All NexGen Pro articles – Page 93
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IssuesThe Trouble with Girls
Educationalist and author of 21st Century Girls Sue Palmer unravels what makes girls unique, equipping you to work with them more effectively.
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IssuesThe girl with no name
The stories of David, Joseph and Samuel are often used to help children think about how God can use their lives now. Here, Howard Worsley
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IssuesRaising the volume of hope for girls: Launching the UK Girl manifesto
Yesterday, I gazed into the eyes of my new-born niece Ruby. She (and many other baby girls) are entering our world at a time when girls’ self-esteem has plummeted because of what psychologist Steve Biddulph describes as a ‘war on girlhood’. I want Ruby to know that she’s loved, redeemed and chosen for a special purpose.
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IssuesRecharge: Job - the gift of pain
Recharge is a Bible study just For you, to nurture your own relationship with god. So stop, sit, breathe and read. This month, Danielle Strickland reflects on the story of Job.
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IssuesThe holy spirit: God, Person & Gift
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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Schools work: Getting started
Alex Taylor explores how to begin working with your local primary school.
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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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IssuesGenerosity
A resource for incorporating spiritual practices in your work with children, from Ian Adams and Carolyn Edwards
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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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IssuesReleasing the Generations
Relationships between generations in – and outside of - the Church can be complex. However, Bishop Graham Cray argues that our faith is a ‘generation to generation’ one; we need adults who will teach, encourage, and get out of the way when the time is right, and young people who will listen, learn and lead.
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IssuesRound table: The next generation
Throughout this issue we have heard from some legendary youth work veterans but we also want to listen to the youth workers of the future. So, we gathered six young leaders and picked their collective brains about where they thing youth ministry is heading…
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IssuesGeneration Z
Like a wriggling toddler, the culture and landscape of teenage life is incredibly hard to pin down, so what is life like for today’s young people? And what sort of adults are the 21st Century society creating? Tearfund’s Kiera Phyo takes a long hard look at Generation Z, and likes what she sees…
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IssuesYouth Work Lab: Gaming with young people
The gaming industry is huge. No longer a niche market aimed at those who enjoy it as a hobby on the side, it’s now an all-encompassing beast. With the development of smartphone technology, we can all carry a whole host of games in our pockets.
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BlogGross Games
It had to happen at some point; every now and then you want to play a game that is grosser than humanly imaginable. A game that you don’t want to tell your church leader about. A game that pushes your young people to the very precipice of human decency. A game where there is a very real chance of a young person rushing out of the room in a desperate attempt to to make it to the bathroom. Here are a few of those games…
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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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IssuesIcebreaker games
For the first time I’m going to theme this column by the time of year (by that I mean the time of year this issue claims to be not the time you
actually get it). So let’s pretend it really is September as the front cover claims. Here is the Games Master back-to-school-icebreaker-
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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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IssuesParachute Games
There’s one prop that our children love more than any other – the parachute. There’s something about a giant piece of coloured material that screams fun. You can play all these games with a 3.5m parachute, but if you can get your hands on a 5m or a 7m one, that’s even better. There’s plenty of choice online so have a look and see what you can find, and what will fit in your room!
