All NexGen Pro articles – Page 7
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BlogReconnecting post-lockdown
Whether you have been running groups in person this autumn, are still online, or just too frightened to do anything at all, Joel Harris has some wisdom for how to re-connect that can shape whatever you are doing or intend to do.
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BlogThe first youth worker: what can we learn from an ancient mentor?
Who was the first Christian youth worker? If you’re thinking strictly in terms of the modern profession, then the answer may lie in names like George Williams, who set up the YMCA in the 1840s, or Hannah More, who set up a kind of Sunday school over 50 years earlier. But if you want to think of the question another way - in terms of who first engaged with young people in a way that looks something like modern youth work - then you need to go further back. Actually, a lot further.
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Blog4 part series on being Church
Linked below are children, young people and all-age resources - all ready to use!
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BlogWell-being, collective trauma and the body
How we can help our young people to feel safe, calm and regulated at a time when everything about life in a pandemic is chaotic and potentially upsetting?
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BlogLoose parts and making connections
I was recently looking at the Benedictus, the words Zechariah says on the birth of his son, John the Baptist in Luke 1:67-79. It’s a powerful passage, although not as well-known as Mary’s song a few verses earlier in the chapter. As I looked at it, I started to see connections with various Old Testament passages.
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BlogPraying with children and young people
Prayer is such a vital part of our relationship with God, but if we’re being honest, if often gets squeezed out at the end of our session. If we’re doing a face-to-face Sunday session, we could get called back into the service at any time. We get the nod that the sermon is finishing, and we rush to say a one-line prayer to round things up before herding the children or young people back to rejoin the adults. Even online, we can run out of time, with everything taking longer to organise remotely.
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BlogThe reality, the challenge and the lie of the ‘new normal’
There is very little about life as we knew it pre-March 2020 that is still happening and, despite a prevailing feeling among many that we’re all a bit sick of the impact that COVID-19 has had so far, there is, without a doubt, more change to come. We always were ...
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Blog4 part series on Abraham
Linked below are children, young people and all-age resources - all ready to use!
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BlogWhat do ‘rule of six’ and other lockdown restrictions mean for youth groups?
The government has confirmed that churches and activities linked to them will remain exempt from the new restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus.
