I spotted this little gem as a retweet from a twitter buddy, but thought it was such a good resource that I needed to post it here. “Own Your Space–Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online” is a fantastic little digital book for teens giving sound advice on all aspects of online life. Help teens [...]
Over the years I’ve tried out loads of youth group resources, curriculums and teaching plans with young people. There’s some great stuff out there (and lots of freebies online), but honestly, I’ve often reverted back to writing my own because there is never anything that fully works “out the box” with our group. That’s actually [...]
In addition to the Youthwork Summit and Youthwork The Conference I mentioned previously, a few more youth ministry conferences have made their way onto my radar! The Now and the Not Yet of Youth Ministry What: First up is ‘The Now and the Not Yet of Youth Ministry’ training day run by New Wine. According [...]
Everyone makes mistakes, and when it comes to my youth work I’ve made some clangers! Hopefully by reproducing them here, it may give you a bit of a laugh and help you to avoid doing the same thing. Mistake #1: Embarrassing Young People Everyone knows that our role as youth workers is to encourage young [...]
Other bloggers have already mentioned this, but the 1st-7th November is this year’s Youth Work Week organised by the NYA. There’s a load of resources up on their website around the theme of “celebrating great youth work” with factsheets on various topics. Click here to go and have a read. You can also join Youth [...]
The following is a short article I wrote that was published in Youth Work Now Magazine (A supplement of Children & Young People Now) last week. In addition to the print copy, it can be found online here. Time to stand up for young people
From the archive is a series of posts highlighting content previously posted on this blog that may be new to some readers or helpful to revisit: With many clubs and activities starting back this month after the summer break, it’s good to review our rules and procedures to ensure they are still useful and effective. [...]
I’ve mentioned somewhere before that I kind of stumbled into paid youth work. I’d volunteered at church activities for years, then aged 19 went for a job interview for a part-time worker as I needed to earn some money. It wasn’t a great interview as I wasn’t very confident and kept my head down all [...]
This is a session plan for an alternative worship experience using the concept of a labyrinth. Basically a labyrinth is a maze-like path set-up in a large space where people walk along, stopping at various points to think about a particular idea. Unlike a maze they have only one path – there are no dead [...]
I’ve been running this website as a personal blog for 6 and a half years now. Over that time I’ve moved the hosting package a couple of times, changed the theme design on a regular basis, and focused my writing on the subject of youth work. The readership and community has grown significantly during the [...]
