Jon Jolly

my life and youth work…

Entries Tagged ‘postsecret’

Dear God

Dear God is a website where people send in their ‘prayers’ to be posted on the site. Similar to the creative confessional Postsecret, the site allows people to express their emotions and sentiments to whatever higher power they believe in.
It doesn’t matter what your version of God is… Jesus, Allah, Buddha or simply a spiritual [...]

Values Session 10: Share (Part 1)

This is part of an 11-session series for 11-14 year olds, teaching our mission statement and the importance of its 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 discover why we must tell others [...]

Feeding: My Reading Habits

I was reading Dave Johnson’s post about what rss feeds he subscribes to and it got me thinking it would be good to recommend a few of the blogs that I read too.
I subscribe to hundreds of different feeds from around the web ranging from youth ministry and human interest through to technology and research. [...]

PostSecret

This image is one of the many thousands sent into PostSecret that are posted on the site each week. I thought it particularly poignant given my line of work. This was posted with it:
“I have been a teacher for 15 years, and a majority of my students during that time have been children suffering from [...]