It can be very difficult to know how to discipline young people when you are a young leader yourself. On the one hand you desperately want them to like you and to feel one of the gang, on the other hand it’s important that you have some level of authority over them. This can be [...]
Archive - July, 2006
An Explanation
Since I decided to focus this blog on the field of youth work back at the weekend, many different links have started appearing in the sidebar to the right as I’ve found relevant resources. I use the excellent del.icio.us for all my bookmarks and have started tagging links with ‘youthwork‘ for all related pages (and [...]
Jesus reveals future… on ebay?!
Starting Out
This week I’ve got the pleasure of the wonderful Emily on work experience, so I was already thinking about training and introductions to youthwork when I got an email from Rosie asking to shadow me for a day. This promted me to try and find a good practical and theoretical framework to help explain Christian [...]
Focus
Whenever we have a team meeting for the church youth group, I constantly have to remind the leaders to focus their attention. This is somewhat difficult to achieve as there is around 18 leaders each week, all of whom want to socialise while I’m desperately trying to ascertain exactly which young person broke the light [...]
Moving on
