All Editorial articles – Page 67
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BlogThe Bishop of London's legacy for young people
Last week the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, retired after nearly 25 years in the role. YCW's consulting editor and head of children’s and youth ministry support for the Diocese of London, Sam Donoghue, shares his experiences of working with him over the years.
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BlogKaty Brand and teenage Christianity
If I was to write a stand-up comedy show about being a teenage Christian, I’d probably talk a lot about DC Talk, WWJD wristbands and using summer festivals as an opportunity for dating. It wouldn’t be a great performance, especially for those whose adolescent years weren’t spent in church halls and campsites in Somerset.
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BlogMeeting guide 2: The Good Samaritan
Meeting aim: To reflect on the commandment to love your neighbour and think through what that means for our lives.
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BlogMeeting guides 3: Live humbly
Meeting aim: To reflect on God’s call to be just and not act according to our own interests.
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IssuesMeeting guide 4: A life of love
Meeting aim: To think about love in action in our communities.
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BlogParable: Kieron and the bush (mega) death
Kieron glanced in the mirror. His faded black T-shirt was just the right shade of grey. An angry-looking tattoo peaked out from beneath the sleeve, the skull and serpent just visible on his upper arm. His hair hung long over his shoulders and his beard was coming on impressively. No one would ever know he was only 16. A quick check that the rips in his jeans were in just the right place, and he left the house.
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BlogCraft: The lost coin
The lost coin is a great story to get interactive with, helping children to explore themes of God’s love and our value to him, searching with patience, the lost being found and celebration at finding what you have been searching for. Here are some crafts to help bring these themes to life:
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BlogJustice: Fighting hunger
What are the children and young people in your church talking about? This young generation will change the world. They’re savvy creators, globally connected with a heart for their global neighbours, our job as youth and children’s workers is more important than ever.
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BlogWill my Muslim friend go to hell?
There are many questions that stop young people wanting to know more about God. Welcome to The Big Question, which will tackle one of these huge issues each month.
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IssuesGames: Old School Games
With the ‘New Year, New Me’ motto safely left behind in January why not try some updated old school-style games? Like the latest app updates all the main things still work but they are just packaged with slightly fancier trimmings - some seem fully updated but with others you can hardly notice the difference.
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BlogMentoring: Love
I ran a 10k race last October. I’m a ‘middle of the pack’ runner, so my time of 48:44 was acceptable but not mind-blowing. I occasionally entertain dreams of finishing on a podium, but deep down I’m resigned to it never happening. It’s too big a goal to achieve. On reflection, I realised that if I had improved my time by just one per cent, I would have jumped a staggering 358 places from 585th to 227th. That’s achievable. It just equates to better nutrition and a little more training time. Just a small life change could result in significant growth. Still not a podium, but I would be moving in the right direction.
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IssuesEditorial - February 2017
It’s funny how a phrase can move so quickly from ‘never heard of it’ to ‘everyone using all of the time’. As a young person I was proudly one of the first to be able to do that weird clicking thing with my fingers while saying: “Booyakasha”, and obviously would always answer my phone with the most hearty, “Wasssssssuuuuuup!” I could muster. God bless Ali G and Budweiser.
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IssuesReal Life: “I lead young people who are the same age as me”
I went to a small Christian school from year six to year eleven; there were only 18 pupils in my whole year! In the months leading up to our GCSEs, the teachers encouraged us to look at where we wanted to study next. We wrote CVs, checked out dates for open days and applied for college. I had been to three open days and although it was fun, it wasn’t how I wanted to spend the next two years. College was too big compared to the small school I had grown up in, and I couldn’t find four subjects that interested me.
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IssuesGardner’s World: The art of sobbing
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that you can’t lead a young person to a place you’ve never been yourself. It’s one of those things we know intuitively - no one needs to tell us that if we want the young people we serve among to grow we’ve got to be in the business of growing too. But crying? Do we need to go there too to be effective youth and children’s workers?
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IssuesYouth and Children’s Ministry Training: Beyond the classroom
We all know that training is a hugely important step on our journey of working with children and young people. Whether it’s part-time, full-time, a few days, numerous years, distance learning or residential, there are lots of valuable lessons to learn through training: safeguarding, community learning, education, child development, communication skills and applied theology, to name but a few. But there are also important lessons to be learned that aren’t always gleaned through a conventional classroom environment - lessons about friendship, compassion, innovation, resilience, understanding and worship.
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Faith at homeBuilding Resilience: Getting through the day
Being a child or young person is tough. Working with and parenting children and young people is tough. Liz edge asks, how do we build resilience in our young people, and in ourselves?
