Archive - March, 2008

Values Session 7: Serve (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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Home Again

So we’re back from Egypt and the photos are up on Flickr. We had a great time away and really enjoyed spending time with our friends Dominic, Claire, Rebecca, Joshua, Brian and Liz by the seaside. Apologies if you’ve tried to comment on the blog in the past few days, access was suspended due to [...]

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Luxor, Egypt

Hey, this is Kirsty not Jon! I’ve decided to post on my wonderful husband’s blog as mine is so infrequently updated I fear all who may have read it have since lost hope a long time ago. So we’re in Luxor and sitting in a Wi-Fi enabled McDonalds (which speaks volumes about the standard of [...]

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Palm Sunday

Just a quick post to say that we had an EXCELLENT church service this morning totally prepared and led by the young people! As part of the World Vision 24 Hour Famine, the group fasted from 6pm Saturday night and then delivered a creatively challenging service on the theme of global poverty. As well as [...]

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Who has impacted you?

So I’ve taken up the challenge from Andy at Issues For The Christian Youthworker to think about the young people that have impacted me and my work. There are quite a few who I could name for a number of reasons, so I’ll try and be concise. Rosie, Anna and Emily have all taught me [...]

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Starting Out In Youth Work

UPDATE: Much of the information and links in this post have now become obsolete. For current information leave a comment or visit the NYA Workforce page here. I’ve recently been writing an assignment on providing accredited training for youth work volunteers and have realised that I’ve not seen anywhere a simple explanation of the route [...]

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Regenerate

Here’s a promo video for the excellent work being done by Regenerate in Roehampton, London. It really reminds me of the sort of creative youth work we did at The WIRE here in Littlehampton. Different area, similar approach. Ht: Paul S. via email

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Worshipful Dance

I have to be honest; I just don’t get dancing in church! That may be a strong statement to start off a blog post, so let me elaborate a little here. I do understand the medium of dance as a creative expression, and I appreciate it in things such as ballets or stage performances. I [...]

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