All Editorial articles – Page 29
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IssuesGod loves the world
Meeting aim: To understand how God showed his love to the world and explore the depth of this love.
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IssuesGod is love
Meeting aim: To begin to consider that our friendship with God is all about love.
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IssuesThe greatest commandment
Meeting aim: To introduce the idea of loving God as the most important thing we can do with our lives, and to think about how we can practically outwork this love for him.
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IssuesThe greatest commandment
Meeting aim: To think about how we can love God and those around us.
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BlogThe Church gets it wrong when it focuses on youth – a youth worker’s response
Sarah Hall recently argued that the church has it wrong by focusing on young people. Tim Alford is head of Limitless, the national youth ministry of Elim Pentecostal Churches in the UK and Ireland. He thinks she’s missed the point.
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BlogDoes the Church get it wrong when it focuses on young people?
Rachel Turner, parenting for faith pioneer with the Bible Reading Fellowship, responds to a recent blog by Sarah Hall. Sarah argues that the Church’s focus on youth work is misguided. Rachel thinks otherwise…
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BlogStarting a mentoring programme
The first mentoring programme I set up was almost entirely accidental. It was essentially the product of an unconscious emphasis I had toward building empowering and supportive relationships with young people.
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Faith at homeLevi meets Jesus
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God time during the day. You could also use it as part of a children’s session.
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IssuesNew Year games
Whether you’re holding a New Year party or trying to get your group to think about fresh starts, you’ll need some games to get things going. Here are some suggestions to help your group think creatively or just to have a good time!
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Faith at homePNDads: New fathers and mental health
Unless we have experienced a mental illness ourselves or seen it first-hand through friends or family members, we can easily think it’s not something that could happen to us; especially for us men, who are taught from a young age not to cry. We can grow up unaware of how to interact with these emotions, suppressing them well into adult life.
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Faith at homeForming faith rituals: Playmo-Bible time
One of the things I love to do is use toys to explore a Bible story. It’s a great way to bring faith activities into your children’s world, and it enables them to use the language of play in their faith. This is especially helpful for under-5s, who may not yet be able to express themselves through speech or writing. But it’s good for all of us, adults and children, to use play to explore our faith, as it gives us the freedom to respond to God in ways we might not attempt with words.
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IssuesSchools’ work: Your turn - Creating spaces
As we consider how best to create space, listen to and be open to a child’s view of the sacred, the first question is: how will we plan our schools’ work around this? The second is: what do the children I work with have to teach or show me about God? If our approach is always about us teaching, moulding and informing children we will miss out. We will miss the chance to become more childlike in our own spiritual understanding, and in doing so will lose an important opportunity to reconnect with the God we follow. If we consider the words of Jesus we read at the start, we may even miss the opportunity to enter the kingdom of heaven, and why would any of us want that?
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IssuesCraft: Jesus feeds a crowd
Background: This is one of the best-known and best-loved of Jesus’ miracle stories. Here are some ideas to help you take a creative approach to some of the themes.
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Faith at homeMark my words: The three components of great youth work
Have you ever said something off the cuff, then realised afterwards there was more truth to it than you intended? That happened to me a few years back.
