All Blog articles – Page 45
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BlogA Discipleship Crisis
In this week's Youthwork blog, Pete Baker of PaisGB discusses the important role discipleship should play in all youth ministry.
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BlogThe discipleship crisis
Youth ministry isn’t facing a discipleship crisis, the Church is facing a discipleship crisis. As youth workers, we have a huge role to play in this: how can our work now build lifelong disciples, passionate about passing that faith on to others? Ali Campbell kicks off our new blog series…
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Ready-to-use schools work: The developing spirituality course
Youthscape is an ecumenical Christian project founded over two decades ago by a group of 45 churches. One of our key objectives is to develop innovative and proven ways to explore spiritual development from both a Christian and inter-faith basis, in educational settings. Our
work is directly with young people in the 13 secondary schools in Luton, but our resources and methods are shared across the UK through a network of 8,000 practitioners. -
BlogA day in the life of : Katharine O'Brien, youth co-ordinator
This week's 'day in the life' comes from Katharine O'Brien, a catechetical and youth co-ordinator at a Catholic Church in Wanstead. She shares some of the experiences she's had in her varied role.
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BlogFirst contact
One academic year has gone and another is fast approaching. If you don’t already have contact with your local primary school, then the turn of another year might be a good time to make contact. Schools can be intimidating places, particularly if you yourself weren’t a fan when you were younger; so just how do you go about it? We decided to go right to the top and ask a head teacher the best ways of introducing yourself and offering to help.
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BlogMABS Youth & Community Project - Exodus
For 800 hundred years, St Andrews Enfield has been an active presence in the community in the heart of Enfield. This has taken a new expression over the last few months in the form of MABS, a new youth and community project. Find out more about MABS and why it was started here.
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BlogTime to get over our fear of commitment
In this week's Youthwork blog, Paul Friend questions our fear of commitment and why we need to let it go in order to see change.
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BlogClassic games
Is it really that time again? Has it come round so soon? Yes it’s everyone’s favourite Games master of the year: the classics column! Here are games that have been enjoyed for generations – let’s introduce them to a whole new audience! Isn’t it great to have games that children, parents and grandparents can all enjoy?
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BlogReady-to-use Reflective Journal: Prayer circles of emotional health
There are certain building blocks which help us to stay emotionally healthy; the activity below is a way to engage with God around those building blocks.
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BlogHow churches can support unaccompanied minors in Europe
The famous quote from Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer sums up the mood of many this week: “The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” Whilst “its children” could be interpreted as UK children; the parable of The Good Samaritan expands “its children” to anyone in need, the outsider, the one from other countries. This seems even truer today as we recognise the Global Village and Global City we call home.
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BlogReady-To-Use Discussion: The Persecuted Church
According to Open Doors, 100 million Christians around the world face persecution.
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BlogFive inventions that have 'helped' the Church
Inventions are created to make our lives easier. As Christians, we often have to fight for technological advancements to make their way into the Church. Whether that be the fight to get some cool new electric guitars into our worship, or the decision to update the stovetop kettle to an electric urn, there has often been opposition. But some inventions have made things genuinely easier. We look at some of the best below
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BlogThe Church and its role in youth ministry
The first Youthwork Blog of the year comes from Fraser Keay, who shares his thoughts on youth ministry and the important role the Church has to play.
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BlogYouth work isn’t dead. The Church needs a reformation.
In the last Youthwork blog, Dave Welch pronounced that youth work was dead, and it didn't need a revolution. Ali Campbell agreed with some of David's points, but he doesn't feel youth work is the problem...
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BlogThe Church needs to learn from young people
In the first of our blog series, Martin Saunders called for a revolution in youth ministry (you can read the original article here). But what does this revolution look like? Becca Dean wonders if the Church might have more to learn from young people, than to teach them
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BlogStop going to church
What if the youth ministry revolution we need is not a revitalising of the old, but a completely fresh start? This week, Joel Toombs holds nothing back
