All Editorial articles – Page 129
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Ready-to-use Reflection- Contemplative Worship: Beatitudes
This session is a reflective and prayerful look at the Beatitudes in Matthew 5 - the ‘Blessed are…’ sayings of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount. This session has been specifically designed to take kinaesthetic learners into account; people who engage with activity and ‘doing’ as part of contemplation.
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Blog#BeAFriend
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week 2016 and the focus this year is on mental health and relationships. Think Twice tell us about their #BeAFriend campaign.
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Games Master: Sitting Beach Volleyball, Suck-a-Skittle, SMS (Silly Messy Simple) Game: Panning for Gold
Three easy games to use with the creative minds behind Messy Church children in your group.
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BlogA battle for justice
Martin Saunders reflects on the surprise box office hit, The Help, and what it has to say to the Church in 2011…
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Be More Batman
Batman inspires my youth work. I don’t don a black cowl, lower my speaking octave and walk the streets clad in leather at night, but I have learned a lot from Bruce Wayne’s alter-ego. There’s a scene towards the end of The Dark Knight where Batman and Lt. James Gordon are talking. Having survived a battle with The Joker, Batman faces a bigger struggle: rebuilding the city, becoming the anti-hero, and taking the
blame for Two Face’s downfall. The two talk about the kind of hero Gotham City needs and about the kind of hero the city wants or deserves. - at no point during Christopher Nolan’s trilogy is the caped crusader the hero that the city wants; at some points he’s the hero they deserve, but right at the end - in the crucial moment - some of the city finally see that he’s the hero they need. And that’s the magic of Batman, that’s what makes him so compelling as a character: he is whatever Gotham needs him to be. -
IssuesReady-to-use Movie: Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition)
Clip: The clip starts at 1:28:07 and lasts until 1:36:24.
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IssuesYouth work behind bars
Frontier Youth Trust’s Alastair Jones and Debbie Garden take us behind the 30 foot high walls of young offender’s institutions to unpack the impact of youth work for those who are incarcerated
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Faith at homeA children’s worker, a parent and a teacher walk into a bar…
Well, strictly speaking it was an upper room in a church, but no good joke ever involved people walking into a church room. We’re all aware that the forming of faith within children isn’t something that any of us can do alone, so we got a few different stakeholders – parents, a teacher and a children’s worker – together to share their insights and suggest how they can best work together
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IssuesSet the bar
How do we keep going in youth ministry? How can we ensure that we are giving young people our very best? As Ali Campbell explains, the answer may lie in the bar…
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Multi-denominational youth Baptism service
Anglicans, Baptists and Methodists joined together for a youth baptism service in Huddersfield. Congregants from the various churches gathered to celebrate the baptisms and confirmations of their respective youth – all members of the same youth group, Rock Solid.
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IssuesReady-to-use Games + Ice Breakers: Games that should be banned
Once it gets to the end of the summer, it becomes a time for reflection on the holiday highlights - hilarious antics, brilliant banter and gory, freshly-invented games! Thankfully, these games are so hot off our brain presses that they haven’t yet been investigated by the Department of Youth Work Games as to whether they are acceptable, so here is a selection of ones that might require prayer to pass the risk assessment or are on the very borders of cultural acceptability
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BlogMore ways to pray with loom bands
We've all caught the loom band bug, so here are some more ideas to help you pray with these colourful bands, thanks to Jane Butcher and Anne Offler from Faith in Homes.
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BlogPraying with loom bands
Loom bands are everywhere, and children love them. Why not use them as a way of praying with your children? Faith in Homes' Jane Butcher shows us how
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IssuesThe Childrenswork Guide to Loom Bands
Loom bands are everywhere, and children absolutely love them. Why not use them as a way of praying with your group? Here’s some great ideas from Jane Butcher:
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IssuesGames Master: Find the Word, Rock Paper Scissors, Bouncing Balls
Three easy games to use with the children in your group.
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IssuesQ&A with Jason Ballard & Tom Clark
For the first time ever, Alpha has released a video series for teenagers. Youthwork’s Jamie Cutteridge caught up with one of the film’s presenters – Jason Ballard – and Alpha UK’s youth coordinator Tom Clark, to hear why they made it happen.
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Here be Dragons - Richard and Lorimer Passmore and James G. Ballantyne
At the edge of old maps there would often be a symbol of a dragon. The symbol was meant to indicate that traveling off the edge of the map could be dangerous - there may be dragons! No one actually knew because there were no maps for that territory.
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The Great British Bake Off
Dust off your aprons, your rolling pins and your innuendo klaxons, October sees the final of the seventh series of the Great British Bake Off - the last time it will be shown on the BBC! Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen bakers crack over cakes, buckle over biscuits and sag over soggy bottoms, but who will triumph?
