All Issues articles – Page 103
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Adaptable Meeting Plans #4: My Worth : Knowing God looks at the heart
To explore where we get our worth - from knowing that God looks at our hearts, not at our positions at church, school or home.
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Adaptable meeting guide: Reimagining Church 4: What is Church?
The early followers of Jesus took the guidelines from this passage as their foundation for building church communities. Can we use these foundations to help us reimagine what church could look like today?
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Pioneer Youth Ministry - Part 3
In the final part of his series, pioneer youth ministry legend Jonny Baker provides a framework for beginning your own pioneering journey
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Adaptable Meeting Guide #3: My Worth: Knowing I am part of something everlasting
To explore where we get our worth - from knowing this world is temporary but that we are part of something everlasting.
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IssuesAdaptable meeting guide: Unwrapping Christmas 3 - The Wise Men
Preparation: Try the ‘Three knife scaffold’ challenge yourself (take along enough glasses and knives for the groups to try it). From a box of six eggs, blow one out (instructions at premieryouthwork.com/links) before replacing it in the box. Don’t forget which one it is.
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IssuesMeeting guide 3: Depression
Meeting aim: This session is a starting point for gaining a basic understanding of depression and how Jesus brings hope to all of us.
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SEX (PART 3): BUILDING BLOCKS
To explore the concept that we are all created for relationships, and identify key skills needed for building healthy ones.
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Government proposes benefit cut for under-25s
David Cameron has announced that some benefits may be withdrawn from 18 to 24 year-olds. In his speech to the Conservative party conference the Prime Minister announced a plan that would take Job Seeker’s Allowance and Housing Benefit away from those under the age of 25.
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Issues25 years of (Premier) Youthwork: The good, the bad and the downright dreadful
For this special 25th anniversary issue we’ve embarked on a nostalgic trip down memory lane, dusting off the Youthwork archive, and unearthing all manner of weird and wonderful things from our past publications. From theory-shaping articles to wildly inappropriate games, recordable CDs to birth, death and re-birth of youth work activities, we’ve selected the best and most interesting for your perusal.
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Issues25 years of Premier Youthwork
In 1983, aged 25, I graduated from Moorlands College and began working alongside Bob Moffett at Epping Forest Youth for Christ. Bob has always been a creative innovator and risk taker. He wrote a regular youth ministry column in Buzz magazine (now Premier Christianity) and was a leading light in the development of youth ministry training across Europe and the Middle East.
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IssuesHow to Bring Church into the 21st Century
The Church may have just about discovered the internet, and hey – some of us even have Myspace pages – but historically speaking we’re still a wee bit behind the times. We asked our resident internet expert, Dr I. Tweettoomuch, for some tips on moving church services into the 21st Century
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Issues"Inequality 2030"
A recent article in The Independent suggested that over a million more UK children would live in poverty by 2030. There is very little doubt that the Labour-linked Fabian Society’s ‘Inequality 2030’ report on which the article is based is politically motivated - but there are bigger issues here that transcend Westminster.
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IssuesCulture: 2016
2016 isn’t going to be a year that many people will look back on with a great deal of affection. Between seemingly everyone’s favourite celebrity dying (take your pick from David Bowie, Prince, Alan Rickman and Victoria Wood), the country-splitting Brexit decision and the rise of Donald Trump, 2016 is the year that we all wanted to end, right?
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IssuesThe Axis of Good and Evil - 2016
This month, we look at 2016. So, 2016 paraphernalia in the top right is worth a reflection, a thought, a discussion. stuff in the bottom left... let’s leave firmly in 2016.
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IssuesAnnual crime survey 2016
The Office of National Statistics annual crime survey caused quite a stir when it was published in August 2016. It is used to estimate crime levels and asks those aged 16 and over about their experiences of crime over the last twelve months. But in 2016, for the first time, childhood sexual abuse was included and the survey found that one in 14 adults in England and Wales were sexually abused as children. It also revealed that:
