All Editorial articles – Page 135
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IssuesQ & A: Andy Burns
Youth Ministry legend Andy Burns left his job as CEO of East to West to establish Café Leadership, a new organisation aimed at raising the level of leadership and management among youth work organisations and charities. He chatted to Jamie Cutteridge about his new role, leadership, and some interesting research he’s carried out.
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BlogA day in the life of : Andy Williamson, Youth Minister
In the first of our new 'A day in the life of' blog series, Andy Williamson gives us an insight into his average day as a Youth Minister
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BlogSt Andrews Enfield - MABS Youth & Community Project
After receiving a generous financial legacy from Mabs Mardulyn (a past member of the congregation), St Andrews Enfield launched a new Youth & Community Project named MABS. Alongside this, they have launched a new video series which we'll be featuring on Premier Youthwork.
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IssuesThe Big Picture: Guardians of Ancora
We enjoy making super hip and cool cultural links between what we do as children’s workers and the big wide world. So this month we present to you, children’s work according to games:
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IssuesReady-to-use Storyboard : The Parable of the Mocked Anchor
A downloadable interactive video of this Storyboard is available on the links section of the Youthwork website.
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IssuesRise in anxiety among young people
Every week there seem to be new statistics which tell us about a rise in young people struggling with their mental health; whether it be anxiety levels or a rise in experiencing suicidal thoughts. The more statistics that come in, the harder it can be to respond. ChildLine reports that they’ve seen a rise of 35 per cent in counselling sessions with young people about anxiety, with 6,500 counselling sessions on anxiety being given in the last six months.
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IssuesReady-to-use Movie: Captain America: Civil War
Clip: The clip starts at 27:53 and lasts until 35:09.
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IssuesI just work with children, I am not a leader… debunking this dangerous myth
“I am definitely not a leader – I just work with children.” If I had a pound for every time I’ve heard someone say this when I’ve been delivering training in a church, well, I probably could afford to stop delivering training! What do children’s leaders mean when they say this? Why are they so definite about not wanting to be called or recognised as a leader?
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Ready-to-use Schools Work: Always Listening
To introduce the concept of prayer as conversation with a God who listens and answers. It should challenge the young people to think about what they might say to God and to listen for a response.
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Selfharm.co.uk launches online recovery programme, Alumina
Selfharm.co.uk has launched ‘Alumina’, the UK’s first online self-referral recovery programme for young people struggling with self-harm.
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IssuesChurch of England welcomes Scouts alternative promise
Scouts will continue to promise to do their duty to God, but will also have the option of a new ‘atheist’ promise.
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BlogMince pies, icy ponds and an alternative Christmas date!
If you Google ‘Christmas’ right now, you will find a lot of Christians around the world just beginning to get into the Christmas spirit. Just as your young people are going back to school and you’re getting your head back into consent forms, finishing off the last mince pies and turkey sandwiches, there will be people jumping into lakes, rivers and icy ponds to find a cross that has been thrown there by a priest. Why is that? What Christian festivals are going on right now and why are people just starting to celebrate Christmas on January 7th? Isn’t Christmas the 25th of December?
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IssuesAlternative Halloween ideas
Halloween is coming. The last two weeks of October are now dominated by the festival, with trick or treaters aplenty and supermarkets populated with skeletons and pumpkins – but how should our children’s ministry engage with the festivities? We asked some of our trusty contributors for their ideas:
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Issues'No one responds to my alter calls'
Despite not being part of a church that had a physical altar since my childhood, I have seen many hundreds of people give their lives to Jesus following ‘altar calls’. However, every time I have made an evangelistic altar call in my youth ministry the response has been the same: none.
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Issues‘We ran an Alpha course in our school’
Beth and I had been running the CU at our school for a year, but really wanted to get more people involved. We had done some discussion groups in the past, which had encouraged the whole school to start talking about difficult issues; however, we felt as ...
