Image Credit: otherthings on Flickr This is part of an 11-session series for 11-14 year olds, teaching our mission statement and the importance of it’s values: We exist to learn to follow Jesus, to show honour to God, to use our gifts to serve, to support each other, and to share our faith. Session Aim: [...]
Archive - January, 2008
Bible Text Visualisations
There’s been a lot of activity recently in people mapping data from the Bible into visual representations. Chris Harrison took the King James Version and produced some beautiful images based on the connections between the passages, before developing a social network representation and distribution of people and places like the image below. The background is [...]
Values Session 1: Our Vision
Image Credit: otherthings on Flickr This is part of an 11-session series for 11-14 year olds, teaching our mission statement and the importance of it’s values: We exist to learn to follow Jesus, to show honour to God, to use our gifts to serve, to support each other, and to share our faith. Session Aim: [...]
Spam!
I’ve had a lot of problems with Spam on this blog recently due to some changes with plug-ins. For some reason or other my hosting server can’t contact to Akismet so I’m trying out some other options which ultimately seem less than good! Anyone got some helpful suggestions? What all this means for you, dear [...]
Drip, Drip, Splash!
This is a fun adaptation of the familiar children’s game ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’ that makes it slightly more interesting! Numbers: groups of around 6 or over. Suitable for: older children and younger teens (8-14’s) but some older teens might enjoy it too! Preparation time: none Venue: suitable for a small hall or especially outside due [...]
Mission Statement & Values
The Wrong Trainers
I recently came across these amazing animated videos and have been stunned about both the quality and content of them. Created by the BBC for Newsround (the kids news programme), the series of five tells the stories of real children living in poverty and difficult circumstances in the UK. Watching them brought back many memories [...]
Youth Work Now
Before Christmas I was contacted by the monthly publication Youth Work Now to write an opinion piece for the January issue of the magazine. I decided to base my article on a post I wrote back in November about findings of ADHD medication. Here is my piece that was published in the magazine today: Drugs [...]
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