All Issues articles – Page 37
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IssuesWho are ya?
The secret to youth ministry leadership doesn’t lie in another manual or self-help book. As Soul Survivor’s Bob Wallington explains: it lies in you
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IssuesThe Word
I’ve been given the opportunity to write about anything that’s on my heart. After almost four decades as a youth evangelist, maybe they think I’ve earned it. So I’ve decided to tackle a subject that the Bible has an awful lot to say about – and yet something that a lot of youth workers seem strangely silent on. In most areas of respectable society, it’s a mighty unpopular subject, too.
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Can We Win?
Sometimes is can feel like we are fighting a losing battle. Week after week, our young people seem less engaged, our culture more apethetic and our work more exhausting. The future - we know - is secure. God will have the victory. But what does victory look like today here in the UK? At the risk of sounding silly, we asked some leading Christian voices what winning actually meant
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IssuesYouth work in a war zone
Youth work can sometimes feel like a battle - but living in a real war zone is a whole other story. Open Doors’ Dan Etheridge tells us more.
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IssuesXXL : Your vision
Youth work is changing. Our inward-looking, church-focused groups can only scratch the surface of our young people’s needs. TLG the education charity’s Mike Royalshares how our vision for young people has to be bigger than our youth work with them.
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Issues‘ You should be a vicar...’
Those words alone got me so angry. Why should I become a vicar? Because I’m a young, extroverted male who likes studying the Bible? Because I love youth work and once I have shown enough responsibility, you’ll trust me with proper grown-up ministry? Because that’s what youth workers
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Training with a Twist
Already done youthwork training, or don’t have the time to do a full course? Here’s a list of some of the additional training opportunities out there, to add extra tools to your youthwork armoury
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The Vicissitudes of the Vestibular System
Messy Church founder Lucy Moore learns from her travel sickness.
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IssuesYouth Survey
We want to hear what you think about faith and Church. Why not fill out this form and have your say? Simply answer the questions below and
send them back to us to be in with the chance of winning a back catalogue of Soul Survivor albums – plus a signed copy of Beth Croft’s
new album Rule In My Heart. For the more technologically inclined, it is also possible to fill out the survey online at www.premieryouthwork.com/
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IssuesSupporting youth work
Without guidance and help from leaders, mentors and peers, our youth work can go badly awry in the long term. Experienced youth work adviser Pete Maidment explores the vital subject of supervision, looking practically at three key areas in which we can allow others to support and speak into our lives and our work with young people.
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IssuesStudent-powered Youth Work
With the cost of university education rising out of reach for many young people, and workers still relatively few in the harvest-field of youth ministry, Paul Franklin casts a vision for a new kind of mutually-beneficial partnership between churches and students.
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Voluntary vs state youth work
When I took a course in Youth and Community Studies, one of the first ways that pupils pigeonholed each other was to identify who came from the state sector and who came from the voluntary sector. A few days into the course there was much confessing of assumptions and misunderstandings from both sides. People admitted to many broken preconceptions. I’d had my own. I’d felt that state youth work was dry, bureaucratic and unadventurous. Some people in state youth work confessed to fears that youth workers in the voluntary sector were untrained enthusiasts or religious fanatics.
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The state of things
Obviously, the cultural landscape young people are living in is constantly shifting – so what do we actually know? We dug into some research to get a better idea…
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