All NexGen Pro articles – Page 95
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Schools’ Work: Virtuous Friendship
The schools’ work page has taken on a new format. We will be featuring three sections: ‘dream’, ‘develop’ and ‘do’, all themed under one heading. Each box has its own purpose.
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BlogHoly Week - Good Friday
This Holy Week, we'll be publishing a series of five reflective blogs from Gerard Kelly to take us through the period. Today, he examines Good Friday.
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Issues‘Why would you give up your Friday nights for me?’
I was generally a good lad but a little cheeky - and still am. Mum and dad weren’t Christians, but the church had a real presence on our street and some of our close neighbours were regular attenders.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Petit Fours
This month’s mentoring resource is all about fours. Hopefully the following ‘fours’ will help you to bake some delicious delights of your own with your mentee as you follow your own special recipe for discipleship! Bon appetit!
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Lost And Found
What’s the most precious thing you have ever lost? When I was 18 I had my backpack pinched – and with it, a diary I had kept for several years, including throughout my amazing gap year teaching in Tanzania. It contained my memories, thoughts, experiences, poetry, drawings, doodles and so on (I also lost my Walkman and Michael Jackson cassette tape but let’s leave my age out of this). As you can imagine, I was gutted.
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IssuesForward Thinking
The future can seem like a scary place. On a global scale, seismic developments are changing the landscape of societies, economies and technologies at an alarming pace. Futurist Patrick Dixon explores what the world may look like in a few decades time and how youth work – more than ever – has a key part to play.
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IssuesHave we forgotten overseas mission?
A few years ago - the sight of a tanned, heavily braceletted 19 year-old with braided hair strolling through the doors of church after a life-changing six months in Africa was a fairly common one. The pendulum of missional thinking now seems to have swung in the opposite direction – with less and less young people travelling abroad, choosing instead to spend their year out in the UK on an urban mission placement or church internship. National leader for YWAM England Carl Tinnion can’t help but ask: have we forgotten about overseas mission?
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Ready-to-use Schools Work: Forgiveness and Reconciliation
This lesson is aimed at a GCSE class and is one hour long. This theme is usually found in the ‘Equality’ unit for OCR Ethics GCSE KS4 – it also appears on the Edexcel and AQA schemes of work.
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IssuesReady-to-use Music: I could sing of your love forever
Artist: Justin Bieber (Written by Martin Smith)
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BlogFootball Loyalty
This time of year brings about worries and stress like no other, no it’s not the impending A-level or GCSE examinations, nor is it the anxious wait to see if your phone has been hacked by the local papers – it’s the football summer transfer window...
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Ready-to-use Food: Raquel's Story
It’s a classic question: who would you invite to the dinner party of your dreams? In truth, the types of people we choose to share food with says a lot about our priorities.
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Ready-to-use Food: Mohammad's Story
WHAT IS THIS ?
Christian Aid’s Collective believes that the simple act of sitting down to dinner has the power to build a community to change the world; so each month we’ll invite you to ‘sit down to dinner’ with someone new, find out about their lives and take action to help end poverty in their community. -
IssuesFollow Me
There’s a lot of discussion in youth ministry circles about raising up young leaders. But how about the less appealing subject of following? Dr Andrew Smith believes that discipleship and leadership begin with following well, and that we can often overlook the precious gift of being a good follower – to the detriment of our young people.
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IssuesHow to Flourish
It’s September - which means a fresh crop of young people ready to be welcomed, sessions to plan, meetings to organise and a massive heap of work to catch up on that you let pile up over the summer. Fortunately, Premier Youthwork is on hand to kick your year off with a bang.
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BlogReady-to-use Mentoring: One of your five-a-day
Here’s a challenge… Don’t think of a pink elephant… I said don’t! I bet you can’t get that image out of your head now.
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Fishing for people
For the first time ever, Youthwork opened up its doors for a one-day writers masterclass. Sixteen youth workers gathered from all corners of the country to share ideas, learn skills and to hone their craft. In the coming weeks we will be posting guest blogs from the attendees – here’s one from Jo Royal.
