All Editorial articles – Page 139
-
IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Straw Polls, Straw Hats and Straw…Berries?
Youth ministry is often earmarked by its use of tenuous links. Making bread is a good one (to lead into talking about what ‘yeast’ we allow to grow and rise in our lives) or having a Nerf gun fight (to introduce the topic of what ‘fiery darts’ we shoot at each other with our speech). It struck me that this approach works well in mentoring too. As many of us meet in cafes, there’s often plastic straws knocking around so here’s ten ideas of discussion starters using straws!
-
Issues
Ready-to-use Worship: Letting the World hit you on the head
A few years ago we were running the older youth venue at a big Christian event, and decided to incorporate some prayer for the world in our
evening celebration. Sara stood up to lead the prayer, using an inflatable globe as a prop. At the end of the prayer, she threw it into the crowd. We thought it would be a bit of fun to bop the globe around during the sung worship, and we also wanted the global prayer focus to linger for a while. -
IssuesSexual Healing
So, how often do you do it, and how do you do it? Not as often as you would like? Or are you bored at just how often you end up doing it? Well if that’s the case you might be the exception to the rule, because ...
-
IssuesYouth Workers and Spiritual Health
40% of employed youth workers ‘struggle’ to worship in their church.
-
IssuesHolistic Health
If someone asked you how healthy you are, how would you answer? Would you think in terms of your physical body?
-
IssuesJessie J hears the Voice
Pop star Jessie J has revealed that her latest single, ‘Thunder’, is dedicated to God.
-
IssuesOpen up your heart
Recharge is a bible study just for you, to nurture your own relationship with god. So stop, sit, breathe and read. This month, Gerard Kelly looks at resurrection
-
IssuesService: the heartbeat of youth ministry
A year after David Cameron unveiled his Big Society vision, which places community groups at the heart of public service, Andy Burns asks what it might truly mean for us to serve our communities, and suggests how doing so might begin to transform them in ways the Prime Minister never envisaged.
-
IssuesHeaven and Hell
In his work among young people in some of the world’s most challenging urban areas, Patrick Regan has seen evidence both of the Kingdom of heaven breaking through, and the reality of hell on earth, literally taking hold. As he tells just a few of those stories, he challenges us to take seriously Jesus’ call and example: to love the hell out of young people.
-
-
IssuesHelping young people respond to terrorism
In recent months we have witnessed a number of horrific terror and ‘lone-wolf’ attacks across the continent of Europe, as well as a number of under-reported terrorist atrocities across the globe. When our young people are bombarded by news of attacks that have happened in places and cities that look very much like their own, this can highlight fear, cause distress and breed uncertainty. How do we help young people process these events? And in the midst of the brokenness, how do we focus on the hope that we find in Jesus?
-
IssuesStart Here
How much time do you spend thinking and praying about vision? How often do you and your youth work team take the opportunity to ask the really big questions about your youth ministry: where do we want to go? How are we going to get there?
-
IssuesUnsung Heroes Honoured
The 2014 Christian Youth Work awards have been launched with a new award for this year. The Unsung Hero award will recognise those who work behind the scenes in youth work, making a huge impact in communities and the lives of young people, often without getting any credit.
-
BlogMike Pilavachi: There are many heroic youth workers
Mike Pilavachi writes for Premier Youthwork, clarifying his controversial “I think the quality of youth workers has gone down dramatically” comments.
-
IssuesHide and Seek
Children connect with God in amazing, unusual ways. Yet often, in churches, we try and train it out and ‘normalise’ them into our own form of spirituality. But how do children connect with the spiritual world? What do we need to pay attention to and what can we learn? Children’s spirituality expert Rebecca Nye shares some of her wisdom…
-
BlogReady-To-Use Mentoring: What are you hiding?
I heard a story of a mentee who said that he holds back in relationships to protect people from himself. He felt so negative about his bad points and shameful secrets that he felt he needed to put up walls for their sake. Perhaps this is extreme, but we all have areas we hide, indicative of low self-esteem or unresolved issues.
-
Issues
Re-charge: Samson - strong in his weakness
RECHARGE IS A BIBLE STUDY JUST FOR YOU, TO NURTURE YOUR OWN RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. SO STOP, SIT, BREATHE AND READ. THIS
MONTH, GERARD KELLY CONTINUES HIS LOOK AT OLD TESTAMENT LEADERS WITH SAMSON. -
Issues
Ready-to-use Movie: The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey
The J.R.R. Tolkien classic and the prequel to The Lord of The Rings arrives onto DVD as the first part of a new trilogy. We follow Bilbo Baggins as he is swept into an unforgettable journey to assist some dwarves in their bid to reclaim their home from a dragon. Expect goblins, orcs, wizards and a mighty adventure.
-
-
BlogWhat the Holy Spirit does: part two
This month’s meeting guides are about the Holy Spirit and the message is pretty clear to both you and your young people: don’t panic.
