All NexGen Pro articles – Page 118
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Reflect: Connecting Children to God
Victoria Beech offers some ways to help children express thanks and forgiveness, and reflect on a Bible passage.
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IssuesWhat the Holy Spirit does: part one – free to be children
This month’s meeting guides are about the Holy Spirit and the message is pretty clear to both you and your young people: don’t panic.
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BlogChild-led Communion and real participation
Jamie Cutteridge reflects on Greenbelt’s child-led Communion service
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Childhood Games
I was talking to a fellow children’s worker about the games we played as children, and we realised that quite a lot of them are completely inappropriate now. The 1970s and 80s were more naïve times, and we thought it would be fun to look back at what we played then - if only to realise how much things have changed.
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IssuesThe good childhood report
This week an 11-year-old said to me: “At school all the girls rate themselves out of ten, and the boys rate us too. I think I’m a zero, because I don’t look like the celebrities. I’ve found it very hard over the past couple of years.”
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IssuesHelping a visually impaired child take part
Our experts answer your questions on children’s and families’ ministry
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IssuesChild poverty on the rise
The new stats mapping the levels of child poverty across the UK are shocking. If you haven’t seen them already, stop reading this and go and look at what it says about your area. The numbers, showing how many children are living in families earning less than 60 per cent of the national median income, are particularly difficult to read if you’re looking at the worst affected areas – Tower Hamlets in London, Ladywood in Birmingham or Central Manchester. But shouldn’t we be just as shocked by the nine per cent in parts of Sheffield or Aberdeen too?
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IssuesCost of child sex offences
A senior police officer recently revealed the cost of investigating child sex offences is now an astonishing £1bn a year. This figure could treble by 2020. In just three years, the number of allegations has shot up by 80 per cent and in 2015, there were 70,000 investigations. When asked why, Simon Bailey, national police lead for child protection and abuse, said the opportunities provided by the internet, with children watching pornography and thinking it is normal, is driving the sharp increase.
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IssuesCost of child sex offences
A senior police officer recently revealed the cost of investigating child sex offences is now an astonishing £1bn a year. This figure could treble by 2020. In just three years, the number of allegations has shot up by 80 per cent and in 2015, there were 70,000 investigations. When asked why, Simon Bailey, national police lead for child protection and abuse, said the opportunities provided by the internet, with children watching pornography and thinking it is normal, is driving the sharp increase.
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IssuesRaising hope for the Chibok Girls
On 14th April 2014, over 250 young women were kidnapped from their boarding school in Chibok, a province in northern Nigeria, by militant terrorist group Boko Haram. One year on, 219 young women remain missing. Just think about all the things you’ve done in the past year.
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IssuesReady-to-use Parable: The ten cheerleaders
The kingdom is like ten cheerleaders, who took their pom poms and went to support their marathon runner. They took up their position and started cheering. Five of the cheerleaders were disorganised and brought nothing to drink for the event, and the other five took some bottles of water. When the runner was delayed the cheerleaders started to get thirsty so stopped cheering so loudly.
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BlogYoung people and technology: Digital check-up for youth workers
How’s your social media life? Dr Bex Lewis asks some probing questions
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Young People more charitable than ever
A charity is hoping to reverse decades of decline in young people donating money to good causes after a survey showed that young people have a great attitude towards charity despite giving less than older people.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: The Character Pyramid
This character pyramid is a resource that could easily structure a whole term of mentoring sessions. This session just covers the basic idea.
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The Last Word: Crying (with joy) in the Chapel
It’s always me. I have the uncanny knack, in any given situation, of blundering haplessly into anecdotal territory. So if there’s an open manhole cover, a banana skin or a social time-bomb nearby, I’m inevitably your man. I appear to be magnetically attracted to such things.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: YouTube Channels
YouTube channels are big business these days – teenagers are earning millions of pounds, getting millions of views each month and often making careers out of it. Of course, the majority of teenagers are consumers, spending hours watching this content. Yes, this can be unhealthy, but it can also be educational and it can actually raise aspirations in young people who might otherwise not have aspirations.
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