All Editorial articles – Page 134
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Ready-to-use Schools Work: Forgiveness and Reconciliation
This lesson is aimed at a GCSE class and is one hour long. This theme is usually found in the ‘Equality’ unit for OCR Ethics GCSE KS4 – it also appears on the Edexcel and AQA schemes of work.
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IssuesHave we forgotten overseas mission?
A few years ago - the sight of a tanned, heavily braceletted 19 year-old with braided hair strolling through the doors of church after a life-changing six months in Africa was a fairly common one. The pendulum of missional thinking now seems to have swung in the opposite direction – with less and less young people travelling abroad, choosing instead to spend their year out in the UK on an urban mission placement or church internship. National leader for YWAM England Carl Tinnion can’t help but ask: have we forgotten about overseas mission?
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IssuesForward Thinking
The future can seem like a scary place. On a global scale, seismic developments are changing the landscape of societies, economies and technologies at an alarming pace. Futurist Patrick Dixon explores what the world may look like in a few decades time and how youth work – more than ever – has a key part to play.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Lost And Found
What’s the most precious thing you have ever lost? When I was 18 I had my backpack pinched – and with it, a diary I had kept for several years, including throughout my amazing gap year teaching in Tanzania. It contained my memories, thoughts, experiences, poetry, drawings, doodles and so on (I also lost my Walkman and Michael Jackson cassette tape but let’s leave my age out of this). As you can imagine, I was gutted.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Petit Fours
This month’s mentoring resource is all about fours. Hopefully the following ‘fours’ will help you to bake some delicious delights of your own with your mentee as you follow your own special recipe for discipleship! Bon appetit!
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BlogHoly Week - Good Friday
This Holy Week, we'll be publishing a series of five reflective blogs from Gerard Kelly to take us through the period. Today, he examines Good Friday.
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Issues‘Why would you give up your Friday nights for me?’
I was generally a good lad but a little cheeky - and still am. Mum and dad weren’t Christians, but the church had a real presence on our street and some of our close neighbours were regular attenders.
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BlogWhy does God hate my gay friend?
It’s tragic that many LGBT+ teenagers think they would not be welcome in a church or a Christian’s home. For any part that we as youth workers, or the Church have played in giving that impression, we’re sorry. We’re sorry because it is utterly heart-breaking but also because it isn’t true. In fact, this anti-welcome couldn’t be further from the truth. The Church isn’t, nor was ever meant to be, a museum of saints (thank God!), but a place where broken people (all of us) get to come and meet with a God who loves them unconditionally.
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Schools’ Work: Virtuous Friendship
The schools’ work page has taken on a new format. We will be featuring three sections: ‘dream’, ‘develop’ and ‘do’, all themed under one heading. Each box has its own purpose.
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Resource On Trial: Fruitfulness on the Frontline
Children’s workers put resources through their paces.
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BlogWaiting for the fruit
Phoebe Thompson on what we can learn from Miranda Hart (and other famous people’s Wiki bios)One of my favourite pastimes is reading biographies of famous actors and actresses. Unlike the sophisticated among us – who purchase inspiring books from respectable book stores on successful individuals – I happily scroll for hours through Wikipedia entries on the latest soap stars.
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IssuesFun Games
One question I get asked a lot is: ‘Why do you have games in your sessions?’ You might want me to talk about reinforcing the theme or complementing the teaching, but the main point of a game is to have fun. Church is allowed to be fun (joy is a fruit of the Spirit) and a very good way to have fun is to play together. Of course there should be a time to be contemplative, but there should also be a time to run around screaming while waving your hands in the air (to paraphrase Ecclesiastes 3:7). So for this issue, I decided to go for three games
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IssuesMental health funding
Last month’s announcement of an increase in mental health funding is a response to a report published by a taskforce of serviceusers and experts in the field, offering a comprehensive review of the current state of mental health services in the UK. Recent press reports have been rife concerning the challenges facing mental health services, so news that NHS England have committed to investing more than £1bn a year over the next five years into this area is very welcome, as is the call for ‘parity of esteem’ between mental and physical health problems.
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IssuesFunny Jones
Comedian Milton Jones is known and loved for his witty one-liners. On the release of his new book – Ten Second Sermons – he chatted to Youthwork’s Jamie Cutteridge.
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BlogA pilgramage into the future
In this week's YW Blog, Richard Passmore of StreetSpace explains some of the practices he has put in place as a leader and how he thinks they could help the future of youth ministry
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BlogReady-to-use Movie: Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy has a colourful and varied cast, including self-appointed ‘Star Lord’ Peter Quill, a roguish smuggler who was
abducted from earth in the 80s, a walking tree called Groot, a talking racoon called Rocket, a genetically altered assassin named Gamora and
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: The listening game
I recently did some mentoring training for a fab youth discipleship programme called The Ascent. I loved their heart for discipleship and willingness to learn new mentoring skills in order to get alongside young people and walk with them through their ongoing faith and life journey.
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BlogThe numbers game
In this week's Youthwork blog, Andy du Feu, director of youth and community work at Moorlands, discusses our obsession with numbers.
