Working with youth - one of the most demanding, fulfilling, frustrating, exhilarating responsibilities in the Church or in parenting. Doughnuts, Letters, and Midnight Phone Calls is the story - or, more accurately, the stories - of one woman's eighteen years of working with youth in seminary, Sunday School, and Young Women. You'll laugh at the sleepy-eyed kids dragging out to seminary on the off-chance that there might be doughnuts today, or at the former student who calls her teacher with reports of her infant son's antics. And you'll cry at mistakes made, warnings unheeded, young people floundering as they struggle to find their way, and youth leaders agonizing as they try to keep the connection intact. The joys, the pain, the stirrings of faith, and the workings of the Spirit - all are part of this exciting book.