All Editorial articles – Page 30
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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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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 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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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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IssuesJesus calms the water
Meeting aim: To see the story in its fullness; to try and feel more completely the danger of the storm and the relief and peace felt as Jesus calmed it.
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IssuesJesus feeds a crowd
Meeting aim: To unpack the story and explore the impact it might have on us today as it calls us to greater faith, compassion and action.
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BlogJesus starts it all
Meeting aim: To make sense of why Jesus started to minister the way he did, and to explore the theme of training and beginning a life of ministry
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IssuesJesus calms the water
Meeting aim: To explore how Jesus brought peace and showed God’s power wherever he went.
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BlogJesus feeds a crowd
Meeting aim: To explore the way Jesus multiplies the little we have to share.
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IssuesJesus feeds a crowd
Meeting aim: To learn that we can ask Jesus for what we need because he cares for us.
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IssuesJesus meets Levi
Meeting aim: To understand which friends and people Jesus wanted on his ‘team’, and in turn to begin to understand what kind of people Jesus wants us to be.
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BlogJesus starts it all
Meeting aim: To think about how God’s powerful, rescue plan had begun with Jesus.
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IssuesJesus meets Levi
Meeting aim: To explore how Jesus came for the ‘sick’, how he came for everyone.
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BlogHow not to make the local paper at Christmas
One assembly may have gone to plan but it may not have been the best plan…
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BlogIt’s time for youth and children’s workers to rethink evangelism
Jimmy Dale, youth evangelism officer for the Church of England challenges youth and children’s workers to rethink evangelism ahead of the launch of Advance 2020.
