All NexGen Pro articles – Page 35
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BlogStarting a mentoring programme
The first mentoring programme I set up was almost entirely accidental. It was essentially the product of an unconscious emphasis I had toward building empowering and supportive relationships with young people.
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Faith at homeLevi meets Jesus
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God time during the day. You could also use it as part of a children’s session.
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IssuesNew Year games
Whether you’re holding a New Year party or trying to get your group to think about fresh starts, you’ll need some games to get things going. Here are some suggestions to help your group think creatively or just to have a good time!
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IssuesSchools’ work: Your turn - Creating spaces
As we consider how best to create space, listen to and be open to a child’s view of the sacred, the first question is: how will we plan our schools’ work around this? The second is: what do the children I work with have to teach or show me about God? If our approach is always about us teaching, moulding and informing children we will miss out. We will miss the chance to become more childlike in our own spiritual understanding, and in doing so will lose an important opportunity to reconnect with the God we follow. If we consider the words of Jesus we read at the start, we may even miss the opportunity to enter the kingdom of heaven, and why would any of us want that?
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IssuesCraft: Jesus feeds a crowd
Background: This is one of the best-known and best-loved of Jesus’ miracle stories. Here are some ideas to help you take a creative approach to some of the themes.
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Faith at homeMark my words: The three components of great youth work
Have you ever said something off the cuff, then realised afterwards there was more truth to it than you intended? That happened to me a few years back.
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IssuesSchools’ work: How to - Help children explore their spirituality
How can we put this into practice? Emma Hughes, a children’s worker at St Richard’s Church in Hanworth, shares some of the ideas they used when she and her team set up a prayer space in the local primary school, and describes how children engaged with them.
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IssuesSchools' work: In theory - To become like children
Young people spend a huge amount of time at school. How can we better support them while they’re there? And what can we do to help schools?
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IssuesJesus starts it all
Meeting aim: To ask the question “Who is Jesus?” and to start to answer it.
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IssuesSchools’ work: In action - Prayer and player
How have some schools’ workers put this focus on children’s spirituality into action? Here are some stories to inspire you.
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IssuesJesus feeds a crowd
Meeting aim: To unpack the story and explore the impact it might have on us today as it calls us to greater faith, compassion and action.
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IssuesJesus calms the water
Meeting aim: To see the story in its fullness; to try and feel more completely the danger of the storm and the relief and peace felt as Jesus calmed it.
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IssuesJesus meets Levi
Meeting aim: To understand which friends and people Jesus wanted on his ‘team’, and in turn to begin to understand what kind of people Jesus wants us to be.
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BlogJesus feeds a crowd
Meeting aim: To explore the way Jesus multiplies the little we have to share.
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IssuesJesus feeds a crowd
Meeting aim: To learn that we can ask Jesus for what we need because he cares for us.
