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 welcome. For more, check out the Manga Bible series starting with 'Names, Games and the Long Road Trip' and working it's way through the ...
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 the murder he ...
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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: To understand what ...
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 up because I few years ago I adapted a parenting course for dealing with difficult teenagers. I went along to meet him, pack under my arm, ready to dispense some wisdom and change this ...
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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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: To find out how we can ...
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 men and women of faith. ...
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 the call, I realised that the changeable bud had come off my left ear and was firmly stuck right inside!
Running late for my meeting, I went straight there and spent most of ...
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 interface when they log-in limiting their browsing to a variety of 'glubbles'.
Glubbles are bundles of content ...
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 they kept referring to the inferior quality of using young people in the worship band. There was a general assumption that using young people is good, ...
