All Blog articles – Page 32
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BlogNo child is unadoptable
Last week was National Adoption Week and Premier Youth and Children’s Work spoke to Tom Rutter, school chaplain and founder of Christian football charity Kick London about adoption
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BlogParable: Matt and the missing juggernaut
Matt put down his brush and looked at the final juggernaut. It was perfect - the snarl, the threatening stance - and it was his best painting job by far, not that the other nine were amateurish. He hadn’t dared to imagine how great they would look when he bought the ten juggernaut figures for his Warhammer collection.
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BlogCraft: Good Friday
Good Friday can often be a tough part of the Easter story to explore. It involves sadness, pain and despair, and can be a source of deep conversation with children and young people. It would be easy to gloss over this part of the story, but it is important to allow children to explore the depths as well as the highs of Easter. Here are some crafts, which will help children to explore the events and emotions of this day in a visual, hands-on way. As usual, each craft allows time and space for discussion and freedom of creativity.
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BlogKeeping brothers and sisters together through adoption
To celebrate National Adoption Week, adoption charity Coram explain the importance of adopting siblings together
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BlogEaster Sunday: Session 4
Meeting aim: To reflect on the experience of the women as they discovered that Jesus was alive. To wonder why this is important to us now.
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BlogPalm Sunday: Session 1
Meeting aim: To explore the story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem and how the crowds responded to him.
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BlogSinger/songwriter Chloe Reynolds talks about teen struggles, her second album and being on tour with Lulu
If you are looking for a positive role model for teenage girls, look no further. Deputy editor of Premier Youth and Children’s Work Emily Mitchell spoke to Chloe Reynolds about her music and how she has coped with low self-esteem as a teenager
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BlogSanctuary: creating safe spaces to talk about mental health with young people
On World Mental Health Day Rachael Newham from mental health charity ThinkTwice talks about creating sanctuaries for young people.
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BlogMothers under fire: a mother’s response to Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali
Being a mother can be immensely joyful and rewarding but it can also be incredibly tough. Motherhood is even harder when we face criticism.
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BlogCyber bullying: how digital citizenship lessons should just be the beginning
One quarter of teenagers admit to bullying or insulting someone on the internet. Think tank Demos says the government should respond by funding digital citizenship lessons. Lahna Pottle from Youthscape explains why she thinks this is a good start but cannot be the only answer.
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Blog5 ways your youth group can respond to humanitarian crises
From three earthquakes in Mexico, to Hurricane Irma wreaking havoc across the Caribbean, to a refugee crisis in Myanmar – the world has been rocked by humanitarian crises in recent weeks. It can leave us here in the UK feeling useless and asking what can we actually do to help?
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BlogParable: Flat battery
The girls crowded around the stage door. Their ears were still ringing from the concert. What a night it had been. They’d heard all their favourite tracks: ‘Ooh baby, I love you’, ‘I love you, baby’, ‘Ooh, baby’ and ‘Love is an existential construct (but I love you baby)’. And now they were waiting for their hero, Olly Bieberlake, to come out and meet his fans.
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BlogAll-age service: Room without a roof
Meeting aim: To see that Jesus heals the paralysed man, but only after fixing his eternal problem.
