paperback – September 28, 2011

by Kara E. Powell (Author), Chap Clark (Author), John Ortberg (Foreword),
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Sticky Faith delivers positive and practical ideas to nurture within your kids a living, loving faith that lasts a lifetime.

Research indicates that almost half of high school seniors drift from their faith after graduation.

Struck by this staggering statistic, and recognizing its ramifications, the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) conducted the "College Transition Project" in an effort to identify the relationships and best practices that can set young people on a trajectory of lifelong faith and service.

This easy-to-read guide presents both a compelling rationale and a powerful strategy to show parents how to actively encourage their children’s spiritual growth so that it will stick with them into adulthood and empower them to develop a living, lasting faith.

Written by Fuller Youth Institute Executive Director Dr. Kara E. Powell and youth expert Chap Clark--authors known for the integrity of their research and the intensity of their passion for young people--Sticky Faith is geared to spark a movement that empowers adults to develop robust and long-term faith in kids of all ages.

Further engage your family and church with the Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family, Sticky Faith curriculum, and Sticky Faith youth worker edition. Sticky Faith is also available in Spanish, Cómo criar jóvenes de fe sólida.

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Dr. Kara E. Powell is an educator, professor, youth minister, author, and speaker. She is the Executive director of the Fuller Youth Institute and a faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary (see www.fulleryouthinstitute.org). Kara also serves as an Advisor to Youth Specialties and currently volunteers in student ministries at Lake Avenue church in Pasadena, CA. She is the author of many books including Sticky Faith: Everyday Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Your Kids (with Chap Clark) and Deep Justice Journeys. Kara lives in Pasadena with her husband, Dave, and their children, Nathan, Krista, and Jessica.



Chap Clark, PhD (Univ. of Denver), has more than 25 years of experience in youth and family ministry. He is Associate Provost for Regional Campuses and Special Projects and Professor of Youth, Family, and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. Chap’s extensive books, articles, and videos focus primarily on relationships. Among his many books are Hurt and Hurt 2.0; Disconnected: Parenting Teens in a MySpace World (coauthored with his wife, Dee); and Deep Justice in a Broken World. Chap and Dee live in Gig Harbor, Washington.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zondervan (September 28, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0310329329
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0310329329
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.63 x 8.5 inches
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    Kara Powell, PhD, is Chief of Leadership Formation and Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) at Fuller Theological Seminary (see fulleryouthinstitute.org). Named by Christianity Today as one of “50 Women to Watch”, Kara serves as a Youth and Family Strategist for Orange, and also speaks regularly at parenting and leadership conferences. Kara is the author of Faith Beyond Youth Group, 3 Big Questions That Change Every Teenager & 3 Big Questions That Shape Your Future, Growing With, Growing Young, Sticky Faith (and The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family), and a number of other books and curriculum.

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    Chap Clark (MA, MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary; PhD, University of Denver) is lead pastor at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, CA. Prior to this, Chap was professor of Youth, Family, and Culture and Vice Provost at Fuller Theological Seminary. In addition Chap is president of ParenTeen™ (www.parenteen.com), a frequent speaker, consultant, ministry and life coach and author. He was the senior editor of YouthWorker Journal, a Sojourner contributing writer and "Red Letter Communicator," and is the author or co-author of 25 books, including the award-winning titles Sticky Faith (with Kara Powell, Zondervan, 2011), "Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers, "Youth Ministry in the 21st Century: 5 Views" and "Adoptive Youth Ministry: Integrating Emerging Generations into the Family of Faith" (all Baker Academic).

    Chap has served in many diverse settings over his career. He has been a senior and administrative pastor, is on call as a consulting producer for reality television, and is a regular commentator on a wide range of cultural issues, primarily in terms of adolescent/young adult development, marriage/family/parenting, and more recently society and media and faith. He cut his teeth on the Young Life staff for 15 years.

    Dee, a marriage and family therapist who specializes in "equine assisted psychotherapy" (www.healingreins.com) and Chap (www.chapclark.com) have been married for 40 years, have three adult children and five grandchildren. Chap is currently serving in Newport Beach and retreats at their family home in Gig Harbor, WA.

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Hannah Wingert
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read for Christian Parents
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2021
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This book explains how to build a lasting or "sticky faith in your kids with concrete, practical ideas that you can easily implement into your life right now to make a difference with your kids. Great read and highly recommend it to anyone who wants to do their best to keep their kids walking with God, even after they've left home.
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Sarah Levels
5.0 out of 5 stars A Sticky Foundation for the Next Generation of Kids
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This is another very informative book about how to reach out to the next Generations to install Sticky Faith, and how to make it stick like glue. This is very informative if read together with Faith for Exiles.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book very relevant .
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Good book for small group, used workers and parents. They relevant for our culture in times.
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Brent
4.0 out of 5 stars A Guide to Converstaions
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2013
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Sticky Faith is a book that describes a process of raising children that love Jesus. Authors Dr. Kara E. Powell and Dr. Chap Clark take a statistical look at the characteristics of young adults who follow Christ. Their studies reveal a series of sticky practices that parents can incorporate to build everlasting faith into their kids. Topics such as identity, social justice, and relationships describe some of the important conversations that parents need to be having with their children. Sticky Faith serves as a guide to these conversations and offers insight into what is most important for the spiritual life of your kids.
Clark and Powell speak frankly with their audience and offer great parenting insight and advice. Their statistical approach can feel matter-of-fact but they do not neglect the many nuances behind parenting. The sticky metaphor became a bit grating and the constant drive towards stickyfaith.org sounded like a commercial for more sticky products. The overall tone of the book is helpful and the style of publication didn't obfuscate my experience.
I would recommend this book to parents. The scope of Sticky Faith leans towards older elementary aged kids. The principles are relevant to anyone who works with children but the target audience is definitely mom and dad.

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5.0 out of 5 stars faith that is deep, true, and enduring
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2013
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"How we interacted with a homeless person, for instance, will probably make a more indelible impression on our kids' faith than the size of the check we wrote to our church that week."

It's a story we have heard all too often. A good kid grows up in the church, reads his Bible regularly, is heavily involved in the youth group, he knows the Lord's Prayer like the back of his hand, yet he goes off to college and his faith goes out the window. He no longer goes to church, no desire to do devotions, no interest in pursuing a deep faith. And the numbers don't lie: the majority of young men and women will abandon their faith soon in the young adulthood.

Sticky Faith attempts to find the solution. What makes faith stick? The authors go through a mound of research to expose what works and what doesn't work. They balance out their research with practical tips for parents and youth group leaders.

I have read a handful of books and articles about "keeping the faith" but I was really impressed with this work. In my opinion, Christians tend to regularly shy away from research probably because research rarely gives us the news we want to hear. So instead believers utilize vague clichés and formulas such as "let the Holy Spirit work" or "just pray and the results will follow." In this work, the authors use their resources from Fuller Seminary to show how we can help young men and women form a faith that is deep, true, and enduring.
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Sam's Mommy
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for adult Sunday School class
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2013
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We used this for an adult Sunday school class. The format is excellent: 20 minutes of DVD then 4-5 discussion questions at the end, it was perfect for a 1 hour class. The adults also were glad not to have "homework" to have done prior to class. We found the material to be interesting and relevant with plenty of ideas for practical application. We met 5 weeks in a row to do each of the 5 lessons then on the 6th week we met one more time to bring ideas to the table for what our church can do to make positive changes based on what we learned.
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ColoradoDreamin
5.0 out of 5 stars Insight you can not just learn from ... but APPLY
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2012
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In the last five years, there have been a host of solid books published that lay out comprehensive, big picture thinking for why it's critical parents get engaged in the spiritual formation of their kids.

This book is set apart from others for two reasons: 1. It is rooted in research from Fuller Youth Institute that helps parents focus on the areas of their child's life that are disproportionately important to developing a long-term, lasting Christian faith. 2. It offers practical, easy-to-apply insight that is often lacking in other books which cast vision for a parent's Deuteronomy 6 role to "train up children in the way they should go" so that when they are older they will not fall away from it.

I recommend Sticky Faith to parents who are looking for practical ways to pass down lasting faith to their children in the areas that matter most.
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Tina Ulery
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely a must for today's parent!
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2013
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We are using this curriculum for our Middle School Parents small group. My pastor had mentioned the book in his series on parenting a few months ago. I was thrilled there was a DVD, being the visual person that I am. Kara E Powell gives some frightening statistics on the falling away of our children when they go off to college. She herself being a youth leader thinking she was reaching these kids realized there was something missing.
I love Kara's honesty and openess and the testimonies of teens out of school and what their struggles were like. They share what their parents did that stuck with them and where they may have missed the mark. These teens in no way blame their parents, they understand they made choices to lead them down a certain path but being a parent of a child who is almost 21, been thru Teen Challenge and is now on fire for the Lord I can look back and see where my faults lie. Now raising a 13 and 15 year old I wanted to share with other parents what I've learned and use Sticky Faith as a tool for us to glean from.
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Marcos Torres
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and encouraging
Reviewed in Australia on January 3, 2022
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A must read for Christian parents who want to disciple their kids away from behaviour modification and toward living faith.
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CKW Liu
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Very insightful and helpful book for family ministry
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Laura Sampson
5.0 out of 5 stars great book for parents or those in childrens/youth ministry
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2014
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Really helpful, thorough research, largely applicable to a UK setting even though the transitions in schooling are slightly different. Really practical ideas and great questions at the end of the chapters to help you get to grips with the material and apply it personally.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Really interesting study on why young people leave their faith behind and how we can prevent that happening.
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Sarah MacIsaac
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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