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Is prayer the centre of your youth ministry? How can we create a culture of prayer with a group of young people? These are the questions being asked and answered in the latest episode of the Youth Work State of Mind Podcast. Joining Ben and Dave on the podcast is Josh Green, Youth Director of 24/7 Prayer and heads up Wildfires to tackle these questions and more!
Also in this episode, Josh, Ben and Dave take to the confectionary world in our feature, ‘If youth work was a box of chocolates’.
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It’s our first ever episode! This time we are talking about student ministry and we are joined by Aaron Nayagam the Student Mission Developer for Fusion, Katie Davies the Youth & Student Worker For Vinelife Church in Manchester and Jonny Hubble an Architecture Student at Liverpool John Moore University.
We’re back with our second episode looking at how to disciple young people. What is discipleship? How does discipling young people differ from other age ranges? Does the Church need to change its approach? To answer all these questions, Dave and Ben are joined by Rachel Gardner, LJ Warren and the Archdeacon of Lancaster David Picken.
In todays episode Ben and Dave are joined by our very own Lindsay Wright and Oli Deeks from Camberley YFC to talk about how we can use social and digital media to help reach young people with the Gospel.
Also in this episode, we share some online laughs and our guests try to explain the concept of ‘being in the world but not of it’ in our Theology in 60 Seconds challenge.
Why is evangelism to young people different than adults? How can we as leaders help equip our young people to evangelise their peers even though we may not feel comfortable with it ourselves? To answer these and many more questions, Ben and Dave are joined by Dan Randall, Alice Pepper and Josh Taylor.
Also in this episode, our guests suggest Bible characters as dairy products and they try to explain the wonders of God’s love in our challenge feature, Theology in 60 Seconds.
What is sports outreach? How can we use sport to share who Jesus is? To answer these and many more questions, Ben and Dave are joined by Martin Bateman, Joya Pal-George and Richard Witham.
Also in this episode, our guests bring us their pleasures and peeves in So Good So Bad and we ramp up the pressure in Theology in 60 Seconds as we challenge the guests to explain ‘The Trinity’.
How can we help young people engage in worship? How can we let our young people explore different worship styles in a way that helps their faith? To answer these and many more questions, Ben and Dave are joined by Jo Boyce from CJM Music and John Robinson the Music Director at Blackburn Cathedral.
Also in this episode, our guests suggest Bible Characters as Bands or Music Groups and we challenge the guests to explain the Joy of the Lord in Theology in 60 Seconds.
You know what? Sunday Isn’t Everything! In this episode we’re looking at how to reach young people during the week.
Why is week-long connection with God important for our young people and what do we and don’t we do well in encouraging this? To answer these and many more questions, Ben and Dave are joined by Bryony Baker and Nick Shepherd.
Also in this episode, our guests bring us their woes and wants of church life in ‘So Good So Bad’ and they tackle the topic of holiness against the clock in ‘Theology in 60 Seconds’.
How can churches use this time to best engage, inspire and encourage faith of all ages who attend their Sunday services? How do we move from ‘children’s hour services’ to true intergenerational worship? To answer these and many more questions, Ben and Dave are joined by The Bishop of Burnley Philip North and Susie Mapledoram.
Also in this episode, our guests bring us their online laughs and they tackle the topic of faith against the clock in ‘Theology in 60 Seconds’.
Youth Work State of Mind Podcast is back with an episode looking at how to create a great team of youth leaders.
In this episode, Ben and Dave are joined by Susie Mapledoram, the youth work officer for Manchester Diocese, and Graeme Bigg, youth lead for the children and youth team in Leeds Diocese.
As well as tackling our main question, our guests also answer the age old question, who from the Bible would you want on your youth team?
How do we start youth ministry from scratch? That’s the question we’re tackling in our latest episode.
Ben and Dave are joined by Martin Saunders, the director of satellites and innovation at Youthscape, and Emma Gaze, northern England pioneer project developer at Limitless Elim.
Ben, Dave, Emma and Martin also give their suggestions for their new feature ‘if youth work was’. If youth work was a plate of biscuits, what would it look like?
In this episode off the back of our student ministry episode, Ben and Dave have a conversation with Andrew Clitherow, the former chaplain at UCLAN.
Andrew gives us an insight into what chaplaincy looks like, how attitudes to the spiritual have changed over the years and what churches can do to support chaplains near them.
For this episode of bonus content, we have an interesting conversation around the topic of cancel culture. This was recorded during our Student Ministry episode with Aaron Nayagam, Katie Davies and Jonny Hubble.
In this clip, we talk about the rise of cancel culture and how it affects the lives and faith of young people and students living out their faith.
We’re all familiar with the ‘Mission Event’ but have we been using them wrong? This is the question being discussed in this bonus episode of the Youth Work State of Mind Podcast.
So you’ve done your outreach, what’s next? This is the question being discussed in this bonus episode of the Youth Work State of Mind Podcast.
This conversation was taken from the recording of our Sports Ministry episode with Martin Bateman from Ambassadors Football, Joya Pal-George from Kick and Richard Witham from Scripture Union, and in it, Ben and our guests talk about how to develop outreach into lasting discipleship.
We know it’s a shocking title – and that’s the point. This bonus episode is about the language we use of ‘personal relationship with Jesus’ and how it hasn’t been as helpful as we imagined it would be.
This clips was taken from the recording of our episode called ‘Sunday Isn’t Everything’ with Bryony Baker and Nick Shepherd, and in it, Ben, Bryony and Nick talk about how we can encourage young people to share their personal and often private faith in a way that encourages and uplifts us as a true Gospel community.
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