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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Petit Fours
This month’s mentoring resource is all about fours. Hopefully the following ‘fours’ will help you to bake some delicious delights of your own with your mentee as you follow your own special recipe for discipleship! Bon appetit!
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BlogReady-to-use Movie: Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy has a colourful and varied cast, including self-appointed ‘Star Lord’ Peter Quill, a roguish smuggler who was
abducted from earth in the 80s, a walking tree called Groot, a talking racoon called Rocket, a genetically altered assassin named Gamora and
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: The listening game
I recently did some mentoring training for a fab youth discipleship programme called The Ascent. I loved their heart for discipleship and willingness to learn new mentoring skills in order to get alongside young people and walk with them through their ongoing faith and life journey.
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Ready-to-use Games + Icebreakers: Paper Plane games
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: not only a Christmas movie, but also a hint as to what this month’s games are all about. Apart from the trains bit – I haven’t included many games involving trains, or automobiles come to think of it. For these games you will need a plentiful supply of paper from which your group will make paper planes. See a website such as paperaeroplanes.com for ideas!
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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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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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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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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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IssuesReady-to-use Movie: Next Goal Wins
American Samoa spent nearly two decades at the bottom of FIFA’s international rankings, and earned the reputation as the worst football team in the world. After losing 31-0 to Australia, morale is low and Thomas Rongen, a Dutch Football coach, is brought in to offer some professional advice and coaching. He attempts the impossible, to lead American Samoa to their first victory.
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IssuesReady-to-use Movie: Good Kill
Major Thomas Egan is a US Air Force fighter pilot who transitions to drone duty when demand drops for manned aircraft. As a drone pilot, with a limited ability to control collateral damage during airstrikes, Egan becomes disillusioned. He begins to more deeply question the morality of his job after his unit begins running missions for the CIA.
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BlogReady-to-use Mentoring: From great to good
Good is the enemy of great.’ (James C. Collins Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t)
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IssuesReady-To-Use Mentoring: Spiritual Growth
Unlike business, which can collect data on performance, or social media, which can count ‘likes’ and ‘shares,’ things-of-thespirit are rather more tricky to quantify.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Straw Polls, Straw Hats and Straw…Berries?
Youth ministry is often earmarked by its use of tenuous links. Making bread is a good one (to lead into talking about what ‘yeast’ we allow to grow and rise in our lives) or having a Nerf gun fight (to introduce the topic of what ‘fiery darts’ we shoot at each other with our speech). It struck me that this approach works well in mentoring too. As many of us meet in cafes, there’s often plastic straws knocking around so here’s ten ideas of discussion starters using straws!
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Ready-to-use Worship: Letting the World hit you on the head
A few years ago we were running the older youth venue at a big Christian event, and decided to incorporate some prayer for the world in our
evening celebration. Sara stood up to lead the prayer, using an inflatable globe as a prop. At the end of the prayer, she threw it into the crowd. We thought it would be a bit of fun to bop the globe around during the sung worship, and we also wanted the global prayer focus to linger for a while.
