All Editorial articles – Page 104
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Ready-to-use Games + Ice Breakers : Pointless Games
The role of games in youth work can be a matter of debate. What’s the point of them? What do they achieve? Some games can have learning sneakily inserted into them, teaching important skills and principles, but others literally have no point at all, and just involve doing something random for its own sake. Like this month’s games – there’s no point to them at all, except for fun. Oh, I get it – that’s kind of the point. So, after much waffling, this month’s theme: pointless fun.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Games + Ice Breakers: Football Games
Football games might sound like a tautology: obviously football is already a game. But football contains some glorious minutiae that are ripe for being explored and played with, and so, in honour of the European Championships this month, here are some football games.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Games + Ice Breakers:TV Games
In 2002, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers sang, ‘Throw away your television’. Well, it’s 2016 and it looks like this campaign wasn’t very successful. Newsflash – TV is here to stay! With that in mind, here are some games inspired by shows from the best / most damaging (delete according to your mood) form of communication. (And as TV is a format that demands quick, punchy ideas, rather than writing out these games in great length, we’ve explained them as quickly as possible, with some illustrations.)
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Ready-to-use Games + Icebreakers: Breakfast Games
Each month I attempt to suggest a theme for the games, or - at the very least - some kind of nominal link between them. This month’s is almost certainly more tenuous than ever. The connecting theme between them is: things you use at breakfast time. (I can only apologise.)
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Ready-to-use Discussion : Breaking the Habit
I don’t know about you but I watch some rubbish on TV. I get addicted to the latest series of Masterchef, watch average quiz shows that I’m barely enjoying and I don’t even want to think about how many times I’ve watched each episode of Friends. This kind of lazy approach to our viewing habits is as terrifying as it is dull and perhaps tells us something about life in the 21st century…
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Issues’I had a messy break-up with someone in my church’
I had just started my second year of university, studying at Oxford CYM for a degree in youth and community work with applied theology, when my girlfriend of four and a half years broke up with me. All break-ups are bad and this one was no exception. In fact, this one was spectacularly unpleasant.
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IssuesBridging the skills gap
As shocking as it may sound, no children’s ministry team is perfect. No matter how brilliant your group, you’ll be missing... something. This is where resources can be invaluable, filling some of these gaps...
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