All Editorial articles – Page 87
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Labour Offers Jobs Guarantee
The Labour Party is offering a jobs guarantee for long-term unemployed young people if it wins the election next year.
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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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IssuesHome Grown
It’s simple maths really: the most effective way of doing youth ministry is to engage and equip parents to foster faith in their teenagers at
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IssuesGrowing up Poor
In this so-called ‘age of austerity’, more and more families are having to face difficult financial decisions. How can we sensitively help children and families who are struggling? Kate Traynor, Project Worker for CURBS, explores some principles to guide us.
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BlogGrowing up
Jo Dolby continues our blog series by suggesting some ways that youth ministry can ‘grow up’.
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BlogThe Youth Group Reunion
When I was 13 – short, unpopular and almost perfectly spherical - someone invited me along to a church youth group. I had no prior interest in God - my main concerns at that time were Atari ST games and the lingering worry that no girl would ever look at me without retching.
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BlogOnly grief leads to newness
In this week's Youthwork blog, Jonny Baker of CMS Pioneer Leadership Training shares how our grief with the current state of youth ministry can inspire us into newness
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IssuesThe ungrieved grief
Being a young person in the 21st Century is to live in a world full of suffering and pain, yet so often we try and shield young people from it. In an adaption from his new book, Mark Yaconelli explains the vital role that grief plays in turning our hearts towards hope
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Greater / Lesser
After turning their hands to event management, Team Youthwork share their experiences of May’s Youthwork Summit in five bite-sized mathematical symbols.
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What's the Point in Post Graduate Training?
In the busy landscape of youth ministry, a postgraduate degree might feel like an unnecessary luxury. Taking time out to sit alone with books can seem a distraction from the ‘real’ work you are doing – so why bother at all? We’ve found six youth workers who are convinced that postgraduate study is worth it, and how – for various different reasons – their youth work has been transformed in the process.
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UNICEF: young people are sidelined by the government
Unicef is calling for more investment in young people in the UK. The call follows the organisation’s report which places the country below Slovenia, Czech Republic and Portugal, in the league table of child well-being in the world’s richest countries.
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Ravens and gorillas
I had to miss Messy Church recently, and only got to catch up with the children on Sunday after church.
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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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IssuesGood Loving
It’s the topic sure to capture the attention of teenagers, and to provoke mild panic in the coolest and calmest of youth workers. Love it or loathe it - we can never talk about sex and relationships enough with our young people. Romance Academy founder and author of The dating dilemma, Rachel Gardner, shares some pearls of wisdom on dating well.
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Good grief
April saw the tragic death of model and TV presenter Peaches Geldof. Peaches, daughter of Sir Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, left behind two young children.
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Issues‘Proclaim Good News to the Poor’
Families in the UK are facing a poverty crisis. Large numbers of children are living in poverty, both in predictable places such as inner-city contexts and large estate communities, but also in places we don’t think of so often as being poor: our seaside resorts and rural communities
