All Blog articles – Page 41
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BlogThe Youth Group Reunion
When I was 13 – short, unpopular and almost perfectly spherical - someone invited me along to a church youth group. I had no prior interest in God - my main concerns at that time were Atari ST games and the lingering worry that no girl would ever look at me without retching.
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BlogOnly grief leads to newness
In this week's Youthwork blog, Jonny Baker of CMS Pioneer Leadership Training shares how our grief with the current state of youth ministry can inspire us into newness
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BlogReady-to-use Mentoring: From great to good
Good is the enemy of great.’ (James C. Collins Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t)
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Godly Play in practice
We can talk about Godly Play and the theory behind it until the cows come home. But the ultimate question is – does it really work? Following his article Godly Play in the latest issue of Premier Childrenswork (available online here), Alex Taylor spoke to the Salvation Army's training and development officer, Andrea Harrison – who already uses Godly Play with people of all ages – and asks: does it really work?
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BlogGo West...with a grateful heart
I was at a wedding over the weekend, and on popped the stone-cold Paul Simon classic, ‘You can call me Al,’ much to the delight of just about everyone present. Except me.
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BlogHolding on and letting go
On the back of Jo Dolby's Balancing Act feature in this month's magazine, we have a series of blogs on tension and paradox within youth ministry. This week, Jo Whitehead of CYM looks at holding on and letting go.
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Ready-to-use Rhythms: Generosity
Living generously takes our everyday walking, buying, eating and chatting and turns it on its head. It takes our connection with injustice and gives us the resources to do something about it. Living generously takes the stuff we own, the stuff we love and makes it exciting.
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BlogGross Games
It had to happen at some point; every now and then you want to play a game that is grosser than humanly imaginable. A game that you don’t want to tell your church leader about. A game that pushes your young people to the very precipice of human decency. A game where there is a very real chance of a young person rushing out of the room in a desperate attempt to to make it to the bathroom. Here are a few of those games…
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Ready-to-use Games + Icebreakers: Paper Plane games
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: not only a Christmas movie, but also a hint as to what this month’s games are all about. Apart from the trains bit – I haven’t included many games involving trains, or automobiles come to think of it. For these games you will need a plentiful supply of paper from which your group will make paper planes. See a website such as paperaeroplanes.com for ideas!
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BlogThe numbers game
In this week's Youthwork blog, Andy du Feu, director of youth and community work at Moorlands, discusses our obsession with numbers.
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BlogReady-to-use Movie: Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy has a colourful and varied cast, including self-appointed ‘Star Lord’ Peter Quill, a roguish smuggler who was
abducted from earth in the 80s, a walking tree called Groot, a talking racoon called Rocket, a genetically altered assassin named Gamora and
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BlogA pilgramage into the future
In this week's YW Blog, Richard Passmore of StreetSpace explains some of the practices he has put in place as a leader and how he thinks they could help the future of youth ministry
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BlogWaiting for the fruit
Phoebe Thompson on what we can learn from Miranda Hart (and other famous people’s Wiki bios)One of my favourite pastimes is reading biographies of famous actors and actresses. Unlike the sophisticated among us – who purchase inspiring books from respectable book stores on successful individuals – I happily scroll for hours through Wikipedia entries on the latest soap stars.
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BlogWhy does God hate my gay friend?
It’s tragic that many LGBT+ teenagers think they would not be welcome in a church or a Christian’s home. For any part that we as youth workers, or the Church have played in giving that impression, we’re sorry. We’re sorry because it is utterly heart-breaking but also because it isn’t true. In fact, this anti-welcome couldn’t be further from the truth. The Church isn’t, nor was ever meant to be, a museum of saints (thank God!), but a place where broken people (all of us) get to come and meet with a God who loves them unconditionally.
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BlogHoly Week - Good Friday
This Holy Week, we'll be publishing a series of five reflective blogs from Gerard Kelly to take us through the period. Today, he examines Good Friday.
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BlogFootball Loyalty
This time of year brings about worries and stress like no other, no it’s not the impending A-level or GCSE examinations, nor is it the anxious wait to see if your phone has been hacked by the local papers – it’s the football summer transfer window...
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BlogReady-to-use Mentoring: One of your five-a-day
Here’s a challenge… Don’t think of a pink elephant… I said don’t! I bet you can’t get that image out of your head now.
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Fishing for people
For the first time ever, Youthwork opened up its doors for a one-day writers masterclass. Sixteen youth workers gathered from all corners of the country to share ideas, learn skills and to hone their craft. In the coming weeks we will be posting guest blogs from the attendees – here’s one from Jo Royal.
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