All Issues articles – Page 53
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IssuesQ&A with Michael Gungor
Gungor – a folk rock band from the United States – have somehow managed to slip under the radar. Despite being nominated for a Grammy Award, touring all over the place, and being loved by many people in the UK and beyond - they still feel somewhat like an undiscovered gem. Deputy editor Phoebe Thompson caught up with lead singer Michael Gungor at LST in the Park, to talk about his music, growing up in the church and how to foster young people’s musical gifts.
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Labour Offers Jobs Guarantee
The Labour Party is offering a jobs guarantee for long-term unemployed young people if it wins the election next year.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Mentoring: Spiritual Growth
Unlike business, which can collect data on performance, or social media, which can count ‘likes’ and ‘shares,’ things-of-thespirit are rather more tricky to quantify.
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IssuesHome Grown
It’s simple maths really: the most effective way of doing youth ministry is to engage and equip parents to foster faith in their teenagers at
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IssuesGrowing up Poor
In this so-called ‘age of austerity’, more and more families are having to face difficult financial decisions. How can we sensitively help children and families who are struggling? Kate Traynor, Project Worker for CURBS, explores some principles to guide us.
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IssuesThe ungrieved grief
Being a young person in the 21st Century is to live in a world full of suffering and pain, yet so often we try and shield young people from it. In an adaption from his new book, Mark Yaconelli explains the vital role that grief plays in turning our hearts towards hope
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IssuesQ&A: Pete Greig
Pete Greig founded 24-7 Prayer, an international, interdenominational movement of prayer and mission. He’s the author of Red Moon Rising and God on Mute and leads Emmaus Road church in Guildford, with his wife Sammy. Deputy editor Ruth Jackson spoke to Pete about prayer and his vision for young people
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Greater / Lesser
After turning their hands to event management, Team Youthwork share their experiences of May’s Youthwork Summit in five bite-sized mathematical symbols.
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What's the Point in Post Graduate Training?
In the busy landscape of youth ministry, a postgraduate degree might feel like an unnecessary luxury. Taking time out to sit alone with books can seem a distraction from the ‘real’ work you are doing – so why bother at all? We’ve found six youth workers who are convinced that postgraduate study is worth it, and how – for various different reasons – their youth work has been transformed in the process.
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UNICEF: young people are sidelined by the government
Unicef is calling for more investment in young people in the UK. The call follows the organisation’s report which places the country below Slovenia, Czech Republic and Portugal, in the league table of child well-being in the world’s richest countries.
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Ravens and gorillas
I had to miss Messy Church recently, and only got to catch up with the children on Sunday after church.
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IssuesReady-to-use Movie: Good Kill
Major Thomas Egan is a US Air Force fighter pilot who transitions to drone duty when demand drops for manned aircraft. As a drone pilot, with a limited ability to control collateral damage during airstrikes, Egan becomes disillusioned. He begins to more deeply question the morality of his job after his unit begins running missions for the CIA.
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IssuesGood Loving
It’s the topic sure to capture the attention of teenagers, and to provoke mild panic in the coolest and calmest of youth workers. Love it or loathe it - we can never talk about sex and relationships enough with our young people. Romance Academy founder and author of The dating dilemma, Rachel Gardner, shares some pearls of wisdom on dating well.
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Good grief
April saw the tragic death of model and TV presenter Peaches Geldof. Peaches, daughter of Sir Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, left behind two young children.
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Issues‘Proclaim Good News to the Poor’
Families in the UK are facing a poverty crisis. Large numbers of children are living in poverty, both in predictable places such as inner-city contexts and large estate communities, but also in places we don’t think of so often as being poor: our seaside resorts and rural communities
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IssuesQ & A: Helen Goldenberg
One half of the duo behind Children Can Ministries, Helen Goldenberg has over 20 years of experience in leading children to encounter God. She caught up with Premier Childrenswork’s Jamie Cutteridge, to talk worship, child evangelism and the role of the Holy Spirit in children’s work.
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IssuesWhat's Going On?
How do we discern what's going on when things go wrong? Youthwork's resident theologian, Steve Griffiths, shares some insights
