All Blog articles – Page 6
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BlogWell-being, collective trauma and the body
How we can help our young people to feel safe, calm and regulated at a time when everything about life in a pandemic is chaotic and potentially upsetting?
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BlogHow Safe is Your Group?
On Tuesday 6th October 2020, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) published its full report into the Anglican Church. This follows the interim report, which was published in May 2019, focusing upon case studies from the Diocese of Chichester and the abuses by Bishop Peter Ball. YCW spoke to Thirtyone:eight, who provide a regular column on safeguarding in YCW, about some of the implications
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BlogLoose parts and making connections
I was recently looking at the Benedictus, the words Zechariah says on the birth of his son, John the Baptist in Luke 1:67-79. It’s a powerful passage, although not as well-known as Mary’s song a few verses earlier in the chapter. As I looked at it, I started to see connections with various Old Testament passages.
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BlogPraying with children and young people
Prayer is such a vital part of our relationship with God, but if we’re being honest, if often gets squeezed out at the end of our session. If we’re doing a face-to-face Sunday session, we could get called back into the service at any time. We get the nod that the sermon is finishing, and we rush to say a one-line prayer to round things up before herding the children or young people back to rejoin the adults. Even online, we can run out of time, with everything taking longer to organise remotely.
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BlogThe reality, the challenge and the lie of the ‘new normal’
There is very little about life as we knew it pre-March 2020 that is still happening and, despite a prevailing feeling among many that we’re all a bit sick of the impact that COVID-19 has had so far, there is, without a doubt, more change to come. We always were ...
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Blog4 part series on Abraham
Linked below are children, young people and all-age resources - all ready to use!
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BlogWhat do ‘rule of six’ and other lockdown restrictions mean for youth groups?
The government has confirmed that churches and activities linked to them will remain exempt from the new restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus.
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BlogBible App for Kids sees record-breaking downloads during 2020
The Bible App for Kids, which is a child-friendly version of the YouVersion and OneHope Bible, has been downloaded to more than 14 million devices this year.
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BlogUK’s teenagers the most unhappy in Europe
A new study by The Children’s Society has found young people in the UK have the lowest levels of life satisfaction across most of Europe with a fear of failure being one of the biggest reasons.
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BlogChristian charity rewarding key workers with much needed break
A Christian charity has encouraged key workers – including those working in church settings – to take a break after a long and hard six months of working during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Blog4 part series on people who met Jesus
Linked below are children, young people and all-age resources - all ready to use!
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BlogWhat does digital discipleship look like?
Tim Suffield looks at how you might help a Gen Z grow in Christ, in a world where print takes a back seat and where cultural shaping happens so fast.
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BlogGetting Crafty
Craft forms a key part of most children’s work on a Sunday morning. Late on Saturday night, children’s workers around the country can be found cutting out templates, gluing lolly sticks together or frantically cramming Pringles into their mouth so that they can have enough tubes for the next morning.
