As crazy as this sounds, The Register is reporting that a Baptist Church in Oklahoma recently tried to give away an AR-15 Assault Rifle as a way of attracting young people to attend the church. Apparently a local TV station intervened to stop the annual shooting competition. A statement is now posted on the church [...]
Wow! I really can’t believe that I haven’t posted on here in 4 weeks! That’s the worst gap in the four years I’ve been blogging. If there are any readers left out there, I’m very sorry.
Life has been really busy recently which has taken me away from the internet. Obviously Kirsty’s pregnancy has been a [...]
There’s a great conversation happening over at UK Youth Online about practical steps for youth workers to take while interacting with young people online.
Most people are taking the view that to ensure accountability and transparency, workers should have a different profile or login for work and personal.
I’m interested in this debate as I currently [...]
Following on from my last post about the use of new technology in youth work, you might be interested in using Google’s updated Trends feature.
Google Trends can be used to see how popular certain search terms are across geographic regions, cities, and languages.
Working just like it’s standard search engine, Trends gives you visual data to [...]
There’s lot of talk at the moment about the future of youth work. Marko’s been blogging extracts from his new book ‘Youth Ministry 3.0…‘ looking at how we’re missing the mark in [US] youth ministry, and what needs to change in order to more truly live into our calling as youth workers.
Over this side of [...]
At Ignite (our group for 11-14 year olds), we run both a Thursday night social and small groups at the weekend. The Thursday is an open session where we run crazy activities and have around 50 young people turn up. The small groups are for those who want to take an extra step and learn [...]
The latest issue of Youth Work Now came out today and my second ‘From The Frontline’ opinion piece is printed on page 9. I wrote it as a reaction to the government sponsored MyPlace initiative:
The government’s MyPlace initiative will provide £190m of capital funding to help create new youth facilities across England. For those [...]
I noticed a brief article on the Youth Work Now website about the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) looking to develop an accreditation system for voluntary youth workers.
Under the system volunteer youth workers would take part in training to develop skills, with successful candidates getting a certificate or card to show they are [...]
Well I have kissed a girl, but that’s not what I’m talking about! Jonathan over at thesource4ym has flagged up a new song by female singer Katy Perry called “I Kissed A Girl”.
This song isn’t so much about homosexual activity as it is just “doing what feels good at the moment.” Just like current hit [...]
Last weekend I was at a church youth camp where I was running a seminar. During the worship service, the tech guys were putting up video clips on the screen behind the words as a visual aid to worship.
If you’ve ever been to events like Soul Survivor then you’ll have seen this kind of [...]
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