All NexGen Pro articles – Page 139
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'Other' Games
Having a connected theme across the games and the rest of the session can be a really helpful way to make introductions to big ideas and concepts. But sometimes, games can just be fun and have no real link to each other or the rest of the session. Here are some unrelated, just-for-fun, with no-real-point-at-all, games. You’re welcome.
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IssuesNostalgia games
Over the last few issues we’ve looked at games we played as kids which we shouldn’t nowadays. But was it really all doom and gloom back then? Did we just spend our childhoods flying kites into electric pylons? Of course not! So let me try and make amends with a column looking back at some of the great games from our youth. Time to get all nostalgic as we remember Opal Fruits, Panini sticker albums, four channels on the telly, Care Bears, non-X-Factor Christmas number ones, Marathon bars, Jackanory and Cabbage Patch Dolls
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IssuesOutdoor games
I don’t know about your church but let me be honest about mine – our halls aren’t great for games. So I’m keen to leave our buildings and play some games in the great outdoors as often as possible. Going outdoors can present its own problems, but let me encourage you to leave your buildings and go run around outside. To help with that, here are three great outdoor games that have worked really for us:
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IssuesGames for small numbers
In the last issue I focused on games that are suitable for the great outdoors: ones you can play when you have lots of kids and lots of space. But I know that there were some of you who, on reading the introduction to that column, would have thrown their magazine straight in the bin. (Metaphorically of course – it should actually go in the recycling.)
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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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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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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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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
Living generously takes our everyday walking, buying, eating and chatting and turns it on its head. It takes our connection with injustice and gives us the resources to do something about it. Living generously takes the stuff we own, the stuff we love and makes it exciting.
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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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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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Schools work: Getting started
Alex Taylor explores how to begin working with your local primary school.
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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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IssuesThe girl with no name
The stories of David, Joseph and Samuel are often used to help children think about how God can use their lives now. Here, Howard Worsley
looks at a different story you might not have even noticed; about a young girl who was strategic to the Kingdom -
IssuesRaising the volume of hope for girls: Launching the UK Girl manifesto
Yesterday, I gazed into the eyes of my new-born niece Ruby. She (and many other baby girls) are entering our world at a time when girls’ self-esteem has plummeted because of what psychologist Steve Biddulph describes as a ‘war on girlhood’. I want Ruby to know that she’s loved, redeemed and chosen for a special purpose.
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IssuesThe Trouble with Girls
Educationalist and author of 21st Century Girls Sue Palmer unravels what makes girls unique, equipping you to work with them more effectively.
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IssuesThe Trouble with Teenage Girls
Eight years ago I was a teenager (that’s really not too long ago, right, she said, clinging desperately to her youth) but I’m becoming more and more aware of just how much life has changed for girls and young women in such a short space of time.
