In 1984 they started publishing bimonthly the Youthworker Journal 3).
“YS has totally been a God thing,” says Mike. What started in a garage is now serving more than 100,000 volunteer and career youth workers every year. The scope of the ministry has grown to three national conventions, 100 one-day training seminars, four contemplative Sabbath retreats for youth workers, and one national convention for pastors-in addition to books, CD-ROMS, videos, Youthworker journal, and a very active Web site (www.youthspecialties.com). YS has partnered with over 500 Christian bookstores (YS Certified Dealers) and is supporting ministries in South America, India, Cuba, and Northern Ireland. “We sure didn't know where youth ministry or our little company was headed,” says Mike. “All we knew was that God was somehow inviting us into this thing. It's been a wild ride-and one that I hope continues for a long, long time 4).”

We invite you to discover for yourself this amazing website, were you’ll find an enormous amount of youth ministry resources (some for free), quite updated, practical, pertinent and a countless number of novelties concerning youth publications 5).
For those eager of a more consistent or intellectual reading and deeper study, don’t miss the Academic link 6), were you can also find the Journal of Youth Ministry 7) so useful for Ministry Educators.
If you have a Youth group website or blog, you can publicise it in this website (http://www.youthspecialties.com/links/), and subscribing to their newsletters 8) receive updates for new materials, articles, sources, ministries, etc.
So just visit the youth specialties that’ll enrich your ministry!

For further information about the founders:

1)  www.youthspecialties.com/articles/Yaconelli/
     tribute/early_years.php
2)  www.youthspecialties.com/about/30th/
3)  www.youthworker.com/
4) Ibid.
5)  www.ysopenbook.com/
6)  www.youthspecialties.com/academic/
7)  www.aymeducators.org/
8)  echo3.bluehornet.com/clients/youthspecialties/survey.htm