http://www.jonjolly.com/2009/04/27/moving-on-up/ thoughts, ideas and reflections on working with young people Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:52:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.jonjolly.com/2009/04/27/moving-on-up/comment-page-1/#comment-76138 Ralf Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:41:20 +0000 http://www.jonjolly.com/?p=1059#comment-76138 Hi Jon!<br>What you say is absolutely true. We can watch the same phenomenon here in Germany.<br>There is no chance to run groups for every age, that is clear. So it is most important to have leaders who are able to create teams, if there is no leader the kids will pretty soon separate into ages. The biggest problem, in my opinion, is, that we have the young people for just some hours per week. Most of the time they are influenced by other circumstances. They have different social backgrounds, come from non-christian families etc. We can only show and offer the other way, the christian way, of behaviour and how people should treat people.<br>Keeping the contact and conversation with the kids will help them understand why it won´t be the best idea to move on up to soon.<br>GBU<br>Ralf Hi Jon!
What you say is absolutely true. We can watch the same phenomenon here in Germany.
There is no chance to run groups for every age, that is clear. So it is most important to have leaders who are able to create teams, if there is no leader the kids will pretty soon separate into ages. The biggest problem, in my opinion, is, that we have the young people for just some hours per week. Most of the time they are influenced by other circumstances. They have different social backgrounds, come from non-christian families etc. We can only show and offer the other way, the christian way, of behaviour and how people should treat people.
Keeping the contact and conversation with the kids will help them understand why it won´t be the best idea to move on up to soon.
GBU
Ralf

]]> http://www.jonjolly.com/2009/04/27/moving-on-up/comment-page-1/#comment-75844 Ralf Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:41:20 +0000 http://www.jonjolly.com/?p=1059#comment-75844 Hi Jon!<br>What you say is absolutely true. We can watch the same phenomenon here in Germany.<br>There is no chance to run groups for every age, that is clear. So it is most important to have leaders who are able to create teams, if there is no leader the kids will pretty soon separate into ages. The biggest problem, in my opinion, is, that we have the young people for just some hours per week. Most of the time they are influenced by other circumstances. They have different social backgrounds, come from non-christian families etc. We can only show and offer the other way, the christian way, of behaviour and how people should treat people.<br>Keeping the contact and conversation with the kids will help them understand why it won´t be the best idea to move on up to soon.<br>GBU<br>Ralf Hi Jon!
What you say is absolutely true. We can watch the same phenomenon here in Germany.
There is no chance to run groups for every age, that is clear. So it is most important to have leaders who are able to create teams, if there is no leader the kids will pretty soon separate into ages. The biggest problem, in my opinion, is, that we have the young people for just some hours per week. Most of the time they are influenced by other circumstances. They have different social backgrounds, come from non-christian families etc. We can only show and offer the other way, the christian way, of behaviour and how people should treat people.
Keeping the contact and conversation with the kids will help them understand why it won´t be the best idea to move on up to soon.
GBU
Ralf

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