All Editorial articles – Page 124
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IssuesLaying down the law
One of the most demoralising situations for any children’s ministry volunteer is working with an out of control group of children. The volunteer can leave the undisciplined group feeling like nothing of importance was accomplished because the whole time was spent pleading with the children to be good. Perhaps the volunteer can feel like they are in the wrong position; ‘I’m not suited to this,’ they might think, and hand in their resignation.
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BlogA world without Down’s syndrome?
What sort of world do we want to live in and who do we want to live in it? How do we choose that world and who gets to choose? On Wednesday the 5th October at 9pm, BBC Two aired A World Without Down’s Syndrome? a documentary fronted by actress Sally Phillips, which explored these questions and the ethics of pregnancy screening.
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IssuesQ & A: Rev Dr Howard Worsley
Sam Donoghue meets Rev Dr Howard Worsley – an authority on using Bible stories with children.
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IssuesOh the drama...
You may be the drama ‘type’, or recoil at the thought of any kind of dramatic activity. Whatever your theatrical persuasion, Premier Childrenswork’s resident thespian Alex Taylor believes that drama can be a powerful way of unlocking stories with children.
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IssuesThe Dream Team
We’ve all been there… met by a sea of blank faces after our desperate and visionary pleas for more help with the youth group. How do we go about recruiting new volunteers, and what are we even looking for? Youth Ministry Management’s Joel Preston gives some tips for building your dream team
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IssuesGirl Guides drops God from promise
Girl Guides has taken the radical step of revising its promise of allegiance – dropping a historic vow to love and serve God. Following a consultation with members, the 102 year-old organisation has maintained the pledge ‘to serve my queen and community’, and now includes a promise to ‘be true to myself and develop my beliefs’. The move is expected to broaden membership of the largest voluntary organisation for girls and young women in the UK, which currently has 546,000 members.
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BlogWalls to dust: A response
In the latest issue, Richard and Lori Passmore called many of our church and youth ministry walls to dust, in their lessons from the fringes of youth work. Mark Walley disagrees. Here’s why:
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IssuesWalls To Dust: Learning from the edge
Pioneer youth workers Richard Passmore and Lori Passmore reflect on lessons learnt from working on the margins with young people, and more recently through the Streetspace community of practice
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King's Faith (DVD) - Faith Street Partners & Provident Films
King’s Faith takes you on a journey from a prison to a foster home. Brendan King turns his life around with help from a Christian couple who foster him and encourage him to join the local high school’s CU. However, his ex-gang ‘family’ are not as willing to forget his past.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Movie: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Clip: The clip starts at 1:23:20 and lasts until 1:30:33.
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IssuesThe Youth Work Lab: Group Dynamics
Welcome to the Youth Work Lab: the place where key youth work theories are tried and tested by on-the-ground practitioners. Each month, the team from StreetSpace will select and explore a piece of youth work theory, and put it to the test in creative and pioneering ways.
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IssuesFive-fold rise in young people seeking medical help for gender dysphoria
There has been a huge increase in the number of young people seeking medical help for problems with gender identity. There were almost 700 referrals to the UK’s only clinic for transgender children in 2014, up from just 139 in 2010. While many who go for treatment simply get advice and support, others are given access to drugs known as ‘blockers’, which are said to pause puberty
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Ready-to-use Games + Icebreakers: Getting to know each other Games
NEWSFLASH - youth groups begin again after the summer. Youth leaders will be fresh-faced, eager, excited, and raring to get going again after being refreshed by the long summer vacation - and hopefully some young people will show up! Your task as youth leader is to help them get to know each other and to hone them into a lean, mean, fighting (perhaps not...) youth group. And so we present – ‘getting to know each other games’.
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Lend them your ears
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 the first from Chris Spriggs.
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IssuesIllusions in Eastbourne
Back in the wilds of winter, hundreds of children’s and family workers braved the wind and rain to descend on Eastbourne for the Hand in Hand Conference 2014.
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BlogHow To Make The Most Of Your Easter Eggs
There is no such thing as too many Easter eggs. ‘What!?!’ we hear you cry, ‘every April we find ourselves with tonnes of leftover chocolate shells and no idea what to do with them – please help us Youthwork!’ Well, as you asked so politely, here are some of our favourite ways to get rid of that Easter egg mountain.
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BlogHoly Week - Easter Sunday
This Holy Week, we'll be publishing a series of five reflective blogs from Gerard Kelly to take us through the period. We end with the big one, Resurrection Day, Easter Sunday!
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BlogHoly Week - Easter Saturday
This Holy Week, we'll be publishing a series of five reflective blogs from Gerard Kelly to take us through the period. Today we look at the oft-forgotten Easter Saturday.
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The Real Easter Egg is the first of its kind
Christmas isn’t long since gone, and Easter may still be a few months away, but it’s never too early to start planning Easter youth meetings or to start thinking about chocolate! More than 80 million chocolate Easter eggs are sold each year in the UK, and new for this year is The Real Easter Egg - the UK’s first and only Easter egg to mention Jesus anywhere on the box...
