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    Help, I have a child with ADHD!

    2023-09-20T12:51:00Z

    Sam Donoghue and Catherine Truelove give their perspective on two tricky questions asked by youthworkers

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    Fashion and faith: how do I guide my teenager?

    2022-07-06T14:29:00Z

    Can I allow them to go out looking like that? 

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    Issues

    God has given us insight into how our brains develop. Let’s use it in the post-Covid season

    2022-06-06T13:20:00Z

    Have you noticed more meldowns in the children you know? 

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    All age creation resources

    2022-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Click here to access this month’s all-age service and other resources too.

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    Blog

    4 part series on Creation

    2022-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Linked below are December’s resources - all ready to use!

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    All age creation resources

    2022-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Click here to access this month’s all-age service and other resources too.

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    4 part series on Creation

    2022-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Linked below are creation resources - all ready to use!

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    Blog

    Jesus is for life, not just for Christmas

    2021-12-22T00:00:00Z

    With Christmas just around the corner, you may have already slipped into auto-pilot regarding the events you attend and the things you do. Alex Taylor thinks it’s time to think afresh about what you are doing so that your works benefits for the rest of the year too.

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    Blog

    What will you do next summer?

    2021-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Admit it. You have missed it haven’t you? Trudging through the mud, queuing for a shower, searching vainly for a charging point for your phone, surviving on five hours sleep a night. Yes, I am talking about the summer youth event. Hannah Williamson reflects on summer festivals and invites you to consider whether next summer could be a significant one for your group

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    Blog

    Q&A: Paul Nash & Victoria Beech

    2021-11-19T00:00:00Z

    For the last ten years children and parents have been benefiting from a series of books that have helped them through some of the toughest and most trying times that they have to face. The Held in Hope series is made up of four sensitively written, illustrated stories of young children facing a hospital stay, a serious or life-limiting illness, or dealing with death of a sibling, showing them where God and Jesus are in these frightening experiences.

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    Blog

    Starting the new term

    2021-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Whether you have started a new term so many times you can do it without thinking, or are a newbie who is forging new paths everywhere you turn, there’s no doubt that this new term will feel different. The virus hasn’t gone away, but with many now double vaccinated there is a sense of things opening up properly. Steve Henwood looks at what’s ahead, what you need to consider and how to stay sane as you do so

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    How far would you go to fill a room?

    2021-10-07T00:00:00Z

    With a national decline in numbers of young people attending church and youth groups, some youth workers have been experimenting with ways to ‘attract a crowd’. Always great to have good numbers at an event, but Tim Gough asks whether it is possible to go too far?

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    This much I know: More wisdom from a former youth worker (Part 2)

    2021-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Claire Farley has been asking former youth and children’s workers to look back on their work. In this second article she asks what they would have changed if they had their time again (Part 1 here). 

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    Looking back: The reflections of a former youth worker (Part 1)

    2021-10-07T00:00:00Z

    How do youth workers who go into other careers reflect back on their previous life? Claire Farley has been in youth work most of her working life, and was intrigued to find out. She asked eleven former youth and children’s workers the exact same questions; we are publishing the fruit of her research in the next two blog posts. 

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    Blog

    4 part series Beatitudes

    2021-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Linked below are July’s resources - all ready to use!

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    Series 2

    2021-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Welcome to series 2 of Leadership 101; a video teaching series designed to help busy youth and children’s ministry leaders invest in their leadership development. We hope that these teachings will help you develop your gifts, sharpen your skills and flourish as a leader.

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    Series 1

    2021-07-07T00:00:00Z

    You probably didn’t get into ministry to lead a team, but what if it’s equally important to invest in our team as it is to invest in our children and young people?

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    Pentecost Sunday

    Click here to access this month’s all-age service and other resources too.

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    The man through the roof

    2021-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Click here to access this month’s all-age service and other resources too. 

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    The life of Moses

    2021-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Click here to access this month’s all-age service and other resources too.