Archive - February, 2008

Mecha Manga Bible Heroes

Being a fan of super hero comics and Japanese anime, I was delighted to hear of Mecha Manga Bible Heroes, a futuristic retelling of David and Goliath complete with huge armoured robots (mecha) drawn in a manga style! Alongside the various other comic and manga Bibles starting to spring up, this version will be most [...]

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Church Forgives Youth Pastor For Slaying

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No, he wasn’t heavily into some computer game, instead former youth pastor Calvin Wayne Inman, 29, has been charged for the death of a convenience store clerk during a robbery. He was 16 at the time. Apparently after being recently ordained and with support from his church, Inman went to the Police and confessed to [...]

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Values Session 6: Serve (Part 1)

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: [...]

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Personal Heroes

I made a new friend and found a new personal hero last week in a man called Jason. I met him because a friend had suggested that I give him a call: “He just needs some advice on raising teenagers” she said! Although I have no children of my own yet, I arranged to meet [...]

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Frozen Grand Central

I love this creative act from Improv Everywhere. 207 people just freeze in the middle of Grand Central Station and everyone else is just confused!

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Values Session 5: Honour (Part 2)

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: [...]

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Cross Denominational Working

Our local leaders fraternal Since starting my role at ACC, I’ve spent a bit of time meeting up with Youth Workers from other churches in the local area. Although there’s a few of us, a gathering had rarely happened before and so it’s been good to share coffee, stories, and recently events with these other [...]

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Pardon?

So a while back I bought these expensive noise cancelling earphones with the different buds on the end which you use to fit your ear perfectly. I was listening to my iPod on the train up to London this morning when my phone rang. As I pulled the ‘phones out of my ears to answer [...]

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Glubble

Glubble is a great plugin for the Firefox web browser that gives totally FREE parental controls! There are essentially two criteria for using it: you must use Firefox for web browsing you must have children that use the internet Aimed at primary aged children, Glubble changes the look of the browser to a simple kid-friendly [...]

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Worship with Young People

I was listening to the Simply Junior High Podcast earlier today and they were talking about worship with youth groups. They were saying it was great to get young people involved as it helps to engage the group in the family service. Now I’m sure it wasn’t meant in this manner, but during the discussion [...]

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