All Ready-to-use articles – Page 6
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Ready-to-use Schools work: Confidence
This is an activity designed for Year 8 students (aged 12/13) and older, aiming to explain what real confidence is like and to encourage students
to explore what gives them confidence. It can be used in lessons or in a group working on the subject of self-esteem. -
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Ready-to-use Rhythms: Contentment
We live in a world that teaches a lifestyle of striving. Whether it’s the latest fashion trend, those trainers that were ‘so tempting’ or the newest piece of technology - we want more. However, this is not the way that Jesus tells us to live, and this lifestyle is damaging our environment, and negatively affecting communities living in poverty. Try to build a life of contentment through the following Rhythms.
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Ready-to-use Rhythms - Contentment
Contentment can be a difficult concept and pursuit in a world that idolises stuff, and has an insatiable appetite. But being content isn’t to do
with having; it’s about knowing that we’re enough without all the extras, and being satisfied with what we have. It’s about taking control away from the things that make us forget that we are enough as we are; we don’t need to allow our possessions to define us. A rhythm of contentment reminds us that we’re not ruled by what we own, and means we can give our best to God, living simply, following him wholeheartedly without distraction. -
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Ready-to-use schools work: The developing spirituality course
Youthscape is an ecumenical Christian project founded over two decades ago by a group of 45 churches. One of our key objectives is to develop innovative and proven ways to explore spiritual development from both a Christian and inter-faith basis, in educational settings. Our
work is directly with young people in the 13 secondary schools in Luton, but our resources and methods are shared across the UK through a network of 8,000 practitioners. -
IssuesReady-To-Use Craft Ideas: Food-themed Crafts
Food plays a big part in the biblical narratives – from symbolic meals like the Passover and the Last Supper, to the parties Jesus went to at peoples’ houses, such as those of Zacchaeus and Mary and Martha. That’s not to mention miraculous provision of food such as quail and manna for the Israelites in the desert, and Jesus’ multiplication of a few fish and loaves of bread so that 5,000 were satisfied.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Craft Ideas: David & Goliath Crafts
Jenny Gilbertson shares three crafts to help you teach the story of David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17)
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IssuesReady-To-Use Craft Ideas : Fishy Tales
Fish make an appearance many times in the Bible. Here are three ideas to help you introduce some of those stories to your group.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Craft Ideas: Easter
Here are three Easter-themed crafts for Easter Sunday. They are the kinds of activities which your group might also do around Christmas time and so they could be used to explain that Easter is just as important as Christmas. You could also explore why Christmas is seen as a bigger deal – is it because we don’t like thinking about the things we do wrong? There’s no need to take the children on a guilt trip, but you may well get some very insightful comments from them.
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IssuesReady-to-use Craft Ideas: Lost and Found
Jesus told three very well-known stories about things – and people – that were lost and then found: the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost son. You’ll find them all in Luke 15. These crafts will help you teach your group about how important every single one of them is to Jesus.
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IssuesReady-to-use Schoolswork - Creative Resources for Prayer Spaces in Schools
In the last academic year there were 272 prayer spaces in schools. That means an estimated 100,000 young people experienced prayer last year, many for the first time. Prayer spaces in schools offer a welcoming space to explore Christian prayer and spirituality, to ask the big questions in life and to reflect on our hopes and dreams.
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Ready-to-use Games + Icebreakers : The Crystal Maze
Have you ever pondered on the nature of things that are greater than the sum of their parts - when things on their own are good, but when you put them altogether they become great? Have you ever wished to be able to provide that kind of exponentially great and glorious experience for your youth group? Well stop wishing, because in honour of this month’s superlative bite-sized doses of youth work-ery goodness at the Youthwork Summit, here is a Crystal Maze themed column of games, chock-full of little mini-games that, when put together, create an event of epic proportions.
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Ready-to-use Food: Dan's Story
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Christian Aid’s Collective believes that the simple act of sitting down to dinner has the power to build a community to change the world; soeach month we’ll invite you to ‘sit down to dinner’ with someone new, find out about their lives and take action to help end poverty in their community. -
IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Are you Dave Gorman?
A few years ago, comedians Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace coined a new approach from which they were able to build a career …
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Faith and Deeds
Last month a friend of mine posted a comment online about how much pain he was in from a persistent knee problem. I knew he wasn’t a Christian but felt compassion for him and had faith that God could heal his knee.
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BlogReady-To-Use Discussion: Depression
This session needs to be dealt with sensitively. You may want to encourage your young people to privately write their answers rather than engaging in group discussions.
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BlogReady-to-use Discussion: Queen Elizabeth II
On 9th September, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning British monarch, having been queen since February 1952.
