Want to transform that awkward silence into the sound of students laughing, thinking, sharing, and getting to know each other? Break the ice with questions! Simple discussion-starters like "What are your top three fast food restaurants, skills, or fears?" can become gateways to what's really going on with the kids you see every day. 144 pages, softcover from Youth Specialties.

This collection of 500 discussion prompts will get your students laughing, thinking, sharing, and getting to know each other. From the silly to the insightful, these 'Top 3' choices are great for icebreakers, time killers on road trips, and much more. Here's a smattering of what's inside: * What are your top 3 fast food restaurants? * What are your top 3 fears? * What are your top 3 cartoon characters? * What are your top 3 names of God? While these prompts may seem elementary, they are effective, efficient ways to get inside your students' heads and hearts. Think of them as gateway questions that can lead to deeper revelations of what's really going on with your kids.

Brian Schulenburg is a youth ministry veteran who has served churches in Virginia, Illinois, and Minnesota. He now serves as the Senior Pastor at Woodbury Community Church in Woodbury, Minnesota. Brian is the author of two other books in the Youth Specialties Quick Questions series, and he speaks at churches, schools, and conferences all over the United States. Married to his best friend, Cyndi, since 1991, Brian and his wife have four wonderful children: Breanna, Christopher, Jeremy, and Zachary.

'This resource is a small book with a big punch to get your discussions focused from the beginning....[A] must for every youth worker's backpack. -- YouthWorker Journal

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Author: Brian Schulenburg
Located in: Eden Prairie, MN
Submitted: August 01, 2006

    Tell us a little about yourself.  I've been married to Cyndi, my best friend in the entire world, for the past 15 years. We have four children that I adore. I love spending time with family, travel, baseball -- especially the Chicago Cubs and Minnesota Twins.

    What was your motivation behind this project?  I love the Quick Questions series of books published by Youth Specialties. My family and I were driving from Minneapolis to Chicago and I began to ask my own children questions that eventually turned into this book. We've used these questions with the students in our ministry and they love it.

    What do you hope folks will gain from this project?  I'm hoping that Choose Your Top 3 will help youth workers, parents, teachers, and students gain a better understanding of each other. Choose Your Top 3 is a discussion starter book that reveals more about a person than the average discussion starter book. Why? Because, the questions are asked in such a way that they require the person to give three answers. I love the unique insights that this book offers into the teenagers in our lives.

    Who are your influences, sources of inspiration or favorite authors / artists?  I love the writings of Mark Buchannan, Louie Giglio, Leith Anderson, Chuck Colson, Philip Yancey, Donald Miller, Elmer Towns, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rob Bell, Doug Fields, and Rick Warren. I love the music of Chris Rice, Keith Green, Rich Mullins, David Crowder, Tim McGraw, Sara Groves, and Casting Crowns.

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