This is a really exciting topic to think about. If you have the opportunity to share your faith with young people, or you are joining a team or going on mission, that’s awesome!! Here’s a few points to consider;
How to help young people with their mental health The first thing to make clear if engaging with someone with bad mental health is that it feels scary but is easier if we approach it somehow similarly to general physical health. Every person has mental health and at times it is good or even great. […]
What shall we do this week?…Wait…what shall we do all year?! It can be quite daunting at the beginning of an academic or calendar year. Parents are asking for all the dates of this term to be stuck on their fridge. The budget should have been in last week. The events calendar on the website […]
Communication is so important. Done well it is amazing how vast amounts of people can hear, understand in get involved in the life of an organisation. Done wrong and it can cause many problems and even be painful. During war times its often thought that the first point of attack is on the enemies communication […]
Mount Everest? The Moon? Smuggle bibles? Serve the poor? It quite often only takes a small question to bridge the gap from having vision to casting vision. All of these adventures started with a dreamer, who saw a need, opportunity or challenge and they decided to cast that vision to others. I’m sure more detailed […]
It’s getting close to your turn to lead the youth group. You’re quite excited about the opportunity but you might also be a bit nervous. You might not have led it before, or you might have forgotten the amount of times you’ve done it. Either way, you know it’s important and you want to do a good job. Here’s a few things that might help you think it through;
Sometimes we can make Jesus’ words of the great commission into a thing we relegate to the one ‘Gospel Sunday’ a month or even to the one ‘mission’ event a year. Even more often we find ourselves delegating this command to the ‘paid people’. Yet Jesus’ words are to all of us and sound more like an everyday instruction.
Culture Picture for a minute the famous tower of Pisa, the leaning one. Designed to be an eye catching, functional bel tower. And yes, originally designed to be perfectly upright. The design and structure of the building is faultless. It is though, very famous and very photographed, because of the fact it is leaning. […]
The title sounds slightly jarring but it can be true that we unconsciously discriminate against our children and young people. We sometimes see them as less part of the body of Christ in its local church than say the 35-year-old and his wife or the 70+ year old who has been at your church since […]
Some of us reading this might be Children, Youth or Family’s workers. You know, the usual catch it all churches employ, thinking that it’s really a dally to engage what amounts to probably 60-80% of the population (depending where one draws the line with families). In these roles we are always thinking about how to […]
