All Ready-to-use articles – Page 6
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Ready-to-use Discussion: A Real Resurrection
Everyone loves a comeback. We love stories where somehow, out of nowhere, the hero manages to reign victorious. It could be a football
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Ready-to-use Discussion: Syria
We recommend reading ‘Youth work in a war zone’ on p.14 before attempting this discussion starter with your young people
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Ready-to-use Discussion: Kicking Off
A teenage boy, dressed in a green jumpsuit and mask, fights a gang of chain-wielding thugs. The hero puts up a mean defence but is eventually knocked down and soundly beaten before ending up in a hospital bed for six months. Later in the film the same hero enters a criminal’s hideout accompanied by a ten year-old girl and a rocket launcher.
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Ready-to-use Discussion: Nelson Mandela
Let’s face it: it’s pretty difficult to sum up the impact and legacy of Nelson Mandela, let alone ground that in the reality of a young person’s existence! But let’s give it a go – here are a few ideas.
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IssuesReady-to-use Discussion: Fame
‘Everybody wants to be famous, nobody wants to be nameless,’ goes the Dizzee Rascal lyric. It seems this sums up the attitude of so much our culture.
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Ready-to-use Discussion: A New Start
New Year is an opportunity for a fresh start. For some people this means New Year’s resolutions: losing weight, learning to juggle, or perfecting the accordion. But others take it a step further, adopting new hairstyles, names or genders.
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Ready-to-use Discussion: Droning on ...
When Amazon announced in 2013 that they were launching a new delivery system, it caused a bit of a furore. This new method was going
to be different – drone delivery, small unmanned aircrafts delivering your internet-ordered goods in just 30 minutes. Some people loved the idea, some people were nonplussed. -
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Ready-to-use Discussion: Moving On
Can you make an omelette? How about a stirfry? Ever tried to bleed a radiator? What about paying a gas bill? Like it or not, the future is coming. Life moves on far quicker than we expect, and we’ve got to be ready. At some point you’re going to strike out on your own, and the easiest way to move on is if you’re ready and prepared for it.
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IssuesReady-to-use Discussion: Free Speech
The world’s most controversial boxer and an opinion-dividing American politician have both been heavily chastised and ridiculed for their inappropriate comments. Tyson Fury and Donald Trump have prompted questions about the limits of freedom of speech and where to draw lines.
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IssuesReady-to-use Discussion: Privacy
Apple recently raised the issue of data security and digital privacy when they contested a court order by the FBI to access data on a terrorist’s iPhone.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Discussion: The EU Referendum
On June 23rd adults in Britain will vote to either stay in or leave the European Union. For the first time since 1975, voters will have a say on the UK’s membership of Europe’s political club which includes 28 countries.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Discussion: Sabbath
Horray for holidays! What a great opportunity to relax, re-evaluate, have a lot of fun and prepare for next term.
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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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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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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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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. -
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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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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.
