All Issues articles – Page 55
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IssuesRecharge: Job - the gift of pain
Recharge is a Bible study just For you, to nurture your own relationship with god. So stop, sit, breathe and read. This month, Danielle Strickland reflects on the story of Job.
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IssuesThe holy spirit: God, Person & Gift
This month’s meeting guides are about the Holy Spirit and the message is pretty clear to both you and your young people: don’t panic.
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Schools work: Getting started
Alex Taylor explores how to begin working with your local primary school.
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IssuesReady-to-use mentoring: Get out of the office
‘Learning by doing’ is a hugely important principle in contemporary youth work and specifically in mentoring. It embodies the wisdom that is a few years old now, around the shift from a believe-behave-belong faith development to a belong-believe-behave progression.
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IssuesGenerosity
A resource for incorporating spiritual practices in your work with children, from Ian Adams and Carolyn Edwards
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Ready-to-use Rhythms: Generosity
‘Let us not just be satisfied with giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So spread your love everywhere you go.’ Mother Teresa’s words epitomise what it is to live generously. Financial giving is obviously important, and the Bible tells us to be generous with our money but only as well as our time, compliments and acts of service. Generosity is a way of life, and if we were to live our lives in this way, how much more would our broken world begin to reflect God’s perfect kingdom?
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IssuesReleasing the Generations
Relationships between generations in – and outside of - the Church can be complex. However, Bishop Graham Cray argues that our faith is a ‘generation to generation’ one; we need adults who will teach, encourage, and get out of the way when the time is right, and young people who will listen, learn and lead.
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IssuesRound table: The next generation
Throughout this issue we have heard from some legendary youth work veterans but we also want to listen to the youth workers of the future. So, we gathered six young leaders and picked their collective brains about where they thing youth ministry is heading…
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IssuesGeneration Z
Like a wriggling toddler, the culture and landscape of teenage life is incredibly hard to pin down, so what is life like for today’s young people? And what sort of adults are the 21st Century society creating? Tearfund’s Kiera Phyo takes a long hard look at Generation Z, and likes what she sees…
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IssuesYouth Work Lab: Gaming with young people
The gaming industry is huge. No longer a niche market aimed at those who enjoy it as a hobby on the side, it’s now an all-encompassing beast. With the development of smartphone technology, we can all carry a whole host of games in our pockets.
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IssuesIcebreaker games
For the first time I’m going to theme this column by the time of year (by that I mean the time of year this issue claims to be not the time you
actually get it). So let’s pretend it really is September as the front cover claims. Here is the Games Master back-to-school-icebreaker-
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IssuesReady-to-use Games + Icebreakers: Phone Games
Young people today… always playing with their phones, aren’t they? You know, they’re always playing Cross the angry bird, posting pictures of curry on Insta-naan or checking their What Book. So in an attempt to put the hip back in ‘hip replacement’, all of this month’s games involve young people’s phones. That’s games with their phones, not games on their phones; this isn’t ‘Sit in a corner and ignore everyone.’
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IssuesParachute Games
There’s one prop that our children love more than any other – the parachute. There’s something about a giant piece of coloured material that screams fun. You can play all these games with a 3.5m parachute, but if you can get your hands on a 5m or a 7m one, that’s even better. There’s plenty of choice online so have a look and see what you can find, and what will fit in your room!
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IssuesReady-to-use Games + Icebreakers: Simple Games
In recent months this page has been taken over by water games, jelly games, games that need a lot of space, games that involve outer space, games involving sharks, games only to be played during an earthquake, games for people with three arms, games for people who know every element of the periodic table, horse games and, of course, ear wax games*.
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IssuesName Games
Does this scenario sound familiar to you: ‘I’m sorry, what was your name? Come again? Just one more time?’ And then it’s too embarrassing to ask them to repeat it for the 16th time. But this academic year things are going to be different. Yes, this year you’re going to get the name of everyone in your group right first time. How are you going to do that?
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Ready-to-use Games + Icebreakers : Water Games
The sun is shining (hopefully), the evenings are getting longer (well, not literally, they’re still the same length of time, but certainly lighter) and it’s time to relax and have some fun with your young people (unless they’re all cramming for exam season). This can mean only one thing: you need some water games.
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Ready-to-use Games + Icebreakers: Gelatinous Games
Welcome to a brave new era…our very own Jamie and Lloyd have taken over the games page in an attempt to find the weirdest and most fun games in the dark recesses of their minds. So what better way to start than with…games involving jelly.
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Ready-to-use games + Icebreakers: The last one
After a number of years writing the games column, this is my final compilation. So I wanted to make sure I left it all out there, and have included every possible game that I have ever come across / played / invented / blatantly stolen from lots of wonderful youth worker friends (for legal reasons I prefer the phrase ‘inspired by’). Here I present to you: the last ever bunch of games. Over and out!
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Toothpick Games
Have you ever brought resources for a youth group session, only to discover that you end up using only a small percentage of them, and now have to store the rest of them in your increasingly-space-precious youth-group-storage-area (i.e. your spare room)? This month’s column includes some ideas for what to do with all those thousands of spare toothpicks that you got for that one thing months ago.
