All Issues articles – Page 28
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IssuesRecharge Bible Study: Travelling light
Recharge is a Bible study just for you, to nurture your own relationship with God. So stop, sit, breathe and read. This month, Mark Griffiths returns to the story of Jacob.
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IssuesIn the beginning God created...
Why do we do craft with children? How should we approach creative activities? Are there practical things that can help? Mina munns is on hand to help
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IssuesCraft: Jesus' baptism and temptation
Children may well have heard the stories of Jesus’ baptism and temptation before, but these craft ideas help them get into stories where they may have only scratched the surface until now. As the children discover through making, share their surprise and delight.
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IssuesLove Island and bad sex education
As another school year starts, inevitably, at some point over the next 12 months, we’ll hear both sides of the ongoing debate about sex ed at schools. Does giving children and young people comprehensive sexual information open their eyes to a whole new world of ‘debauched’ activity, or is it vital equipping to navigate a world of sexting and online porn, as well as providing key skills surrounding consent and sexual health? There’s something else to consider though, because, as this summer has proved, the children and young people we work with are getting sex education, they’re being shaped and influenced by the media and advertisers, norms are being established… dangerous, exploitative norms.
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IssuesThe Axis of Good and Evil - School
This month as our children and young people head back to school, we look at school and all its associated paraphernalia.
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IssuesChild Arrests
Despite the good news that child arrests in England and Wales have fallen by 64 per cent in the past six years, our churches need to step up and bridge the gaps in our communities to bring this figure down even further.
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IssuesAll-age service: The everlasting promise
Meeting aim: To discover that God keeps his promises.
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IssuesYear of jubilee: Session 4
Meeting aim: To discover why Jesus began his public ministry in this way and what it teaches us about the nature of God.
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IssuesBaptism and temptation: Session 3
Meeting aim: To understand Jesus’ baptism and temptation at the beginning of his ministry.
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IssuesNews - September 2017
Trick or treatHalloween, the third-largest festival in the UK, is looming so we’ve gathered a few alternatives to the annual celebration of all things dark and scary.If you want to make treats an evangelism tool, the Meaningful Chocolate Company is here to help. This year it has released Halloween trick ...
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IssuesLeadership 101: Action Orientated
I don’t know about you, but I love a good conference. The opportunity to take some time away from the busyness of everyday ministry and get alongside like-minded youth and children’s workers, to share ideas, pray together and encourage one another. Love it. Because we children and youth leaders are great talkers, right? Get us together and we can easily spend hours sharing stories, wrestling with the challenges we face in ministry and discussing the ever-changing landscape of children’s and youth culture - and that’s great! But with that comes a potential danger…
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IssuesThe prophets foretell: Session 1
Meeting aim: To understand the prophets’ role in the Christmas story.
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IssuesThe Big Picture: Justin Bieber's church
The recent (entirely uncorroborated) rumours about our beloved Justin Bieber cutting short his recent tour to start a church got us thinking. What would church look like if Biebs was in charge!
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IssuesFirst Word - September 2017
A few weeks ago I had just boarded a train when the unthinkable happened. My phone battery died. Nightmare. I felt utterly bereft.
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IssuesTough safeguarding questions
There are issues that come up in our youth and children’s groups that we feel completely unqualified to deal with. Thankfully CCPAS’ Justin Humphreys is on hand to share some helpful advice…
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