Characteristics of a Healthy Young Ministry - Kenda Creasy Dean
(Leading Edges, March 14, 2012, Lewis Center for Church Leadership)(www.www.churchleadership.com/leadingideas/issues/2012issues/120314.html)
Congregations that succeed in nurturing the faith of young people tend to demonstrate certain key characteristics. Kenda Creasy Dean identifies 11 top characteristics of a healthy youth ministry?

Faith Formation in Christian Practices with Youth & Young Adults - Don Richter

Don Richter offers thoughtful commentary and practical ideas for developing Christian practices faith formation with young people based on his experience with the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith and his work on the book, Way to Live.
(Source: Lifelong Faith Journal, www.LifelongFaith.com)

Forming Young Disciples - Tom East
Tom East brings together research and practice in adolescent faith formation and explores this through a variety of themes: 1) aims of adolescent faith formation, 2) the world of the adolescent faith learner, 3) settings and models for adolescent faith formation, and 4) curriculum and methods.
(Source: Lifelong Faith Journal, www.LifelongFaith.com)

Kitchen Table Youth Ministry - Jana Strukova
This article introduces a family-based approach to Christian formation of youth, centered around a metaphor of kitchen table. It argues that a kitchen table is a space for family’s togetherness. In this space families demonstrate care and nurture to their young in a tangible way as an alternative to professionalization of the children and youth’s formation. In this domestic space, youth are initiated into family, church, or community membership and faith tradition. 
(Source: Practical Matters, 2009, http://practicalmattersjournal.org/issue_toc/2)

Sustainable Youth Ministry - Mark DeVries
Mark DeVries describes how to create sustainable youth ministries that are led by systems leaders. Sustainable youth ministries make the leap from a short-term, patchwork ministry to ones based on established systems that last long after the current leadership team has moved on. Every church can build a sustainable youth ministry by attending first to the two key foundational systems for youth ministry: 1) architecture: the structures of sustainability, and 2) atmosphere: the culture, climate and ethos that sustain the health of an organization. [For a complete presentation of his approach, see Mark's book, Sustainable Youth Ministry, IVP Books, 2008.]
(Source: Lifelong Faith Journal, www.LifelongFaith.com) 

Transforming Practice: Emerging Literature on Children, Youth and Christian Formation - Karen-Marie Yust
Karen-Marie Yust reviews the books and edited volumes of 24 scholars or scholarly collaborations, highlighting shared themes and commitments in the major literature on children, youth and Christian formation that has emerged since 2000. A common thread among these scholars is the hope that sustained attention to the lives and spiritual journeys of children and youth in postmodern America will both stimulate and sustain young people’s faith and strengthen the church through the active and creative participation of children and youth in faith communities. 
(Source: Resources for American Christianity, http://www.resourcingchristianity.org/essay.aspx?ESYID=5ac8b5d6-a419-4a42-a4ef-0478ccee3793)