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 […]
Youth Work State of Mind Podcast is back with an episode looking at how to start youth ministry from scratch. In this 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 […]
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 […]
Many people count themselves out of youth ministry because they are worried, they won’t connect. Some youth leaders can get tangled up wondering about techniques and trends to help them succeed. The truth is, one core value that you will find present in any thriving youth ministry is high importance on relationships. Godly, fruitful, authentic, loving, reliable relationships. Of course, there are lots of practical’s, admin tasks and plans to make but relationships should always be top of the priorities.
Generally, wherever we go as a youth team we hear the same thing. We wish we could do more but we don’t have enough volunteers.
Top 10 ideas to develop and encourage young leaders. Identify young people who want to engage. They don’t need to be extrovert or display huge leadership potential. They only need to show some wish to serve. How to: Invite a group of young people for a cuppa at a coffee shop or even better […]
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 […]
We’re back with episode 7 of the Youth Work State of Mind Podcast and 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 […]
We’re back with episode 6 of the Youth Work State of Mind Podcast and we’re going to be looking at Worship. 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, […]
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 […]
